RENWL is taking the time to wish you a great weekend (we may turn you on to a nugget or two if we discover something irresistable) and to give you the heads up for next week’s upcoming delicious and thought provoking posts:
The Politics Of Race In The Marriage Equality Movement
and
18,000 Couples: Where’d The Hell Did They Go?
Have a great weekend everybody:)
~RENWL
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One of our fav' gangsta rappers Ice Cube at home last December showing off an Xmas gift he'd just received.
Oh, equality this—equality that—if there’s one term that’s been over-exposed, abused and used and contused—it’s eeequaality. So let’s add to the pot shall we?
We got to thinkin.’ Music serves as such inspiration in so many areas of our lives. There’s let’s see now—dancefloor music, and then there’s heart ache music, then of course foreplay music, and unfortunately alarm clock music. Also down in these parts we have what we call drive-by shooter music. But darn it why can’t music serve as inspiration for equality, too?
Now, there have been a few songs and indie artists who have attempted to do that and ahhh—well—-No. We’re kinda thinkin’ in terms stuff that we don’t find embarrassing when we hear it and well—actually want to remember. Ya know, a tune or two that gets your blood pumpin and the emotions flowin’. So we here at RENWL have decided to construct a playlist of inspirational tunes for EQUALITY.
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Now this is something worth getting off your duff over. We all know that public option for healthcare is just hovering on the edge waiting to become a reality. Problem is, it’s got this nasty fine print—the Stupak amendment— that says if you get pregnant and need to have an abortion (not us quite naturally but our female friends, fam ‘n such) you’re on your own; public option healthcare won’t be footin’ the bill.
That ain’t right. Can you imagine the many economically disadvantaged women of color who’d be driven to desperate measures to get an abortion? We see a rise in illegal abortion clinics and unnecessary deaths to women seeking abortions through these means and other unspeakable actions if this Stupak amendment remains intact in healthcare public option. There’s no justifiable reason to put these women at such a deadly risk.
HOWEVER THERE’S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. Read the following:
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Talk about haulin’ ass to get a post up! We had to source this news out folks. But what do you care?
Here’s the latest:
Tomorrow (Tues) is the first hearing in the Lesson 9 court case, one of the two efforts to allow parents to avoid having tolerance for gays/children of gays taught to their children. Of the two efforts, the lawsuit is the less pernicious in my mind, though still depressing.
Stepping away from the stated reason for both efforts (that the Recall is about extending diversity education to more people and that the lawsuit is about allowing parents to control when their children learn about health matters), the two efforts are still very different.
The Recall claims to speak for the majority of the community. Their call to action, which by every account has failed miserably, is a claim that by incorporating one annual 45-minute long lesson of tolerance towards LGBT families and people, AUSD has acted against the will of the majority of Alameda Voters. The lawsuit is more personal, a legal attempt by a small number of parents to solely opt their own kids out of the annual lesson. In that the legal strategy makes no claim that the filing has strong community support or desire, it’s at least a more accurate reflection of our city and school populations, one where Prop 8 failed miserably.
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Is this the week for Cali equality news or what?! Just as we were turnin’ in for the night did we receive a note from Rick Jacobs, head of Courage Campaign in response to criticisms directed at him for leaving Love Honor Cherish (LHC) jilted at the alter (Courage Campaign pulled out of the 2010 marriage equality campaign recently). So far, LHC’s Lester Aponte has been the most vocal about it all hurling out a doozy of an accusation on our Facebook profile that Courage got cozy with EQCA in a hush hush meeting over cocktails ‘n’ footsies which resulted in a sudden about face action on Courage’s part. Read the whole tear-soaked diatribe below:
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