Janice Raymond, and Healing Old Wounds
From Dented Blue Mercedes: http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/janice-raymond-and-healing-old-wounds/ By Mercedes AllenDecember 2, 2013 Reposted with permission This post is a personal...
View ArticleFor Gay Community, Finding Acceptance Is Even More Difficult on the Streets
San Francisco sucked big time in 1967 when the Haight was the hippie haven. It was only a good place for poor LGBT folks in the 1970s. After Di fi became Mayor it went down hill. You couldn’t pay me...
View ArticleClimate Change’s Biggest Threats Are Those We Aren’t Ready For: Report
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/abrupt-climate-change_n_4378864.html Kate Sheppard 12/03/2013 WASHINGTON — Climatic changes — and the results of those changes — could...
View ArticleThe Great Sparrow Campaign was the start of the greatest mass starvation in...
From Mother Nature Network: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/the-great-sparrow-campaign-was-the-start-of-the-greatest-mass In 1958, Mao Zedong ordered all sparrows to be killed. As a...
View ArticleFree From Jail But Still Trapped in Russia, ‘Arctic 30′ Seek Exit Visas
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/04-7 Out on bail, activists say prison was “worth it” for the attention it brought to Arctic drilling Lauren McCauley Published on...
View ArticleTea party activist says U.S. may be conquered for allowing atheists, Wiccans...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/02/tea-party-activist-says-u-s-may-be-conquered-for-allowing-atheists-wiccans-and-abortion/ By Travis Gettys Monday, December 2, 2013 A tea party...
View ArticleWhy the Christian Right Believes It Has Once-in-a-Decade Chance to Impose Its...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-christian-right-thinks-they-have-once-decade-opportunity-impose-their-radical-worldview A change to obscure procedural rules in the U.S. Senate and...
View ArticleThe Charity Swindle
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/opinion/the-charity-swindle.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 By KEN STERN Published: November 25, 2013 WASHINGTON — BY all outward indications, the...
View ArticleNelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator as Prisoner and President, Dies at 95
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/world/africa/nelson-mandela_obit.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0 By BILL KELLER Published: December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela, who led the...
View ArticleSorry, neoliberals: Inequality is driven by greed, not technology
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/30/sorry_neoliberals_inequality_is_driven_by_greed_not_technology/ A new study shows low wages are really caused by low minimum wage, weakened unions and the...
View ArticleThe Facts Are in: Austerity Politics Doesn’t Work
From Yes Magazine: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/how-to-eat-like-our-lives-depend-on-it/austerity-politics-doesn-t-work From England’s double-dip recession to Portugal’s spiking unemployment,...
View ArticleDeath of Yellowstone’s Most Famous Wolf Is a Troubling Sign of Things to Come
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/noah-greenwald/death-of-yellowstones-mos_b_4385132.html Noah Greenwald 12/04/2013 The alpha female of Yellowstone’s Lamar Canyon pack may have been...
View ArticleBjorn Lomborg and the Climate Change Catastrophe at the New York Times
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/06-8 by Howard Friel Published on Friday, December 6, 2013 by Common Dreams Two days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece by...
View ArticleL.A. Times exposes Cardinal Mahony’s decades-long pattern of shielding...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/03/l-a-times-exposes-cardinal-mahoneys-decades-long-pattern-of-shielding-child-abusing-priests/ By Scott Kaufman Tuesday, December 3, 2013 The Los...
View Article