Reclaim the "V" word - support Lisa Brown

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Thursday June 21, 2012 · 11:05 AM PDT

2012/06/21 · 11:05

We can't say the word "Vagina" out loud, or we too might be banned from speaking on the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives. As you've heard, this happened to Michigan State Rep. Lisa Brown last week on Wednesday.

Her exact comment (on yet another anti-choice and anti-woman bill which the Republican-controlled house rammed through) was "Finally, Mr. Speaker, I'm flattered that you're all so interested in my vagina, but no means no."¹

So what can we do about it?

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Monday July 25, 2011 · 7:58 AM PDT

2011/07/25 · 07:58

Progressive Majority and Grassrooting Productions are launching a grassroots project that will bring the next generation of inspiring and hopeful protest songs!

We're calling it The Nation Sings because this movement is about you!

The labor fights in Wisconsin and across the country, have proven that we need to unite our voices to get our freedoms back. We're launching this campaign to put the microphone back in your hands.

So send us your beats, tunes, lyrics, photos or full-fledge protest songs! When you do, other folks will use your work to riff or create a whole new work.

We've got it all laid out on our project website: http://thenationsings.com.

Let's unite our voices!

What conservatives should give up for Lent

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Wednesday March 09, 2011 · 12:03 PM PST

2011/03/09 · 12:03

Today's the day when many Christians wake up from their booze-filled Mardi Gras frenzy, repent, rub ash on their foreheads and give up something really, really important to them for 40 days.

So what should the the self-proclaimed holiest of the parties give up for Lent? We have some ideas...

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Five anti-choice strategies that will set women back

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Monday March 07, 2011 · 10:37 AM PST

2011/03/07 · 10:37

While the fight rages on (solidarity, WI!), a lesser-known but just as coordinated, pervasive attack is raging against women’s rights. For years, the anti-choice movement has been sending up test balloons at the state level to determine the most effective ways to chip away at abortion rights. Now, they’re launching a multi-front attack.

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Progressive elected officials show their stuff this week

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Friday March 04, 2011 · 7:32 AM PST

2011/03/04 · 07:32

It shouldn't come as a surprise that progressive elected officials really pitched in this week when conservatives insisted on undermining the middle class and padding the pockets of the upper 2%. Here are a few links on what we and our candidates did:

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Ohio's battle to keep voting fair

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Monday October 18, 2010 · 8:07 AM PDT

2010/10/18 · 08:07

by Erin Frautschy Barrows

I’ll never forget what it felt like to wake up on November 3, 2004.

The sadness and disappointment of Senator Kerry losing the presidential election was quickly replaced by feelings of frustration and helplessness. I could not believe the injustice of what happened to voters in Ohio.

Waiting in line for 10 hours to vote? Being turned away because ballots ran out? Not enough voting machines? These were not things that happened in one of the world’s oldest democracies.

These were stories from a corrupt country, far away, where elections were regularly fixed and voting was just a technicality.

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Wednesday October 13, 2010 · 1:39 PM PDT

2010/10/13 · 13:39

Claudia Kauffman is one of Washington’s biggest advocates for strengthening local economies.

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Reclaim the "V" word - support Lisa Brown

Let's unite our voices!

What conservatives should give up for Lent

Five anti-choice strategies that will set women back

Progressive elected officials show their stuff this week

Ohio's battle to keep voting fair

Claudia Kauffman is fighting for Washington