I have had some tabs open just about forever, either to share or to read. I wanted to pop them here for future info & to share with those of you who might be interested ( Read more... )

Putting this here for discussion, education & to remind myself to read it later ( Read more... )

I have signed to support Making Change at Walmart and think my friends here would be interested in doing this too. Check out this petition calling on Walmart's owners, the Waltons, to pay their workers $15/hr and provide access to full-time work. The Waltons have as much wealth as 43% of Americans combined but keep their associates just under the ( Read more... )

My thoughts & prayers are with the family & friends of the Malaysian airplane, with the people around the world who are going to bed to the sounds of rockets & gunfire, with the people who are facing death trying to save their loved ones from violence & hatred & greed ( Read more... )

Quick drive-by post as I know some of you are upset by the SCOTUS vs Hobby Lobby decision. Short story: The chairman of Eden Soy foods also believes contraception is a "lifestyle drug" & should be allowed to put his beliefs over an employee's health decisions. I have purchased Eden Soy in the past but have signed a pledge to boycott them ( Read more... )

Ok, this will be a long post. It will be a political post. It will be a post of things that have been cooking in my brain, in my psyche & in my soul for several days. You have been warned.

Earlier this week I finished "The Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99Percent" by Peter Van Buren. I even did a review over at Good Reads, but will sum it ( Read more... )

Reposting this. While I have owned a 9mm & believe people can responsibly own guns, I do not believe someone's right to own Every Kind Of Automatic Weapon &/or virtually unlimited capacity clips, nor people with serious mental health &/or criminal should trump ANYONE'S right to live ( Read more... )

While I feel we Americans have come a long way from the day that Dr King's speech was first spoken, I know we as a country and world haven't come far enough. Native Americans, African Americans and any one brown in the US is subject to racism & prejudice daily ( Read more... )

-There were a lot of excellent speeches that came out of the Marriage Equality debate here. The one by Maurice Williams (see my previous entry, or the one just before that?) has gotten a lot of press, but another one was a speech by Mojo Mathers. Mojo is one of the Green Party candidates. She also happens to be deaf, I think one of the first ( Read more... )

There were some interesting and good speeches that came out of the Marriage Equality Bill reading last night. One in particular seems to have been picked up and shared around, the one by Maurice Williamson. It had me chuckling. Some points from his speech (directly and from articles about it ( Read more... )