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I'm Maya Dusenbery. I'm a contributor at Feministing and an editorial intern at Mother Jones. I tweet here and can be reached at maya@feministing.com.At the Occupy Together protest in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol plaza in honor of the October 15 global day of action, they played Beethoven’s 9th Ode to Joy, the crowd raised their empty palms chanting “these are our weapons,” and everything was golden and beautiful. [Via]
Veteran activist Grace Lee Boggs’ message to Occupy Wall Street: “You’re going to have to be thinking about values and not just abuses.”
(via midwestmountainmama via zuky)
OMG there was actually an abortion on Grey’s Anatomy! And I thought it was pretty good.
“Tonight’s expected execution of Troy Davis brings inconceivable pain and loss to his family and friends. But it should also bring deep self-probing to us as a country, forcing us to ask ourselves agonizing questions: How can our system of justice be comfortable executing a man despite such substantive doubts as to his guilt? How can our country possibly justify taking an unarmed, captive human being, and killing that human being? Who are we as a people if we, sanctioned by the state, intentionally and with premeditation wrack a family with grief?” — Jen Marlowe
Elizabeth Warren for President! “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.”
“A woman’s health decisions are a private matter between her priest and her husband.”
