Should this raise some at least semi-serious questions? From RT: 700,000 Americans petition the White House to secede from the US In the one week since US President Barack Obama won his bid for re-election, representatives from all 50 states have filed petitions with the White House asking to secede from the United States. … [...]
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Queer Talk: Boy Scouts No Longer Eligible for UPS Support
From Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: The UPS Foundation … joined a growing number of corporate leaders in providing financial support to those organizations that align with the company’s non-discrimination policy. Under this policy, the Boy Scouts of America is no longer eligible for grants from the UPS Foundation because of the BSA’s ban [...]
Queer Talk: LGBT Equality Caucus Hosts Briefing on Workplace Discrimination
From the LGBT Equality Caucus, sent to members of that caucus, released today by the office of Tammy Baldwin, signed by members of Congress Baldwin, Barney Frank, Jared Polis and David Cicilline: (emphasis mine) On behalf of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, we would like to invite your staff to attend an upcoming briefing on [...]
The ‘Brilliance’ of Occupy’s Rolling Jubilee Consumer Debt Cancellation Project (VIDEO)
The “brilliant” description of the Rolling Jubilee project is from Charles Eisenstein at The Guardian. At The Nation, Pat Garofalo introduces the initiative this way: Members of Occupy Wall Street — various branches of which have recently been saving families from foreclosure and aiding victims of Hurricane Sandy — have launched a new initiative. Coined [...]
Queer Talk: The People Made History
UPDATE: Washington United for Marriage confirms that Referendum 74 was approved. With absolutely no illusions that the work toward LGBT equality is close to done, the votes on November 6, 2012 indicate that we have made tremendous progress. With votes for LGBT and supportive candidates, and with the support of marriage equality via state ballots, [...]
Queer Talk: Historic LGBT Wins
For now, these highlights, with one comment: these really do fit the “historic” language. Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, the first openly lesbian or gay person to be so elected. Maryland passed Question Six and Maine Question One, both affirming marriage equality by popular vote, the first times states have [...]
Who Holds the Electorate Accountable?
We the Electorate regularly complain, with excellent and multiple reasons, about Electeds who don’t fulfill even some sliver of campaign promises. We fairly often talk about “accountability,” about that “holding their feet to the fire” thing. It’s a kind of campaign promise in reverse, Electorate to wannabe Electeds: I’ll be watching you. If you don’t [...]
Races, Ballot Measures LGBT People Will Be Watching
Of course LGBT people don’t just pay attention to races with particular connections to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. The economy, unemployment, and the environment, among many other issues, are of as much concern to LGBTs as non-LGBTs. But there are races and ballot measures that will probably get some extra scrutiny today. At [...]
An Election Eve Story: Responding to Superstorm and Electoral Disasters
This really isn’t a non-election story, just one from a practical, grass-roots, real life perspective, focused on people elections should be about. One consistent response from Electeds and those they serve to a disaster is making use of it to further their own, oligarchic, privatizing agenda. Electeds and those for whom they work will, to [...]
What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote: ‘Tom Frank: Obama’s made left ‘futile and irrelevant’
This is the final of the short series of “What People Are Saying About How You Should Vote.” But the fact is, the same kind of reasoning will continue after November 6. It will just switch to the post-election phase, pick up with the very brief inauguration moment, then begin the ramp up to mid-terms [...]
Final Two Alternative Party Presidential Debates
There are two, at least to my knowledge, alternative party presidential debates remaining. The first is tonight’s from Nader.org. Ralph Nader to Host Third-Party Presidential Debate in D.C. Nov. 4 The candidates from four political parties – Gary Johnson (Libertarian), Jill Stein (Green), Virgil Goode (Constitution) and Rocky Anderson (Justice) – will meet for a [...]
The ‘Fall Back’ Extra Hour to Election 2012: Are We Still Having Fun OR What?! [Vidoes]
It’s the “Fall Back” time of the year, with the extra-special treat this time of having yet another full hour to enjoy the 2012 presidential election .You can Fall back “Forward!” with Obama, or Fall back to “Believe in America” with Romney. And while I realize this is really long-term thinking for We the Electorate [...]
Climate Change and U.S. Weather Related Fatalities Since 9-11: 6,408
Yesterday I considered the questioned raised by Mark Hertsgaard, Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?. As I was thinking about this, I began wondering about another kind of catastrophic event, and the “jolt” it delivered which stays with us today: 9/11. It was a very different kind of thing, of course, [...]
‘Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Change Denial?’
The question in the headline is posed by Mark Hertsgaard. I think it’s an excellent query. My guess as to the answer: A fairly skeptical maybe. Why do ordinary people reject “climate change”? We know why so many Electeds reject, ignore or at least minimize it: money. Which comes from those for whom they work, [...]
Queer Talk: HRC Files FCC Complaint Over Unsolicited Anti-LGBT Text Messages to Voters
Unsolicited, politically partisan messages – often with less than accurate claims – aimed at voters is obviously nothing new. A few nights ago text messaging was employed for a clearly organized if not particularly original and even less well targeted anti-Obama action. The “issues” addressed ranged from “gay marriage” to Medicare. The Human Rights Campaign [...]
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