December 2010
16 & Loved →
mandington:
16 & Loved is a campaign to give our public support to the three young women who told their abortion story on the MTV special – “No Easy Decision” - created for the popular series “16 & Pregnant.”
16 & Loved sends love and support to Markai and the others on the show, and, in the process, lets every young woman who has had an abortion know that she is not alone. She...
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that DOESN’T help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via technipol)
Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: A New... →
fuckyeahfeminists:
Three more major international treaties are also lined up on President Obama’s ratification to-do list: the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
CEDAW is a landmark international agreement that affirms principles of fundamental human...
“So if you wonder why we are having a serious discussion about whether or not we...”
– Bernie Sanders during his epic Senate filibuster, Dec. 10, 2010 (via ambivalentalumna)
THIS MAN IS KILLING IT!!!
(via mizjenkins)
DADT Repeal Fails. →
feministlibrarian:
“I’ve only been covering politics for a few years. So while I’ve witnessed a number of sad political moments— like Congress voting to go to war in Iraq with only six senators having actually read the NIE beforehand — the Senate’s failure to repeal the ban on allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly has to be the most pathetic, embarrassing political moment I’ve ever...
