The 15th Amendment: A Birthday Worth Celebrating??
Jon, February 3, 2012 - 2:12pmOn this day in 1870, the United States took a momentous step forward in the long struggle for universal suffrage, ratifying the 15th Amendment to the Constitution and declaring that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
zach, February 2, 2012 - 11:45amThe best thing I've seen on Netflix lately is Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"--a documentary about the Chauvet cave paintings in France, which are the earliest known examples of representational art in the world, created 30,000 years ago. The worst thing I've seen is a 20-way tie among all the Barney the Dinosaur videos my daughter watches while I am getting her breakfast.
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Marriage In The News
Ryan, January 27, 2012 - 4:40pmYesterday’s announcement from us and our coalition partners to put marriage on the ballot has garnered local and national press coverage.
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Making History Today
shenna, January 26, 2012 - 3:46pmToday, the ACLU of Maine joined our partners, EqualityMaine, EngageMaine, GLAD, and Maine Women's Lobby in launching a campaign to legalize civil marriage for same sex couples in 2012. If successful, we would be making history by being the first state to pass marriage equality via referendum. Below are the comments I made to the more than 100 supporters packed into the Welcome Center of the State House today:
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