News of Note
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Net Neutrality: Who is minding our store?
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4 min read
FCC’s Reported Capitulation around Open Internet Protections is a Major Step Backward “If true, this proposal is a huge step backwards and just must be stopped,” said Michael Copps, a former FCC commissioner who now serves as a special adviser to Common Cause’s Media and Democracy Reform Initiative. “If the Commission subverts the Open Internet…
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Thousands of drug offenders to receive clemency
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3 min read
[pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://youtu.be/-cDZAF5ZBbo” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Step by step, month by month, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, as left us breathless as he and the Obama Administration have begun to heal America by destroying some of the malignant tentacles of the 40-year-old War on Drugs. April 2013 will become one of the greatest landmark in establishing human rights…
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Dan Massey Memorial Service: Eulogy
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13 min read
Additional material from this February 28, 2013 Memorial Service: Introduction, Mayor’s Proclamation, Dan The Activist, Upcoming Book Excerpt, and Printed Program. Also see: Wikipedia, The Advocate, Huffington Post, and MetroWeekly. I am Joan Wentworth, a friend with a long history with Dan and his family. Within the embrace of that friendship, loyalty, love, and service are themes in this…
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Not Your Typical “Driving While Black” Story
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2 min read
Black Youths Attending Princeton Conference Pulled Over by Police, Then This Happened [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mumTehxIgcQ” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] You are riding in a car with some friends, and you get pulled over by a cop. What do you do? A group of members from the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) responded to this predicament by exercising transformative justice,…
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¡También en Español!
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2 min read
Con la vuelta de VenusPlusX después del relanzamiento de su nuevo look y navegación, ya estamos listos para planear el relanzamiento de VenusMasX. Mientras tanto, éste sigue manteniendo la función del hogar de numerosas traducciones del material de VenusPlusX. VenusMasX está lista para entrar en su segunda fase de vida, por lo cual, este año estamos buscando a…
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Until we meet again . . .
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2 min read
Dan and I have just spent the last a couple months retooling our website to focus more directly on the campaigns that have become the most important to us, and finishing our book on erotic communion that we have been researching and writing for the last 3 years. Look for more info on both. For…
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The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 by the creators of the film “Trevor“: James Lecense, Peggy Rajeskim and Randy Stone. The Academy Award-winning film is about a young boy dealing with being bullied while undergoing self-discovery about his sexual identity. The three creators soon found out that there was little (if any) support for Lesbian, Gay,…
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Violence against D.C. prostitutes has gone too far
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4 min read
Violence against local D.C. prostitutes has become alarming. A local transgender woman, “Jane,” who wishes to remain anonymous, shared her story with me. As she describes it,”I was beat an inch from my life.” She said she was going to work as usual,”clocking in” as it’s called — those few moments that you take…
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International Transgender Day of Remembrance in DC
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2 min read
This month’s official DC Transgender Day of Remembrance honors all of those who have died in the strucggle for equality, and their families, as activists rededicate themselves to help answer today’s community concerns. Celebrated internationally, the Transgender Day of Remembrance in DC will take place at 6 PM, Tuesday, November 20, 2012, at the DC…
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Voting while trans and the problems you might face
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2 min read
New voter ID laws have created costly barriers to voting for many trans people. And much worse, the debate about voter ID laws have made even the idea of voting harder. so many of us may feel discouraged from even trying to vote on election day, according to National Center for Trans Equality Executive Director…