- -: Being a Woman In the Tech Industry - Esther Dyson
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/biztechday_ny_2010 Angel investor Esther Dyson comments on TechCrunch senior editor Michael Arrington's recent article entitled, "Too Few Women in Tech? Stop Blaming the Men." Dyson acknowledges both benefits and drawbacks to being a woman in ...
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- -: Racial Profiling After 9/11
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Racial_Profiling_in_a_Post-Racial_America Legal scholar Paul Butler examines four primary attitudes on racial profiling in post-9/11 America. Butler argues that proponents of racial profiling underestimate the costs of the practice, while overestimati...
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- -: Housewife Superspy? Former MI5 Head Stella Rimington on Leaving Anonymity
July 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/chq_spies_technology_espionage Stella Rimington, former director general of MI5, recalls the complications and tabloid-fueled controversy that followed her appointment as head of the famed British intelligence service, after spending decades in anonym...
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- -: Documenting Voices of the Disabled and Disenfranchised
September 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/09/08/Ensuring_the_Right_to_Vote_for_People_with_Disabilities Shantha Rau Barriga, disability rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, shares stories from handicapped and disabled persons that have been discriminated against in a civil context. "By document...
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- -: President Obama Signs the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
January 30, 2009 (over 15 years ago)On January 29, 2009, with the new law's namesake Lilly Ledbetter there to witness, President Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act -- legislation to fight pay discrimination and ensure fundamental fairness to American workers. (This video is public domain per White House copyrig...
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- -: President Obama Commemorates Enactment of Hate Crimes Prevention Act
October 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)The President speaks about the importance of signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act that toughens penalties and expand protections against crimes designed to intimidate as well as harm. October 28, 2009. (Public Domain)
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- -: Vice President Biden: It Gets Better
November 17, 2010 (over 13 years ago)As part of the It Gets Better Project, Vice President Joe Biden offers a message of support to LGBT youth who are being bullied. November 17, 2010.
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- -: Addressing Sexual Violence in Our Schools
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Vice President Joe Biden visits the University of New Hampshire to raise awareness and announce a new Administration effort to help the nation's schools address sexual violence. April 4, 2011
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Nelson Mandela: Message by Nelson Mandela to the Conference for the Disabled April 2004
April 4, 2004 (about 20 years ago)In this message to the 2004 conference for the disabled, Nelson Mandela talks about a decade of democracy in South Africa and what that means for the disabled community. He offers us the viewpoint of how the presence of disability enriches human diversity and why we should stop its discrimination.
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June 3, 1998 (almost 26 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela speaks at the 10th anniversary of the Noluthando School for the Deaf. He talks about the time when this school was founded, a time of discrimination that included people with disabilities. He states that today, our democratic constitution guarantees the basic human ...
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