Dianne Post

Dianne Post graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 with a BA in correctional administration, from California State University, San Jose in 1973 with an MS in psychology, and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1979 with a J.D. She has worked in fields, in factories, in stores, and in a trucking company – the only thing she never did was waitressing, though she was a bartender! As a lawyer, she represented battered women and children for 18 years and then moved to international human rights doing gender-based violence work and representing the Roma to the current day. She was active in the LGBT movement for years until they lost their way. She is currently facilitator for the Central AZ National Lawyers Guild, treasurer for Central Phoenix Inez Casiano NOW, facilitator for Arizona Justice Alliance, legislative liaison for State NOW, and on the ERA Task Force AZ board. In her spare time, she grows organic vegetables and reads.

Walmart – Taking Food From the Mouths of Babies

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Walmart knows no bottom. I have railed about Walmart for a long time and have refused to ever shop there. Their latest outrage is screwing their “last mile” drivers, called the Spark Driver program, out of their pay. Wage theft is a major problem in the United States, costing American workers at least $50 billion per year. … Read more

The Failure of the American Insurance System

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Everyone has an insurance story. They were refused coverage or denied care, or someone they know was, they got a surprise bill in the thousands, and they had to fight through reams of paperwork and repeated submissions of the same thing to different places. During my partner’s illness, I was astounded at the constant barrage … Read more

The Second Coming – and I don’t mean Jesus.

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I have been saying for a while now that we are in a second civil war. I’m no longer alone.  Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now interviewed professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign. “The Confederacy won,” says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It … Read more

Violence Against Women:  The old is not new.

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The annual 16 Days of Activism against Violence Against Women is 25 Nov. to 10 December.  https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism 25 Nov is the international day for the elimination of violence against women established 25 years ago in memory of the Mirabal sisters, who were brutally assassinated on that day in 1960. They established the 14 June Revolutionary Movement in … Read more

Can Women Ever Be Safe From Men? 

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Women are not safe from men at home, on the street or even in prison.  An article on October 31, 2024 from the AP reported that they found cases in all 50 states of guards luring or forcing women into areas of the prison without cameras to rape them.  It is well known that at … Read more