1,000 Cuts: The Toll Of Racism In The Workplace
Soledad O’Brien knows a powerful story when she sees it.
As a participant in ServiceNow’s Knowledge21 Think Big series, the award-winning journalist and entrepreneur recalled a company workshop on racism where one of the Black participants stood up to speak. The experience he shared was “breathtaking,” she said.
It falls upon the shoulders of leadership to create an anti-racist organization.
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“One night he went down to his basement, he heard a noise.” O’Brien recalled. “And when he got downstairs the basement door was open. And he stood there thinking, ‘Did somebody break into my house? Should I call the police? Or did the wind blow it open?’”
COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS
Helen Kelly pics. In 2010 the National government announced plans to roll back worker s rights. Helen Kelly led a Fairness at Work protest in October.
To some she was a hero. To others she was “a bloody pain in the neck”. Kirsty Johnston reports on a new biography of Helen Kelly, an ordinary girl who refused to be quiet. It was early 1981 when 50,000 people marched down Auckland’s Queen St, an angry uprising against the union movement that seemed to take even its participants by surprise. Led by a young woman called Tania Harris, the protesters united under the “Kiwis Care” banner, railing against “Pommie stirrers” and “commos” they believed responsible for recent strikes. “We must pull together, not apart,” Harris, a 22-year-old sales representative, told the gathered crowd.
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Kristen Obbink’s journey to motherhood led her to Burkina Faso, Africa. It’s an adventure that also indirectly involved starting a business and buying a business along the way as she and her husband, Matt, grew their family through international adoption.
The couple started the adoption process in 2017. This March 3, they arrived home from Africa with their 12-year-old son Thomas. It had taken a few years to cut through the bureaucracy but ended in a whirlwind trip that “instantly” grew their family.
“He hasn’t been here that long, but I already can’t imagine my life without him,” Kristen said.