Good morning!

The passage of the Homosexual Propaganda legislation in Russia is just horrific. I recently read about a horrifying new video that has hit the web this past weekend. The video which has been removed from YouTube, documented what appears to be a brutal attack on a Russian transgender woman by five men after she had allegedly been ambushed in a public park.

Although, the video is no longer available, here is the write. This is just so sick and so sad.

Graphic Video of Russian Trans Woman Being Beaten Surfaces Online

A number of news sources are reporting that a graphic video showing what appears to be a Russian transgender woman being attacked has surfaced on the Internet.

Five men allegedly ambush and brutally attack the unnamed transgender woman in a public park during broad daylight. In the video, the men knock the victim to the ground, kick and punch her repeatedly while laughing and talking to each other in Russian. They also drag her around the park causing the woman’s skirt falls off. The men then kick her in the buttocks as she crawls on all fours, trying to escape. There also appears to be a witness who stands around, taking no action against the attack.

The video is titled, “Violent attack on Trans woman by five men in Russia,” and was uploaded by YouTube user GayWaterford on Aug. 19.

“This video is of anti-LGBT activists in Russia, five men brutally beating a trans woman in broad daylight, in a public park,” the user wrote in the video’s description. “The video, posted on popular Russian social networking site VK, appeared on a page titled Straights for Equality, a group advocating for LGBT rights. The intention was to highlight the persecution of LGBT people in Russia.

“In the video, five men kick the woman in the head and body, and throw her around the park, whilst one of them films the attack. They also remove some of her clothes, and tear her underwear before she runs off,” the description reads. “The title of the video refers to the trans woman as a “homosexual”, and it also says ’view from 16 years old.’ It is unclear how old the victim in the video is, and its origin.”

Towards the end of the video, the woman appears to escape.

The video comes shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the country’s controversial“homosexual propaganda” law on June 30.

According to America Blog, the Russian government “refused to investigate” crimes like the one allegedly depicted in the clip. But the Moscow Times recently published an article, taking notice of anti-gay crimes by groups who lure LGBT teens looking to hook up with older men. One of these groups, which has made headlines, is called the Occupy Gerontophilia, which means having a sexual preference for the elderly.

“At least one official has drawn attention to the potential harm being done by the Occupy Gerontophilia group,” the Moscow Times writes. “Federation Council Senator Konstantin Dobrynin appealed to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yury Chaika over the matter earlier this month, saying a probe should be opened to determine whether the group’s leader and members could be held criminally liable for ’coercion to perform acts of a sexual nature.’ The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”

The report goes on to say that groups like Occupy Gerontophilia use the Russian social media site Vkontakte to lure LGBT teens. The site’s officials have “been responsive to the increasing public outcry over the group’s activities, blocking its official page,” however. The article then questions why it’s taken so long for authorities to respond to these anti-gay attacks, writing that some have suggested the reaction from officials “isn’t sincere.”

“It’s pure PR,” former Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigin told the Moscow Times. “The fact that the perpetrators are minors makes it very difficult to prosecute them.” Feigin added that the criminal charge Dobrynin called for would likely not hold up in court.”

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Readers: Putin needs to be put out. Why can’t people live and let live? Love and Let love? Blog me.

Wishing peace and sending love….

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Good morning!

No shit.

They’re Doing It Wrong

BY JOSH DORNER ON AUGUST 16, 2013 AT 3:01 PM

*S*I*C*K*O*S*!*

Readers: As many of you know, if you’ve been reading here for a few years,  it is my early day. So no time to comment today – will catch up with you tomorrow. The blog is open. You know what to do.

Love…Love…and more Love to all of you.

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Good morning!

Oh…just when you thought the Birther BS was over…

They’re Baaaack!

BY JOSH DORNER ON AUGUST 12, 2013 AT 6:00 PM

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Good morning!

Thanks to Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is celebrating its one year anniversary. You don’t know what DACA is? Neither did I until I found this write on the Progress Report. All I can say is that this is another feather in Obama’s cap – No doubt his hat is getting full. These are the kinds of things that make a great president. These are the kinds of things that people need to know about.

