Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder (born July 30, 1940) is an American politician who represented Colorado in the United States House of Representatives from 1973–1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected in Colorado.
In this video Congress Woman Schroeder discusses how her life and career has been entwined with the Equal Right Amendment (ERA).
In this gorgeous video, the famous cellist is seen on top of a city building playing the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 – but the video has a powerful message
Yo-Yo Ma's video opens with the following message: "Culture – the way we express ourselves and understand each other – can bind us together as one world
This simple quote from Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun, very clearly defines the hypocrisy of the anti-abortionists.
In a statement she made in 2015 she pointed out she believes “That just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact”, she said,” your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed.” Continuing she said, “And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth.”
A case in point was a demonstration by the so-called “pro-life” movement a few years ago. One after another the demonstrators were approached by pro-choice feminists asking them to sign a pledge to adopt a child from an unwanted pregnancy. Not one person would sign and many did everything they could to avoid even speaking with the person approaching with the pledge.
Another example: Their so-called family planning clinics offer help throughout the pregnancy. But there is little or no help once the child is born.
These words certainly describe the Right Wing anti-choice extremists in many State Governments and the Congress. These Republican hypocrites are hell bent on controlling women’s bodies, not on caring for children once they are born. While the needs of children are ignored, they give handsome tax cuts to corporations and their “fat cat” ceo’s.
They have no real concern for women either. They don’t care if women die. And die they will if they are denied safe legal abortions. Preventing legal abortions doesn’t stop abortion. It only makes desparate women seek whatever means they can to get an abortion.
Michelle and I grieve with all the families in El Paso and Dayton who endured these latest mass shootings. Even if details are still emerging, there are a few things we already know to be true.
First, no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the United States. No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do. Every time this happens, we’re told that tougher gun laws won’t stop all murders; that they won’t stop every deranged individual from getting a weapon and shooting innocent people in public places. But the evidence shows that they can stop some killings. They can save some families from heartbreak. We are not helpless here. And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.
Second, while the motivations behind these shootings may not yet be fully known, there are indications that the El Paso shooting follows a dangerous trend: troubled individuals who embrace racist ideologies and see themselves obligated to act violently to preserve white supremacy. Like the followers of ISIS and other foreign terrorist organizations, these individuals may act alone, but they’ve been radicalized by white nationalist websites that proliferate on the internet. That means that both law enforcement agencies and internet platforms need to come up with better strategies to reduce the influence of these hate groups.
But just as important, all of us have to send a clarion call and behave with the values of tolerance and diversity that should be the hallmark of our democracy. We should soundly reject language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments; leaders who demonize those who don’t look like us, or suggest that other people, including immigrants, threaten our way of life, or refer to other people as sub-human, or imply that America belongs to just one certain type of people. Such language isn’t new – it’s been at the root of most human tragedy throughout history, here in America and around the world. It is at the root of slavery and Jim Crow, the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. It has no place in our politics and our public life. And it’s time for the overwhelming majority of Americans of goodwill, of every race and faith and political party, to say as much – clearly and unequivocally.
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