Civil rights activist Megan F. Coffey marched in her first protest rally at age three; thirty-five years later, she rode on the cross-country Marriage Equality bus tour. Contact Megan at megansonya@aol.com.
This week the US Senate is poised to vote on S.J. Res. 36, a joint resolution that would nullify a recently-adopted, pro-union rights National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule before it takes effect on April 30. ...
First, the bad news: Under cover of the nation's New Year's Eve celebrations last night, President Obama quietly signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA), which contains provisions that grant the...
The May 2011 death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden might have signaled an opportunity for the US to restore at least some of the civil liberties curtailed by such unconstitutional measures as the so-called Patriot Act and...
Members of Occupy Wall Street had already been planning a mass demonstration for New York City on November 17--to commemorate the movement's 2-month anniversary and International Students' Day--before Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent police in...
The 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision provided for the extension of the free speech protections of the First Amendment to corporations and unions by essentially defining corporations as people and conflating corporate financial expenditures with speech.Actual people and...
On September 11, 2011, an American citizen was dragged off an airplane in handcuffs, ordered to strip, and forced to undergo a cavity search, all for the crime of being brown-skinned on an airplane on the tenth anniversary of...
I was sitting in the Castro district's La Tortilla taqueria with a group of friends after the Trans March on June 24 when I got the HRC text message. "Marriage victory in New York," read...
Married same-sex couples and Registered Domestic Partners (RDPs) in California, Nevada and Washington state, read this before you file your 2010 tax returns!New IRS rules now require same-sex spouses in California and RDPs in California, Nevada and...
The 66-31 Senate passage on Saturday of a stand-alone "Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT)" repeal is definitely cause for celebration among LGBT and all fair-minded Americans, but that celebration should be...
Although the US Senate was supposed to close out its 2010 lame duck session on Friday, December 17, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has scheduled votes on several key measures for this weekend.One of the most crucial...