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Is 8 too young an age to marry?

26. August 2008

That’s a big yes. BBC reported that an 8-year-old girl was preparing to go to court to get a divorce. A court in Saudi Arabia is reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s. The Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the [...]

Press freedom at U of M is denied

18. May 2008

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The University of Montana and the Students for Economic and Social Justice are continuing to recieve some attention in the state and in the social justice world - none of it makes the U of M look very good (the administration, that is). Now the U of M administration is being accused of denying freedom of [...]

Mildred Loving, Dead at 68. Marriage Discrimination Lives On.

6. May 2008

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I read this morning that Mildred Loving, a part of the married couple that challenged Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws, died over the weekend, at the age of 68. Their case, decided by the Supreme Court over 40 years ago, seems hard to imagine today. Laws restricting marriage based on race seem so unimaginably wrong, a part [...]

The BS Cairn: Gandhi would have hated these damn U of M students

28. April 2008

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I love it when right-wingers quote liberals in an attempt to undermine other liberals. They do this through sheer spin and twisted, self-inflicted ignorance. BS Cairn essentially asserts that the U of M students who took part in a sit-in to fight for worker’s rights (something I’m sure Gandhi would have opposed) are a disgrace to [...]

University of Montana (threatens) to suspend students

28. April 2008

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Today Matt Singer, over at Left in the West, posted about the possible suspension of a group of U of M students who participated in a sit-in, disrupting President Dennison’s day. Honestly, I think this news does more to help their cause than hurt it. When I first heard about the U of M sit-in, I [...]

The Missoulian: No Hooters for Them

10. February 2008

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I’m impressed. The editorial in today’s Missoulian, following a less than impressive news story earlier in the week, is an impressive critique of the kind of soft patriarchy that characterizes the Hooters restaurant chain: The fact is that Hooters is a business that values its female employees first and foremost for their sex appeal. That’s why we [...]

Poverty Is Not a Game

25. January 2008

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So I know that I am a cynic, but come on. The Missoulian has a report today about a poverty simulation, put on by Montana Legal Services and the Missoula Forum for Children and Youth, in which participants were given a better understanding of what it means to be poor by playing a game that sounds [...]