The Whaling City:
Although a distant third to New Bedford and Nantucket, Massachusetts, as a
center of whaling activity in the 19th century, New London's assumption of
the sobriquet "The Whaling City" is not the usurpation a casual student of
history might at first think. For 80 years, New London had whaling ships at
sea, a record surpassed only by New Bedford and Nantucket.
Transitioning and Loving Life, T.a.L.L., is a transsexual
support group located in Southeast Connecticut. Tall is open to all
transsexual people as well as their friends, family, spouses, and
significant others, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, gender,
or stage in transition. We offer a safe and relaxed environment in which to
share, provide, and obtain information for ourselves, our friends, and our
families regarding transition.
To promote and support a national movement to
end the use of solitary confinement and related forms of torture in US
prisons. Campaign work is realized through grassroots organizing,
research, public education, resource sharing, human rights training and
policy advocacy.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a
military branch of the United States involved in maritime law. One of
the seven uniformed services of the United States, and the smallest
armed service of the United States, its stated mission is to protect the
public, the environment, and the United States economic and security
interests in any maritime region in which those interests may be at
risk, including international waters and America's coasts, ports, and
inland waterways.
A well-instructed people alone
can be permanently a free people.
James Madison
Goddard since its 1938 : beginnings was an
experimental and progressive college, sharing ideas about higher education
In consultation with faculty, some of them from Goddard Seminary, others
newly appointed, Goddard President Royce Pitkin drew on the teachings of
John Dewey in discussing plans for the new college, with vital assistance
from William Heard Kilpatrick of Columbia University's Teachers
College. Learn more...
March 31, 1962--On his birthday, Cesar Chavez resigns
from the Community Service Organization after the group refuses to commit to
organizing farm workers. He moves his wife and eight small children to the
dusty little Central Valley farm town of Delano and dedicates himself
full-time to organizing farm workers. Dolores Huerta and others later join
him.
FREDERICK J MC LAUGHLIN
You have never been forgoten. You taught
me to organize, to unionize.
Dear friend we have missed you.
Connecticut Network is the citizen's source for complete and balanced
television and webcast coverage of Connecticut state government and public
policy. CT-N is available on basic or expanded basic cable in most areas,
and we continue to work toward our goal of statewide availability for
everyone in Connecticut.
The first Emmaus Community was founded in Paris in 1949 by Father
Henri-Antoine Groues, better known as the Abbé Pierre, a Catholic priest, MP
and former member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. As
an MP, he fought to provide homes for those who
lived on the streets of Paris.
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of
people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent
discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane
conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and
expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.
Know your rights: it is illegal to discriminate in any aspect
of employment, including: hiring and firing; compensation, assignment, or
classification of employees; transfer, promotion, layoff, or recall; job
advertisements; recruitment; testing; use of company facilities; training
and apprenticeship programs; fringe benefits; pay, retirement plans, and
disability leave; or other terms and conditions of employment.
