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TODAY: Take Action for Net Neutrality
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Last night, President Obama, in his State of the Union speech, made clear that net neutrality is important to everyone throughout the world. “I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital…
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The King Center
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4 min read
Hope you all saw my hopeful letter to Martin, yesterday, but today I want to ask people to spend a little time further investigating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and challenge everyone to get busy if they are not already in furthering his precepts though activism. One of the best places to advance your education…
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Dear Martin
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2 min read
Dear Martin . . . How happy I am today to see the next generation fully embrace the ideals that identified your short life: the end of poverty, racism, and war, precepts to which I have continued to dedicate my life. With numerous conferences and forums throughout your birthday weekend, before and after, your mass of followers…
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Silencing Climate Change Deniers
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According to a new study in the journal Science,”Four boundaries are assessed to have been crossed, placing humanity in a danger zone.” The report defined climate change and loss of species as two core areas of concern. Each “has the potential on its own to drive the Earth System into a new state should…
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Back To The Future
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4 min read
My blog break turned out to be a bit longer than it should have, sorry. But if you have been following the Twitter/venusplusx feed you know I’ve been very busy with activists everywhere as we see, finally, an energizing of the forces for good despite the pain of getting to our destination. And it is…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: Choose A Team
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dO5c7PGd_w” pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] The idea of two genders is out-dated and old-fashioned and remains to this day in order to simplify human life for the sake of politics, mass marketing, social order, you name it. Should there be more gender definitions to categorize ourselves within or should we eliminate the need for…
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Today in hundreds of cities and towns across the world transgender and gender-nonconforming people and their allies pause to honor our fallen heroes. The Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was founded in 1998 by Gwendolyn Ann Smith—a transgender graphic designer, columnist, and activist—to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts. It occurs annually on…
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Part 2: Take Heart, Evidence Pouring In Hourly
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Yesterday, I revisited my pre-election theory that progressives and all non-Republicans will see the greater good of a Republican takeover of the Senate and their increased footprint in the House. And I promised to riff on a few memes to substantiate that soon after. (Part 1 here.) There’s nothing to fear since these election results are actually bringing…
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Take Heart, Evidence Pouring in Hourly (Part 1)
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4 min read
The far right believes they have a chance to remake the world into the christian, capitalist theocracy they have always wanted. Even liberal media says, “If they win this election cycle they will do things that would reverse history for 75 years!” But none of that’s going to happen. Just before the U.S. Election a week ago, I…
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The Sexual Freedom Project: What is Class?
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(También en Español) [pexyoutube pex_attr_src=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwNFRsJS94″ pex_attr_width=”500″][/pexyoutube] Let us know what’s on your mind. How have you deconstructed class, and what have you learned as it relates to your sexual orientation or gender expression? Do you agree or disagree that subjects of race, socio-economics, class/privilege, and oppression must be addressed together to achieve understanding and acceptance…
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