Hold Fast

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

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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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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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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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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook

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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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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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