Tag: Equality

Jiggery-pokery: Scalia’s Poetry Slam

By Mark Fiore


 
It seems only fitting to use Antonin Scalia’s own words for a poetry slam, since the justice’s snarky dissents are filled with so many poetic gems.  The Affordable Care Act victory was followed quickly by the same-sex marriage win, and Scalia’s dissents have become increasingly irate and colorful.

Turns out, trying to bring health insurance to millions of people in the United States is not illegal and neither is letting two people who love each other get married.  Go figure.  Once the fulminating conservatives cool off, hopefully health insurance and marriage will become boring again and we’ll look back on this and laugh.

Though Scalia had some wins this Supreme Court term, it’s fascinating to see how unhinged he becomes in his dissenting opinions.  Amazingly, he even dissented while concurring!  As a cartoonist, I love this guy.  As a citizen, not so much.  Enjoy your Obamacare, go get married no matter who you love and be sure to enjoy the sputtering frustration of Scalia.  Oh, and check out the stories behind this cartoon!

Imagine if women ruled the world

#IfWomenRuledTheWorld

We would not have to worry about our reproductive rights. We would make sure that family planning was a part of public education, including the right to a safe abortion if so decided by a woman and her doctor.

If women ruled the world, might and power would not be equated with brute physical strength and such abusive control. Domestic violence and rape would begin to vanish, because there would be no rigid role models to which to adhere.

Major world religions would be shaped differently. No longer would the largest religions of the world (such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism) be based on patriarchal principles going all the way back to Abraham in a tent with many wives. Instead, matriarchal societies would have formed and permeated global culture, where perhaps the first Pope was a woman.

Our matriarchal societies, historically speaking, had a point of view that life proceeds in cycles and Mother Nature was deeply respected. Since the burning of fossil fuels threatens the earth’s atmosphere and could eventually annihilate all of its inhabitants, including the human race, our matriarchal leaders would have immediately turned to solar and wind technology, regardless of the cost.

Women focus on the future with its new possibilities. We are optimistic. The individuals in our society would be free to act when the time is right. The result would be new creative decisions arising from inner freedom.

International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women — past, present and future. Tonight, we want to hear your ideas of what it would be like #IfWomenRuledTheWorld.

Please join us tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern Time and help us envision a new way of perceiving the value of women in leadership.

In solidarity,

Laurel Davila, Linda Hill, and Kathy Smith
 

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity

Martin Luther King, Jr.

On February 12, 1968—President Lincoln’s birthday—as Dr. King traveled from state to state, garnering rousing support for the Poor People’s Campaign, more than a thousand sanitation workers in Memphis walked off the job. A month into the strike, on March 18, strikers and their supporters packed Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in what the Reverend James Lawson would describe as a “sardine atmosphere.” With few notes, King addressed the overflowing church by connecting the localized strike to the plight of all workers, especially those in the service economy.

[The following speech was delivered by Dr. King in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, just two weeks before he was assassinated in the same city.]

“My dear friend James Lawson and to all of these dedicated and distinguished ministers of the gospel assembled here tonight, and to all of the sanitation workers and their families and to all of my brothers and sisters—I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be in Memphis tonight, and to see you here in such large and enthusiastic numbers.

As I came in tonight, I turned around and said to Ralph Abernathy, “They really have a great movement here in Memphis.” You are demonstrating something here that needs to be demonstrated all over our country. You are demonstrating that we can stick together and you are demonstrating that we are all tied in a single garment of destiny, and that if one black person suffers, if one black person is down, we are all down. I’ve always said that if we are to solve the tremendous problems that we face we are going to have to unite beyond the religious line, and I’m so happy to know that you have done that in this movement in a supportive role. We have Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, members of the Church of God in Christ, and members of the Church of Christ in God, we are all together, and all of the other denominations and religious bodies that I have not mentioned..”

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