fuckyeahfeminists:

quickhits:

Michigan hospital sued for honoring racist request.

um wtf

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In order to arrest, incarcerate, and institutionalize pregnant women for legal acts like “noncompliance” with a doctor’s orders, prosecutors distort state homicide, child abuse, and “feticide” laws—the latter meant to protect pregnant women from violence. As a result, many women have endured gross violations of their privacy, religious liberty, and suffered from infection, wrongful conviction, and even death. As mentioned, a disproportionate majority in the study’s cases were African-American women. African-American women in the study were more likely to be reported to the police by health care providers, arrested, and subject to felony charges. The study’s findings are consistent with reports of the racially biased application of the drug laws from disproportionate testing to well-documented targeting of pregnant African-American women in particular. The War on Drugs is manifesting quite systematically in the misapplication of child abuse and homicide law for the purpose of controlling women’s bodies, a disproportionate number of them Black, Paltrow and I believe, not coincidentally. I often hear the question from African-American women, “What do they [the right] want? We either have too many kids or too many abortions. Which is it?” The truth is, to them, it’s both.

(Source: grrrl-riot, via theoppressedlittlefetus)

afunnyfeminist:

madamethursday:

[A graphic with a photo of candidate Mitt Romney smiling and text that reads: “This is what voter fraud looks like…

2008: Moved to California.

2009: Sold his only home in Massachusetts

2010: Votes for Scott brown in special election following Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death.

2011: Complaint filed with state election officials alleging that Romney voted in several elections without residing in the state. 

Massachusetts law says a residence is “where a person dwells and which is the center of his domestic, social, and civil life.”

Mitt did not own property in the state. His voter registration reflects the address of the unfinished basement of his son’s home.”]

blissandzen:

Odds are this is why he won’t release his tax returns - they almost certainly say he wasn’t a resident of Massachusetts during times when his political papers say he was.

He expects us to trust him on this, just like he wanted us to trust him when he lied about his tax returns in 2002.

If you want references from news sources for this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/17/mitt-romney-tax-returns-voter-fraud-theory?newsfeed=true

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/did-mitt-romney-commit-voter-fraud

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brendancoffey/2011/06/15/did-mitt-romney-live-in-his-sons-unfinished-basement-last-year/

This article states that each count of voter fraud carries a 5-year prison sentence. I just smiled for some reason.

(Source: lafaux, via brazilianveganfeminist)

think-progress:

Ohio’s new tactic in restricting voters:

Early voting stations Ohio’s heavily Democratic counties will be open shorter hours, while Republican counties are expanding voting hours. 

(I’m a little late in posting this; here’s an update.)

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medeaismyfavourite:

babyslime:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

siddharthasmama:

thequilentone:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

And white folk wonder why

My mom was born in ‘64, kay? So, what that means is… THIS SHIT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO AND Y’ALL NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THE SHIT WE TALK ABOUT IS ARCHAIC AND OLD-HAT.

my mom was still in trinidad when this happened but seriously it could’ve happened to either my aunt or uncle who were 12 and 15/16 respectively

I think photos like this need to exist, not because I like the subject matter, but because it helps immortalize events that many people want to forget ever happened (and work pretty hard to make it so). It makes us face it. I’ve seen this picture before, but don’t know all the details. I hope the children in this photo were okay.

I’m always going to reblog photos like this. People are always like “Oh just get over it already”. Well, no.

No.

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subconciousevolution:

Free Abortions on Demand, NO APOLOGIES!

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