Results for: meet up
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How To Fight An Eviction
Given the poor protections for tenants, the economic fallout and the chronic lack of access to affordable housing and healthcare, America’s housing crisis has only deepened since the pandemic began.
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Extra! Extra!: Between US Immigration, Political Deepfakes and Hanau Attack, It’s Not Looking Great
In this week’s Extra, Extra! we discuss immigration, healthcare, and political interference. Additional links touch on white supremacist violence in Germany, the climate crisis, and censorship around the world.
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Democratic Debate #7: Only 19 Days Left Until the Iowa Caucus
With polling showing four candidates — Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren — within five points of each other in Iowa, last night’s debate offered candidates their last, best shot at separating themselves from the pack.
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Democratic Debate #11: Sanders and Biden Vie for Leadership Points in First Post-Corona Debate
Whatever you think of Biden or Sanders, they stood on last night’s debate stage with a firm command of the facts, plans to tackle the issue and a willingness to let America’s response be dictated by experts. The difference between the parties could not be more stark.
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Booker and Warren Shine, Biden Grates at First-Ever GLAAD LGBTQ Forum
Last night, ten contenders for the Democratic nomination gathered in the First in the Nation caucus state for the LGBTQ Presidential Forum. Organized by One Iowa, The Gazette, The Advocate and GLAAD, the forum offered the most robust discussion of LGBT issues of the 2020 campaign thus far.
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Democratic Debate Night Two: Biden’s Loss Is Kamala Harris’s Gain
Biden floundered, and Harris was more than ready to make her move. Who even is Eric Swalwell?
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Democratic Debate 3: Maybe Civility Didn’t Win the Day, but Neither Did Biden
Let’s recap the highlights and lowlights for each candidate and talk about what we mean when we bring up “civility.”
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Democratic Debate #2, Night Two: Frontrunners Falter, Booker Shines
Last night, the remaining ten qualified candidates for the Democratic nomination competed in their second debate of the 2020 campaign. Like the previous night’s debate, there were a lot of fireworks, with lower-tier candidates taking their last and best opportunity to bolster their standing in time to qualify for the third debate in September.
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Democratic Debate #2, Night One: Warren and Sanders Stand Out Amidst the Midwestern Discourse
After 10 minutes of Superbowl-esque graphics and introductions and some performative patriotism, we got an hour of questions that came straight out of the GOP playbook.
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Protests
What did we first take to the streets about?
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Be the Change: The Nuts and Bolts of a Campaign Plan
How to build a winnable campaign from scratch, what hummus has to do with bisexual liberation, and what it means to build collective power. Come learn something new or share your campaign organizing tips!
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10 More Disabled Women Who Are Making Political Noise
In honor of all the other crips I saw in the streets on the Women’s March on Washington, of every disabled woman who’s had it with lip service and wants to make sure this movement belongs to all of us, here are ten more who are already preparing the way.
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8 Disabled Women Who Are Changing the World Through Politics
We need intersectional critical thinkers to flood the political landscape and help win the war on facts. And with the most blatantly ableist President in modern history knocking on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, disabled folks have got to lead that charge.
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How Did South Dakota Become a Living Nightmare for Transgender Kids?
“These lawmakers don’t say that they’re trying to address a problem that actually exists, but instead are supporting the bill in order to fight off transgender boogeymen that live only in their heads.”
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Rebel Girls: It Turns Out, Voting For Women Isn’t Enough
Voting for women isn’t all it takes to reach gender parity in politics. Changing our political system from the bottom-up will go a lot further.
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Rebel Girls: 25 Women Who Changed the Game in 2015
These women mounted movements, won awards, told important stories, and otherwise shook the sh*t out of this planet in 2015.