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Del Martin R.I.P.
Lesbian activist Del Martin, at the forefront of the battle for same-sex marriage in California, died Wednesday in San Francisco. She was 87.
Martin's partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, was by her side at the UCSF hospice, the National Center for Lesbian Rights said.
Martin and Lyon, 84, tied the knot June 16 in a ceremony officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
In 1955, the couple founded the nation's first lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis, and launched the first lesbian publication, The Ladder...
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - 2 days ago | news, science, physics, technology, big bang 2.0
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Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | business, shopping, news, boycott, vermont, eat-shit-big-box-stores!
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | business, news, boycott, vermont
Quoted:In Brattleboro, Vermont, for example, Home Depot opponents in 2003 encouraged their neighbors to stay away from the new Home Depot when it opened. Home Depot called that boycott "bizarre...at the least this is most undemocratic." A group called BrattPower created a three part campaign: (1) to convince Home Depot not to set up shop in Brattleboro through a vigorous petition and educational campaign; (2) failing that, to encourage the greater community to continue to buy local while boycotting Home Depot; and (3) to be working for changes in the regulations and laws of the town government so as to prevent box store development in the future. "We do not need, or want, nor do we intend to support a Home Depot in Brattleboro," the group said. That vigorous 'Boycott Home Depot' campaign paid off this week, creating one of the 'underperforming' stores on Home Depot's hit list.
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | news, business, sustainability, vermont
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | news, medicine, pandemic, epidemiology
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | news, medicine, pandemic, epidemiology
How fucking creepy.
This entire article, as well as the headline, has been changed since I posted it. WOW. Now the tone is "there is no problem here..." and there never was... jesus, do I hear black helicopters?Quoted: One person died and several others were taken to hospital after a mystery illness hit passengers on a Canadian long-distance train, local media said on Friday.
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