Saturday, November 16, 2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Friday, August 16, 2024
Understanding Project 2025 Part 1
Friday, March 22, 2024
Religious Freedom Gone Too Far: The Story of Kate Cox Should Horrify Us All
Island of Access: VP Harris Visits MN Abortion Clinic in Historic First Amid Growing Restrictions
In what is believed to be the first time a president or vice president has publicly toured an abortion clinic, Vice President Kamala Harris visited a Planned Parenthood location in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Thursday. The visit was the latest in a nationwide tour by Harris to highlight reproductive rights. In her remarks outside the clinic, she lauded Minnesota’s efforts to protect abortion rights in the face of what she describes as a “very serious health crisis,” with restrictive laws and outright abortion bans in more than a dozen states. Clinics in Minnesota have seen a drastic rise in appointments for reproductive healthcare as one of the last remaining access states in the region, says our guest Megan Peterson, who adds that it is “really important” that the Biden team not take pro-abortion voters “for granted.” Peterson is the executive director of Gender Justice Action, a reproductive rights group working in Minnesota and North Dakota. We also speak to professor Michele Goodwin, who calls the consequences of state-level abortion bans since Dobbs v. Jackson a “trail of horrors” that are “antithetical” to science, health and human rights.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/15/kamala_harris_abortion_reproductive_rights_2024?jwsource=cl
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
This is Why People are Fleeing Here. They are not Immigrating
This is why people are fleeing here. They are not
immigrating
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was found
guilty of cocaine trafficking Friday after a two-week trial in a New York
federal court, where prosecutors accused Hernández of ruling the Central
American country as a narco-state and accepting millions of dollars in bribes
from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection. He faces a possible life
sentence. Hernández served as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022 and was a
close U.S. ally despite mounting reports of human rights violations and
accusations of corruption and involvement with drug smuggling during his
tenure. Hernández was arrested less than a month after his term ended and was
extradited to the United States in April 2022. “The majority feeling is
satisfaction, a feeling of progress in achieving justice,” says activist Camilo
Bermúdez from Tegucigalpa. He is a member of the Civic Council of Popular and
Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, the organization founded by Berta
Cáceres, the Lenca Indigenous environmental defender who was assassinated in
2016 while Juan Orlando Hernández was president. We also speak with Dana Frank,
professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who
says the 2009 U.S.-backed coup against President Manuel Zelaya set the stage for
the corrupt governments that followed. While U.S. prosecutors may have
convicted Hernández, Frank stresses that multiple U.S. administrations
“legitimated and celebrated him.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/juan_orlando_hernandez?jwsource=cl
You Must Watch this Video to Truly Understand What is Happening in Gaza
You
Must Watch this Video to Truly Understand What is Happening in Gaza
“The
Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence
in Gaza“The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on
Israeli Violence in Gaza
Palestinian
novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa recently returned from two weeks in
the Gaza Strip, where she witnessed firsthand the destruction and misery
wrought upon the territory and its people by Israel’s relentless assault.
Abulhawa
spoke with Democracy Now! last Wednesday from Cairo and said “the trauma is
immeasurable” for the Palestinians in Gaza. Abulhawa describes hearing stories
of abuse, humiliation and torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers as people
struggle to find basic necessities to survive. “The degradation is total,” says
Abulhawa. “And on top of that, they’re bombed, day in and out.”
Toddlers
are having their legs shot intentionally, People are forced to walk long
distances with their ID’s and hands in the air…if they drop them or look down,
they are shot by snipers. Women are stripped of their clothing and forced to
lay in the winter cold on the ground with infrared sights trained on their
bodies while bullits hit them at random. Babies left in incubators unattended
because exhausted health care workers cannot get to them.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/11/susan_abulhawa?jwsource=cl
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court Rules Frozen Fertilized Embryos are People
Reproductive center worker dropped a container of frozen fertilized embryos accidentally destroying them. The potential parents sued the center for wrongful deaths. The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen fertilized embryos are children. This destructive ruling has resulted in frozen embryos that NEVER can be destroyed....without murder or manslaughter charges being filed. That means that frozen embryos must be stored...forever....and...families must pay for storage ...forever....defective frozen fertilized embryos have been routinely destroyed. Now...they cannot be...and must be stored forever. Other states are now considering inacting similar laws.