The public gallery broke into a traditional Maori love song after the announcement that the same-sex marriage bill had passed for New Zealand.
Excuse me while I go cry
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April 18, 2013
April 17, 2013
New Zealand MP Te Ururoa Flavell’s speech for Parliament on the Same Sex Marriage Bill
Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill
This is not the first time that Māori have encountered controversy around the concept of marriage
In 1888, the Supreme Court made a decision that has been described as “doubtful legally and deplorable socially’. That ‘doubtful’ and ‘deplorable’ decision was to reject the customary marriages that had existed mai rā anō – and to assume the marriage law of England took precedence. In fact the colonial law from another land was considered of such importance that the children of Maori customary marriages were now described as illegitimate.
Yet so significant was the status of customary marriages amongst our people, that they continued to be recognised for the purpose of succession to Maori land until 1951.
So when opponents of this Bill criticised a change to the definition of marriage as contravening our sacred traditions, I’d have to say, who’s traditions are we talking about?
April 16, 2013
This is happening right now in my country Venezuela. All around the country Militaries are killing people just because we are defending what is Good. We want justice! We were doing a pacific protest and then they came and started to shoot and use gas against people and the government says that people need to show respect for the militaries. People are being seriously injured and murdered. Respect? Democracy? Peace? NICOLAS YOU ARE NOT MY PRESIDENT YOU COWARD.
GUYS PLEASE RB, I KNOW THAT EVERYONE IS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING IN BOSTON BUT WE ARE ABOUT TO GO ON A CIVIL WAR IN VENEZUELA!!
THEY JUST MADE MADURO TAKE THE OATH AS PRESIDENT, THEY’RE BURNING THE BALLOT BOXES, AND THEY’RE LEAVING THE COUNTRY WITH ALL THE PEOPLE’S MONEY
Let’s add to that that no International entity recognizes the election’s results and are asking for a recount, yet the CNE allowed Maduro to take the oath (wich was supposed to be on the 19th). The CNE’s president is leaving the country now.
We’re officially in a dictatorship.my dad was in that protest
(via realmenwearpuppypants)
April 12, 2013
Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.
damn
(Source: tzintzuntzan, via thewomaninsideme)
March 30, 2013
Guerrilla art intervention from the streets of San Francisco in 2009.
The right side reads “I ♥ my man but I wish my LGBT community worked for housing, health care and human rights for all, not just marriage rights for gay couples.”
(via merisunshine36)
March 11, 2013
Macy’s profits were $730 Million in the 4th quarter of fiscal year 2012.
Janitors at Macy’s make as little as $9,408 per year.
The math isn’t hard. Cincinnati janitors need a living wage and a fair contract.
You can sign our petition in support of working families here, and you can check out more photos from Saturday’s rally on Facebook here.
(via soemily)
March 8, 2013
The plan for the March 13, 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, DC.
Librarian, lawyers, nurses, New York hikers.
(via soemily)
February 19, 2013
The National Mall got a new memorial yesterday, if only briefly. As part of One Billion Rising, Baltimore-based feminist group FORCE installed a temporary memorial recognizing survivors of sexual assault. The group greated giant letters out of a statement from a rape survivor and floated the eight-foot-tall words onto the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
(via soemily)
January 13, 2013
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Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, first Congressperson to officially describe her religion as “none,” is sworn in not on the Bible, but on the document she’s actually supposed to be protecting and upholding—the Constitution.
Edit: She’s also the first openly bisexual Congressperson. (via eyesdriftskyward)
[Fun fact: James Madison remains the only president to take his oath of office on a book of laws, rather than the Bible.]
How nice of that carrot man to show up for it, too!
Stevie made a good correction: Sinema isn’t the first openly atheist Congressperson. But she’s the first lady atheist Congressperson! :)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9b6d207f93f713ae83b241cad01ce0a4/tumblr_mgc1ancffa1qbxlcko1_1280.jpg)
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, first Congressperson to officially describe her religion as “none,” is sworn in not on the Bible, but on the document she’s actually supposed to be protecting and upholding—the Constitution.
Edit: She’s also the first openly bisexual Congressperson. (via eyesdriftskyward)
[Fun fact: James Madison remains the only president to take his oath of office on a book of laws, rather than the Bible.]
How nice of that carrot man to show up for it, too!
Stevie made a good correction: Sinema isn’t the first openly atheist Congressperson. But she’s the first lady atheist Congressperson! :)
(via soemily)
January 12, 2013
Malala Yousafzai, in a 2011 interview with CNN, discussing her activism on behalf of girls seeking education in Pakistan.
This young woman was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban for speaking out on behalf of women’s rights in Pakistan.
She is fifteen years old. She is also still alive. It is likely that she will suffer lifelong language and coordination difficulties given where she was shot (left side of her head) but she hasn’t given up her fight.
While Islamic clerics in Pakistan have issued a Fatwa against the men who tried to murder her, the Taliban has re-iterated its intent to murder her and her father.
I can’t express how much of a hero this woman is. She’s only fifteen, and yet she’s faced such impossible odds, and she’s still fighting.
(Source: lalondes, via thewomaninsideme)
January 10, 2013
The Poet At Obama’s Second Inaugural Will Be Gay And Latino. Richard Blanco will serve as the inaugural poet at the swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 21, a selection that’s historic on a number of levels: He will be the youngest poet, as well as the first Latino and first LGBT person, to recite a composition during the ceremony.
(via soemily)
January 7, 2013
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court will hear arguments for Hollingsworth v. Perry (American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER)’s federal constitutional challenge to Proposition 8) on TUESDAY, MARCH 26, while hearing arguments for United States v. Windsor (American Civil Liberties Union’s case challenging the constitutionality of DOMA) the very next day (March 27).
Well, damn. Shit just got real.
(Source: bohemianarthouse, via soemily)
January 2, 2013
"One of the standoffs that ultimately meant that the Violence Against Women Act disappeared after eighteen years of implementation was over Native American tribal rights. Cantor explicitly refused to back a bill that included expanded jurisdiction for Native American tribes in the prosecution of rape cases. One in three Native American women have been raped or experienced an attempted rape and in 86 percent of rape cases, the perpetrator was someone non-Native. Legislation that would have worked to allow tribal governments to exercise greater authority in prosecuting non-Native American alleged rapists was deemed unacceptable by Rep. Cantor."
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The Political Notebook: And we say goodbye to the Violence Against Women Act… (via kateoplis)
Fuck you, Eric Cantor. You’re a piece of shit.
(via wilwheaton)
So, so angry about this.
(via soemily)
January 1, 2013
I think the part of tumblr that makes me the most tired
Sadly, that mindset isn’t limited to tumblr at all.
is the party line of:
(via ninety6tears)
December 20, 2012
BREAKING: Walmart pulled the Bushmaster AR-15 from its site just as this report went to press. Adam Lanza reportedly used the assault rifle during his shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary that killed 26, including 20 children, this past Friday.
(via ninety6tears)
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