Archive for the 'equal rights' Category
Pennsylvania’s Shame: One More Step Toward Gilead
Kermit Gosnell, and the opportunists that followed. For Shame, Pennsylvania. You’ll come to regret this day.
Read More..>>Piggie of the Week
This is the first “Piggie of the Week” I did all myself, from the writing to the one-the-street interviews, to the capturing and rough cuts, to the final edits. Big props and tons of gratitude to Brodzilla and Sean for the editorial guidance and advice, teaching me how to edit video and audio, including [...]
Read More..>>Equal Pay Day
Preznit Hopey McChange celebrates equal pay day….
…after dealing women’s reproductive rights away for the second time in a row.
So ladies, the president wants you to make equal money, even though it’s hard to find full-time employment when you’re pregnant with a baby you don’t want because you can’t access an abortion.
Shiny Objects
The fact of the matter is that Planned Parenthood is nothing more than a shiny object.
The Democrats have already caved, by agreeing to $78 billion in cuts:
“The numbers have been agreed to, but it’s an opportunity for the right wing in the House to really sock it to women,”Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said. “I don’t [...]
On the Occasion of the Glorious Obama Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
the tax cut for the wealthy, which will almost certainly lead to cuts to human services and attacks on Social Security, is fait accompli. Quite a few Democrats said no to this piece of shit, but in the end, too many were too scared to vote the consciences, while many others are simply not on [...]
Read More..>>Obama Adminsitration Argues for Separate But Equal
You’d figure an admisnitration headed by a black man would have a little problem with separate but equal, but when it comes to gay people, that’s what they’re doing:
Attorneys for the Obama administration objected Thursday to a proposed worldwide injunction being considered by a California federal judge that would halt the military’s ban on openly [...]
Thank You, Officer Escobar
Officer Martin Escobar is suing the Arizona state government for violating the civil rights of Latinos:
Officer Martin H. Escobar claims in the suit that the law will “seriously impede law enforcement investigations and facilitate the successful commission of crimes.”
He also says there are no “race-neutral criteria or basis to suspect or identify who is lawfully [...]
Anger and Pride
The price of health care has been women’s reproductive rights:
Stupak wants to outlaw abortion coverage in the new health insurance Exchange, where individuals and small businesses will purchase their coverage. Instead, women would only be able to purchase abortion coverage in a “abortion rider” plan – a single-service plan that covers abortion only. Such an [...]
Monday Incident
I saw them walking up the street and harassing my neighbors as I walked up my front porch. White shirts, blue ties, dark pants, hair immaculately cut and combed. I sighed: they were kidding themselves thinking that my African American churchgoing neighbors were going to suddenly abandon their congregations to join a faith [...]
Read More..>>February 14: I Love My Library Day
This Saturday is Valentines Day, and what Philadelphia institution is more deserving of a little love than our beleagured branch libraries?
Celebrate Philadelphia’s great public libraries at the following branches this Saturday, February 14, 2009. And make sure you see below for an earlier event at the Ogontz Branch.
Haddington – 446 N. 65th Street
1-3pm : Arts [...]
