Posts Tagged ‘ civilrights ’

ctrp325 Prop8 on Trial

January 20, 2010
By bicyclemark
ctrp325 Prop8 on Trial

Ballot initiatives are not the only battle ground in the struggle for equal rights in the United States. One year after California voters passed a proposition banning gay marriage, a court battle has
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bmtv91 New Jersey Voter Fraud Alert

October 8, 2008
By bicyclemark

Attention all who are concerned with voter fraud and/or New Jerseans: this video involves you.  IF you want your vote counted this election, you're going to have to you absentee ballots. The votin
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Respect to Stonewall

June 28, 2008
By bicyclemark
Respect to Stonewall

On June 28th 1969 NYC police raided the Stonewall Inn. That night police arrested and beat numerous people, especially transgendered and gender non-conformist people.  Outraged and tired of the oppres
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Being Pride Month

June 26, 2008
By bicyclemark
Being Pride Month

This is pride month and I realize I'm yet to do anything related to LGBT rights and focus on related situations worldwide.  Actually I'm surprised to not yet have heard reports of violent and disgusti
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bm255 Bihari People; Forgotten and Left Stateless in Bangladesh

March 19, 2008
By bicyclemark

Imagine having no rights, no home, and no country. Now imagine that on top of that, you live amongst hundreds of thousands of other people in a makeshift camp for over 30 years. This is just part of
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Great MLK Talk

January 29, 2008
By bicyclemark
Great MLK Talk

It has been some time, since the show changed format, that I was blown away by an episode of Radio Open Source.  They've been doing alot of arts related interviews, they being Chris Lydon, and I've f
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Civil Rights, Now

January 22, 2008
By bicyclemark
Civil Rights, Now

Only recently did I learn about the film Freeheld and the story of Laurel Hester, a NJ police officer with a terminal sickness, fighting so that her wife and partner could receive her pension, just li
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From Portugal Remembering Newark

July 15, 2007
By bicyclemark
From Portugal Remembering Newark

Greetings from Lisbon, where in theory I've just begun my vacation, even though I can neither take a vacation nor do I believe in taking them. There's never a moment that Im not observing or thinking
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