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Tag Archives: discrimination
The Invisible Woman
by Donisha Cotlone, intern in the Texas Legislative Study Group Becoming a woman who never took politics seriously, to becoming a Texas Volunteer Deputy Voter Registrar, deputized to register voters in each of 5 counties. Then being accepted to the Austin … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, discrimination, expectations, persistence, sexual harassment, stand up
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Intentionally Discriminatory, Again.
by Erin Eriksen, intern in the Texas Legislative Study Group “Therefore, this Court holds, again, that SB 14 was passed with a discriminatory purpose in violation of Section 2, of the Voting Rights Act”(Ramos, 2017). I was sitting in on … Continue reading
