Cllr Doina Cornell Column by the leader of Stroud District Council, Doina Cornell. It was an amazing achievement of our England football team to get to the Euro2020 finals under Gareth Southgate’s inspiring leadership and it was so disappointing to lose on penalties. What came after with the horrible racist abuse of the three young black men was disgusting; although tempered by the lovely messages of support others sent them. It is up to all of us to take a stand, and call out prejudice, discrimination and racism when we see it. In our own district and local communities, we can all make a difference and you can be part of this conversation locally. Last year the Black Lives Matter movement pushed us as a council to commit to do more. Anti-racism training is now compulsory for all councillors; I just completed mine this week. We are also currently consulting on our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which aims to set out the Council’s commitment to providing an inc
ABA submits response to Florida Supreme Court’s ban on quotas in CLE panels
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The ABA on Thursday filed comments in response to the Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision to prohibit the approval of continuing legal education for any program with diversity “quotas.”
In its brief, the ABA wrote that its Diversity & Inclusion CLE Policy is one of inclusion, not exclusion, and was designed to help engage diverse lawyers who historically may not have had opportunities to participate on CLE panels.
“The policy does so without infringing on constitutionally protected individual rights,” the association added.
An ABA press release is here.
Bari Weiss / Die Welt
There are many bewildering things about the madness of “wokism”. Two questions tower above all others. Where did it all come from? And the nightmarish one is: where will it all end?
Bari Weiss is one of its victims, having jumped from the
New York Times when the incursion of the trolls into the echelons of the paper made her efforts to bring a degree of balance to its opinion pages all but fruitless.
That did not mean she was going to run and hide. She went out in a blaze of defiance with a devastating indictment of the paper which she had tried to redeem. Her open resignation letter to
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Lundin Mining Publishes 2020 Sustainability Report
TSX: LUN) Lundin Mining Corporation is pleased to announce publication of its 2020 Sustainability Report . Lundin Mining has been reporting on the safety, environmental, social and economic issues that are of greatest interest to communities near its operations, employees, investors and other stakeholders in a comprehensive, standalone document since 2010. “We have achieved sustainable improvements in our safety, …
TSX: LUN) (Nasdaq Stockholm: LUMI) Lundin Mining Corporation (“Lundin Mining” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce publication of its 2020 Sustainability Report (the “Report”). Lundin Mining has been reporting on the safety, environmental, social and economic issues that are of greatest interest to communities near its operations, employees, investors and other stakeholders in a comprehensive, standalone document since 2010.