Week In News...
Yes, its a day late. Get over it.
If Bush et Cronies a la Right were so intent upon upholding the structure of the family, why did he forcibly split tens of thousands of them apart?
Queen's University in Ontario has shut down their language gestapo, enabling free(er) speech.
Domestic workers fight for their rights NOT to be at the whim of their employer.
Glamour, a major media outlet directed toward women, is finally taking responsibility for reporting issues that are of actual relevance to women in particular and society in general: abortion.
The NYC AIDS Housing Network rallied in front of City Hall before and during Speaker Christine Quinn's State of the City address to put attention of Bloomberg's attempts to slash funding to "AIDS supportive housing and funding."
Speaking of, you can read Christine Quinn's snoring address here. It says nothing substantive about primary education and nothing AT ALL about higher education, which is on par with Quinn's as well as Bloomberg's and Patterson's attacks on the City University of New York.
The NYC Public Schools Athletic League is partnering with the US Army in order to teach students "life skills" from the army. Donna Lieberman of the New York Civil Liberties Union says it best: "The Army has a long track record of targeting New York's poor black and Latino populations with coercive and aggressive military recruitment techniques and now we are seeing potentially another avenue for military recruitment in our schools -- and with the Department of Education's encouragement,"
In this economic crisis its good to know that there is still a handful of sorta-affordable local colleges to turn to.
Week In Blogs...
Bush's abstinence-only education used and continues to use taxpayer's money to fund rape culture.
TakePart explains how Facebook owns your pictures = facebook owns your life.
Feministe explains why you need to fund Scarleteens.
ACLU sues Nassau County to enforce right of gay-straight alliance to meet. Why oh why are young people's rights to assemble constantly and so blatantly revoked? And now, public schools aren't private property, so don't use that pretend excuse as a reason.
Pandagon on Valentine's Day advertisements and their inconstant, blatantly contradictory, yet always sexist images utilized to sell stupid stuff no one needs.
Adam Fletcher describes the FreeChild Project Agenda.
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