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In a just and righteous society, women and families are fully empowered with the tools and resources needed to decide whether, when, and under what circumstances to have children and to raise their children in healthy environments. These sustained attacks on health care are no way to build the beloved community that God desires for us.

Think Progress

#reproductive rights #planned parenthood #faith #women

What's different, in short, for so many minority women, is that they cannot help but see themselves as a part of something larger—perhaps because they know there are obstacles in their lives and the lives of their family members that no amount of "grit" will overcome.

National Journal

#women of color #career #childcare #balance #women

The conservative belief that our income mostly reflects merit is not only a philosophy to which they’re entitled to subscribe, it is also the simple denial of reality.

NY Mag

#you didn't build that #income inequality #social Darwinism

1.6 billion urban dwellers around the world could struggle to find decent, affordable housing by 2025. What we can do: http://bit.ly/1tjfv6Y

#affordable housing #urbanization #income inequality

The best way to combat racism in the face of selective attention and situational racism is to seek it out every minute of every day and expose every instance we find. And not just racism, but also sexism, homophobia and every other kind of injustice that lessens the principles of inclusion that define this country.

http://time.com/87024/kareem-abdul-jabbar-why-donald-sterling-does-not-think-he-is-racist/

#racism #sexism #homophobia #kareem abdul-jabbar

newyorker

A cartoon by Trevor Spaulding. Take a look at more cartoons from the magazine this week: http://nyr.kr/1nCSl5n

To be sure, there are Christians in the world who face persecution, from Copts in Egypt to Catholics in northern Nigeria. But in the U.S., the Christian faith and its institutions have never been more pampered by the state. And yet the persecution complex of American Christianity blares its sirens.

The bitter tears of the American Christian supermajority

#religion #christianity #religious persecution #church and state

It’s a tried-and-true formula of conservative politics: take a problem that’s ultimately about poverty and class structure — here, the fact that contraception, which many Americans regard as a basic need, is incredibly expensive — and transform it into a debate about devotion.

Al Jazeera America

#contraception #reproductive rights #women #Health Care

What the religious right labels 'persecution' is something else entirely: it is the natural pushback that occurs when any one sectarian group goes too far in trying to control the lives of others. Americans are more than happy to allow religious organizations to tend to their own matters and make their own decisions about internal governance. When those religious groups overstep their bounds and demand that people who don’t even subscribe to their beliefs follow their rigid theology, that is another matter entirely.

Excerpted from “Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn’t Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do” by Robert Boston. via Salon

#Religion #persecution #church and state #religious freedom

I am protesting the muzzling of Al Jazeera’s staff in Egypt. #FreeAJStaff http://thndr.it/1nTMze2

Yes, I feel this way about news sometimes too.

#news #journalism #information #unlocking the truth

In the attributionalist’s view, people are poor because of personal traits — especially their moral failings. In order to relieve poverty, we must make poor people into better human beings, by essentially regulating their behavior. The opposing “relationalist” view contends that economic positions are largely explained by relationships between groups, and that we all share a responsibility to alleviate poverty because the experiences and behaviors of those who aren’t poor have an effect on the lives of those who are. We can debate these points theoretically, but we can also look directly to evidence of the relationship between poverty and inequality to evaluate whether the relationalist or attributionalist stance makes more sense in the real world. The rich have become richer in the United States, but they haven’t done so simply by creating new economic value through their own hard work. Instead, they have seized considerable value created by others.

Al Jazeera America

#poverty #inequality #wealth #socioeconomics #income inequality

'Over these past two months, nothing about my wife indicates she is alive,' Erick Munoz said in an affidavit. 'When I bend down to kiss her forehead, her usual scent is gone, replaced instead with what I can only describe as the smell of death. As a paramedic, I am very familiar with this smell, and I now recognize it when I kiss my wife. In addition, Marlise’s hands no longer naturally grip mine for an embrace. Her limbs have become so stiff and rigid due to her deteriorating condition that now, when I move her hands, her bones crack, and her legs are nothing more than dead weight.'

New York Times

#marlise munoz #women #texas #cruelty

laughingsquid

Coffee Is My Operating System Mug

msfranceswithane

I remember when I didn't even like the smell of coffee. Now this is true of my life.

#coffee #workingwoman #dependence

The fact that mothers are happier when they work part-time than when they work full-time probably doesn't tell us much about the state of women's roles in the workplace. More likely, it suggests that very few Americans — male or female — want to work as hard as Sheryl Sandberg works — or, for that matter, as hard as they themselves are working.

Daily Intelligencer

aljazeeraamerica-blog

Official: Reports of sex assault in Navy increase

The number of sexual assaults reported within the Navy has grown by about 50 percent in the past year, which Navy officials said Wednesday is a sign that a growing number of sailors feel more comfortable reporting an assault and believe something will be done about it — a prior source of concern for victims, advocates say.

The Navy said it is on track to end the 2013 fiscal year later this month with about 1,100 reports of sexual assault. A total of 726 were reported in the previous fiscal year.

Rear Adm. Sean Buck, the Navy’s top sexual assault prevention and response officer, told reporters at an annual training conference that the increase was something Navy officials had expected as they ramped up efforts to let sailors know that sexual assaults are being treated seriously.

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