All Views Articles for 2015-06-26

Friday, June 26, 2015
Chelsea Manning
Same-Sex Marriage Isn't Equality for All LGBT People. Our Movement Can't End
Who in our community will be left to push for full equality for all transgender and queer people, now that this one fight has been won?
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Mark Morford
Love Prevails! Gay Marriage is the Law in America
Antonin Scalia is furious , of course, attacking everyone and everything, including Justice Kennedy’s writing style, hippies, California and fortune cookies . Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is puffing...
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Mathew Rodriguez
I Stand With Obama Heckler Jennicet Gutierrez
There once was a time when disruption was seen as revolutionary — like in the ACT UP days — but now many LGBT people think we should play nice. Jennicet Gutierrez and this writer are not those people.
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Glenn Greenwald
Today’s Court Ruling, Though Expected, is Still Shocking – Especially for Those Who Grew Up LGBT in the US
By a 5-4 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that laws denying same-sex couples the right to marry violate the “due process” and “equal protection” guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment to...
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Chase Strangio
Love Wins! Today Is a Historic Day for Equality
Twelve years to the day after the Supreme Court struck down bans on sodomy in Lawrence v. Texas . Two years to the day after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor . Today, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that states may not deny...
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Deepak Bhargava
Fast Food CEO Blames Low-Wage Workers for Poverty
To be “poor” in America isn’t an identifying characteristic or a defining trait, like being forgetful or creative or tall. Being a low-income American comes from being paid a low income. It seems...
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Jim Naureckas
That Most Terrorists Aren’t Muslim May ‘Come as a Surprise’–if You Get Your News From Corporate Media
Since the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001, the New York Times ( 6/23/15 ) reports, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States…. But the breakdown of...
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Jeff Bryant
Lessons To Be Learned From New Orleans-Style Education Reform
As the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, you can count on seeing a lot of glowing stories about the great education progress made in New Orleans since a natural disaster killed...
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Dennis Parker
A Battle Won in the War Against Racial Discrimination
We’re living in a tale of two Americas, where racial segregation and racial disparities in housing continue to plague our nation. A report we released this week outlines just how disadvantaged future...
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Laith Shakir
Think California’s Drought Is Bad? Try Palestine’s
While Israelis water their lawns and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinians a few kilometers away are literally dying of thirst.
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Michael Gerrard
America is the Worst Polluter in the History of the World. We Should Let Climate Change Refugees Resettle Here.
Toward the end of this century, if current trends are not reversed, large parts of Bangladesh, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Egypt and Vietnam, among other countries, will be under water...
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