limits on what you should teach you kid

of course every one has there own way of raising their kids…its been passed down from centuries of family memberes the way your mom and dad raised you is going to have an effect on how you raise your kids. there is to me limit on things you should be teaching your kids! teaching your kids that your race is more superior to another race crosses the line. what ever happened to ” united we stand, devided we fall”? why give any one a reason to fight? were stonger as a whole! so why teach your kid your race is better then another? what makes you any better? isnt it possible that you have things very much in common as a personof another race that you seem to despise so much? teaching your kids something so wrong then sending them into a world that has laws againt it is likw sending then to a jail cell! think about the words that your saying to your kid next time that you talk to them becuase the words you choose may lead them to the wrong conclusion!!!!!!!!!!

gender stereotypes

“be more lady like” ” men don’t cry, act like a man” every one has grown up hearing this…whats that say about our society? many of these stereotypes are engraved into our thoughts we dont think much of it….its every day life so we dont question these thoughts.as we get older , our culture influences these images and most of us dont even realize it. even if we don’t consciously subscribe to these thoughts, our culture ambushes us with messages on what it is to be a man or women and what is expected of us. men dont cry? who said this we all have a range of emotions that run through us faster then we can control.  men are not born angry and agressive and girls not prim and proper…we learn these thing as we grow from our culture and every one around us. this is not to say that guys shouldn’t be tough or like cars and sports or that girls shouldnt know how to clean and cook…. but we live in a equal world where girls can play aggressive sports and like cars just as men can love to cook or dance or clean.

it was once said:  

WE DO NOT HAVE TO ACCEPT THE LIMITS OF STEREOTYPES. WE HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE WHAT MAKES SENSE FOR US.

 

no one is stopping you from being who you are but you you are doesn’t have to conform to the likes of the stereotypes our culture has subjected us to

highway of tears

THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS

The Highway of Tears Has so many fears,

 Another victim has been claimed,

 And now, she has been sadly named.

 She went missing from home,

Then, was found, cold and alone.

Found beside the Highway of Tears,

 It was her family’s worst fears.

Now she is gone, this young soul,

 Her family will ne’er again be whole.

Who could have done this terrible deed?

The answer is a must, and a need.

 A monster prowls the Highway of Tears!

Too many young girls, too many fears.

 He gives them a smile, or a warm embrace,

 but, then he takes them to this terrible place.

The Highway of Tears Has so many fears.

 Another victim has been sadly claimed-

Let’s hope YOU will never be a victim named.

Please, please, to all the young women,

be careful and don’t travel by yourself.

 Gloria (Frank) Clay, February, 2006 In Memory of All The Young Women Lost Along the Highway of Tears 16 West, Northern British Columbia

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i have heard about the high way of tears befor..i heard about it on crime stoppers nicole hoar was the one that i saw….so many things rushed into my head when i read what we were writting about and how it affected the life of the families….would i be able to deal if it happened to my sister…neice…or my cousin? would the cases ever be solved?  did any one even care about these cases any more?…when was the last news article written about it? does any one even write about them any more?

i found some of my answers….did any one even care or write about them any more? yes in fact on Monday, 13 April 2009 there was stuff being written and posted all over the web about what concerns there were and what people wanted done about it( http://www.highwayoftears.ca/news-3.htm#nquiry_demands_getting_louder_)

wether i could ddeal witht the lost of one of my family members still burns in my mind…i couldnt deal with it ….but i know that if i lost any one in my family to the high way of tears i would do any thing in my will power to find out what happened and who did it.

 

 Nicole Hoar – Tamara Chipman – Lana Derrick – Delphine Nikal – Cecilia Anne Nikal – Monica Ignas – Alberta Williams – Ramona Wilson – Roxanne Thiara – Leah Alishia Germaine – Aielah Saric-Auger – ; Gloria Moody – Micheline Pare  – Gale Weys  – Pamela Darlington  – Monica Ignas – Colleen MacMillen – Monica Jack – Maureen Mosie – Shelly-Ann Bascu –every day these girls family woundered what whappened to them…lets hope that with all the fighting people are doing for rthe rights that these girls lost pays off and something can be done about this

human rights being violated

i read an article on human rights of african women, their rights were being taken away and not delt with by the POLICE, so many african women were being raped and the men and women who swear under oath to serve and PROTECT would not deal with any thing that was happening to these women. would they think the same if it was their children mother best friend or even them? would they be willing to deal with it then? why are the rights of these women being taken away with out any body doing any thing about it! are their rights not as important as other? is this a form of discrimination? i have so many questions that may never be answered so it makes me wounder even more about what human rights are being violated in africa?

