Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

Направлено: Arianna Huffington

Add a "Disability Voices" section to The Huffington Post

Like over 19% of Americans, I live with a disability. Having a disability comes with challenges, but life for the disability community and our families is constantly improving. The internet has been a critical tool in helping people with disabilities and our allies connect, give us a voice, and fight for our rights. As a writer on disability issues, an important online platform has been The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post is the #1 news site in the US and one of the biggest in the world. More articles are shared on Facebook from Huffington Post than from any other site. Despite their reach and having sections highlighting issues facing different communities, Huffington Post does not have a disabilities section. The Huffington Post has led the way with their “Voices” sections spotlighting the content important to different communities. Please join me in calling on The Huffington Post to add a “Disability Voices” to their site, recognizing a community involved with an important civil rights movement. My name is Sarah and have had my blog posts featured on The Huffington Post. Like many other disability activists, I use my writing to fight for equality, accessibility, and to educate. However, because there is not a Voices section for people with disabilities like there is for other marginalized groups, these stories are mislabeled and placed under other sections. The Huffington Post is not alone. Most major online platforms, while having sections dedicated to other groups, leave out the disability community. With their huge online presence in the US and around the world, The Huffington Post is in a prime position to lead. They already have laid the foundation with their Women, Gay, Latino, and Black Voices sections which shed a light on the issues affecting these groups. It is time they added “Disability Voices” to the list. Huffington Post could be the pioneer in providing a cohesive platform in the mainstream media for people with disabilities to have their voices heard and solidify itself as one of the largest allies of the disability community. The time is now for The Huffington Post to add a “Disability Voices” to their site. Please sign and share the petition today.

Statement: L is out of GBT

This is a statement by Lesbians and our supporters that we are NOT part of the 'LGBT " umbrella. Our interests both as lesbians in particular and women in general are not represented by any alphabet organization. We have had enough of our voices silenced and our protests ignored. The 'LGBT community " is actively harming women with its insistence of focusing on transgender issues. We, the L, are going our own way to focus on our own community. We are building L- only spaces, women- only spaces, campaign for women's rights and L rights. L only. We demand that the L be left out of the current LGBT acronym. We'll take care of our own business, as always, and will form temporary alliances as we see fit, when the goal is parity for Lesbians. The L will speak for ourselves.

We Demand Sex-segregated Safe Women's Spaces

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Направлено: Democratic National Committee

Include Caucus states in the count of popular votes!

RELEASE THE DATA! Why does Secretary Clinton keep saying she has more popular votes? Why is she not including the Caucus states in the total? What is the actual vote count of people who voted in Democratic Caucuses? Why hasn't the Democratic Party released the number of Caucus votes for each candidate? Will they release those numbers if asked? Why aren't Caucus voted included in the “total” votes? Are they not real votes? Are Caucus states not a legitimate part of the country? Can't we just see all the reality, not just chosen facts? Why has real information and data all of a sudden become so dangerous? Is it because Senator Sanders has as many popular votes as her? Is it because he has more votes? Since he won most caucus states, often by landslides, is this as important a question as I think it is? Is it important to have the complete facts available or not?

Направлено: ISKCON Governing Body Commission, Tulsi Gabbard, Romapada Swami, Devamrita Swami, ISPCAN. ISKCON CPO, World Health Organization, New York Times

STOP Sexual Child Abuse @ ISKCON Krsna Schools by Boycotting & Stopping **ALL** Donations!

