Hold Fast

A Blog by Matt Browner Hamlin

Hold Fast - a blog by Matt Browner Hamlin

Entries Tagged as 'Human Rights'

Obama on Same Sex Marriage

May 11th, 2012 · No Comments

I’ve been traveling for work, so I haven’t had the opportunity to write about President Obama’s decision to evolve already and personally come out in support of marriage equality. This is a tremendous step forward for equal rights in America. What the President of the United States thinks on an issue such as marriage equality [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama · Human Rights

Kony 2012

March 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment

This is a pretty amazing video and campaign. It has 1.8 million views in two days, which must approach a record on YouTube. Moreover, it’s 30 minutes long, which makes the number of views absolutely astonishing and against all conventional wisdom relating to sharable web videos. Oh and as if there was a need for [...]

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Tags: Human Rights

Two Lesbians Raised A Baby And This Is What They Got

December 1st, 2011 · Comments Off

Incredibly moving story of a young man whose parents are lesbians.

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Tags: Human Rights

Home Rule for DC

April 11th, 2011 · Comments Off

I’ve lived in Washington, DC for almost two and a half years, but only this past weekend, as Congress approved a budget which included a ban for the District to use its own funding to pay for abortion services for poor women, did the absurdity and cruelty of DC’s status become clear. The budget bill [...]

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Tags: Congress · Human Rights

United We Rise

March 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off

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Tags: Human Rights

Solnit on Revolutions & Tipping Points

March 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment

At TomDispatch.com, Rebecca Solnit has an incredibly thoughtful essay on the nature of tipping points and revolutions, specifically through the change movements we’ve seen around the world in the last three months, as well as historical looks at revolutionary movements going back two hundred years in history. Along the way she connects movements in Egypt, [...]

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Tags: Economy · Human Rights · Labor

Gene Sharp Profile in NYT

February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off

The New York Times has a profile on Gene Sharp, arguably one of the most important advocates for freedom of the last hundred years. Sharp’s writing on non-violent strategic campaigning, specifically on the overthrow of dictatorships, has been instrumental to the thinking of activists in places like Serbia and Egypt, and remains instructive for countless [...]

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Tags: Human Rights · Progressive Infrastructure

9/11 Responders on Filibustering of 9/11 Responder Bill

December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

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Tags: Human Rights · Labor · Republicans

Un-American

August 25th, 2010 · Comments Off

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg: “To implicate all of Islam for the actions of a few who twisted a great religion is unfair and un-American.” …Also, check out Tom Tomorrow’s latest toon on Park51.

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Tags: Human Rights

Not Bad

August 5th, 2010 · Comments Off

Hey, Prop 8 was ruled unconstitutional in a ruling by Vaughn Walker that will likely go down as a seminal statement of human rights in American law. I haven’t read it all yet, but the parts I have are truly powerful.

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Tags: Human Rights