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light Worker's JournalSoros foundation to end work in Turkey amid 'baseless claims'
Source: BBC News
The Open Society Foundation said "baseless claims" about its work had been made in Turkish media, which made it impossible for it to continue.
The move also comes after President Tayyip Erdogan said Mr Soros was trying to divide and destroy nations.
He linked him to anti-government protests at Istanbul's Gezi Park in 2013...
The Open Society Foundation said it would apply for the legal liquidation and winding up of its operations in Turkey as soon as possible...
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-46347975
The Latest: Television industry women support Brokaw
Source: AP
A group of 65 women in the television industry have circulated a letter in support of NBC’s Tom Brokaw after he was accused by a former colleague of unwanted sexual advances.
The women say he has treated all of them with fairness and respect, giving them opportunities for advancement and championing successes in their careers.
Maria Shriver, Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O’Donnell, Anne Thompson and Kristen Welker are among the women who put their names to the letter.
The women wrote that they know Brokaw “to be a man of tremendous decency and integrity.”
Brokaw denies the former colleague’s accusations...
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Read more: https://www.apnews.com/a141f743e7244c0d8d6c56373e063d2d
Legacy Museum opens in Montgomery, Alabama, to highlight slavery, lynchings
Source: NBC News
Ed Sykes, 77, visits the National Memorial For Peace And Justice on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. Sykes, who has family in Mississippi, was distraught when he discovered his last name in the memorial, three months after finding it on separate memorial in Clay County, Mississippi. "This is the second time I've seen the name Sykes as a hanging victim. What can I say?" said Sykes. He plans to investigate the lynching of a possible relative at the Equal Justice Initiative headquarters in Montgomery before returning to San Francisco, where he lives.
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened this week on the site of a former slave pen in Montgomery, Alabama, where black people were once imprisoned before being sold at auction.
An unflinching reminder of America's racist legacy, the 11,000-square-foot facility will serve as a place of learning for visitors by detailing the tragic history of the slave trade and following through to current-day problems associated with mass incarceration.
The Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery nonprofit that provides legal aid to people who may be wrongly convicted, said it raised more than $20 million in private donations to fund the project.
A National Memorial for Peace and Justice is located a few blocks from the museum, and features more than 800 steel monuments that bear the names of lynching victims throughout the country. In its creation, organizers discovered the names of 4,400 black people who were lynched or died in racial killings between 1877 and 1950...
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/legacy-museum-opens-montgomery-alabama-highlight-slavery-lynchings-n869686
Beyond A Failed Nominee: Whistleblower Retaliation Another Problem At The VA
Source: NPR
Dan Martin is chief of engineering services for the Department of Veterans Affairs' Northern Indiana Health Care System, but for more than a year, he hasn't had much to do. He says he has been designated to work at a remote VA office with no work assignments, ever since he raised the alarm on what he believed were fraudulently awarded contracts for new water filtration systems in local VA hospitals.
Martin tells Here & Now that the filtration system was like "a several hundred pound paperweight" that didn't abide by VA regulations to reduce the spread of waterborne diseases in the hospitals. He reported the problem to the Office of the Inspector General, which he says took his allegations seriously.
Last year, the Trump administration tried to solve this problem by creating a new VA office designed to shield whistleblowers from retaliation. The problem of whistleblower retaliation further shines a light on the growing dysfunction inside the VA, which still awaits a permanent chief after Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination this week.
The VA's Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection has taken on dozens of new cases of alleged whistleblower retaliation. The controversy over how the VA handles reports of wrongdoing from its own employees highlights the challenge of overhauling the troubled agency. Some employees who are flagging fraud, waste and abuse are skeptical that the new office will be able to protect them...
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/04/27/606461746/beyond-a-failed-nominee-whistleblower-retaliation-another-problem-at-the-va
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