- “Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren’t allowed into City Hall for the vote.”
- “The patriarchy that we struggle to over-turn is different from the patriarchy of our White female counterparts; but that makes aspects of Asia’s patriarchy no more (and no less) hostile to feminism than the White Man’s patriarchy.”
- LOL! “Remember when Romney said he “watched his father march with Dr. King”? Yeah, apparently that didn’t happen…reports of Romney being with Salt-and-Pepa and Heavy D up in the Limousine were also not meant to be taken literally.”
- “ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.”
- “When women die, we say, she was Muslim, or she was Aboriginal, or she was a sex worker, or she was drunk – we never say she died because in Canada, 1 – 2 women per week are killed by a family member or partner. “
- “The author seems to be suggesting that because Camille Cosby, Tonya Lee and Malaak Rock, are of a lighter hue than Michelle Obama, she is more legitimately “black”–an unfair assertion that diminishes black women of fair skin.”
- “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus called on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco to pardon Mychal Bell and five other teenagers known as the “Jena 6.”"
- “raising suspicions that Fresh Direct itself called Homeland Security as a way to get the unions out of its warehouse and scare workers, documented and undocumented alike.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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