Laci Green Should Be Praised for Opening Dialogue with Critics of Social Justice
Laci Green is one of the most popular feminists on the internet. Her YouTube channel has 1.5 million subscribers, she has made videos for MTV, Discovery News, and Planned Parenthood, and in 2016 Time...
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Virginia GOP trash blogs are targeting me. Here's how I'm fighting back.
Kos readers — I’ve arrived as a Democratic Candidate; I was recently attacked by one of the local conservative blogs. In said blog, I was attacked for sending out a blast email in honor of Memorial...
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Bernie TV - Bernie Sanders Berlin Germany Fiery Speech And Interview May 31 2017
“He’s” with “Us”xYouTube VideoxYouTube VideoPrevious installments: Bernie TV - Bernie Sanders Interviews Bill Nye on Climate Science, Bernie TV - Bernie with Josh Fox on the Crisis at EPA and...
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VA-HD-21 Tom Brock for Delegate, Getting The Message Out For The People.
I am running to represent the people of my district. Politics can be dramatic. We’ve already had our share of drama in the 21st. I’m talking to the people in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. I am running...
View ArticleTipping Points / 2020 (or b4) must be our max for CO2 emissions -- Real Climate
According to a broad and deep consensus among scientists generally and climate scientists in particular, leaving the Paris Accords was a tragic mistake. A sign of wisdom, I believe, is to know the...
View ArticleLeftover Justice
LEFTOVER JUSTICEEdward Harris IntroductionI define "Leftover justice" as inadequate secondary justice that is acquired by the underprivileged. Justice that may have been unattainable had the privilege...
View ArticleMea Culpa
I am the worst offender. I have to own that. Nobody wants to tell themselves that they are a terrible human being. However, I consider it like a trip. Suppose, I want to go to Minnesota. I live in San...
View ArticleDispatch from today's front lines: healthcare rally in DC
Just returned from Washington DC and wanted to offer up a report from the ground. Doctors for America (DFA), in conjunction with Representative Ruiz (D-CA), who is also an emergency physician,...
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Why Do You Call It "Purity"? With a Poll!
How are principles that have been agreed to by communists, capitalists, developing and developed countries alike too pure for our party?I have seen two factions of Democrats pie fighting here on DKos...
View ArticleMni Wiconi, Water is Life: wisdom from LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established the Sacred Stone camp on her own property near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in order to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. On May 24, I had the privilege of...
View ArticleMy journey into the religious right and my escape from it
I was a very zealous and active member of the religious right. I shared much of my story in a comment and was encouraged to share it as a diary. I love my Mom ! She is not a perfect person, but she is...
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Two Steps Forward for Equality in Prince William County, Virginia
It’s been a rather eventful past two weeks here in Prince William County, VA. While our various House of Delegates and statewide candidates ramp up to the General Election in November, there have been...
View ArticleSpeak up before there is no one left to speak out for you
Eighty years ago, on July 1, 1937, the Nazis came for Pastor Martin Niemöller, a prominent Lutheran minister, who was once an early supporter of the Nazi regime but was now a political dissenter. They...
View ArticleWe've Got Relevance: DC's Socially-Conscious Comics of the '70s
(Cross-posted from Poplitiko)Recently a Marvel executive at a big sales summit caused a stir in the fan press when he said that their declining sales was the result of the company's push to add...
View ArticleWhat's in a name? When You Are Patriot Daily, A Lot!
I am honored to be joining a team of bloggers in this fundraiser to support Patriot Daily as she battles for her life. Please read previous posts in this series for background on the...
View ArticleMaine Propane Company Tells Trump Voters to Freeze This Winter
In our justifiable outrage against the (so far) 1094 documented sore winner incidents perpetrated by Trump voters, do we have any outrage to spare for a gas company in Maine threatening to withhold...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: 2017 Action is the Antidote to 2016 Despair
You already know about the past year — some of our achievements and losses. We worry that the 2016 election denouement might undo much of what we’ve achieved and impede further progress. Thus, I don’t...
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America was founded as a racist nation, I have benefitted from that
America is a great nationGreatness is measured many different ways, but there is no denying the United States as a great nation in World history. Our founding fathers laid out principles in our...
View ArticleA Poet’s Fight Against Money Bail
Alyesha Wise is a Poet, Teaching Artist & TEDx Speaker from Camden, N.J. Alyesha currently resides in Los Angeles, Ca and is the Los Angeles Youth Slam Team Co-coach and Hollywood Adult Slam Team...
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What a Group of Students at UCLA Taught Me About My Film About Racial...
Last night, we did a screening of "WALKING WHILE BLACK: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer" for 530 mostly black and brown UCLA incoming freshman, sponsored by the #UCLAAcademicAdvancementProgram. I was excited...
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