Right now: FIFA = sexist anti-muslim asshats, Winnie Mandela‘s life story gets appropriated, petition for taxing the feelthy rich, and global climate change denial reaches new low in U.S. Congress.
- Iranian Women Banned From Olympics Because of Headscarves | The Root
- …the Iranian women’s soccer team has been disqualified just before a crucial qualifying match for the 2012 London Olympics because of the Islamic headscarves they wear while playing. FIFA officials concluded that the scarves the players use to cover their hair break the association’s dress code. In Iran, all women are obliged to cover their hair, neck, arms and legs. Female athletes who compete internationally have to obey the country’s dress code.
- Winnie Mandela: Upset Over Biopic Starring Jennifer Hudson | The Root
- Hudson never met with Madikizela-Mandela [because the] producers advised against the two meeting…they wanted to uphold the integrity of the book, Winnie Mandela: A Life, that the film is actually based on.
Madikizela-Mandela also expressed her concern about director Darrell Roodt’s portrayal of her life as a love story. “I think it is an insult,” Mandela told CNN of the film. “I don’t know what would be romantic in our bitter struggle.”
If you’re making a film about a woman, wouldn’t it make more sense to talk to her directly rather than go by a book written about her?
- National Women’s Law Center: Urge Your Representative to Support the Fairness in Taxation Act
- Step 1: Cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires to turn a budget surplus into a budget deficit.
Step 2: Repeat, causing the deficit to skyrocket.
Step 3: Scream that Congress must fix the deficit crisis by slashing programs vital to women and their families. …The Fairness in Taxation Act, H. R. 1124, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, is a progressive, responsible tax bill that ensures millionaires and billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes. …create new tax brackets for annual income starting above $1 million and ending with $1 billion and up. …tax capital gains and dividends at the same rate as income from work…
- As Floods And Fires Mount, House Forbids FEMA, Coast Guard From Preparing For Climate Disasters | ThinkProgress
- In a nearly party-line vote of 242 to 180 on Thursday, the House adopted an amendment by Rep. John Carter (R-TX) to prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from participating in the Obama administration’s Interagency Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation.
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