SouthernProgressive
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Here are all the basic rights America denied to your mother and grandmother
As a growing number of states pass laws banning abortion, it’s worth remembering that Roe v. Wade was decided less than 50 years ago. Like so many other milestones in the fight for equality, legal abortion is a relatively recent occurrence, meaning your mother and grandmother grew up in a world with far fewer legal protections than exist today. Fast Company |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Fri Jul 5, 2019, 11:31 AM (1 replies)
Elizabeth Warren accuses advisory panel for FCC of corruption
FCC Chair Ajit Pai must "explain the extent to which CSRIC may be corrupted by corporate influence," the Democratic senator says.
A panel that provides policy advice to the Federal Communications Commission is "stacked with corporate insiders," Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said Monday. She cited a blog post by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), which showed more than half of all Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) members are direct employees of private companies or of industry trade groups. CNET |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Tue Jul 2, 2019, 10:03 AM (3 replies)
Judge rips Harris' office for hiding problems
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office violated defendants' rights by hiding damaging information about a police drug lab technician and was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings, a judge declared Thursday. SF Gate |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Tue Jul 2, 2019, 09:50 AM (32 replies)
San Francisco is Paying For Jamal Trulove's Wrongful Conviction. Will Kamala Harris?
Police and prosecutors framed a father of four in a 2007 murder case with local and national political implications.
After a jury convicted Jamal Trulove, then 25, of first degree murder in February 2010, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris praised the “brave witness who stepped forward from the crowd.” Harris was then running for attorney general of California and in her campaign bragged about her high conviction rates as the San Francisco DA. Harris echoed what her deputy prosecutor Linda Allen said repeatedly to the jury: Priscilla Lualemaga, the only eyewitness to testify at trial about the July 2007 homicide of Seu Kuka, did so at great risk of retaliation. “She’ll never get her life back,” Allen said, adding that Lualemaga testified knowing that “maybe [she’ll] get killed over being a witness because she saw someone else kill someone.” The Appeal Ex-reality show contestant convicted of murder A San Francisco jury convicted a 29-year-old one-time reality TV contestant of first-degree murder Tuesday for gunning down a man in 2007 at the Sunnydale housing projects. In another case, three men were acquitted in slayings in the same area. SF Chronicle |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Tue Jul 2, 2019, 09:26 AM (0 replies)
Incarcerated Transgender Women's Lives Must Matter
As Kamala Harris begins her presidential run, her move to block gender affirming surgery for an incarcerated transgender woman deserves scrutiny, especially as new cases highlighting the struggle for the rights of imprisoned trans women emerge.
When Kamala Harris announced her run for president on Jan. 21, a reporter asked her about the 2015 case of Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, a trans woman incarcerated in California’s prison system who petitioned prison officials to grant her request for gender affirming surgery. In 2015, Harris was California’s attorney general and her office filed a request in federal court to halt a court ruling that ordered Norsworthy’s surgery, arguing that “there is no evidence that irreversible treatment is immediately necessary before this appeal can be heard.” Nearly four years later, Harris didn’t answer the question about Norsworthy. In response to the reporter, Harris replied “it was an office with a lot of people … and do I wish that sometimes they would have personally consulted me before they wrote the things that they wrote? Yes, I do.” Harris then added that she “worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved.” The Appeal |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Tue Jul 2, 2019, 09:02 AM (0 replies)
Kamala Harris wants to bring busing back.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is standing by her support for busing as an effective tool the federal government should use to help desegregate schools. NY Mag |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Tue Jul 2, 2019, 08:46 AM (145 replies)
Did you see the first two debates?
Considering the number of Presidential hopefuls they were really good. I thought it was going to be bad. Simply too many people. Not the case. When looked at as a whole I think we need to call both nights a win. Again, I’m taking into account all of the things going against them. Size of field. Moderators. Night chosen.
There were highly competent and Presidential adults in the room delivering our message. Given the situation, they pulled off an excellent debate for Democrats. Our field is strong. Our bench is deep. And we have some great people gaining name recognition who will be powerful assets to the eventual nominee. Just a reminder. |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Mon Jul 1, 2019, 09:20 PM (8 replies)
In a field this large, I think direct attacks are going to be difficult.
It really took the first real one to see the potential consequences.
If any of our contenders unleash a real attack they will be met with the release of oppo research within the following days. The most difficult part, without a major error one will have no idea where the retaliation came from. It might even come from multiple places. Lets take the Biden Harris dust up. So it wasn't that big of a deal but it was an opportunity for her competitors. In the following days the Intercept and AP came out with negative stories on her. They were then picked up by other outlets. We have now seen additional negative stories come out. Who benefits from Harris being attacked? Considering the original attack being against Biden I would say Warren and Sanders are the biggest beneficiaries. Interesting that the Intercept was one of the first out with the attacks on Harris. In a field this large our people need to understand that direct attacks will be met with the release of oppo research in short order and we most likely won't have an idea of where the research was leaked from. Party on. Fight the good fight. If you are going to throw poo please understand it is going to hit the fan and splat back all over you. |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Mon Jul 1, 2019, 01:01 PM (3 replies)
Elizabeth Warren's Policy Ideas Dominated the First Democratic Debate
Massachusetts senator and 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren began the month of June polling around 7 percent, placing her in-a-respectable-but-certainly-second tier of candidates along with California senator Kamala Harris and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg. But over the past several weeks, she earned a blizzard of media coverage and made inroads with primary voters thanks to her steady rollout of detailed policies, from wiping out student debt and taxing the uber-rich back to funding universal childcare and abolishing the Electoral College. Warren entered Wednesday's inaugural Democratic debate at 12.8 percent in RealClearPolitics's polling average, good for third overall; New Jersey senator Cory Booker and former Texas representative Beto O'Rourke, at 3.3 and 2.3 percent, respectively, were the only other participants on stage who managed to exceed one percent. GQ |
Posted by SouthernProgressive | Fri Jun 28, 2019, 03:49 PM (2 replies)