Support Legal Aid programs! As more and more American families and individuals enter foreclosure and unemployment, they will need the support of (the woefully underfunded) civil legal services.Image: no one saves us but ourselves.
Finally, a comprehensive (and English for lame non-Spanish speakers like myself) article on the current state of things in Puerto Rico "University of Puerto Rico Student Strike Victory Unleashes Brutal Civil Rights Backlash."
Excellent! "CA Formally Endorses Immigration Rights for Same-Sex Couples: Today the State Senate passed a resolution with a 23-12 vote that included bipartisan support, endorsing a federal law that would permit U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor a same-sex partner for immigration."
I admit that I am one of the ex-Olivia Munn fans (I got burnt out on her faux "one of the boys" act, agree that her comedic timing is terrible, and found her recent comments about not being a feminist etc really obnoxious), but I really appreciated this run down of criticisms lodged her way.
“Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the behavior of people on the way to the altar. They spend billions of dollars, behave in the most appalling way, all in an effort to be princess for a day. You don’t have cable television? Put on network TV. We’re giving away husbands on a game show. You can watch The Bachelor, where thirty desperate women will compete to marry a 40-year-old man who has never been able to maintain a decent relationship in his life. That’s what we’ve done to marriage in America, where young women are socialized from the time they’re five years old to think of being nothing but a bride. They plan every day what they’ll wear, how they’ll look, the invitations, the whole bit, they don’t spend five minutes thinking about what it means to be a wife. People stand up there before god and man even in Senator Diaz’s church, they swear to love honor and obey, they don’t mean a word of it. So if there’s anything wrong with the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right and have abused it for decades.” - Diane Savino, NY State Senator
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