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Gaza
I haven't written much about it because I am still working through having been inculcated as a child to support Israel reflexively. I will, in short, agree with Michael J. Rosenberg:
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"To protect and serve"
A bunch of Occupy folks turned out to counterprotest the Massachusetts Tea Party's Patriots Day rally. Rally speakers included Scott Lively, who is trying to incite genocide against GLBT people in Africa; local pro-homophobe Brian Camenker, and the Boston Herald's pet lunatic Don Feder.
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The NYPD: A criminal enterprise
Nearly two years ago, The Village Voice ran a five-part series about Adrian Schoolcraft, son of a police officer and eight-year veteran of the New York Police Department. Schoolcraft had secretly recorded his supervisors for 17 months out of grave concern that the 81st Precinct, which covers the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, wasn't ( Read more... ) -
International Transgender Day of Remembrance
is today.The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder on November 28th, 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Rita Hester’s murder - ( Read more... )
