Yes, Hillary’s Nomination For President Really Is a Big Effin’ Deal | Dame Magazine

Jen DeaderickHillary Rodham Clinton has become the first woman to secure the nomination for president in the primary of a major political party. This was no coronation. This has been a tough, grueling primary, and it’s the second one she’s been through in the last ten years. Even before her first run for president in 2008, she had spent decades working on progressive causes, wearing out her shoe leather learning how to work in the grassroots ground games, and in the corridors of power. She earned this nomination by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter.She earned it, but she also stood on a lot of shoulders to get to where she is, walked though a lot of doors that others had opened, or left ajar. Since 1776, women have fought, over and over again, to be full participants in this great political experiment: the United States of America.When the Founders wrote “All Men are Created Equal,” they really did mean to say “men.” It was not meant as a universal word meaning humans. Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman saw herself in the Declaration of Independence and sued for her freedom, and Abigail Adams famously urged John to “remember the ladies” in his work at the Constitutional Convention:

Source: Yes, Hillary’s Nomination For President Really Is a Big Effin’ Deal | Dame Magazine

The Long Shadow of Child Abuse: Guest Post by Wayne Campbell — Petchary’s Blog

My fellow blogger Wayne Campbell, who as an educator works with children every day, wrote a touching article looking back at Jamaica’s Child Month, which was in May. The hard-working agencies in Jamaica responsible for child welfare made huge efforts to get the word out on protecting and caring for our children. The issue of child […]

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Remembering D-Day — In Saner Thought

72 years ago today the Allies opened up their second front against the Nazi war machine…..D-Day….and it was the beginning of the end of Nazi Germany…. Source: Remembering D-Day | New Republic Probably the last legitimate war the US would participate in… Take a moment and remember those that gave their all to save the […]

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La Borinqueña: A New Hero for Puerto Rico — Repeating Islands

Daisy Rosario and Maggie Freleng (for NPR’s Latino USA) report on the new Puerto Rican comic book hero La Borinqueña, created by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez. [Also see previous post Move Over JLo, There’s a Puerto Rican Superhero and She Can Fly.] You may access the 5:33 minute report in the link below. Rosario and Freleng write: “A […]

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Stanford Rapist’s Dad Says Jail Not Warranted For ’20 Minutes Of Action’; Petition Starts To Recall Lenient Judge: SFist

“Rape is not a joke, rape is rape – and guy should do lots more time for the crime!”

The San Jose Mercury News reports that with good behavior, he’ll likely only be in jail for three months. The details in the case are disturbing — captured in part by a powerful statement released by the victim (whose name has not been released). “[All] that I was told was that I had been found behind a dumpster, potentially penetrated by a stranger, and that I should get retested for HIV because results don’t always show up immediately,” she writes in the letter picked up by Buzzfeed.

Source: Stanford Rapist’s Dad Says Jail Not Warranted For ’20 Minutes Of Action’; Petition Starts To Recall Lenient Judge: SFist

A Response to George Will’s Latest: Campus Rape Is Not a “Fiction”

More than any other federal law today, Title IX is fundamentally concerned with guaranteeing all students access to education.Will does a disservice to accused and accusing students alike by misrepresenting the basic facts of the prevalence of campus rape, as well as the protections legally entitled to those who accuse and are accused of perpetrating it. It’s time we stop putting up with his rape apology and focus on what’s really at stake: students’ right to education.

Source: A Response to George Will’s Latest: Campus Rape Is Not a “Fiction”

Israel has destroyed $74 million worth of EU projects | The Electronic Intifada

An $11-million farming project in the Jordan Valley, a $61,200 playground near Nablus and an elementary school serving a Bedouin community east of Jerusalem: all have been destroyed by Israel.These are just a few examples of the at least 150 European-funded structures in the occupied West Bank that Israel demolished in the first three months of 2016.Israel has destroyed more homes, businesses and public infrastructure in these months than in all of 2015, according to a new report by the non-profit Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, or Euro-Med.Each month, an average of 165 privately and internationally funded structures were demolished or partially destroyed, representing a more than three-fold increase from the previous rate of 50 demolitions per month between 2012 and 2015.More than 900 Palestinians have been made homeless this year, according to UN statistics, and thousands more have had their livelihoods affected by the wave of destruction.Euro-Med says that the UN deputy coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Robert Piper, has suggested the increase in demolitions is a response to the escalation of violent confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces that began in October 2015.But Israeli politician Moti Yogev, who has applied pressure on Israeli occupation forces to ramp up demolitions, said, “I have no doubt that the government’s firm stance is in part a result of the unilateral measures taken by Europe,” referring to the EU’s decision to label settlement products late last year.If so, the demolitions can be likened to the “price tag” attacks on Palestinians and their property carried out by settlers as a form of revenge for policies they don’t like.

Source: Israel has destroyed $74 million worth of EU projects | The Electronic Intifada

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