September 2011
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Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. Dalai Lama The other evening I received an email inviting me to meet the man commonly refered to as the ‘Desmond Tutu’ of Uganda – Bishop…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: “I AM” Justice
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Thanks to theMassachusetts Transgender Political Coalition we are able to see powerful videos from its I AM: Trans People Speak project. Check the other ones out. Justice, a trans man learned a lot about life at college, and still ponders the racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and oppression all around him. His mother’s unconditional love…
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Why Trans Life is a Necessary Cosmic Reality
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español At the end of the last post I admitted that I certainly cannot prove that this higher level of Transcendent Life (Trans Life) exists beyond Real Live (RL) as RL exists beyond Second Life (SL). If it exists, then there is surely a path of transition from…
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[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell takes effect this week, so we are sharing this viral video that’s reached TV and over 3 million people on YouTube. An active service member calls his Dad in Alabama from where he’s stationed in Germany to tell him he’s gay, and his father responded in a way…
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Earlier this month Whitehouse.gov (the official site of the White House) launched “We the People”: “Welcome to We the People on WhiteHouse.gov. This tool provides you with a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important issues facing our country. If a petition gets enough support, White House…
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKsHCerr_dc” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] BREAKING NEWS? Abstinence-only education is a failure and causes huge problems. Every society suffers without health and sex education, including the safety of contraceptives. We also have to cope with our “politicians” often counter-productive actions. When do you think sex education should begin for children? what age? at home…
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This week’s hot stuff (9-22-11)
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The Take Back the American Dream conference, organized by the Campaign for America’s Future with support from Rebuild the Dream, will be happening on October 3 – 5 in Washington, DC. Find out more and register online. The American Dream Movement is growing stronger by the day, and it’s not going away until everyone can find jobs, afford to…
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Becoming and Being an Avatar—Uploading Salvation
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español And so we come, at last, to the true meaning of salvation. It is common to think of this word as meaning escape from mortality, resurrection into an afterlife. Yet this also contains the idea of a personal change to observe a higher set of ideals, so that…
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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
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“Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists” There is this website, Fold.it. People go there to play a video game about Protein Folding. Players can contribute to science by solving these puzzles. Wikipedia sums up the news nicely: “. . . online gamers used Foldit to decipher the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease, which…
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This week’s hot stuff (9-15-11)
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Voto Latino along with the National Council of La Raza are playing an increasing central role in advocating for progressive causes across a spectrum of stakeholders, not just for immigration, but all struggles for economic and social justice including labor rights and equality rights. These are the leaders of America’s new majority and so much the…