There is now near-universal consensus that all individuals are entitled to certain basic rights under any circumstances. These include certain civil liberties and political rights, the most fundamental of which is the right to life and physical safety. Human rights are the articulation of the need for justice, tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity in all of our activity. Speaking of rights allows us to express the idea that all individuals are part of the scope of morality and justice.

values and beleifs

All beleifs and values have histories, present perspectives, and future beliefs that will arise.  people should know that beleifs and values are always undergoing change and will always continue to change, especially now in the 21st century.  Many beliefs and values in the world are being changed by technology, migration, and urbanization, and many other things.
Every human has values and beliefs, and they should be respected.  Family life, education, and friends and fellow workers shape our world view and give each of us different sets of values and beliefs.Basic human rights should be honored.  people should understand that there are times when the values of individual cultures will conflict with universal human rights.  people should defend human rights. in my family we have 3 different religions/ beliefs my mom is morman me and my sisters are Christian-baptist and my dad is catholic… but we don’t dis each other on what we believe in, because we know that we have all been taught something different

homophobia hurts every one

Homophobia locks all people into rigid gender-based roles, which inhibit creativity and self expression. It often is used to stigmatize, silence, and, on occasion, target people who are perceived or defined by OTHERS as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, but who are, in actuality, heterosexual.-Warren J. Blumenfeld

my favorite question that was asked at our conference was how many of you say ”thats so gay”? every one put up there hand, nobody really understands by saying that your affecting some one around you. we never take into consideration who might be around us, and how it might affect them.

as warren j. Blumenfeld says this doesn’t just affect people who are LGBT it affects people who are called it on a regular bases even though they are heterosexual. targeting some one as being a LGBT is a discrimination. we learned that infact if you are saying these harsh thing to someone you can lose your rights, such as your freedom of speech and even who you were aloud to be friends with according to the human rights in british columbia. at first i didnt beleive this until alex-the girl who taught ” what language is that anyways?” showed us page that actually tells us what we lose if we say these things.

so next time your calling some one gay, fag, lesbian, so you can feel big about yourself and try to take away their freedom of speech. think twice because in the end it might be your freedom that gets taken away.!

raising bc’s minimum wage…bad or good?

Raising BC’s minimum wage could cost more than 52,000 jobs and reduce opportunities for young workers

Release Date:

January 7, 2009

VANCOUVER, BC—Raising BC’s minimum wage to $10 per hour could result in a loss of as many as 52,000 jobs, concludes a new peer-reviewed study from independent research organization the Fraser Institute.The study, The Economic Effects of Increasing BC’s Minimum Wage, examines the research on the effects of increases to minimum wages in Canada and around the world and calculates that an increase in BC’s minimum wage to $10 per hour from $8 per hour will result in job losses ranging from 10,898 jobs to 52,200 jobs. “This is a conservative estimate that only looks at the impact on teen and youth workers,” said Niels Veldhuis, Fraser Institute director of fiscal studies and co-author of the report. “Increasing BC’s minimum wage to $10 per hour will have a profoundly negative effect on employment opportunities for young and low-skill workers, and will have almost no effect on those most in need of income and a job.” Unions and other activists have been lobbying the BC government over the past year to increase the province’s minimum wage to $10 per hour. But while the campaign has been high on emotional appeal, it lacks facts and data to support its position. The Fraser Institute study examines existing academic research from Canada and around the world that studied the effects of increases to minimum wages and finds the overwhelming consensus is that increasing the minimum wage has a significant negative impact on employment, particularly for younger workers. Past experience across Canada showed that a 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage is likely to decrease employment by three to six per cent among all young workers aged 15 to 24. For those young workers most directly affected – earning between the current $8 per hour wage and the new $10 per hour wage – the impact is more acute, leading to employment losses of 4.5 to 20 per cent. The report also points out that higher minimum wages have other negative effects, including fewer benefits and less training for workers. Higher minimum wages can also induce high school students to drop out of school and search for employment. “Fewer employment opportunities and less education and training are particularly harmful, given that experience and skill development are important drivers of higher wages,” said Keith Godin, co-author and a Fraser Institute senior policy analyst. upside: any one who is going form $8 to $10 is going to have a great out come from this they get more money for the same amount of work they were doing before. down side: every one that is making 8 dollars and hour there may be an upside for some of them but on the other hand its also putting people out of their jobs. another person that would not bennifit from this is any owner of a buisness, they would be forced to fire lots of people because they would not be able afford having as many workers as they did when they were paying 8 dollars

