Anti-Choicers plan to protest at Planned Parenthood on February 11. How will we respond?

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Monday January 23, 2017 · 9:09 PM PST

2017/01/23 · 21:09

Like many of you, I attended the Women’s March on Washington this past Saturday. It was one of the most powerful and inspiring days of my life. But it was just one day. Our opponents are working as hard as ever to dismantle a century’s worth of progressive achievements.

I just learned of an alarming example. On Saturday, February 11, anti-choice fanatics throughout the country plan to protest outside of Planned Parenthood Clinics as part of their crusade to deny federal funding to an organization that provides essential health services to millions of women.

You can find the locations these nuts plan to gather at here: protestpp.com/…

I don’t know if any counter protests have been organized yet. If anyone has any information in that regard, I’ll update this diary.

If counter-protests have yet to be organized, then perhaps this community should get to work. I don’t have any experience organizing protests myself, but I would gladly assist people who do.

For now, if you see your local Planned Parenthood Clinic on the anti-choice protest list, consider contacting them and asking how you might help counter the crazies. (Thanks to user lagunabeach for this idea!)

Looking for advice on how to buy a car responsibly

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Tuesday July 23, 2013 · 1:01 PM PDT

2013/07/23 · 13:01

I will soon be getting my first car. I want something that is environmentally responsible, safe, reliable, and built by a company that respects its workers. Ideally I would want it to be union made and built in America.

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Monday July 02, 2012 · 10:53 AM PDT

2012/07/02 · 10:53

A day after the United States declared itself independent, John Adams wrote a joyous letter to his wife Abigail. He predicted that Independence Day would be “celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”

Adams was a wise man, but in this he was wrong. Every year, Americans celebrate the fourth day of July with fireworks, parades, picnics, and patriotic demonstrations.

But they are gathering on the wrong day.

“The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America,” wrote Adams.

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Friday June 15, 2012 · 12:23 PM PDT

2012/06/15 · 12:23

This is a very short diary.

Mitt Romney wants to cut jobs for teachers, cops, and firefighters. Obviously he is denying this, but we all know it is true.

If we did not also know that Romney has a history of cruelty to our canine friends, maybe this story could help remind him why public servants should be cherished, not vilified, that firefighters, cops, and teachers are not enemies, but the protectors and servants of their communities.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The politics of Obama's support for equality

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Thursday May 10, 2012 · 3:42 PM PDT

2012/05/10 · 15:42

Obviously all of us are happy that Obama has put himself on the right side of history and morality with his endorsement of gay marriage. Some may say talk is cheap, and to an extent, they are right. Obama’s announcement brings with it no change in the legal status of same-sex relationship. Nonetheless, his announcement is significant. Talk might usually be cheap, but when the talking is done by the sitting President of the United States, it carries some weight.

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Wednesday May 02, 2012 · 12:19 PM PDT

2012/05/02 · 12:19

"For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these 'it might have been.'"
-John Greenleaf Whittier

As a historian, I tend to be skeptical about the role of “Great Men” in shaping history. To say as Carlyle did, that “the history of the world is but the biography of great men,” is patently absurd.

That being said, some men and women do shape history more than others, if not to the extent Carlyle believed. An individual may not be able to reverse the current of history, but he or she may be able to shift it, in a more positive (or negative direction).

Senator Robert F. Kennedy said that “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

I believe Senator Kennedy, if given the chance, could have shifted the current of American history (or rather, he could have prevented it from taking the rightward shift of the last half century).

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Saturday April 07, 2012 · 7:59 PM PDT

2012/04/07 · 19:59

This is my first diary so I hope the community is not too hard on me.

I have noticed a decrease in the volume of anti-Obama diaries here, but I have no doubt that many of the people who claim liberals should not support President Obama in November are still around.

There is something they need to consider.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 79.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 79.