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Rhode Island Catholic Day School reverses exclusion of trans students

Submitted by Robyn on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 2:43pm

Mount Saint Charles Academy is a catholic junior/senior high school in Woonsocket, Rhode Island run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.

A week ago concerned alumni noticed that since October of last year, the parent-student handbook included the following, without any explanation:

Mount Saint Charles Academy is unable to make accommodations for transgender students. Therefore, MSC does not accept transgender students nor is MSC able to continue to enroll students who identify as transgender.

Transgender status was, in fact, the only stated exclusion listed in the handbook.

If you want Bernie for President, STOP saying you'll vote for Clinton.

Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 1:26pm

STOP telling your opponents that Party comes before the President.

STOP being a "good" Colonist on the American Plantation.

Tell your opponents that if they believe in "Party first," they they better evolve from Hillary to Bernie, real quick like. The only pathway to victory for the Democratic Party goes though Bernie Sanders.

If you have the courage of your convictions — it really is that simple to win.

Sign the Petitions. Here's one:

Hellraisers Journal: Eugene V. Debs for the Appeal to Reason: "AROUSE, YE SLAVE!"

Submitted by JayRaye on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 12:30pm

If they hang Moyer and Haywood,
they've got to hang me.
-Eugene Victor Debs

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Sunday March 11, 1906
From the "Rescue Edition" of the Appeal to Reason: Debs Issues Call to Action

Down the center of the entire front page of Saturday's edition of the Appeal, Comrade Debs issues a call to action to protest the attempted judicial murder of the officers of the Western Federation of Miners.

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Democratic Establishment says, 'C'mon under our big tent and get yer diminished expectations right here!'

Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 4:15pm

We are in the midst of a moment in American politics where change is possible; as the success of outsider candidates makes clear, a sizable body of the people want real, substantive, paradigm-shifting (perhaps even radical by American standards) change. Given the tenacity and success of establishment candidates, you can see that there are is also a sizable body of people who oppose change that comes in large increments as either unproductive or potentially disruptive.

In the Democratic race, the positions and policies of Sanders and Clinton have been dissected, compared and contrasted - but the key debate is about the kind of change we are to have.

The change debate is the transcendent issue of this contest. The contested issue is whether the American people can demand and have implemented by their "representatives" in government wholesale change, or if they must settle for minor incremental changes described as pragmatic and "progressive" (for people who like to get things done) - because the representatives must ask the permission of the 1% before proceeding.

I Can Imagine It, I Would Prefer Not To Experience It.

Submitted by Phoebe Loosinhouse on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 2:39pm

Being the knee-jerk liberal, unicorn loving, 4 Freedoms embroidering sort of Democrat that I am, when the story about Hillary and her server was broken over a year ago, I personally found it a disqualifier. I found the whole setup, used to ignore and subvert the concept of transparency, as well as the FOIA and legitimate Congressional oversight was repugnant.

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