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Mar 26, 2010
Scientology Workgroup of the Ministry of the Interior in Hamburg: Educational Symposium [Jesse Prince] [Part 1] More: Part 2 , Part 3 , Transcript by Anonymous
Type: Account
[Transcript by Anonymous @
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/1207504-post1/ ] Hello, everyone. I guess I'll start off with borrowing a lyric from The Grateful Dead: "What a long, strange trip it's been." My journey into Scientology started in 1976. I was in San Francisco and I was a young guy; I was twenty-one years old and full of piss and vinegar, trying to figure out what to do with my life. And I was walking down the street and this very attractive woman came up ...
May 21, 2009
Software company's Scientology-loving handbook — Gawker
Type: Blog
Author(s):
Ryan Tate Source:
Gawker Two former executives have been waging a court battle against Diskeeper, alleging the software company's CEO, a Scientologist, practiced religious discrimination. As it turns out, they have documents intended to prove it. The company's former CIO and Automation Planning Officer failed to injoin Diskeeper from using the teachings of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard in the administration of the company. Now the Burbank, California company is going for the legal jugular, seeking summary dismissal of the case. Amid this legal tussle, ...
Sep 26, 2007
Dental Hygiene — Chicagoist
Type: Press
Author(s):
Margaret Lyons Source:
Chicagoist The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit against Dr. James Orrington, DDS, alleging religious and sexual harassment. The suit, filed on behalf of ten employees — 9 women and 1 man? 10 women? — claims the South Side dentist required employees to recite passages from Scientology literature before he'd give them their checks. Three employees were fired after they lodged a complaint with the EEOC in 2005, and another two were fired after they complained about the harassment. According ...
Sep 21, 2007
Southwest Side dentist accused of sexual, religious harassment — Daily SouthtownMore: icsahome.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Mike Nolan Source:
Daily Southtown Feds: Workers propositioned, forced to learn about Scientology
A Southwest Side dentist sexually harassed female workers and forced them to recite Scientology formulas in order to get their paychecks, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.
The EEOC sued Dr. James L. Orrington on behalf of 10 former female employees, including three who were fired by the doctor shortly after they lodged complaints with the commission, said Ann Henry, an EEOC lawyer. The dentist fired two others after they complained ...
Sep 13, 2002
EEOC: Employees illegally fired — Valley Morning Star (Texas)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Allen Essex Source:
Valley Morning Star (Texas) Harlingen — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit on behalf of former employees of Harlingen Family Dentistry who refused to attend training courses reportedly containing scientology doctrine. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Brownsville, alleges religious discrimination and retaliation against the workers. According to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, scientology is "a religious movement begun in 1952 by L. Ron Hubbard which teaches immortality and reincarnation and claims a sure psychotherapeutic method for freeing the individual ...
Dec 12, 1997
Ex-Scientologist wins $6 million after 17-year fight — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Kathy Kinsey Source:
Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California) Type: Tort, intentional infliction of emotion distress,
alter ego.
Bench decision: Amendment of judgment - $6,025,857
($4,649,328 renewed judgment plus $1,376,529 accrued
interest).
Case/Number: Larry Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of
California / C332027.
Court/Date: L.A. Superior Central / Oct. 29, 1997.
Judge: John P. Shook.
Attorneys: Plaintiff - Craig J. Stein (Gartenberg, Jaffe,
Gelfand & Stein, LLP, L.A.); Daniel A. Leipold, Cathy Shipe,
Robert F. Donohue (Hagenbaugh & Murphy, Orange); Lita
Schlosser (Encino); Ford Greene (Hub Law Offices, San
Anselmo). ...
Sep 29, 1997
Scientology allegations and a real estate stock flotation — New York Observer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Dylan Foley Source:
New York Observer Feldman Equities, a medium-sized midtown real estate management firm is set for a $290 million stock offering in late September, with heavyhitting investors that includes G.E. Capital and Morgan Stanley. This flotation may be marred by an impending religious and employment discrimination lawsuit charging that company CEO Lawrence Feldman forced employees at the firm to take Scientology courses and fired those who refused. According to papers filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April, Karen Schwartz, a 38-old former property ...
Feb 1, 1996
Scientology's Internet Wars — Watchman Expositor
Dec 22, 1993
Church assets are set at $400 million — Glendale News-Press (California)
Sep 1, 1993
Catch a rising star — Premiere (magazine)More: link
Mar 21, 1993
Bittersweet - Cocolat and Scientology / Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology — San Francisco Examiner (California)More: stop-wise.biz , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Erin McCormick Source:
San Francisco Examiner (California) Some of Cocolat's ex-workers claim that the company's newest ingredient is Scientology by Erin McCormick of the Examiner Staff It was once the sweetheart of the Bay Area business world - a woman-run chocolate company that grew from a single storefront to a national success. Now, two years since an employee's embezzlement forced the sale of Cocolat Chocolate Co., an unlikely mix is brewing at the company's Hayward plant: Scientology and chocolate. The mixture has been volatile. Cocolat is the latest ...
