This Thursday, May 1st, is the 5th anniversary of President Bush declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. On this day in 2003, he stated that all major combat operations had ended and that our goals had been achieved.
4 out of 5 LGBT students report verbal, sexual or physical harassment at school, according to a GLSEN survey.
Today, April 25th, 2008, marks the 12th Annual Day of Silence, a day where students vow to take a pledge of silence to commemorate anti-LGBT violence and bullying and work to make campuses safe for people of all gender and sexual identities.
I'm already nervous about the scary comments this post will generate...
Transgender male, Thomas Beatie, writes a first person narrative at The Advocate detailing the personal, legal, and social hurdles he faces now that he's decided to carry the child of his wife, Nancy.
A 15–year-old gay student, Lawrence King, was shot by a classmate in Oxnard, California on Tuesday morning (approximately 60 miles north of Los Angeles and 40 miles south of Santa Barbara).
According to an AFP article, A pipe blockage in Iraq means sewage is forming a foul lake so large it can be seen "as a big black spot on Google Earth." Read More »
San Jose State University's President put all campus blood drives on hold because of the policy that gay men can't donate blood. He says this violates the school's nondiscrimination policy.
If you're at a California school, watch out because Campus Progress is coming through on a road trip!
Starting this Thursday January 17th and all the way until our upcoming Journalism Conference on the 26th, a bunch of CP staff will be meeting with CA student activists and journalists to chat about the progressive movement, campus organizing and journalism, and any ideas about how Campus Progress can better support the work happening on campuses across the state.
With the weird and slightly apocalyptic weather and flooding recently (DC is like 70 right now), I have some disjointed thoughts about conversations that look place after that bridge in Minneapolis collapsed. Here's why: Read More »
Last night amidst an outpouring of applause, the city council of Santa Barbara, California voted unanimously to pass a resolution "urging cessation of combat operations in Iraq and the return of U.S. troops" within a year. Read More »
I’m so great to see that the Queer Student Union (QSU) and the Campus Democrats at the University of California, Santa Barbara co-sponsored a highly successful ENDA rally last Tuesday.
Tomorrow is the 9th Annual Transgender Remembrance Day, a day set aside to commemorate the lives lost due to anti-transgender violence and to raise awareness of the physical and verbal violence inflicted upon transgender individuals on a daily basis. Read More »
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