The Anti-Gay are the Anti-Pot
SaveCalifornia, the organization that helped bring you Prop. 8, has a new target in it’s sights: gay pot. OK. It’s just regular pot. But in the wake of Prop 8’s overruling (and subsequent appeal), SaveCalifornia is putting their frustrations toward defeating Prop. 19, California’s marijuana legalization initiative. The LGBT and marijuana legalization movements have a…
A Piece of STS9 History Could Be Yours
HeadCount is teaming up with STS9 on their current tour to bring you a chance to win a very special item: a band signed, KORG MS2000 Analog Synthesizer.
Net Neutrality: Is it the end of the world… wide web as we know it?
Google and Verizon have created a proposal that could change the world wide web forever.
Personal Liberty Issue Update: Victory for “Gaymerica”
In a decision that cut at a major ideological schism in the US, last week a judge threw out California’s Proposition 8, a law banning gay marriage enacted in 2008 by popular vote.
“Tell me what a police state looks like….This is what a police state looks like”
That’s what a crowd chanted as John Bush, the Executive Director of Texans for Accountable Government, was being arrested for what seemed like a standard rally on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin.
Human Rights Issue Update: Mountains in the (CO2) Mist
Pretty much everyone can see how climate change is an environmental, economic and public health issue, but on a recent trip to China I was reminded that climate change also profoundly affects human rights.
Team Leader of the Week: Melissa Brennan
Name: Melissa Brennan
Location: NYC/New Hampshire
[Update] Dave Matthews asks: Will You Be the One?
DeSmog Blog reports that the campaign is backed by polluting big oil companies with questionable motives.