Remembrance and Action
I continue to be moved and thankful for the well-purposed outrage and generosity that so many people showed last week in donating to Duanna Johnson’s funeral fund. With the help of everyone who organized the fundraising efforts and spread the word, including Dan Savage on the well read SLOG blog, the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition [...]
...read moreCan the LGBT community spare some outrage for Duanna Johnson?
UPDATE: The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition has set up a fund for Duanna Johnson’s funeral expenses that you can donate to via PayPal. This seems to be the most legitimate and secure way of donating. Any funds collected above the cost of the funeral will go to Johnson’s family. Please donate if and what you [...]
...read moreSo, how was it for you? (Share your voting stories!)
Let’s share our voting stories! Post the good, the bad, and the ugly here so that we can document, discuss, commiserate and cojubilate (if that’s not a word, it should be.) Also, remember to check out Twitter Vote Report to find out how to report on what’s going on at your polling place. I’ll start!
...read moreACTION ALERT: Supreme Court rejects Troy Davis’ appeal; urgent action needed to save Troy’s life
NOTE: I originally posted this on AngryBrownButch yesterday, but am reposting it here to supplement Cara’s post from last week because people need to know about this and people need to act, now. After granting Troy Anthony Davis a stay of execution on September 23 in order to decide whether or not to consider his [...]
...read moreBailout FAIL. Working Americans PWNED.
It seems as though Congress and the Bush administration are nearing approval of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. It was clear from the get go that low- and middle-income people were not going to be the winners here, no matter the specifics of the package; some details that are coming out now about [...]
...read moreHealthy Transitions for Adolescent Girls: working session at the CGI
Yesterday I watched the live video feed of a Global Health working session at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. (The press can’t attend the actual working sessions, so we had to sit and watch from the press room.) A bit of background – at the CGI Annual Meetings, government, corporate, and NGO leaders get [...]
...read moreLiveblogging Clinton Global Initiative: Bill Clinton & Bill Gates on Philanthropy
Check out the live blogging with Professor Kim, Cheryl aka Jill Tubman of Jack and Jill Politics, Deanna Zandt, and Josh Levy of Change.org after the jump!
...read moreFirst day at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting
This morning I woke up far earlier than usual (6AM!) to get up to the 8am press meeting at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. It’s been a really interesting, crazy time so far, starting from when I first arrived. When I came to Monday’s blogger meeting with Bill Clinton, I was surprised at how [...]
...read moreLiveblogging the Clinton Global Initiative Opening Plenary
Here with Deanna live blogging the Opening Plenary through CoverItNow. On the schedule: Bill Clinton, Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, Bono (yes, of U2), Al Gore, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, E. Neville Isdell (chairman of Coca-Cola). Check it out under the jump
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