“Just noticing, again…”

Obama = Saving people’s lives. Improving people’s lives. 

7 Stories of Change

One Year Out of the Shadows 

Today is the one-year anniversary of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, “a presidential initiative that grants temporary legal presence to non-criminal undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country as youths by their parents. The two-year program allows DACA recipients to apply for a social security number, to legally work in the United States, and to pay taxes. It also protects them from deportation. The program has attracted more than half a million applicants. As of August, 430,236 undocumented youths have been approved.”

ThinkProgress immigration reporter Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, herself a beneficiary of the program, rounded up the stories of seven immigrants whose lives have been changed as a result of the program.

We’ll let her take it from here:

Before DACA, these individuals were largely excluded from pursuing permanent, professional employment in the United States. But since receiving their employment authorization cards, many recipients are able to match their skills and qualifications with careers that they never could have had without legal presence. They are able to travel more freely, with many states issuing driver’s licenses, ID cards, and other fundamental privileges previously denied. And they have increasingly become contributing members of society. These are the stories of seven DACA recipients who are already changing their lives, even as they live with the fear that the change may be temporary.

C.P., 28, was nine-years-old when her parents brought her from Mexico. When she was 12 years old, her mother was detained during a raid. “The trauma of having a family member sent away stays with you,” she says. Before DACA, she was worried that she would be separated from her two-year-old son and “felt so stuck.” But after becoming a DACA beneficiary, C.P. was excited to start working as a medical genetics technician. Her temporary legal presence has given her the ability to “pay more taxes” than she did as a low-wage “overworked, underpaid” worker who worked “nights, weekends, [and] holidays.” She now pays for private health insurance coverage for her family and she has been able to buy a car– two luxuries afforded by legalization that directly boost the economy.

 

 

Rafael Lopez

Rafael Lopez, 24, was one year old when he was brought from Mexico. Until he was approved for DACA, Rafael did not have a paying job. Now he works as a paralegal at a law firm. “It just feels really good because now I have some money in my pockets…,” Rafael said. “For a short little while, I forgot how much I wanted some sort of a state ID. I just wanted to be able to drive and not worry about getting stopped.” He plans to become an immigration lawyer and looks to his boss who takes on pro-bono work, as his role model. Before DACA, “my dreams were never set in stone,” Rafael said. “It was always an ‘if’… but now I’m not afraid anymore. I feel confident. [DACA] makes me feel empowered. Things are not as bad and I have something to lean on and that’s my DACA.’”

Thelma Monarrez with her family

Thelma Monarrez, 25, was brought to the United States from Mexico when she was two-years-old. She works as a legal assistant where “having my own office was a dream come true.” Her legal presence provides her with the opportunity to volunteer at a battered woman’s program, which she previously could not do because she would not have passed a background check. “I can now drive without fear… and take family vacations which I’ve always wanted,” Thelma says. “Basically, my life is a little more ‘normal’…I feel like I do belong somewhere.” DACA has also provided Thelma with a chance to rent in apartment complexes without “having to put a huge deposit down because I have no social security number.” It also gives her a kind of stability that if she lost her job “I can easily look for another [one], which was not so easy before.”

Oscar [last name withheld], 23, was brought to the United States from China at the age of 13. He works at a Detroit-area restaurant and is looking forward to applying for an internship. He dreams of becoming an engineer and being able to “use my skill to help build America, legally.” Oscar says that the most positive thing that has come out of receiving DACA is an improvement in his mental health and an ability to pay taxes. With DACA, Oscar finds that “it’s a [relief] driving my car knowing that I have my [driver's license] in my pocket.”

Blanca Gamez

Blanca Gamez, 24, was brought to the country from Mexico when she was seven months old. Before DACA, she was volunteering as an immigration advocate. But after DACA, Blanca was able to become a tax-paying, salaried employee at a non-profit immigration advocacy organization. She hopes to become a lawyer one day. Blanca said that prior to becoming a DACA beneficiary, she was “in limbo over nine silly numbers.” But now that she can legally drive and pay taxes, Blanca feels thrilled to be “a contributing member of society.” Although Blanca has never been pulled over, she is happy that she will no longer have to drive “in fear.”

