April 2012
Chicago police officer tells reporters that their First Amendment rights 'can be terminated' →
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So actually being there is now considered a disturbance of the peace.
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March 2012
In loving memory of the black girls who died because of street harrassment →
whataboutourdaughters.com
Please spread this. To not talk about gendered experiences of race is to erase the most subjugated voices.
Must read! →
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The Washington Post’s piece about an abortion clinic landlord standing up to anti-choice thugs.
TEASER:
Soon after that, the harassing calls started coming to his home. By the dozens, at all hours. Friends asked him how they could help. He began to take down the names and phone numbers of people who made unwanted calls. And he gave the information to his friends and asked them to call these folks back.
“In a very calm, very respectful voice, they said that the Stave family thanks you for your prayers,” he said. “They cannot terminate the lease, and they do not want to. They support women’s rights.”
This started with a dozen or so friends, and then it grew. Soon, more than a thousand volunteers were dialing.
(Via FATM.)
I was just reading about this! The landlord for LeRoy Carhart’s clinic (one of the only places you can obtain a late-term abortion in this country) has been harassed by pro-lifers, to the point where the anti-choice crowd passed out fliers of him as a Nazi and protested outside of his daughter’s school. Not the doctor’s — the LANDLORD’s daughter’s school. And his brother-in-law’s dental clinic. So he’s fighting back with Voice for Choice, which records the phone numbers and has pro-choice people call them back. And I love it.
-Jess
Rick Santorum tells boy not to use pink bowling ball →
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Washington– At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin today, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera.” Santorum went on to say “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls.” The comments were tweeted by Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.
“This is another example of Rick Santorum intentionally making ignorant statements that have a real impact on LGBT people,” said HRC Vice President of Communications Fred Sainz. “Whether he’s comparing our marriages to inanimate objects, saying our children would be better off with a parent in prison as opposed to two loving same-sex parents, or calling open military service a ‘tragic social experiment;’ he’s proven that he thinks LGBT people are second-class citizens not worthy of dignity or respect. In this case, he’s advancing tired gender norms by implying a boy should be ashamed or embarrassed to use a certain color bowling ball.”
Santorum’s anti-LGBT record speaks for itself: in addition to his frequent and vitriolic remarks about issues like marriage equality or LGBT families, he consistently voted against workplace protections while serving in the U.S. Senate, and was an early and vocal supporter of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.
“Kids have enough to worry about,” added Sainz. “They don’t need Rick Santorum telling them that using a pink bowling ball is a bad thing.”
Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/03/hrc-rick-santorum-tells-boy-not-to-use-pink-bowling-ball.html#storylink=cpyThat shit effects everybody. There are hetero-cis-men who like the color pink and hetero-cis-women who hate it. Binarist performative crap doesn’t do anyone any favors.
Black Girl Dangerous: Thank You, Adrienne Rich →
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by Mia McKenzie
(Audre Lorde, Meridel Lesueur, Adrienne Rich 1980)
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Feminism changed my life.
I became a feminist, for real, during my junior year in college. In some ways, I think of my life as broken up into two parts: pre-feminist and feminist.
Pre-feminism, I wasn’t the woman I…
You can't make this up...
Fox News hired a doctor to confirm that President Obama’s son would look nothing like Trayvon Martin. That’s fucking investigative journalism and science at its finest.
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“I read a depressing quote from someone who had been active with OWS earlier today, in which she lamented the loss of energy in the movement since the eviction, crackdown etc. on occupiers in New York. I know this is controversial but I’m going to say it. I know there are occupiers who view working with a group such as MoveOn.org as a co-option. But the fact is this: MoveOn along with Greenpeace, Jobs with Justice and a host of labor unions including the AFL-CIO are trying to get 100,000 of us trained in tactics for non-violent direct actions. That sounds pretty fucking good to me. (Note, this is my first cursing in a post.) I know Occupy Philadelphia has said it won’t support the 99 percent declaration gathering in Philly (differences re: tactics).
It is natural that the movement will have more radical elements and some of us who still see value in working within the system to some extent. Or we may even vacillate between the two…
But instead of fighting, why don’t we support all of one another’s efforts?
DO ME A FAVOR PLEASE AND RE-BLOG THE SHIT OUT OF THIS THING. Now I’ve cursed twice…”
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To sign up for free training in non-violent tactics taking place ALL OVER THE U.S.:
http://moveon.org/event/events/index.html?action_id=268&id=&search_distance=30&search_zip=22030&submit=Search
To join the National Occupation of Washington DC : nowdc.org
To learn more about the 99 percent declaration and its convention in Philadelphia: http://www.the99declaration.org/
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“This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong… if I had to bet today I would bet that this court is going to strike down the individual mandate.”
