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  • African-American voters deserve respect, not disenfranchisement
    21 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Shanikka
    Since the election all the discussions which have raised the issue of Black disenfranchisement — whether in the context of Ohio this year, Florida in 2000, or generally — as a form of electoral fraud have ended up devolving into ignorance.
    Waking up at my usual 4:30 AM Cali time to read DailyKos today in preparation for a long day in court made me glad that I’m a hard core Peets drinker, I’ll say that. Who knows what I’d be writing right now if I hadn’t had a cup first. (…)

  • The Plot Against Sex in America
    19 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Frank Rich
    When they start pushing the panic button over "moral values" at the bluest of TV channels, public broadcasting’s WNET, in the bluest of cities, New York, you know this country has entered a new cultural twilight zone.
    Just three weeks after the election, Channel 13 killed a spot for the acclaimed movie "Kinsey," in which Liam Neeson stars as the pioneering Indiana University sex researcher who first let Americans know that nonmarital sex is a national pastime, that women (…)

  • Uncivil Unions
    10 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    To say civil unions are analogous to marriage is like saying a date with Andy Rooney is the same as a date with Tom Cruise. Yet, many people, even in the gay community, erroneously believe that civil unions are simply marriage by another name. Civil unions are not a synonym for marriage, but second-class citizenship by another name.
    On substance, civil unions leave same-sex couples lacking the same federal rights and benefits married couples enjoy. Without marriage, same (…)

  • Civil Wrongs in the Washington Post
    24 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Last week, the Washington Post ran a “special advertising supplement” targeted to the black community that said gay people are unworthy of the equal rights that African Americans now enjoy. The supplement was in the guise of a publication called, “Both Sides Magazine”, although it wasn’t a true magazine and didn’t present both sides.
    This disgraceful propaganda - clearly backed by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson - truly broke my heart. “Both Sides” tried to incite anger (…)

  • Anything But Straight
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    The gay movement is the canary in the coalmine for the future of the Democratic Party. If party leaders move right and abandon basic fairness and equality, it is a strong signal that they will capitulate and surrender their other core principles too. This may lead to widespread disillusionment and the creation of a powerful third party that will shake-up American politics.
    For the record, I have always been a proud Democrat and I still expect to die as one. I have loathed (…)

  • Witch Hunt at Columbia. Columbia Profs Smeared as Anti-Semites
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ADAM FEDERMAN
    Charges of anti-Semitism against professors in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) at Columbia University, are being made by a Zionist organization that claims to promote, "a fair and honest understanding of the Middle East Conflict." The David Project, a Boston based organization created in 2002, "in response to the growing ideological assault on Israel," is using a documentary film, "Columbia Unbecoming," to argue that anti-Semitism on (…)

  • The Election Pig of 2004
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Not even the fabulous RuPaul could find a shade of lipstick glamorous enough to pretty up Tuesday night’s election pig. The excruciating defeat was an unmitigated disaster for the GLBT community. With the Supreme Court thrown into the equation, there is the very real possibility that some aspects of the movement could be set back decades. Many of my good friends and colleagues are depressed, even despondent, as they well should be. A couple of buddy’s are even thinking of (…)

  • Cherie Blair lambasts Bush
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tisha Steyn
    London - Cherie Blair, wife of the British Prime Minister, has criticised the policies of the US President George W Bush, attacking his stance on terrorist prisoners and gay rights, according to media reports here on Sunday.
    Blair, a lawyer on a lecture tour of the United States, was condemned by supporters of the US President after a speech to Harvard law students in Massachusetts which contained a stinging rebuke to Bush, the Scotland on Sunday newspaper reported on its (…)

  • NAACP says IRS review spurred by politics
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Speech by Bond preceded look at tax-exempt status
    By Genero C. Armas
    WASHINGTON — The NAACP’s chairman says the group’s tax-exempt status is under review by the government in an investigation he contends stems from a speech he gave that criticized President Bush.
    The head of the Internal Revenue Service did not confirm that his agency was investigating the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, but he strongly rejected the idea the agency would conduct an audit for (…)

  • The Secret Files That Reveal How A Nation Was Deported
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Pilger
    Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some of its most vulnerable citizens. What they tell is a shocking, almost incredible story in which the Blair Government has played a major part. One of the films, made in 1957 by the government’s Colonial Film Unit, shows the people of the Chagos islands, a British Crown colony in the Indian Ocean.
    The setting is idyllic; a coral archipelago (…)