Maria Sotomayor

Maria Sotomayor, 21, was nine-years-old when her parents brought her from Ecuador. Before she became a DACA beneficiary, Maria worked at a pizza shop. But now she works as a DACA coordinator, helping others file their DACA paperwork within the greater Philadelphia area. Like Blanca, Maria finds that DACA has opened “a lot of doors for me” and even though she had an international license before, she no longer fears “being pulled over while driving” and no longer has to explain to her friends why she used to carry around a passport in lieu of a state ID.

Yesenia Alaniz, 24, was one year old when her parents brought her from Mexico. She currently holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies, which inspired her passion to become a teacher. Because of DACA, she is now able to work at a retail store in the greater Las Vegas area to save up for a master’s degree in Education so that she can pursue that dream. She says that having the legal ability to drive has allowed her children to “participate in extracurricular activities,” but that being able to work has given her the freedom to “help my parents out financially.”

C.P., Oscar, Maria, and the rest of these DACA recipients have roots deeply embedded in society, and the impermanence of DACA’s two-year protected legal presence never strays far from their minds. Rafael and his family, for example, have a standing deportation order. While the Obama administration has stated that the DACA program was put into place as a way to shift its deportation focus on criminal immigrants, any one of these recipients are still at risk of deportation if the DACA program ends.

Beneficiaries can pay the $465 fee to re-apply for DACA before their employment authorization cards expire every two years, but the program is simply a stop-gap measure that provides an unsustainable long-term solution. What’s more, beneficiaries can only plan their futures in American in two-year chunks.

All of those interviewed believe a long-term, immigration reform solution is necessary, but none would accept a solution that only provides legalization for undocumented youths, such as the KIDs Act, proposed by House Republicans to grants legalization to a small subset of the undocumented population. That proposal would not provide a resolution for nine to ten million undocumented immigrants who do not qualify for the initiative.

The DACA program could very well be cut by the next president, relegating the nearly half a million undocumented immigrants back to living in a shadow economy. “I don’t want to lose the ability to work,” said Blanca. “That would be the scariest thought and one of the most horrific things that anyone can take away from me.”

BOTTOM LINE: The DACA program has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, but it’s only a stopgap measure and could even be rescinded by a future president. It’s time for the House of Representatives to pass immigration reform with a pathway to earned citizenship for DREAMers and the rest of the estimated 11 MILLION undocumented alike.

You can also check out this video of an event our Center for American Progress colleagues held on this topic today. They discussed the findings from an upcoming report on the progress made so far and the work that remains to be done.

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Readers: Fantastic yes?  Blog me.

Oh…I know that I request that we keep the blog contemporary by posting on the most recent day. (See Rule# 3 “Blog rules of conduct” in the left column) However, I do understand when a write is within your area and you are passionate about the piece, that commenting on the day of the posted write is important for some of you. Which is perfectly fine with me. That being said, because of that I missed quite a few comments from the other day.

Sharon: “Structural Segregation”  - that is a new term to me. And yes, that is what it is.

Susan: I don’t see Readers disparage all ”white” people. Nor do I. There are “white” people that I praise. But like “white” people and “men” who already get so much praise from the media, I focus on women and OTWs so that they too can have a strong voice here.  So when racism rears its ugly head as it does so often, I’m going to talk about it. And I will continue to talk about it as long as it exists. If people are sick of hearing it, they need to put themselves in the shoes of those that live with it…daily and then see how they like it. Then do something to change it.

Sonja: Nicely stated.

Lewis: How wonderful to read your comment. Men could certainly learn from you four. Not to mention, your mother being such an influence and an inspiration to you. You and your brothers will certainly make that special lady in your life proud. Thanks for seeing the other side, changing, and doing something. Sending love.

A perfect note to end on.

