Archive for the 'equal rights' Category
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 [...]
UPENN: PHILADELPHIA TAX DODGER
Citizens/Groups to Challenge Mayor/Penn/WHYY on Budget Forums
Forums called Public Relations Ploy — “More rats or fewer libraries/stacked deck” campaign.
For Immediate Release
For additional information, please contact
Bob Bedard at (cell): 202.413.6638.
PRESS CONFERENCE — February 9, 2009 – 3 PM
DETAILS:
Leaders of organized groups and activist citizens, Monday, February 9, 2009, will hold a press conference challenging [...]
HOUSE DEMOCRATS: ALL DAY SUCKERS
Lollipop
All-day sucker
The Bags, Believer
You’re a sucker
Bought a load of crap
You’re a sucker
Flowing from the tap
You’re a sucker
Yeah you swallowed it whole
You’re a sucker
Ran it up the flagpole
Don’t wanna share my world with a bunch of fools
As of this writing, Bob Brady’s office has confirmed that, in acquiescence to GOP hissy-fits and at Obama’s behest, the [...]
SHAME!!! DEMOCRATS TO SCREW THE POOR ON FAMILY PLANNING
Cross-posted atOxdown Gazette/ Firedoglake
Talk about getting royally fucked! The Democrats want to knuckle under to the GOP on family planning funding in the stimulus:
WASHINGTON – House Democrats are likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following a personal appeal from President Barack [...]
Rick Warren: Gluttonous Hateful Crybaby
Shorter Rick Warren:
Aravosis nails him:
In the new video, Warren accuses gays of “hate speech,” of launching “hateful attacks” against him, and he then says that gay and lesbian Americans have “Christ-ophobia,” a clear effort to mock the term “homophobia.” He goes on to explain that gays are “afraid of any Christian,” suggesting that gay [...]
Markos on Warren
My father and I had a breif discussion abut the Rick Warren appearance yesterday, which began with dad saying “Oh Come ON” about my objections.
There were a number of reasons I was upset, I explained, and the rhetoric about “reaching out” doesn’t impress me. Normalizing the beliefs of anti-reproductive rights, anti-gay, anti-evolution, war-mongering people like [...]
Shorter Barack Obama
Fuck you, faggots.
That’s really essentially it in a nutshell. And I’m sorry if thaty kind of language hurts someone’s widdle feewings, but that’s exactly what barack obama is saying to gay people and quite frankly to anyone who’s in a domestic partnership, including straight people: Fuck You.
Is rewarding bigotry change we can believe in? [...]