discrimination

Article – Wal-Mart Class Action Gender Discrimination Case Holds

By Myron Curry, President and CEO of BusinessTrainingMedia.com
Copyright -2004

Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer and America’s single largest employer. It was, therefore, a noteworthy event in June 2004 when a federal judge expanded a lawsuit filed by six California women to a class action. The case has now mushroomed to cover 1.6 million women Wal-Mart workers, employed nationwide since 1988, making it, by far, the largest class action in U.S. history. This article looks at two questions: How will liability be determined? What can other employers learn?

In granting the case class action status, Judge Martin Jenkins indicated that Wal-Mart had for the most part failed to dispute the plaintiffs’ evidence that women were paid less than men in every region and in most job categories; that the salary gap widens over time even for employees hired into the same jobs; that women take longer to reach management positions; and that “the higher one looks in the organization, the lower the percentage of women.” Among other facts cited by the plaintiffs are that two-thirds of the company’s 1.2 million U.S. workers are women, but only one-third of all managers and only 14 percent of store managers are women. As a comparison, on average, 60 per cent of the managers in general merchandise stores are women. None of these facts in themselves prove that there was intentional, systematic bias, the judge declared, but they help to support “an inference that Wal-Mart engages in discriminatory practices.”

Wal-Mart’s defense is that the inequalities between its male and female employees resulted from factors other than unlawful discrimination. In such cases, employers typically argue that women were not interested in and/or not qualified for the higher paying jobs—defenses Wal-Mart has indicated it will use.

For the most part, the same team of plaintiffs’ lawyers and experts (see www.impactfund.org) who have brought other very large class action discrimination cases are involved in the Wal-Mart lawsuit. Several years ago, they represented plaintiffs in a gender discrimination class action against Home Depot, which the company eventually settled for $104.5 million and an agreement to make significant changes in its treatment of female employees. Like Wal-Mart, Home Depot argued that women were uninterested in and/or unqualified for the higher paid jobs. Although the Home Depot case never went to trial, the plaintiffs’ experts were ready to submit the following evidence to prove that prejudice was the real reason for the difference in pay and positions between men and women:

• · evidence that company decision-making processes fostered or permitted the use of hunches, intuitions, or feelings
• evidence that categorical opinions such as “women don’t want this kind of work” influenced decision making
• use of gender-associated stereotypes in evaluations (e.g., calling someone “a sweet person,” a term almost always used for women and not men)
• features of the organizational culture that allowed gender stereotypes to influence job assignments, training, or promotions
• an incentive and motivational system that failed to promote or reward bias-free decision-making
• census data comparisons showing that the number of women in better paid positions was less than would be expected from the available number of qualified women in the area labor pool
• statistical analysis of the company’s personnel data system to show gender-related disparities in the chances that a man and a woman hired at the same time with equal work experience, education, and skills would be assigned to certain jobs or be paid the same
• existence of gender-segregated job ladders or career paths Without doubt, the plaintiffs’ attorneys are now attempting to develop similar evidence, much of it depending on sophisticated statistical analyses, to prove gender discrimination at Wal-Mart.

Many knowledgeable observers predict that Wal-Mart, like Home Depot, Lucky Stores, Smith Barney, and a number of other prominent employers who have chosen to settle gender discrimination lawsuits—will eventually settle. But the company is famous for its tough stance in discrimination cases, and it remains to be seen how long it will litigate this one. It’s even possible it could choose to go to trial, if it can’t get the class action declaration reversed, but that seems unlikely. Very few class action cases ever go to trial, although both sides prepare their evidence as if there will be a trial.

my thoughts: in todays society are we not sappose to be all equal? is our society going back to when we were still very partiarchal, to when women were not considered “persons” discrimination is becoming a big thing weather its having more men succeed or something more “hurtful” people are becoming more and mre aware of it and yet nothing is done about it  why?