Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Melissa Etheridge spar over Prop 8

She is wack and a natural blonde! Lizzy oh Lizzy if I could muzzle you it would be so cool. I wishh I could take you down a few decibels everytime you speak luckily Melissa Etheridge, my lesbian superhero does it for us all. Huzzah and then she sings a pretty ditty abut Christmas. That right Elizabeth, Christmas is also a part of the gay agenda.

Rachel Maddow: Blagojevich Profanity Theater

Really folks, really.

So Illinois is plagued by potty mouthed politicians who are so empowered that they don’t even have to be ashamed when they get caught. Wow.

This my friends is privilege. The financial crisis has shown the true spots of people in power in government. 50 Cent, Jon Gotti this cat is truly Gangsta. He is now also ignoring a plea to step down by Obama.

Check out Rachel Maddows totally enhanced historical reenactment.
BTW Rachel I heart U.

The Pink Mafia

My goodness how I love a woman with a purpose. There is nothing better than a woman empowered. These bad ass Indians teach their corrupt government official and wife beating nincompoops that there are not gonna take it anymore. When I saw this on Jezebel it filled my heart with joy. Just another example of the spirit that keeps this world turning; some woman’s big mouth.

Jezebel

Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five in Banda, one of India’s poorest areas, says “nobody comes to our help in these parts. The officials and the police are corrupt and anti-poor. So sometimes we have to take the law in our hands.” To do this, she started the “gulabi gang,” or pink gang, two years ago. The gang members wear pink and uses beatings and humiliation to combat domestic abuse and corruption.

Devi and her fellow vigilantes are a sign of how bad things can be for women in India — Banda natives say it’s no surprise that women have resorted to violence to combat discrimination. But it’s also a sign that things may be improving, that after generations of second-class status, Indian women are taking unprecedented social power.

They have a lot to fight against. Though prenatal gender testing and gender-selective abortion are now illegal in India, having a baby girl is still widely considered shameful, and over 10 million baby girls have been killed in the last 20 years. Only 798 girls were born in Punjab last year for every 1,000 boys. Because of dowry requirements, many families think of girls as a financial liability, and stories of women being abused are common. The problem isn’t confined to poor areas like Banda — Delhi pediatrician Mitu Khurana is taking legal action against her husband and his family for trying to force her to abort her twin girls. “Even as an educated woman,” she says, “I am pushed around.”

The Times of India, however, tells a different story. According to an article called “Macho girls!,” “women in every sphere have come into their own in the last two decades.” They are entering traditionally male professions, becoming collections agents and security guards on the India-Pakistan border. They are dressing in Western suits in order to appear more “businesslike.” Fitness expert Leena Mogre says “the Madonna influence” has caused 40 percent more women in the last year to seek “defined arms, something that was earlier only demanded by men.”

Sangeeta Singh, executive director of international accounting firm KPMG, says “economic independence has made women feel more confident about their personal lives. Hence, they are taking more personal decisions or forming their own support networks.” Many women in Banda don’t have economic independence. And many throughout India still suffer from the prejudice against girls. But if the pink gang is any indication, women across Indian society are indeed “forming their own support networks.” Sampat Pal Devi says, “village society in India is loaded against women. [...] Village women need to study and become independent to sort it out themselves.” And although their methods may be a little disturbing (thrashing a policeman, for instance), the pink gang is doing exactly that.

India’s ‘Pink’ Vigilante Women [BBC]
Where A Baby Girl Is A Mother’s Awful Shame [Guardian]
Macho Girls! [Times of India]

Funny People Episode 3 “Yes I Can!”

The newest notorious odd couple are back! Jerry Beige a Jewish-Italian retiree and PLAYher an Oakland transplant of dubious means talk about everything and anything. They have a couple tips for Barack Obama administration that you wont want to miss.

Funny People Episode 2 “Obama 3 for 5?”

Its the day after the most important election of our lives. Jerry Beige and Playher take to the street in search of the party. Fulton street on the planet of Brooklyn. Where else?

What the polls said 2 years ago

SurveyUSA.com shows what the polls revealed exactly 2 years to date giving BArack Obama just 28 electoral votes and Mc Cain 510. Today as Olive and I go out to vote at a school a few blocks away we are reminded how dreams can manifest. just two years ago, our video Make a Move debuted on Logo which was the beginning of or very public journey towards making U People a reality. Today we know all to well the power of putting your dreams into action. Good luck everyone, the world and however you vote…vote for your lives!!!

NOTE: Join us LIVE tonight at 9pm at www.iloveupeople.com as we countdown with the world who will be president of the united States of America.

U People Episode #49 “Just So Presidential”

Hanifah Walidah and Liza Jessie Peterson sit down on a previously recorded U People to talk about this political life. Just in time for THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION in our lifetimes.

U People NO ON PROP 8 PSA

Most of you have heard about Prop 8, but for those who are not aware, there is a proposition in California that is up for a vote that will essentially revoke the recent law passed that legalized gay marriage in California. It would be a huge step backwards.

Below is a PSA video directed and produced by Olive Demetrius of U People starring, herself, Gloria Bigelow and Dumeha Thompson that makes the case in a short and sweet way.

Download the video and spread its message here.

For more information about Prop 8 visit www.jordanrustincoalition.org or www.noonprop8.com

U People Episode #48 “Get Me Bodied”

Olive meets up with one of the stars of the music video shoot “Make a Move” and resulting film U People Ayesha Harris. She is a a full time personal trainer with her own company AEFit. Watch as she imparts some much needed tips to U People.

Obama’s talk fashion on a budget (too cute)

Ok, I’m just in from a gig where I have worn the same pants 3 times within a week; to the point where the funk in the Brooklyn Funk Essentials is real. So I found myself relating to Barack Obama in a new way; he too does not like to shop. In this video the Obama’s talk fashion with their daughters to which they show more of their fashion for the love of one another than what they are wearing.

On the other side of the country there is Sarah Palin. Its reported that the GOP invested 150,000 dollars in Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. Read full story and pics here.

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