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Jeffrey Toobin (via azspot)
Ouch.
(via cactustreemotel)
“It is Not About Race because It Is Never About Race. Race is the past. Black people can vote. One of them is president. Nothing Is About Race anymore. Just ask Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum — and have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick that guy is? — and they’ll tell you that the president “injected” race into the tragedy. It wasn’t there before the president — who is (shhh!) black, you know — put it there. Ask Joe Oliver, this “friend” of the gunman who insists that Zimmerman might have said “fucking goons” and not “fucking coons,” because the latter is an obsolete racial slur and the former is a “term of endearment,” according to Oliver’s daughter. This is enormously believable because, if you’re an armed 28-year old gunslinger in pursuit of what you believe is a dangerous burglar, the first descriptive that would leap to anyone’s mind is a term of endearment used by high-school girls. Yeah, sure. Whatever. As if. And it is enormously believable because This Is Not About Race. It Is Never About Race. All those people arguing down through the years that the Civil War was about dueling conceptions of nationhood, or a clash of incompatible economic systems, or the ramifications of the 10th Amendment were all arguing, after all, that It Was Not About Race. Massive Resistance in the South in the 1960’s was about resistance to overweening federal power because It Was Not About Race. The Wallace campaigns, and the politically profitable adoption by modern conservatism of the leftover tropes and trappings of American apartheid was about the embattled white middle-class in the North and not About Race because It Is Never About Race. Ronald Reagan kicked off his campaign talking about states rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi, not far from where they dug three civil rights workers out of a dam, because he wanted to show that a new paradigm had been established in American constitutional history, and it was not About Race because It Is Never About Race. Amadou Diallo was Not About Race. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, which tracks such things, dozens of children are currently serving sentences of life without parole, of whom two-thirds of them are children of color, as a result of laws passed by legislators wanting to look tough on crime, and those statistics are not skewed because of race because It Is Never About Race. George Zimmerman saw a black kid with a hoodie and gave chase with his gun in his hand. But that was not about race, because Joe Oliver and the Sanford police and the oh-so-very fair-minded media are telling us, hell, don’t worry, It Is Never About Race.”
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Charles P. Pierce (via azspot)
Never ever. nuh-uh times infinity.
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Cactus Tree Motel: stfuhypocrisy: The Best (and cheapest) Birth Control In The World Is... →
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The Best (and cheapest) Birth Control In The World Is For Men
With one little injection, this non-toxic jelly will sit there for 10+ years without you having to do anything else to not have babies. Set it and forget it. Oh, and when you do decide…
Why the fuck didn’t someone tell me about this before I had the vasectomy (that didn’t go well and still causes me some pain almost 2 years later)?
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“We want to let everyone know how innocent our mother, this woman, was,” Alawadi’s husband Kassim al-Himidi told the somber crowd in Arabic as his son Mohammed translated.
Addressing his wife’s killer, he said: “The main question we would like to ask is, ‘What are you getting out of this, and why would you do this?’”
Himidi looked drained as he spoke, as his children ages 7 through 17 quietly looked on. He did not make eye contact or speak with anyone after his remarks at the mosque near El Cajon, nestled in the foothills of a long, deep valley 25 miles from downtown San Diego.
San Diego Imam Sharif Battikhi told mourners said the killing had harmed not just Alawadi but the entire community.
“As an Iraqi and an American citizen here, all of us are in the same boat. We stand to save this boat. We stand not to kill each other, but to get to know each other,” he said. “These criminal hands, they don’t just kill (Alawadi). But they kill our community.”
” —“Mourners Remember Slain Iraqi-American Woman In California,” Reuters, 3/27/12 (via racialicious)
So terribly sad.
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The Crimson Petal: Thoughts On Laundry And Clothes →
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See, I have a theory as to why, when I man does a woman’s laundry, it oft ends in tragically destroyed clothes, and it has absolutely nothing to do with men sucking at housework.
It has everything to do with the clothes.
There’s a great gender difference in clothing….
Blew my mind!
Its true. I have to be super careful with my wife’s clothes and they are all paper thin. I believe the reason is that the manufacturer believes that if they make clothes for women of less quality they will buy more. If you don’t believe this jsut compare a sport jacket from a man’s closet to a women’s. The differences are huge! a men’s suit is made to last until it goes out of style, an women’s is made to last a season. Maybe.
“This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it’s going to be struck down. I’m telling you, all of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong… if I had to bet today I would bet that this court is going to strike down the individual mandate.”
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Jeffrey Toobin (via azspot)
Ouch.
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