Tag Archives: Activism
Occupy Valentine’s Day
You probably didn’t notice, because like me, you probably don’t care that much, but Valentine’s Day is around the corner. My position on Valentine’s Day has always been pretty mixed–it bothers my cool sensibilities because I think it is corny, but i’m also a little corny and I like celebrating and expressing love and the [...]
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Finally some abortion ads I can get behind
A series of advertisements in San Francisco are up around Market Street in honor of the Roe vs. Wade Anniversary happening next weekend. After all of my reporting about racist anti-choice advertisements last year, I’m so happy to be able to write about ads that promote messages I can support. From HuffPo: Market Street lamp [...]
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Thousands of Egyptian women march to protest military brutality
[Video via] Yesterday, several thousand women marched through Cairo in what historians described as the biggest women’s demonstration in modern Egyptian history. From the AP: Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt’s ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and stomped [...]
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Jay Smooth on making pro-choice activism even more virtuous
Jay Smooth has a few words to say about “Until Abortion Ends,” a site where anti-choicers pledge to give up something they love until abortion becomes illegal all over America. And by “something they love,” it seems they mostly mean “junk food.” Because nothing says “solidarity with unborn children whom I believe to have souls [...]
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Livestream of Valentine’s day film Xoxosms and panel