Jul 29, 1992
Silicon Valley firm sued over Scientology issue — Sacramento Bee (California)More: link
Type: Press
Source:
Sacramento Bee (California) SANTA CLARA — Former employees of Applied Materials have filed suit alleging that the Silicon Valley manufacturing firm forced them to undergo Church of Scientology seminars. Trial proceedings began Tuesday as lawyers for both sides argued motions before Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Frank Cliff. In their suit, former employees Steven Hunziker, Virginia Sanders and Kate Schuchmann allege that Applied Materials hired an outside firm to teach workers communication and time-management skills. But the seminar firm, Applied Scholastics of Fremont, ...
Jul 6, 1989
Scientology faces new charges of harassment — Newkirk Herald Journal (Oklahoma)More: link
Dec 22, 1988
Scientology church faces new claims of harassment — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: scientology-lies.com , pqasb.pqarchiver.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen Koff Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The year was 1976, one year after the Church of Scientology had secretly moved its spiritual headquarters to Clearwater, and Mayor Gabe Cazares was complaining too loudly for the church's comfort. So, as documents seized by the FBI would later show, the church's Clearwater office devised a scheme to "ruin Mayor Gabriel Cazares' political career by spreading scandal about his sex life." Church officials came up with ways to get Cazares' school records, birth records, anything — from checking with the ...
Apr 27, 1987
Panorama: Road to Total Freedom — BBC NewsMore: transcript
Type: TV
Source:
BBC News Description of video is in italics. VO=VOICEOVER shot of Church of Scientology, Los Angeles; apparently group of ex-members VOICEOVER: The Church of Scientology, one of the largest and richest new religious movements, is being sued for a billion dollars by former members for fraud and breach of trust. They regard Scientology as a dangerous cult. group of Scientologists VO: Yet the church goes on expanding, making converts and claiming it is "The Road to Total Freedom". ''"Panorama" opening credits; while music ...
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Oct 27, 1986
The prophet and profits of Scientology — Forbes
Type: Press
Author(s):
Richard Behar Source:
Forbes Tag(s):
Apollo (formerly, "Royal Scot Man"; often misspelled "Royal Scotman", "Royal Scotsman") •
Auditing •
Author Services, Inc. (ASI) (dba, Galaxy Press) (subsidiary of Church of Spiritual Technology) •
Bent Corydon •
Bridge Publications, Inc. (BPI) •
Cost •
David Mayo •
David Miscavige •
Don Larson •
E-Meter •
Forbes •
Gerald "Gerry" Armstrong •
Harassment •
Howard "Homer" D. Schomer •
Howard Rower •
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) •
Intimidation •
John Gordon Clark Jr. •
Judge Paul G. Breckenridge Jr. •
Laurel J. Sullivan (née Watson) •
Medical claims •
Membership •
Money laundering •
Patrick D. "Pat" Broeker (aka Mike Mitchell) •
Registrar (also, to "reg") •
Rehabilitation Project Force (RPF) •
Religious cloaking •
Religious Research Foundation (RRF) •
Religious Technology Center (RTC) •
Richard Behar •
Royalties, license, trademark, management fees •
Security check ("sec check") •
Tax matter •
Tonja C. Burden •
William W. "Bill" Franks •
Xenu (Operating Thetan level 3, OT 3, Wall of Fire)
Jan 24, 1983
Ministry of fear // Scandal rocks Scientology as the founder's wife goes to prison and his son turns prosecution witness — People magazineMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
John Saar Source:
People magazine [Picture / Caption: Scientology's headquarters in L.A. was formerly the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The church purchased It for $5 million In 1977.] Last October in San Francisco, some 70 local leaders of the Church of Scientology gathered to hear nine church executives harangue them about their shortcomings. Styling themselves with titles that ranged from the quasi-military ("Commander," "Warrant Officer") to the quasi-lunatic ("International Finance Dictator"), the men announced that they represented the new hierarchy of the organization, and that they ...
Jan 6, 1983
Fight over funds divides Scientology group — New York TimesMore: nytimes.com
Feb 1, 1979
Uncovering the cult conspiracy — Mother Jones
Mar 7, 1974
Counterattack: The response to criticism [last of a series] — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)
Type: Press
Author(s):
James E. Adams ,
Elaine Viets Source:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) "We are not a law enforcement agency. BUT we will become interested in the crimes of people who seek to stop us ... If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." - L. Ron Hubbard Founder of the Church of Scientology The Church of Scientology does not turn the other cheek. Said Emily Watson, the church's national public affairs representative: "We tried doing that for years, but the attacks kept growing ...." Two attacks to which she referred were ...
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