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Tag Archives: Uganda
Same-sex marriage
Roundup on advances and resistance on same-sex marriage in churches and states. Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Britain, Bulgaria, Christopher Senjonjo, Church of England, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Church of Norway, Croatia, Desmond Tutu, EU, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, lgbt, Lithuania, Michigan, Oklahoma, Poland, Same-sex marriage, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Texas, Uganda, UK, Utah
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Queer Notes, March-April 2014
CeCe McDonald; Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Global Day of Action called by Solidarity Alliance in Nigeria. Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Africa, African Americans, Arizona, CeCe McDonald, gay, George Zimmerman, Global Day of Action, heterosexism, homophobia, IDAHO, Jordan Davis, lgbt, LGBTQ rights, Michael Dunn, Minneapolis, Nigeria, queer liberation, racism, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Solidarity Alliance, transphobia, Trayvon Martin, Uganda, United States
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Anti-LGBT bigot sued in human rights trial
U.S. preacher and bigot Scott Lively will have to face charges of human rights violations in a Massachusetts courtroom. Lively is best known as promoter of Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill. His homophobic preaching has led to persecution and death among African Gays. Continue reading
Queer Notes, November-December 2012
From the November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters Queer Notes by Elise On National Coming Out Day this year, youth in particular showed the way. Texas Tech University’s Gay-Straight Alliance members told coming out stories. People wrote their sexual … Continue reading
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Tagged 7FreeDays Club, Gay community, homophobia, Human Rights Watch, Kathmandu, lgbtq, Moscow, National Coming Out Day, Nepal, People's Council, Pride parade, queer, Russia, South Asia, Texas Tech University Gay-Straight Alliance, Uganda, University of Florida Pride Student Union
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Queer Notes, March-April 2012
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Queer Notes by Elise A California Girl Scout put out a YouTube video asking the public to boycott Girl Scout cookies because she objects to a troop admitting a Transgender girl. … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedom and Roam Uganda, Girl Scout, Girl Scout cookie, Girl Scouts of the USA, Housing and Urban Development, Human Rights Watch, Kasha Jacqueline Nabagasera, Kuwait, lgbt, lgbtq, Police brutality, queer liberation, Scouting, Shaun Donovan, Simon Likodo, transgender, Uganda, Violence against LGBT people, Violence is Not Our Culture Campaign, Women Living Under Muslim Laws, YouTube
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Women Worldwide, March-April 2012
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Women Worldwide by Artemis Pakistan’s first Academy Award nomination, the documentary Saving Face, follows the successful struggle by the Acid Survivors Foundation to introduce a law ensuring a minimum 14-year prison … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstain Be faithful use Condoms, abstinence, acid attacks, Acid Survivors Foundation, Argentina, Dirty War, domestic violence, feminism, Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, HIV/AIDS, Janet Museveni, Maurice Hinchey, Mohammad Jawad, Pakistan, patriarchy, Saving Face, sexism, Uganda, Violence against women, Violence and Abuse, virgin census, virgin party, women's liberation
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Kenya in Somalia
From the November-December 2011 issue of News & Letters: Kenya in Somalia by Gerry Emmett Reportedly backed by French and U.S. air strikes, Kenyan troops entered south Somalia to attack positions of the Islamist al-Shabaab militia which controls much of … Continue reading
Somalia famine, climate and capitalism
From the new September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Somalia famine, climate and capitalism The famine in the Horn of Africa is finally getting attention, though it has been years in the making, now that shocking pictures of starving … Continue reading
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Tagged African Union, Al-Shabaab, Black Hawk Down, climate change, Dadaab, Danziger Bridge, Ethiopia, Famine, global warming, Horn of Africa, Human Rights Watch, Hurricane Katrina, Jeremy Scahill, jingoism, Kenya, Mogadishu secret prison, race, racism, secret rendition, Somali National Security Agency, Somalia, torture by proxy, Transitional Federal Government, Uganda, United States
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July -August 2011 Readers’ Views
From the July-August 2011 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views Contents: AS REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION TAKE WORLD STAGE CHINESE ART PROJECT HEALTHCARE IN 2011 NEW RIGHT=OLD LEFT? FREEDOM RIDES, 50 YEARS AFTER WOMEN’S LIBERATION SPEAKS IN MANY VOICES BURMA … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Abraham Bassford, Ai Weiwei, anti-immigrant legislation, Arab spring, Bahrain, Baton Rouge, Burma, Cabrini Green, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, Chinese Art Project, Chinese Whisper, Colombia, Counter-revolutionary, criminal injustice, Critique of the Gotha Program, democracy, Deutsche Bank, Egypt, feminism, Freedom Riders, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, housing, Human rights, Iranian Revolution, Karl Marx, labor, leaderlessness, Libya, Maghreb, Martha Biggs, Marxism and Freedom: From 1776 Until Today, Maureen Dowd, Michele Bachmann, Mideast, Morocco, Mother's Day, Mr Taurus, News and Letters Committees, North Africa, North Korea, Palestine, prisoners, Qaddafi, Raya Dunayevskaya, Spain, Syria, theory of evolution, Tunisia, Uganda, Venezuela, What happens after the revolution, Wisconsin class struggle, women's liberation, workers, Yemen, Zack Kopplin
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