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Resident urges Needham HRC to revise March anti-bigotry resolution and raises alleged discrimination at local upholstery shop
Summary
David Sherman used public comment to ask the committee to reconsider a March resolution he said failed to name antisemitism, and to request committee follow-up after he says a local upholsterer refused to discuss flame-retardant treatment and replied to his review in a manner he called discriminatory.
At the June 12 meeting of the Needham Human Rights Committee, resident David Sherman urged the committee to revisit a March resolution that he said condemns "various bigotries" but omits explicit mention of antisemitism. Sherman told the committee he believed withdrawing a prior request for select-board endorsement had been wise given flaws in the resolution, but he asked the committee to revise the document so the town’s existing public statement clearly addresses antisemitism.
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