Global Sexual Child Abuse at the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) ***IS STILL GOING ON*** and has been a constant since the early 1970's at overnight internship schools. (Yes, you can google it) 5,000,000 MM Signatures needed. (See the 2016 video expose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xOzcEPYEKE) Why? Because we know you all care and there are 550 million Vaishnavas on the planet We only need 1% :-) to shut them down if they don't stop condoning and hiding the child abuse for PR reasons. There has been a series of major court cases and lawsuits both in North America and abroad, yet very very few perpetrators have gone to jail. Somehow they are protected by the global institution, especially in India and other countries. This petition is to Stop all donors, members and guests from giving any donations or support at all globally—even for flowers or the altar or festival attendance—exactly as 'the God' Krsna would want in this very particular abusive case, to protect his children. We ALSO ask everyone to completely boycott all ISKCON centers globally until the overnight schools are closed and the Child Abusers have been punished. Remember, you can worship Krsna's deity in many other places including your own home and it is the same exact deity, or you may be inspired to start new centers among your local congregation—maybe a new movement built by the congregations. Please sign if you are going to boycott donations and visitation. https://www.facebook.com/ISKCONChildAbuse. We have reached out to many media outlets and prominent newspaper and influencers. This is big and we are going to end the sexual abuse in ISKCON for ever or close them down with all your help. and we are not going away!The below three examples paint the picture for those undecided: A.) An innocent person looking for bread walks into WallyMart to get groceries. There is a picket line outside with allegations of children in sweatshops over in China manufacturing most of the goods for this chain. S/he can go down the block to the other store but it may be a little more expensive or out of the way. S/he crosses the picket line and shops at WallyMart today, and next week, and the week after. Years pass by and the evening News and Picket Lines and other historical evidence continue to come out and corroborate that WallyMart continues to use children in sweatshops. S/he continues to shop at WallyMart. QUESTION: At which point is s/he no longer innocent. B.) A 'conscientious animal rights vegetarian' person likes the coffee at McDonalds. S/he justifies that s/he is only buying the coffee and not the burgers. QUESTION: At which point did S/he cross the line. C.) An innocent member of the Hare Krsna Movement became aware three decades ago (with allegations all over the internet) of an ongoing series of racketeering and asset mismanagement at the cost of its members' civil and human rights. S/he finds out over the years about the documented neglect in lack of their Care all around, despite millions of dollars, Temple Presidents receiving 80k salaries, "hush money" being handed out, embezzlement left and right, investigations, charges against mismanagement and misappropriation of funds, even proven allegations of child abuse—all being covered up or swept under the rug for PR and internal processing only—for the last three decades. Four decades later 2016 rolls out with the secretive sale of the Brooklyn Temple for $60MM with clearly questionable activity and Mayapur erupts into riots, beatings, death threats, exiles, bribery, alleged $5MM embezzlement, alleged Vrndavan sex with minors in the schools, the alleged 'Chakra Case" of drug dealing to the school kids, plus reports that the man who burnt down the homes of local indigenous families because they would not sell their land to be resold to Mayapur, has been appointed and endorsed by a famous prominent US and global Swami guru, with BTW ties back to New Vrndavan and the murders there. (. and if the reader did not know all these allegations, you now do!) So, s/he, the innocent member of the Hare Krsna movement, looks over this overall 4 decade picture and makes certain decisions. Knowing that s/he could go worship at another temple or have a home program, or change sangas, instead makes the conscious decision to continue giving to the local chapter of the above organization his/her time, exemplary presence, donations, validation, outreach, encouragement and actual service support, etc. (with ALL this documentation: http://bit.ly/24QfsiC QUESTION: at which point did s/he cross the line into complicit? If the reader's answer is never, the reader needs Ted Patrick (the famous Cult De-programmer) or major professional psychological help. One can argue this above logic 'til the proverbial cows come home, but nothing changes the fact that, "to tolerate is to encourage." — a.c. Bhaktivedanta Swami.Boycott all their festivals especially in Mayapur and at your local Hare Krsihna temples or Bhakti Centers. Your presence is validating and supportive of these above activities in the larger picture. Do not beceom complicit. If the Vedic Philosophy teaches anything, it is to chose carefully the vibration you associate with for the sake of your eternal soul's dharma and Karma. Please do your own homework beginning with this link and please think for yourself: http://bit.ly/24QfsiC. The indoctrinated cult members will tell you all kinds of justifications. Good luck.

Dear Sarah, Many thanks for your very thoughtful petition. We are proud to call you one of our bloggers and appreciate your suggestion that we launch a Disability Voices section. At The Huffington Post, we recently launched our What's Working initiative to shine a spotlight on solutions happening in the world, and we'd love to include Accessibility as one of the key topics we cover. As you know, we are already covering this topic extensively on the site, but can do a better job at highlighting, packaging and promoting it. To that effect, we'd like to invite you to be an Editor-at-Large of a new Accessibility section which we will create as a response to this petition. This will give you a direct line to our editors and the ability to invite bloggers to write about this important issue. We completely agree that people with disabilities deserve a platform for their voices, and we would love for HuffPost to be that platform. All the best, Arianna

Dear Sarah, Many thanks for your very thoughtful petition. We are proud to call you one of our bloggers and appreciate your suggestion that we launch a Disability Voices section. At The Huffington Post, we recently launched our What's Working initiative to shine a spotlight on solutions happening in the world, and we'd love to include Accessibility as one of the key topics we cover. As you know, we are already covering this topic extensively on the site, but can do a better job at highlighting, packaging and promoting it. To that effect, we'd like to invite you to be an Editor-at-Large of a new Accessibility section which we will create as a response to this petition. This will give you a direct line to our editors and the ability to invite bloggers to write about this important issue. We completely agree that people with disabilities deserve a platform for their voices, and we would love for HuffPost to be that platform. All the best, Arianna