October 19, 2012
#Sidney's Picks: Unions, DOMA & "Bum Hunts"
- Hillman Prize-winner Tim Noah argues that the best way to reverse rising income inequality is to revive the labor movement.
- Hot & Crusty bakery workers rally to keep their union.
- Archaeologists are scanning the grounds of a shuttered Florida school for juvenile delinquents, hoping to locate the bodies of boys who were beaten to death at the school over the years.
- A federal court strikes down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act. What does this mean for marriage equality?
- A recruiter for the Arizona National Guard is accused of leading “bum hunts” in which homeless people were shot with paintball guns.
- A powerful story from YNet News about a special battered women’s facility in Israel that provides both shelter and legal assistance for observant Jews.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]