Country First, My Ass. It's My Ass First, Country.

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 1:04 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 13:04

I have nothing else really intelligent to add.

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 2:08 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 14:08

Wasn't the entire point of the feminist movement PARITY?

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Saturday August 30, 2008 · 2:18 PM PDT

2008/08/30 · 14:18

Pre-emptive strikes against protestors are in keeping with the policies of the current administration.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 5:39 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 05:39

I am sure that numerous diarists have already remarked on the beauty of some sense of fulfillment with Obama's speech 45 years to the day of MLK's dream. We have reached a summit, now let's see if we can get to the promised land.

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 11:07 AM PDT

2008/08/05 · 11:07

It never ceases to amaze me how Americans can hold insanely differing representations of reality in their head about race in this country without just, going POOF. A friend who is doing calls for the Obama campaign told me about one man who said he couldn't vote for Obama because he was not "sufficiently grateful for the actions of the North during the Civil War," while a friend's dad stated during the MA primary that he was "voting for the colored boy."

I have generally managed to stay optimistic, that is until today's "this is your reality on crack," moment.

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Monday April 10, 2006 · 8:42 AM PDT

2006/04/10 · 08:42

When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in South Dakota with the exception that it did allow saving the mother's life. There were, however, no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. His actions, and the comments of State Senators like Bill Napoli of Rapid City, SD, infuriated many of us, but truly sent a shudder through the backbones of feminists.

I leave out men here, because the shudder was to the fact that women who are vicitimized at the hands of men, impregnated by men, are forced by the LAW, to bear the full burden of violation.

On March 21, 2006, the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder stated: to "To me, it is now a question of sovereignty," she said to me last week. "I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction." Read More

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