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Another intern, John Rose, and I decided to go and report on the Million Mustache March last Sunday. What followed was, by far, one of the funniest and most exciting experiences we’ve ever had. I wrote and small piece on the march for the NPR Intern Edition blog, check it out here.
*A huge thanks goes to John for taking some incredible photographs.
Enjoy! -Savy
(Photos credit: John Rose)
Inspiring!
Did I get your attention? We are their hostages, and they don’t care if we see their faces, since they plan on killing us anyway. See, we’ve reached the point with far right wing religious zealots where they are no longer claiming they only want to restrict abortions.They now proudly admit that they don’t care if women die. Even if the zygote or embryo they claim to be protecting has no chance of surviving, they still do not care if the mother dies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/protect-life-act-anti-abortion-bill_n_1005937.html Do they have a logical explanation for this position? Religious freedom! My religion dictates that I kill you. Would you have me go against my religion????
The far right also wishes to roll back protections from ‘domestic’ violence by opposing renewal of the Violence Against Women Act. http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/republicans-violence-against-women-act What’s their excuse? The law does not discriminate against undocumented aliens, same sex or transgender victims of such crimes. Without discrimination, there is no Republican support!
And, why stop there? Women should not even divorce an abusive husband!
“Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands,” Wisconsin Representative Don Pridemore said. “If they can refind those reasons and get back to why they got married in the first place it might help.” http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/23/wisconsin-lawmaker-you-are-being-beaten-just-remember-things-you-love-about-your
Our religiously free captors also want us to know that abortion was never really the issue. If it was, access to birth control and services to help raise unplanned children would be their number one priority! But, no. They want to restrict access to birth control. Heck, Rick Santorum wants to allow states to outlaw contraceptives alltogether! http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/03/396516/santorum-states-should-have-the-right-to-outlaw-birth-control/ What an absurd claim for a presidential candidate to make! But Rick figures that anyone who cares about this issue will soon have no voice and no power to fight back. He truly does not care about the obvious benefits of a society built on family planning and healthy choices for everyone. The lives of individual women and children do not matter to Rick Santorum. http://jezebel.com/5873158/rick-santorums-anti+abortion-stance-would-have-killed-his-own-wife He unironically tells the story of his wife’s own lifesaving 19 week abortion (I’m sorry ‘spontaneous labor brought upon by antibiotics’ - wtf, Rick. Really?) and his daughter’s incredibly expensive round the clock care, yet would deny the same abortion to save any other woman’s life, and does not support any government assistance for health care whatsoever. He wants every child to be born, yet has zero interest in keeping them alive (or educating them) once they get here.
Why do these people hate women and children so much? No one knows for sure. Some of them do not mean what they say. They are simply pandering to crazy people for votes (think: everything Romney has said during this primary race). I honestly think this is a last ditch effort to drag women (and people of color, and lesbians and gays, and non-Christians, and people who are differently abled, etc.) back into second and third class citizenship status. Why? Because they can’t compete with us!! Diversity brings amazing new talents, not the same tired old ways of doing things. We make their lives too difficult, the questions we ask are too complicated, they cannot satisfy our constant demands for equality and fairness! So what can they do? Slash and burn! Make one huge national effort to attack women on every possible front. They are gambling that we will all turn tail and run for cover, like they would if the tables were turned. But progressive women and men are stronger than faux-religious zealots. We aren’t going away. We’re ready for them. And they can leave their masks off or put them back on. We saw through them a long time ago. And thanks for reminding us that we are not truly equal yet. It’s time for the ERA.
Game on.
This is Richard Hayne, President and CEO of Urban Outfitters. He’s also a supporter of Rick #Santorum and donated over $13,000 to him. He’s against gay marriage and abortion.
His company pulled a pro-gay shirt back in 08, they also blatantly ripped off an Etsy designers work, featured a t-shirt for women that said “eat less” and most recently had a card with a “tranny” slur on in.
Why do you shop at this store? I imagine because you weren’t aware of these facts. Now you are, so stop shopping there. ~ a-colourfullifeHe also owns Anthropologie and Free People. ~ b-mommy
Good to know! Won’t be shopping at those places anymore. Will be too busy shopping at Starbucks!
Now here’s a good question:
Think about it. Every other situation in which an innocent person gets gunned down there is a cacophony of gun nuts screeching that if only this person had been armed he could have defended himself. It’s been the basis of every concealed and open carry argument for the last couple of decades.EXACTLY - WHY ISN’T THE #NRA SCREAMING ABOUT #TRAYVON’S RIGHT TO CARRY A GUN FOR SELF-DEFENSE? Because the NRA believes only the whites need to defend themselves against the blacks and the browns. THAT’S WHY.
(Source: blissandzen)
On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense. Three weeks after Martin’s death, no arrests have been made and Zimmerman remains free.
