As many of you may already know, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed an updated budget earlier this month that includes drastic cuts in Family PACT funding. The logic being that in an economic crisis, it’s more important to cut short-term costs than protect long-term economic prosperity. Not only is that logic bankrupt on face, it also ignores [...]
Our predecessors risked everything to protect a woman’s right to choose. If we want, we can defeat the Stupak amendment. I am reading an inspiring book, Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. From free speech rights to the gay rights movement, the book recounts numerous [...]
After a long standing fight over marriage rights, last Thursday a U.S. District Court judge denied a request to give same-sex couples the freedom to marry while the challenge to Prop 8 is heard in federal court. The anti-right’s side is calling this a huge victory in their attempt to forever keep marriage between heterosexual [...]
