Browsing Tag: Discrimination

California Sikhs Rally for AB1964 Legislation

In a show of community power, California Sikhs packed a hearing room in the California Assembly yesterday and testified in favor of AB1964, the Workplace Religious Freedom Act.
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California Lawmaker Announces Historic Bill to Protect Sikhs from Job Discrimination

Surrounded by members of the interfaith community, California Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada held a press conference last Tuesday at the West Sacramento Gurdwara to unveil legislation to protect Sikhs and others from job discrimination in the workplace.
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AutoZone settles discrimination suit with former Sikh employee

American auto parts retailer AutoZone has agreed to pay $75,000 to its former Sikh employee who was barred from wearing turban at work.
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Liberty Is Elusive for Sikh Americans

For religious minorities in the United States, the promise of religious freedom remains unfulfilled. Sikh Americans, in particular, continue to face relentless challenges in the post-9/11 environment. Worse still, American law affords inadequate protection to Sikhs against religious discrimination and, in some cases, reflects deep-seated stereotypes about American identity.
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Small Step, Big Footprint

Top-down approaches like reservation work but take time. Bottom-up approaches like the one done in Satara are eminently more doable and can have a greater chance of making a real impact on people. Who knows one day one of these `unwanted' girls from Satara may just become a power player, a shining star we can all be proud of.
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Bondi golf club sorry for telling Sikh to remove head covering

THE president of Bondi Golf and Diggers Club has apologised to a Sikh man who was asked to remove his patka, a religious head covering, by a club bartender.
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Diverse Communities Unite for Hearings on Post-9/11 Backlash and Discrimination

Over 200 community members from the Sikh, Arab, Muslim, and South Asian American communities—as well as government officials, advocates, and scholars—came together for two hearings last month to reflect on the realities of post-9/11 bias.
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Sikh Advocacy Groups Unite for Meeting with TSA Leadership

Last week, Representatives of the UNITED SIKHS, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), and Sikh Coalition met with the head of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Administrator John Pistole to discuss racial & religious profiling of Sikhs at American Airports.
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It's absurd to force children to attend Catholic school

According to the school board, only 30 per cent of kids who go to school in Morinville identify themselves as Catholic. That means 70 per cent of the students in the community, a significant majority, are compelled to go to a Catholic school even though they are non-Catholics. The school division does allow children to be exempted from formal religion classes, but nonetheless, Catholicism necessarily pervades the curriculum and the ethos of the school.
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Rabbi sues Army over beard ruling

An Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn sued the U.S. Army Wednesday for denying him a commission to serve as an Army chaplain because his faith prohibits him from shaving his beard.
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