Watch the haunting documentary DRIVER, follow @WomenTruckers on X, and read this about them 👇 👇

My first for Community Sentinel Media

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DRIVER, a documentary by Nesa Azimi streaming on PBS POV, is centered on a trucker, Desiree Wood, who has lived several lifetimes packed into one. After facing violence & sexual misconduct from multiple trainers during her apprenticeship, she became a longhaul trucker.
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What they don't tell you is that apprenticeship programs have a known problem of rape, harassment, coercion, and even violence.
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Now all three have cushy roles and are feted by donor organizations, as you see in the piece.

It represents months of research by Will Bredderman and me and careful editing by Daniel Schulman at MJ.

I haven't had a chance to thread it out yet, thanks for posting @noupside.bsky.social

John Solomon left mainstream news in ignominy after the Hill panned his work in their pages. It was his propagandistic articles that gave narrative heft to the shenanighans Rudy Giuliani pulled in Ukraine.

Both Benz and Jason Foster were former racist internet trolls.
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Thanks for posting -- haven't had a chance to share yet.

6. It's that federal lawsuit that was dismissed on HAF lacking standing.

Read this to understand more details, ins and outs, etc.

My latest for @asamnews.bsky.social

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5. Both sides have done their rounds of podcasts, making their case.

The Cisco case is ongoing.

But in the meantime, the Hindu American Foundation sued the CA dept, alleging that their characterisation of Hinduism as a rigid caste structure unfairly ascribed beliefs to people who decry casteism.

4. Underlying: the case itself is contentious.
Cisco employees say there was no hint of caste in how the employee was treated -- it was based on his performance.

The Dalit employee claims his colleagues outed him as lower caste, and retaliated when he complained.

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3. The Cisco caste case has become a flashpoint in the Indian diaspora.

Equality Labs, a nonprofit that fights caste discrimination in the US, has spoken of it as a landmark moment in their struggle.

Others have said that the dept. unfairly profiled Hindus a casteist.
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2. It started with the famous Cisco caste case.

In 2020, the CA Civil Rights Dept sued Cisco, alleging that one of their employees, an Indian working in a mostly Indian team, was discriminated against due to his lower caste status.

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“We could erode a decade’s worth of progress,” warns Dr. Monica Soni, in my latest for @asamnews.bsky.social

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I get it. I hear the same thing from Sikh owner-operators.

My suspicion is that many of them are trafficked here or come under immigration fraud.

If you hear of stories/cases, please drop me a line. aneela.theoddpost -at- gmail -dot- com

A lot more here, share and follow me for more investigations, thanks to @davidcovucci.bsky.social for fantastic editing
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Some of them included donors who import skilled workers from India for their own business.

After they blew up donations from Hindus, they spent Christmas week trashing Hindus/Indians on X, coming out in inflammatory terms against importing skilled workers from India.

The donors seemed entirely unaware that the PAC they have given to heaped abuse on people like them.