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Last night I went to Occupy Boston to assist the movement in the face of probable police activity after a judge ruled yesterday that the occupiers didn't have a First Amendment right to occupy the square, leading Mayor Menino to announce he wanted the encampment gone by midnight. Like many, I support the Occupy movement while at the same time ( Read more... )

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/19/naomi-wolf-arrest-occupy-wall-street

Relevant quote: Obviously if DHS now has powers to simply take over a New York City street because of an arrest ( Read more... )

I've been seeing a lot of good articles on the UK riots fly by on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc, due to my friends in the UK (yay internet) and the general high-political-intelligence of the people I associate with. This link came up today, and I liked it very much. It contained a lot of things I was going to say in a post on the topic ( Read more... )

I found this to be the most inspirational and moving piece on the recent shootings that I've seen.



If the embed doesn't work, look here: http://thedailywh.at/post/2698034618/in-case-you-missed-it-of-the-day-jon-stewart

For those who aren't aware, there's a pro-life license plate available in Massachusetts now. It's been the talk of a lot of debate, and I just looked up the laws surrounding special license plate requests, and wanted to make sure the information was spread ( Read more... )

Holy crap! Thank you tiamat360 for alerting me to this!

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gaudior wrote a really good post in response to responses on WisCon's response to how Elizabeth Moon responded to the non-Ground Zero non-mosque and the responses to such. Also, I really enjoyed writing that sentence. (gaudior sums up the situation in a footnote of her post, if you don't want to decipher what I just said.)

Standard fine text applies: this is someone else's words, not mine; I agree with much of what they are saying, but not all, and not every nuance of how they say it; this is directed at/covers certain people who make certain claims, and not the entirety of a religious group; I'm probably preaching to the crowd; etc etc.

Christians have convinced ( Read more... )

When I was out there saying I wanted to prevent unplanned, unwanted pregnancies, of course, that was interpreted that I wanted women to have abortions. Well, you know, I tell people all the time I am not about promoting abortions. I have never been about abortions. I am about preventing unplanned, unwanted pregnancies. If you prevent unplanned, ( Read more... )