THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT
THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION CALENDAR
 
The Third Circuit Court Diversity and Inclusion Team's Mission: "We appreciate our common connection and respect our diverse and unique human experiences. We move forward as an inclusive organization as we provide accessible and equal justice."
 
The Court's Diversity & Inclusion Team strives to ensure the values of its diverse bench, staff, and court users are acknowledged and reflected in our delivery of service as well as our work environment.
 
In that spirit, the team creates and shares a monthly list of various holidays and observations along with some celebration suggestions.  We invite our work community and the community at large to contribute.
 
December 2020
World AIDS Day - December 1
National Pie Day - December 1 (not to be confused with National Pi day on March 14)
International Day of Persons with Disabilities - December 3
Pearl Harbor Day - December 7
Inclusive Schools Week - December 7 - 11
Bodhi Day - December 8
Human Rights Day - December 10
Human Rights Week - December 10 - 17
Milad un Nabi - December 13
Bill of Rights Day - December 15
International Migrants Day - December 18
Hanukkah - December 10 - 18
Winter Solstice - December 21
Yule - December 21 - January 1
Christmas Eve - December 24
Christmas - December 25
Zartosht No-Diso - December 26
Boxing Day - December 26
Kwanzaa - December 26 - January 1
Wounded Knee Day - December 29
New Year's Eve - December 31
 
(Courtesy of Wikipedia)
 
 
 
World AIDS Day - December 1 -
commemorates those who have died of AIDS and inspires hope in the work for a cure.  
 
 
 
 
Montgomery Bus Boycott - December 5 - On December 5, 1955, The Montgomery Bus Boycott began to protest segregated seating on city buses. This followed the December 1, 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks for failing to surrender her seat on the bus to a white man. The boycott lasted from December 5, 1955 through December 20, 1956.
 
 
 
Inclusive Schools Week - December 7 - 11 - celebrates the progress schools have made in providing a supportive, quality education to an increasingly diverse student population.  https://inclusiveschools.org/inclusive-schools-week/ 
   

 
 
 
Bodhi Day - December 8 - celebrates the day that the historical Buddha experienced enlightenment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multinational_festivals_and_holidays#December 
  
 
 
 
Human Rights Day - December 10 -
established by the United Nations in 1948 to commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights   
 
 
 
Chanukah - Hanukkah - December 10 - 18 - commemorates the Jewish Maccabees victory over Syrian Greeks and the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 139 BCE, restoring Jewish independence. The nine candles on the menorah remember the oil lamps miraculously burning for the eight days of the celebration.
https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/3857239/jewish/The-Maccabees-The-Jewish-Freedom-Fighters.htm 
 
 
 
 
Milad un Nabi - December 13 - commemorates the birth of the Prophet Muhammad. https://www.diversityresources.com/diversity-calendar-december/   
 
 
 
 
Zartosht No-Diso - December 26 - commemorates the death anniversary of the Prophet Zoroaster or Zarathushtra.
 
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