Feeling really under the weather today– my tonsils feel a bit like tennis balls.  I’d like to ask for your help for two important causes based in the D.C. area.

First is WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence), a group dedicated to helping women and teen girls get out of abusive relationships.  They offer a comprehensive program [...]

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You can watch the entire clip at the Rachel Maddow show website (I couldn’t get the MSNBC video player to embed).
The whole clip is tragic and fascinating all at once.

The news of Dr. George Tiller’s death shocked me.  After an incredible and peaceful Sunday with friends the news came up on my Twitter [...]

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Just a very quick note today– thesis is still keeping me busy.  I’ve nominated Michele Gregg, who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the 1960s, for the first ever Our Bodies Our Blog “Women’s Health Hero” award.  Please go vote for my video of Michele and then thank your mother’s generation for fighting a [...]

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I didn’t shoot this video, the ACLU-NCA’s intern did, but I did just finish editing it.  Rev. Ragsdale is such an incredible voice in the Pastors for choice movement, I’m sad that I wasn’t able to speak with her while she was at the Keep Our Care rally.
Editing these interviews together has become awfully easy– [...]

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I’m so sorry that this blog has become something of a video dump lately.  Honestly though, the only creative thing I’ve really be able to do in the last couple of weeks has been videos for the ACLU or managing video work I did while I was out in SD this summer.  This video was [...]

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Just wanted to point your attention to another video I made while in SD.  I thought Brenda, who works as a rape crisis counselor, was incrediblybly passionate and compassionate at the same time– a really tough combination to find, but one that is sorely needed.

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I took on another reproductive rights job out here in DC.  I’m working with the ACLU (who is partnering with NARAL, Planned Parenthood MD, and other groups) to prevent the sale of PG County’s hospital system to a private, faith-based group.  Like the work in SD, I’m making some videos for them– mostly interviews with [...]

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It is nice to see some of my best videos finally going up.  Veronika is a medical student at USD and spoke eloquently and passionately about the importance of keeping the government out of the exam room.
The more I work in the world of reproductive rights the more I repsect people who are willing to [...]

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When I was in SD I had the chance to meet a woman who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the late 1960s.
Talking to her for an hour I gained so much more respect for what our mother’s generation did for women my age– the women involved in Roe v. Wade worked in similar [...]

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I know a few months ago I mentioned trying to have a green road trip… well, this weekend I headed down to Williamsburg, VA with some members of H*yas for Choice to attend a Planned Parenthood Student Organizing conference.  The conference was amazing and inspiring (I wrote about it over on my other blog) but [...]

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