"Donald #Trump is the sole person responsible for this nightmare," President #Biden said in a statement.
He said the reversal 2 yrs ago of the landmark #RoeVWade ruling of 1973, which gave constitutional protection to #AbortionRights, has been "devastating."
"This is a fight for #freedom: the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body & not having her government tell her what to do," #KamalaHarris said at a MD event.
#Trump appointed 3 #conservative#SCOTUS justices during his 2017-21 presidency, leading to a change in the court's balance that sparked the #abortion ruling in 2022.
The #AntiAbortion movement may have won the battle 2 yrs ago w/ #Dobbs, but they’re losing the war—& turning an entire generation away from their cause.
When #climatecrisis puts an end to all centralised utilities,
When the murderous, comfortable lifestyles of the #GlobalNorth causes it to implode,
It would be the resilient people of @palestine who would take the human civilisation to the next phase.
Roger Waters and Lowkey to livestream a concert for Palestine
Legendary rockstar Roger Waters and iconic rapper #Lowkey, along with Yusuf Cat Stevens, will be live streaming their concert in aid of #peace, #freedom, and #justice for #Palestine.
The live streaming will be available exclusively on Double Down News on YouTube at 18:30 GMT on Friday, June 21.
In an exclusive essay for PEOPLE, the married #Arizona lawmakers share how a #gunman stole their dreams of having a child together — & why they fear politicians will do the same to other #families
""The reason why Juneteenth resonates with Black people is that it is NOT the honoring of SOME Black people who got free from escaping, or from lawsuits, or from buying their freedom, or from slave revolts, or from being manumitted by their slaveowners, or by state constitutions, or by the Emancipation Proclamation.
It is the celebration of freedom AT LAST for ALL OF US."
A quote: "I cannot express how deeply unsettling it is to be a university researcher, an international expert on climate social science, and recognise so recently, so very late in the game, what we are up against."
#Stanford University spox Dee Mostofi said in a statement that much of the Observatory work was continuing under new leadership….
“Stanford remains deeply concerned about efforts, including #lawsuits & #congressional investigations, that chill #freedom of #inquiry & undermine legitimate & much needed #academic#research — both at Stanford & across #academia,” Mostofi added.
#Press#freedom groups say the investigation of Gustavo Gorriti, a noted Peruvian #journalist, is politically motivated and part of a growing campaign against the #news#media.
[Etymologically, anarchy is derived from the Greek: αναρχία, romanized: anarchia; where "αν" ("an") means "without" and "αρχία" ("archia") means "ruler". Therefore, anarchy is fundamentally defined by the absence of rulers.]
[Etymologically, anarchy is derived from the Greek: αναρχία, romanized: anarchia; where "αν" ("an") means "without" and "αρχία" ("archia") means "ruler". Therefore, anarchy is fundamentally defined by the absence of rulers.]
[Etymologically, anarchy is derived from the Greek: αναρχία, romanized: anarchia; where "αν" ("an") means "without" and "αρχία" ("archia") means "ruler". Therefore, anarchy is fundamentally defined by the absence of rulers.]
A 2nd #Trump admin could #weaponize existing government agencies to dismantle democracy itself.
This article is part of “Project 2025: The Plot Against #America,” a Nation special issue devoted to unpacking the right’s vast & chilling program for a 2nd Trump term.
managing elections to benefit himself & his #Republican allies; gutting public broadcasting & constraining #press#freedom; & undermining civil society. #Trump, who…demanded that the results of #Georgia’s 2020…[election] be “recalculated” to give him a win, wants the trappings of #democracy w/o the reality of electoral consequences. That’s what #propaganda experts Edward Herman & Frank Brodhead described as “demonstration elections,” in which…wins are assured for the #authoritarians….
Today in Writing History June 4, 1917: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall won the first Pulitzer prize for biography. They wrote about their mother Julia Ward Howe, the feminist, abolitionist, pacifist author and poet. You can read the biography here.
Howe not only wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic; she also wrote the pacifist 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation. Also known as the Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World, the proclamation called on women to unite worldwide for peace. In 1872, Howe called for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be celebrated each year on June 2. Yet today, women throughout the U.S. and Europe (along with the men) are calling for ever more heavy weaponry and NATO troops to be sent to the Ukrainian killing fields, where over 200,000 Ukrainians have already lost their lives, and where this now direct NATO involvement risks precipitating WWIII between nuclear-armed powers, neither of which show any indication that they are willing to back down or negotiate an end to the slaughter. Where is the peace movement today? Or, is some slaughter justified in the name of capitalism (er, I mean against despotism)? And, if that is true, where are all the people screaming for war against India? Philippines? Italy? Saudi Arabia? El Salvador? Egypt? Sudan? And Israel?
Stephanie, 37. The Mathews Family, Saratoga Springs, #Utah
‘Endless possibilities and adventure! We sold our home and just about everything we owned three years ago. Little did we know what awaited us on the open road ... freedom unlike anything we had ever had while on a quest to find a new place and community to call home’
You might like this insight into the Freedom Movement.
"I Went To Alberta To See What All The Fuss Is About With David Parker, Take Back Alberta And The Freedom Movement And It Was An Eye Opener…"
"Alberta First” was a through line and theme during this visit, and the Freedom Movement in Alberta RUNS the province and answer to no one, so stop acting like it’ll never happen. "
@appassionato@palestine Joe Biden is over here in the US celebrating press freedom while having cops beat up protestors while over in Israel, our putative democratic ally in the ME, they're shutting down international news agencies, banning the international press from Gaza and killing Palestinians willing to step into that role by the hundreds.
"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."