( Otherwords.org ) – The personal, as they say, is political. And there’s nothing more personal than the right to control your own body. So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion — is obviously personal to […]
Banned Books Should Be Required Reading
( Otherwords.org ) The people who want to ban Maus or The 1619 Project are the ones who need to read them. By Olivia Alperstein | February 2, 2022 In January, a Tennessee county school board voted unanimously to ban Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelamn about his parents’ experience in Auschwitz, from school […]
Trump’s EPA to Kill 11,000 a Year with Mercury Nerve Poison
( Otherwords) – Mercury regulations save 11,000 lives each year. Now, the EPA wants to weaken them. While Americans were quietly preparing to ring in the New Year, the EPA gave families a deadly present to start the year off wrong. On December 28, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal that would effectively weaken […]
Methane is a Monster Global Heating Gas: Trump just ordered EPA to Kill Limits on its Emissions
(Afterwords) – September 11 is already an annual day of mourning. But while the nation grieved over victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan future generations may well grieve as a tragedy in its own right. While Americans attended memorial services, the EPA announced plans to roll […]
Are your Personal Liberties at Stake if Brett Kavanaugh Joins the Court?
Washington, D.C. (Otherwords.org) – If Americans lose the right to privacy enshrined in Roe, they’ll lose a lot more than abortion access. President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Why should you care? Because everything from reproductive rights to voting, education, and health care is now […]
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