butdoesitfloat.com curates photographs of civil rights I am a Man demonstrations.
powerful.
No she doesn’t.
She’s trying to get people feeling sorry for her.
Boo fucking hoo.
Don’t worry, CNN will cover this story 25 hours a day regardless of what happens. For more, we now go to Nancy Grace, sitting ten feet away in the same parking lot. Nancy?
BREAKING: Minnesota House passes marriage equality →
Minnesota is nearly set to become the 12th state in the nation to legalize marriage equality.
The Minnesota House today passed a bill 75-59 that would legalize same-sex marriages, and the state Senate will consider the bill Monday and is expected to pass it. If that’s the case, same-sex marriages will begin August 1.
The Minnesota push for gay marriage grew out of last fall’s successful campaign to defeat a constitutional amendment that would have banned it. Minnesota became the first state to turn back such an amendment after more than two dozen states had passed one over more than a decade.
The same election put Democrats in full control of state government for the first time in more than two decades, a perfect scenario for gay marriage supporters to swiftly pursue legalization. They tapped the cross-section of citizens, businesses, churches and others who spoke out against the amendment and staged rallies as part of a lobbying effort to build support.
Minnesota’s impending victory is perhaps the most moving of all of the marriage laws we’ve seen in the last week, considering the state’s amazing turnaround vote in November. This is truly incredible.
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May Day 2013 - Novosibirsk, Russia
“The May Day demonstration is a fighting review of the revolutionary forces of the proletariat; the Bolshevik party its vanguard. Here in our close column on this day, the fighting mood was like a show of our strength that summarizes all of our hard work.
“Our column was attended by the EIF, the AKM and the Komsomol, and some activists of the Communist Party. Leading our May Day was a friend of the column from the CFS.
“The eyes of the others were on our column, happily and loudly chanting slogans: ‘May 1st —International Workers’ Day! Hurray!’, ‘Long live the friendship of the peoples of the USSR,’ Under the banner of Lenin and Stalin — WIN!’
“Young people actively picked up and chanted the words of the revolutionary songs. Then unanimously we called upon the workers, ‘Stop asking for a handout from the bourgeoisie! Prepare an all-Russian strike!’
“At the end of the demonstration a meeting took place. At the rally, we were active in campaigning and advocacy. There were a lot of young people. More and more, their minds turn to the side of the Soviet era and more and more join the ranks of the fighters against the power of capital, for the victory of the socialist revolution.”
Photos and report: All Union Communist Party-Bolsheviks
To mark the five year anniversary of the wrongful imprisonment of the seven Iranian Baha’i leaders, the Baha’i International Community is today launching a campaign to call for their immediate release – and to draw attention to the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.
“On 14 May, the seven innocent Baha’i leaders will have been behind bars for five full years, unjustly imprisoned solely because of their religious beliefs,” said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations.
“We are asking people of good will around the world to raise their voices in an effort to win their freedom and the freedom of other innocent prisoners of conscience in Iran,” she said.
The campaign will run from todaythrough 15 May, under the title “Five Years Too Many.” Around the world, Baha’i communities and others are planning public events that focus on the plight of the seven, who face 15 more years in prison, and whose 20-year sentences are the longest of any current prisoners of conscience in Iran.
“The arrest of the seven Baha’i leaders on false charges, their wrongful imprisonment, and severe mistreatment while in detention are emblematic of the suffering of the Iranian Baha’i community as a whole – and, indeed, the situation of the hundreds of other innocent prisoners of conscience who have been incarcerated for their beliefs,” said Ms. Dugal.
“Their long sentences reflect the Government’s determination to completely oppress the Iranian Baha’i community, which is the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority.”
Six of the seven Baha’i leaders were arrested on 14 May 2008 in a series of early morning raids in Tehran. The seventh had been detained two months earlier on 5 March 2008.
Since their arrests, the seven – whose names are Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Vahid Tizfahm – have been subject to an entirely flawed judicial process.
During their first year in detention, the seven were not told of the charges against them and they had virtually no access to lawyers. Their trial, conducted over a period of months in 2010 and amounting to only six days in court, was illegally closed to the public, demonstrated extreme bias on the part of prosecutors and judges, and was based on non-existent evidence.
“Human beings should be free as birds.” - Art work by Brazilian Artist Siron Franco for the “Five Years Too Many” Campaign.
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Abercrombie and Fitch burns thousands of clothing articles rather than donate them to the poor because it would hurt their “image.”
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