Brummies have always sought counter-narratives as redress against an outside world that misrepresents and misunderstands them.
The survivors of the laundries are seeking a state apology for their treatment as well as redress for years of unpaid labor and pension payments.
Perhaps most important, anti-dumping duties can be presented not as protection but as redress against "unfair" competition.In one sense, "dumping" is common, since companies often charge less in more competitive foreign markets than they do at home.
To the black world, Rainey's outspoken popular music — with its combination of cynicism, sorrow, and sass — offered warmth as well as redress; it made her both a mother and a kind of priestess, "a celebrant," as Ralph Ellison called Rainey's protegée and competitor Bessie Smith, "who affirmed the values of the group and man's ability to deal with chaos".
As redress, the settlement provides as many as 2,000 current and former black salaried employees with an average of $40,000 in cash, while the four plaintiffs whose names are on the lawsuit will receive up to $300,000 apiece.
Lee sees the movie, the first by a major American director to treat the experience of black soldiers in the war, as redress not only for Eastwood's Iwo Jima pictures but for an all-white Hollywood vision of the Second World War which dates to the 1962 John Wayne movie "The Longest Day" — and before.
There was the mention of lawsuits under Title IX, as redress to gender inequity in the art world.
"We are mindful that some of the plaintiffs' claims as currently pleaded are quite broad, and some of the remedies the plaintiffs seek may not be available as redress," Thomas wrote in his decision Wednesday.
Hutton explained in his column on Sunday that he decided to sign because "the British press does not want to be the provider of trusted information for citizens... it wants to be free to shape the square and the character of the information it supplies, with as little redress and accountability as possible.
Do you think that the hand you might have in forming the government could be seen as redressing that balance?
Mr. Greenberg argues that the perpetrators "have had their say," and sees the Shoah Foundation's work as "redressing the balance".
