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The Equal Rights Amendment: Why Bill Cotterell needs to be wrong in 2012

October 9, 2011 by Kenneth

Last spring, I addressed a group of Democrats in North Florida as part of a commemorative program to mark National Women’s History Month. The theme for 2011 was “our history is our strength”.   At that point, I still entertained hope the Florida Legislature might actually ratify the ERA in 2011.

Yes, 2011 – the same year that the Florida Legislature was busy passing over a dozen anti-choice bills and also the year that the word “uterus” was banned from the lexicon on the House floor.

The theme for 2012 will be “Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment” and the 2012 legislative session will be concluding in this redistricting year just as National Women’s History Month begins. I want to be able to give a talk next March about Florida ratified the ERA during the 2012 legislative session.

Last year, Senator Nan Rich and Representative Evan Jenne filed concurrent legislation calling for ERA ratification.

Dollars, sense and the new American Resistance

October 5, 2011 by Kenneth

(Cross-posted at Saint Petersblog & Daily Kos)

 

“There’s something happening here

What it is ain’t exactly clear…”

Steven Stills wrote those opening lines of Buffalo Springfield’s classic protest song, “”, in 1966. It wasn’t just the Vietnam War tearing America apart at the time. It was the struggle for Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, and some measure of socioeconomic stability for America’s millions of poor, elderly and disabled citizens.

It’s no accident that the social unrest and political activism marking those years was accompanied by historic enactment of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid, by a Democratic Congress and President, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who even declared ”War On Poverty” in 1964.

Netroots Awards Nomination Deadline Extended to Sunday

September 26, 2011 by Kenneth

I wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to get in their nominations for the Netroots Awards, so I’m extending the deadline through Sunday. Details are here. You can nominate in one, a few or all of the categories…