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Nov.28.2010
My best friend Vania and I were discussing feminism yesterday. It's a subject on which we share similar opinions. I consider myself among the Fuck-Me Feminists. I have no issue with pornography; I love erotica as much as I love my feminist literature; and though I respect Andrea Dworkin, I think...
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Nov.11.2010
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria served as President of Chile from March 11, 2006-March 11, 2010. She became the first woman president in Chile’s history. President Bachelet won the 2006 election in a runoff, beating her opponent with 53.5% of the vote. Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (also...
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Nov.02.2010
Kurt Vonnegut in his short story "Harrison Bergeron" imagined the world of 2081 where everyone was equal. Ballerinas would have to wear sash weights and bags of birdshot so they could not be graceful. Beautiful people had to wear masks. Smart people had a little radio implanted in one ear...
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Oct.17.2010
It’s hard to pick up a newspaper (yes, some people still read the morning news in print form) or listen to the news these days without hearing stories related to gay rights. The saddest stories involve the death of tormented youth such as 18-year-old violinist and Rutger’s freshman Tyler Clementi...
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Jul.14.2010
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the...
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Aug.29.2009
We moved five times in just one year. I changed kindergarten only twice, though. We finally ended up in some apartments right off Stelling Road where Cupertino runs into Sunnyvale. I sat at the coffee table eating lunch one warm afternoon while my Mom was ironing and watching Robert Kennedy...
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Jul.09.2009
Published on Friday, July 3, 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle and on Saturday, July 4, 2009 by CommonDreams.org.
This Fourth of July, let's give America the birthday present she cannot do without. Let's give the people back their Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence sets...
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Jan.19.2009
Why we need to think carefully about what in fact we are declaring independence from.
By Hank Edson
1. A New Declaration is Born:
If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you know that on election night, November 4, 2008, I published my first book, The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview, a...
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Nov.04.2008
Preface to The Declaration of the Democratic Worldview
By John Hank Edson
Dedicated To Barack Obama:
History will honor the architects who advance the quality of humanity by improving the structures of democracy.
This Election Day, November 4, 2008, we find ourselves in the midst of an...
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Jun.02.2008
“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
Emma Goldman
This was a quote used in the program book for the huge annual celebration given by National Center for Lesbian...
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