Here is what everyone should know about the case:
1. Zimmerman called the police to report Martin’s “suspicious” behavior, which he described as “just walking around looking about.” Zimmerman was in his car when he saw Martin walking on the street. He called the police and said: “There’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good, on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about… These a**holes always get away” [Orlando Sentinel]
2. Zimmerman pursued Martin against the explicit instructions of the police dispatcher:
Dispatcher: “Are you following him?”
Zimmerman: “Yeah”
Dispatcher: “OK, we don’t need you to do that.”3. Prior to the release of the 911 tapes, Zimmerman’s father released a statement claiming “[a]t no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin.” [Sun Sentinel]
4. Zimmerman was carrying a a 9 millimeter handgun. Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. [ABC News]
5. Martin weighed 140 pounds. Zimmerman weighs 250 pounds. [Orlando Sentinel; WDBO]
6. Martin’s English teacher described him as “as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.” [Orlando Sentinel]
7. Martin had no criminal record. [New York Times]
8. Zimmerman “was charged in July 2005 with resisting arrest with violence and battery on an officer. The charges appear to have been dropped.” [Huffington Post]
9. Zimmerman called the police 46 times since Jan. 1, 2011. [Miami Harald]
10. According to neighbors, Zimmerman was “fixated on crime and focused on young, black males.” [Miami Herald]
11. Zimmerman “had been the subject of complaints by neighbors in his gated community for aggressive tactics” [Huffington Post]
12. A police officer “corrected” a key witness. “The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.” [ABC News]
13. Three witnesses say they heard a boy cry for help before a shot was fired. “Three witnesses contacted by The Miami Herald say they saw or heard the moments before and after the Miami Gardens teenager’s killing. All three said they heard the last howl for help from a despondent boy.” [Miami Herald]
14. The officer in charge of the crime scene also received criticism in 2010 when he initially failed to arrest a lieutenant’s son who was videotaped attacking a homeless black man. [New York Times]
The Martin case had been turned over to the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office. Martin’s family has asked for the FBI to investigate.
This makes me mad enough to snap. A defenseless child was murdered and all the police did was shrug their shoulders and make excuses for the killer. Would they have done the same if Trayvon was white?
(via theriverwanders)
Are women people? No, they are livestock.
Here is a response to my state’s Unite Against the War on Women group from the editor of a local online ‘news’paper. He had received the press advisory on our march, along with all other state news agencies:
Please take info@whvoice.com off your mailing list. There is no “War on Women.” What there is is a war against Freedom of Religion and a federal government that wants taxpayers to fund bad behavior and bad choices against people’s consciences. The West Haven Voice is not interested in your kind of propaganda, nor will it post anything about this rally in its pages. Put it in the Marxist publications where it and Mr. Obama’s polcies belong.
Bill Riccio, Jr.
Publisher
So I called the guy, to let him know that someone was sending abusive emails under his name, and that, by the way, we don’t have a ‘mailing list’. He said that he sent it, it was in response to the press release, and that he is just sick of all this nonsense with Obama’s war on religion and that if I want my birth control and abortions, then I can pay for them myself! Honestly. This the editor/publisher of the West Haven Voice. I told him that the West Haven Voice obviously isn’t a real newspaper if this is how he treats a press release! ‘Oh, really?!’ he said. I know I should have ignored him but he asked for it…
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
Anyway, eager to learn more we checked out a recent earnings presentation from Corrections Corp of America, where in addition to spelling out the company’s latest financials, management also walks through the macro bull case for prisons.
And this is where it gets creepy, because as an investor you’re pulling for scenarios where more people are put in jail.
Among the bullish datapoints.
- The US prison program only seems to go up over time.
- Private prisons only account for 10% of the entire prison business, meaning the opportunity is big.
- There’s a growing issue with immigration detention, creating opportunities for private prisons.
- The existing prison infrastructure is decaying.
- While some states may slow incarceration during recessions (via increased use of parole to save money) they always make up for it when the recession is over.
It’s all pretty weird, but we’re not judging one way or another here… just pointing out that it’s a strange business to be in: Caging humans for profit.
The writer may not be judging, but I am. Caging your fellow humans for profit isn’t just strange - it’s evil. Period.
This is a huge issue in our country. Guess who lobbies for tougher and more prison sentences.
(Source: sarahlee310, via theriverwanders)
When your government does something, anything, they are doing it for you and in your name. So when the US invaded Iraq, we all invaded Iraq. If someone commits an atrocity or a careless error in war, it’s as if you committed it. If your state passes an absurd, unconstitutional and inhumane law, or your city pepper sprays grandmas and college kids protesting the abuses of the oligarchy, they do so in your name. So tell the government what you really think. Don’t let them continue to give you a bad name.
We need some kind of system to help people seeking abortions who are in a hostile state travel to a friendly state. The way I see it, the system has three parts:
- Monies to help people travel to neighboring states
- Volunteers to house the pregnant people and escort them to the…
(Source: lesshumansmorecats)
