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Blow the Whistle on Stop and Frisk Today
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1 min read
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network will be blowing the whistle on the NYPDs “stop and frisk” program. It is estimated that every day 2,000 New Yorkers 2000 of color get unconstitutionally stopped by police in the war on drugs. Organizers Carl Dix and Cornel West are calling on thousands of people in New York and…
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Sex Education is a Human Right
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3 min read
También en español The Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance (Woodhull), named in honor of Victoria Woodhull, joins the public discussion about sex education by framing it in the context of sexual freedom and human rights. Woodhull is a leader in advocacy and activism for sexual freedom, rights, and liberty and also acts as a convener of…
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Mass Incarceration: Follow The Money (Part 2)
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6 min read
America’s unconstitutional militarization of local and state law enforcement, based on racial hatred and racial politics, and the training, munitions, and financial incentives that support it, has created a new Police State. Slavery ended, and reactionary Jim Crow laws replaced it, and now Mass Incarceration, called The New Jim Crow by scholars, is imprisoning people of color for…
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Mass Incarceration: Follow the Money (Part 1)
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3 min read
Take a walk through America’s unconstitutional militarization of local and statelaw enforcement, based on racial hatred and racial politics, and the training, munitions, and financial incentives that support it. Since we finished reading legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s startling book, The New Jim Crow, we decided to speak up more on the toll and tragedy of Mass Incarceration in…
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What Causes Terminal Transphobia?
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4 min read
For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español The degree of antipathy that a large segment of society bears towards transgender and gender non-conforming folk is arguably among the most extreme of any systematic persecution of a minority population. Transphobia arises and is very difficult to cure because the person affected senses a threat to…
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Why Should Men Control Women’s Sexual Health? It’s Time for Women and Girls to “Take Control”
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4 min read
The Philadelphia Health Department launches a safe sex campaign called “She Takes Control” that promotes female empowerment and responsibility by encouraging female youth to carry condoms. Pennsylvania is one of the many states in the U.S. that suffers from high rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among teenagers — they are as much as five times…
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No matter how you look at it, there’s something wrong when a rape victim is threatened with fines and jail time for speaking out about her horrible experience. Not only had Savannah Dietrich endured the hardship brought upon her by attackers, but she now faces a $500 fine and up to 6 months in jail.…
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“I just went down the hall and discussed it with the bishop,” Sullivan wrote to the broker, according to the Telegram. “Because of the potentiality of gay marriages there, something you shared with us yesterday, we are not interested in going forward with these buyers. I think they’re shaky anyway. So, just tell them that…
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(También en Español) News of Note: Engineered stem cells seek out, kill HIV in living organisms (Medical Xpress) — Expanding on previous research providing proof-of-principal that human stem cells can be genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells, a team of UCLA researchers have now demonstrated that these cells can actually attack HIV-infected cells in a living…
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In preserving all human rights, especially those having to do with privacy of person and sexual freedom, free access to the unfettered communications of the Internet is crucial. The Internet is the circulatory system of the body politic, and the world’s only hope for true pluralism. Any and all attempts to restrict or dismember the Internet and…