
Will Pennsylvania Finally Ban ‘LGBTQ+ Panic’ Defense?
Prohibiting the use of someone’s existence as a legal excuse for engaging in violence against them shouldn’t be a controversial or partisan issue.
Prohibiting the use of someone’s existence as a legal excuse for engaging in violence against them shouldn’t be a controversial or partisan issue.
A review of Kim Johnson’s “The Color of a Lie.”
He sat down with the Bucks County Beacon to talk about his experience and his vision for representing and protecting all citizens of the Commonwealth.
Since announcing themselves to the world the day NAFTA took effect on Jan. 1, 1994, the EZLN has for decades informed struggles down and up the continent. Amid climate chaos and endless war, they continue to imagine and create better worlds.
This Pennridge dad explains why he refuses to remain silent and sit idly by as the district’s reactionary school board majority upends and undermines public education.
While white supremacy is central to the hard right, so is a desire to maintain a patriarchal society where people adhere to strictly defined gender roles and men act from a position of dominance.
The “sham investigation” commissioned by the right-wing school board majority was never about uncovering the truth, it was about creating a political prop for upcoming elections.
Teachers, students, and parents are opposed to Central Bucks School District Policy 321, which they believe is “born out of bigotry and discrimination” and targets LGBTQ students.
The group, which claims to be about “parent rights,” has ties to the January 6 insurrection and Christian Nationalists. They also have a chapter in Bucks County.
Doylestown, Morrisville, Perkasie and New Hope were among the locations where local residents protested Saturday because they love their country.
“Big rallies like this give confidence to people who have been sitting on the sidelines but are ready to speak up,” Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“If you want to run a prosecutor’s office that’s really going to keep people safe, you need to be proactive and you need to be out there in the community,” said Khan.
Partisan politics takes a back seat as a community unites to protect its home from a solid waste recycling center.
Democratic candidate for sheriff Danny Ceisler said if elected he vows to “end this deportation partnership once and for all.”