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Posts Tagged ‘Activism’

Whatcha gonna do, United Airlines?

United, as long as you’ve got your head down there, you might as well kiss your ass goodbye.

GetUp Australia: It’s Time.

AFER and my friend Don shared this video from GetUp Australia on Facebook. I had to share it with all of you. Fair warning – it almost made me cry.

Big day for Prop 8 lawsuit today!

According to AFER, the California Supreme Court will issue its ruling on standing in the Prop 8 case this morning.

Hate crimes, arson, and words that aren’t worth reclaiming.

LGBT individuals compose 26% of the nation’s arson victims; for a group that composes less than 10% of the population, 26% is an astronomically significant bias.

DADT Repeal Measure Passes Cloture!!

Cloture has been invoked on the Stand-Alone DADT Repeal bill! DADT will end!

Colbert on the inherent bias in the DADT survey.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

It Gets Worse, Sen. McCain.

Best Jon Stewart clip EVER.

The Rally to Restore Sanity was off the chain.

I got up at 6:40 AM this morning. I figured that if I was going to be on my feet all day, I should start the day off right. I had an omelette, fruit and copious amounts of coffee, then took a shower and dressed for cool weather and walking. I actually left a bit [...]

Can we restore sanity to political discourse?

Somewhere in the 3.75 million square miles of this great country there is probably enough room for all of us – if we simply remember to respect each other.

We lost another one.

Tyler Clementi was 18 years old, a student at Rutgers. His last message was posted to Facebook, on Wednesday the 22nd at 8:42 PM: “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry”.