Friday, July 09, 2021
5 Part-Time Slackers for Seven Minutes-and-Thirteen Seconds: Mesa City Council Study Session - 7/8/2021
Image of Uterus + Fallopian Tubes Takes Over Conservative "Don't Tread on Me" Flag > Marching for Healthcare in The TexasState Capitol
A hidden abortion crew prepares to confront a post-Roe America
Driven underground during the pandemic, online abortion providers say they’ll keep supplying pills and services even if the Supreme Court approves state bans
Protesters hold up signs as they march down Congress Ave at a protest outside the Texas state capitol. | Sergio Flores/Getty Images
"The Supreme Court’s decision to review Mississippi’s stringent restrictions on abortion — putting Roe vs. Wade under its roughest stress test yet — is being seen as a call to action for the nation’s community of underground abortion activists. . .The community had spent the pandemic dealing with the “abortionpocalypse” — a wave of red state restrictions on procedures to terminate pregnancies — by recruiting new members and online providers, adding new privacy features that could shield them from law enforcement and organizing. And now, with the court’s decision to hear the Mississippi case in its upcoming term, they’re confronting a new threat.
The pandemic gave activists “a real view of what a South without access would look like,” said Robin Marty, an activist with the Yellowhammer Fund, another activist group. Marty recently came out with an update to her book “Handbook for Post-Roe America,” which describes to readers how they can prepare — from obtaining pills online to organizing politically — for a country with statewide bans on abortion.
“People have so much fatigue when it comes to, ‘This is the worst. No, now this is even worse. Oh wait, this is even worse than that’,”
And they make it clear they’re prepared to defy any laws banning abortion . . . Even without a sweeping court ruling, current trends are likely to continue as GOP-controlled states erect ever-more-stringent abortion restrictions — even to the extent of providing “private rights of action” for ordinary citizens to enforce such restrictions against friends and neighbors, as Texas has done. Activists believe the effort to enlist average citizens in the fight against abortion is a direct response to fears that more abortions will be conducted at home, outside the gaze of the law.
. . .From the other side of the debate, elevated interest in online access to abortion pills represents a longtime nightmare for anti-abortion activists. Ever since medication abortions were approved by the FDA in the 1990s, anti-abortion figures have warned the drugs could make terminating a pregnancy too convenient and too easy . . .
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Keep On Feeding-The-Blob That Devoured The Entire East Valley! (Until There's Not Enough Water)
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Here's an earlier post on this blog, not too far removed in time, but before the hiring of the new Development Services Director Kusi Appiah who got a Bachelor's undergraduate degree for land-use planning in Ghana publishing a paper where he had to hire a research assistant. This post is from the long tenure of his predecessor.
May 2017 ". . .In the online post at Planetizen reporter Josh Stephens interviews Wesley back in March. He's a long-time holder of the planning director's office - who uses an analogy for what he calls Tea-Baggers to refer to the LDS descendants who still exercise control and monopoly on the lands and real estate holdings [and affiliated businesses] here that have now sprawled over 133 square miles, who have controlled conservative politics for 4-5 generations and continue to control real estate development now with overlapping interests in family members' trusts and undisclosed business relationships throughout the chain-of-command inside and outside City Hall. 
Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona, and is a suburb located about 20 miles east of Phoenix. Mesa is the central city of the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Readers can hit the link to Planetizen to read more.
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Absolutely no doubt about it now - the data and the facts are in to show that the City of Mesa schools (and millions of taxpayer dollars spent on the largest public education system in the entire State of Arizona) is falling behind NOT moving ahead to the next level when it comes to intelligence and job skills. With a huge budget employing thousands it's the Big Patronage Gravy Train (with some exceptions) that's failed for generations to deliver satisfactory outcomes to educate students on every level across the board. Taxpayers are getting short-changed . . . Just keeping you informed as usual here on this blog. It's all in good faith to encourage overdue changes; take some action, folks > it's up to you!
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