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Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Repost: With One United Voice: The First Stirrings of the Women's Rights Movement

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by Nomad (This post was originally published on December 5, 2015.) When the Founding Fathers declared that a government ear...
Monday, September 24, 2018

How the Kavanaugh Fiasco is a Test of the Ideals of the Women's March and MeToo

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by Nomad Despite the worldwide marches and the Me Too movement, the Kavanaugh confirmation debacle has shown in stark terms how litt...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Sandi Toksvig's Big Idea: A Political Party for Women's Equality

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by Nomad Writer, actor, and comedian Sandi Toksvig has a brilliant idea. As she explains in this lively TED lecture, her idea is a ...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Homefront: How WWII and the US Military Provided the First Spark for the Civil Rights Movement 3 / 3

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by Nomad In the previous installment in this series, we examined how the a progressive president's wife, a black workers' union a...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Homefront: How WWII and the US Military Provided the First Spark for the Civil Rights Movement 2 / 2

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by Nomad In Part One , we took a look at how the approaching World War provided an opportunity to reform hiring practices in the defense...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

With One United Voice: The First Stirrings of the Women's Rights Movement in 1850

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by Nomad When the Founding Fathers declared that a government earns its true legitimacy from the consent of the governed, they h...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

The Radical Republican: When the GOP Championed the 14th Amendment

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by Nomad O ne idea that many people have a hard time wrapping their heads around is how the platforms of the two major political part...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Long Struggle for Wage Equality for Women and Republican Road Blocks

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by Nomad Wage equality for women has been a long and difficult road, dating the Roosevelt era and before. Down through the years, step by...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Lebanon Suddenly Became More Gay-Friendly than 14 US states

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by Nomad Despite its myriad problems, (such as marketplace suicide bombings, factional divisions and refugees), the Middle-Eastern natio...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Victoria Woodhull: The Fascinating Story of America's First Female Presidential Candidate

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by Nomad Does the name Victoria Claflin Woodhull ring many bells? Probably not, but she was without argument one of the most talked-a...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Why Gay Rights Victories in Arizona are Small but Important Steps to Greater Equality

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by Nomad Arizona has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. The state legislature under the thrall of the Tea Party Republica...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Jefferson's Words to the 99%: You Were Not Born With a Saddle on your Back

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by Nomad ALL eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to e...
Friday, December 27, 2013

The Representation Project: A Look at Media Misogyny in 2013

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by Nomad O ften advertising images become so much a part of our day to day life that we fail to actually notice how they subtly in...
Monday, October 29, 2012

How Gay Couples Are Destroying The Institution of Marriage

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