Transgender Group Leaves OutServe-SLDN, Joins Startup Group SPART*A
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2013/07/22/transgender-group-leaves-outserve-sldn-joins-startup-group-sparta The transgender group of OutServe-Servicemembers Legal Defense...
View ArticleDutch Tourists Jailed Under Russia’s ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law
Lately I’ve really come to miss the old Soviet Union. From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/dutch-tourists-jailed-russia-gay_n_3635803.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices By Cavan...
View Article‘You’re a faux hippy Wal-Mart’: Whole Foods Market worker quits in ‘epic’...
From The Daily Mail UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018504/Youre-faux-hippy-Wal-Mart-Whole-Foods-Market-worker-quits-epic-resignation-email.html By Lee Moran <em”>25 July 2011 A...
View ArticleSecrets of the right: Selling garbage to your fans
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/22/secrets_of_the_right_selling_garbage_to_your_fans/ When conservative celebs peddle awful schwag, their fans pay big bucks. But here’s why it’s bad for the...
View ArticleBoehner Brags About Turning America Into Detroit
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17724-boehner-brags-about-turning-american-into-detroit By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program Monday, 22 July 2013 Over the weekend, CBS’...
View ArticleDetroit’s decline is a distinctively capitalist failure
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/detroit-decline-distinctively-capitalist-failure The auto industry Big Three were loyal only to shareholders, not the people...
View ArticleBlessed Are the Rich
From Creators: http://www.creators.com/opinion/jim-hightower/blessed-are-the-rich.html Jim Hightower 17 Jul 2013 One thing I’ve come to value in the last couple of years is the altruism and keen...
View ArticleGay and Transgender Migrants Face Staggering Violence in Mexico
From The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/gay-and-transgender-migrants-face-staggering-violence-in-mexico/277915/ LGBTQ people endure a treacherous journey on the way...
View ArticleMia Macy, Transgender Woman Denied Employment By ATF, Wins Major Victory In...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/mia-macy-transgender_n_3612874.html By Aaron Sankin Posted: 07/18/2013 Transgender advocates were handed a victory earlier this week when...
View ArticlePassing and Stealth: Two Words to Lose? Part Two
From Tranifesto: http://tranifesto.com/2009/10/22/passing-and-stealth-two-words-to-lose-part-two/ By Matt Kailey October 22, 2009 Reposted with permission This was reposted on TransAdvocate:...
View ArticleThe Letter
From Dallas Denny: http://dallasdenny.com/Chrysalis/2012/07/22/the-letter/ By Dallas Denny 7/22/2012 Reposted with permission Again this piece was reposted to TransAdvocate on July 20, 2013:...
View ArticleHouse bill slashes EPA budget by 34 percent
From The Hill: http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/312537-house-bill-slashes-epa-budget-by-34-percent By Erik Wasson and Ben Geman 07/22/13 House Republicans on Monday unveiled plans...
View ArticleFast Food and Neoliberalism: Response to David Freedman’s Call to Get out of...
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17725-fast-food-and-neoliberalism-a-response-to-david-freedmans-call-to-get-out-of-mcdonalds-way By Jon Shelton Tuesday, 23 July 2013 In a recent...
View ArticleConsumer Frugality Adds to Woes in France
Such is end stage Capitalism when so much wealth has been transferred to a tiny minority that the majority of people can barely survive much less lavishly and ceaselessly consume more and more junk....
View ArticleThe Original American Dream Was Not About Getting Rich
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/original-american-dream-was-not-about-getting-rich Our nation was formed because our founding fathers wanted to escape the clutches of British...
View ArticleThe Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
From Post Carbon Institute: http://www.postcarbon.org/blog-post/1786882-the-brief-tragic-reign-of-consumerism-and by Richard Heinberg Posted Jul 24, 2013 You and I consume; we are consumers. The...
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