3/1/12
Marriage equality becomes law in my former state of Maryland!
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The opposite of bullying: "ACCEPTANCE" From Vancouver, BC
The Christian fundamentalists are right about one thing: we are trying to indoctrinate kids into self-acceptance and loving others, regardless of their God-given sexual orientation. Love is the way!
The 2012 political landscape: GOP has moved to the extreme right while the Democrats have tacked to the center
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Rachel deconstructs this situation with academic research and facts.
Let us remember that Cap and Trade, the DREAM Act, Obama's version of heath care reform were originally Republican ideas, but were abandoned by the GOP when Democrats accepted them.
Americans do not like extremists: the GOP and Tea Party have over-reached and will pay a price in November.
This poem captures the spirit of the demonstrators in Syria, Marie Colvin and Anthony Shadid, journalists who died there
The Low Road
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can t walk, can’t remember, they can
take your child, wall up
your lover. They can do anything
you can’t blame them
from doing. How can you stop
them? Alone, you can fight,
you can refuse, you can
take what revenge you can
but they roll over you.
But two people fighting
back to back can cut through
a mob, a snake-dancing file
can break a cordon, an army
can meet an army.
Two people can keep each other
sane, can give support, conviction,
love, massage, hope, sex.
Three people are a delegation,
a committee, a wedge. With four
you can play bridge and start
an organisation. With six
you can rent a whole house,
eat pie for dinner with no
seconds, and hold a fund raising party.
A dozen make a demonstration.
A hundred fill a hall.
A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter;
ten thousand, power and your own paper;
a hundred thousand, your own media;
ten million, your own country.
It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.
--Marge Piercy
Copyright 2006, Middlemarsh, Inc.
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