This message from National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling is re-posted from NCTE's mailing list:

We need Congress to get the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) moving forward and we need you to come to DC to help convince them.

We're working daily with people on Capitol Hill to convey the urgency we all ( Read more... )

Overall I thought the film was amazing. Penn's performance was really great, as was the whole look and feel of the film. It was, as intended, alternately exhilerating and devastating. From what I recall of Randy Shilts's book, it was pretty accurate as well ( Read more... )

Something I've been working on and hope you will take a moment to act on.

When senators return to Washington next week from their long summer vacation, a key Senate committee will vote on a bill to prevent nursing homes from forcing residents and their families into "binding mandatory arbitration" - biased, secretive forums where nursing home ( Read more... )

Reading Barbara Kingolver's latest book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, sure puts the crisis in global food and fuel prices in a very different perspective than those I'm seeing and hearing from our leaders and political commentators.

On the impact of fuel costs on food prices:
The basic problem here is how far our food travels: ( Read more... )