politics

MSNBC's segment on "Being Trans* in America"

MSNBC had a twenty minute segment on "Being Trans* in America," with special guests trans*-activist superstar and scholar, Kate Bornstein; Exec Director of the National Center for Transgender Equal ...

Can "Caring Across Generations" Change the World?

A new campaign calling itself Caring Across Generations has in mind nothing less than a 180-degree turn in the way that Americans think about themselves, one another, the economy and workers. ...

We are Trayvon Martin: LGBTQ and African Americans united by murder

What does Trayvon Martin’s murder have to do with gay civil rights protection?  ...

The Police State Can Molest You Any Time Now. Thanks Supreme Court!

I have a general fear and disdain of the police, which has steadily intensified as I aged—from being stalked by a cop when I was in high school to understanding the ideology behind the police state ...

Let's Talk About Shaima Alawadi

Shaima Alawadi, a home-maker and mother of five who lived in El Cajon, California, was brutually murdered this weekend, beaten unconscious and left to die in a pool of blood. ...

Jeffrey Sachs’ Grab for the World Bank Part 2

There may be worse candidates for the presidency of the World Bank than Jeffrey Sachs (Larry Summers, also a candidate, comes to mind,) but Sachs is well worth raising an alarm about. ...

Laura Flanders on Jeffrey Sachs, Population Controller? Part 1

In a March 1 op-ed in the Washington Post Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs made his pitch to be the next president of the World Bank promising to “lead the bank into a new era of problem-solving.” ...

Separation of Church and State?

So the Nobel Prize winner President of Liberia says she won't decriminalize h ...

Watch Jane Lynch & Joan Rivers Kvetch about the Contraception Debate, Republican Primaries, and Viagra

Seeing Jane Lynch as a CNN guest host might cause you a momentary double-take-- n ...

Queers Against Israel Apartheid at Occupy the Center

[This is a speech given at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan on 3 March 2012; it is not a verbatim text of the actually speech given there, but rather a write-up of that speech reconstru ...
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