Why a town librarian has spent 102 days standing in front of Ferguson’s police department | Toronto Star

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Angelique Kidd, 41, of Ferguson, is among most dedicated of protesters awaiting the verdict in the killing of black teen Michael Brown. The mother of two has been on the streets opposite the Ferguson Police Department nearly daily for the past 102 days, demanding change.

By: Mitch Potter Washington Bureau, Published on Tue Nov 18 2014

FERGUSON, MO.—She’s a mom, a librarian, a U.S. army vet, just like her dad. She belongs to a Ferguson book club that hasn’t met since police bullets felled Michael Brown in August.

Her 9-year-old daughter’s on the Ferguson swim team. Her husband, who builds in-ground pools for a living, is president of their neighbourhood community association. Together, they launched two local community gardens. This is home. They’re dug in, here for the long haul.

With a bio like that, Angelique Kidd, 41, admits she’s just about the last person you might expect to find on the picket line, standing vigil day in and day out for the past 102 days opposite the Ferguson Police Department, demanding change.

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Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals Subject of Traveling Exhibit | At Your Library

Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals Subject of Traveling Exhibit | At Your Library

Thousands of homosexuals, primarily gay men, perished at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps by the Nazis along with millions of Jews and other victims including, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the handicapped during World War II and the Holocaust.
The story of what happened to homosexuals in Nazi Germany is the subject of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s exhibition, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945.” The exhibition has been circulating to cities across the country. More than two years in development, it is the first major exhibition on the subject for English-speaking audiences and draws on materials from more than 40 archives and other repositories in eight countries. Read more...

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Stop discrimination against the unemployed

Tell Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com and other job listing sites to stop allowing discrimination against the unemployed.
A recent article in the New York Times showed that this type of discrimination is rampant.¹ But if the big job sites refuse to run these discriminatory ads, it would go a long way towards ending this unfair practice.