Happy Sunday! Soo good to be here with all of you. Sending so much Peace & Love. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Happy Saturday Everyone!! I HOPE it is a beautiful day wherever you are. 

Sometimes on Saturdays I post something wonderful about women and what they’re doing in this world to bring about good change. This is a write that I found on Think Progress which isn’t in that vein. However, the write is about congressman Tom Cotton. Is he promoting women? Oh, yes he is…in his own way. He somehow thinks that “A woman’s hope in life, is being a good wife and mother.” He claims that he has been asking women two questions and that is the answer to one of them.

Here’s the write, and it gets even better:

Congressman Tom Cotton in 1997: A Woman’s ‘Deepest Hope In Life’ Is ‘Being a Good Wife And Mother’

A woman’s “greatest fear in life” is losing a man’s support, and they desire nothing more than to marry “a man who worships me and whom I worship.” At least, that’s what Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said in 1997 in a column published by the Harvard Crimson:

I have been asking women two questions. My first question was “What is your greatest fear in life?” Uniformity characterized the responses. (Yes, these are actual responses from Cliffies; I did not fabricate them.) “Watching my husband walk out on me.” “Losing my lover.” “Getting a divorce.”

My second question was very similar: “What is your deepest hope in life?” Again, the responses were uniform. “Finding and holding onto the love of my life.” “Being a good wife and mother.” “Marrying a man who worships me and whom I worship.”

Really?

My sample is admittedly small and perhaps unrepresentative. If it is representative-I tend to think it is-then maybe men can unlock the secret to a woman’s heart and soul.

“Cliffies” in this context refers to Radcliffe College, an elite women’s college that began to merge with Harvard in the 1960s. So Cotton is claiming that women at one of the the most famous and selective universities in the world live in terror of someday finding themselves without a man.

The remainder of his column envisions a struggle between Christian right groups like the Promise Keepers, a men’s organization that rose to prominence in the 1990s, and “feminists,” who he criticizes for wanting the right to seek a divorce. As an alternative to this scourge of couples who have the legal right to end unhappy marriages, Cotton points to so-called “covenant marriage.”

Covenant marriage is an arrangement, originally proposed by former Louisiana state Rep. Tony Perkins (R), that allows couples to effectively sign away their right to a no-fault divorce. Couples who sign up for this relationship, Cotton explains, “can divorce only with fault, defined as abandonment, physical abuse, adultery or conviction of a capital crime.” So a couple that is merely miserable together must remain married. Forever.

In the sixteen years since Cotton wrote his column, covenant marriage hasn’t exactly taken off. Just three states, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona, have some form of covenant marriage law. In Perkins’ home state of Louisiana, fewer than 5 percent of couples opt for a covenant marriage. (Perkins now leads the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group which believes that gay people harm “society at large” and that unmarried people should be punished if they have sex.)

Yet, despite covenant marriage’s failure to thrive, Cotton viewed such efforts to force couples to remain together as America’s great hope. “Few men,” he wrote in 1997, see the danger presented by divorce — and “women are quite lucky to hook” one of these men. Ultimately, Cotton concluded, women must “defend these men against feminism.”

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Readers: Ok – Well,  I think that being a “good wife and mother” is a good thing. I mean who wants to be a “bad wife or mother?” But is it a woman’s “deepest hope in life?” Perhaps for some and no judgement if it is for any of you women out there. But I wouldn’t say for all.  I mean, look at me, I decided not to have children, So it is certainly not my “deepest hope.”

However, I was married and while I was married,  I did want to be a good wife, in whatever the definition of “being a good wife” meant to me and my husband at the time  - but was it my “deepest hope” to be a good wife? My deepest desire? No, not for me. Again, no judgement, if it is or was your “deepest hope.” I just don’t think that we can make such a blanket statement about a woman as Cotton has.

And, like the writer of this write, I question too Cotton’s “research” claiming “…that women at one of the the most famous and selective universities in the world live in terror of someday finding themselves without a man.” I don’t buy it.

Oh…I am out of time. There is plenty more to say here so I will leave it up to you. Thoughts?  Blog me.

Peace & Love…

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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