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.

Republicans – the Party of Business No More.

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For the second session in a row, Republicans in the state legislature have introduced bills to prohibit consideration of Environmental, Social, and Governance issues (ESG) by government investments (SB1013) or financing institutions (SB1014 and SB1167). All three bills were passed by the Senate on party lines, and SB1013 has been passed by the House Government … Read more

Wage Gap and Reproductive Rights

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March 12, right in the middle of Women’s History Month and four days after International Women’s Day, was Equal Pay Day. Women must work until March 12 to catch up to what white men were paid by December 31, 2023. Women are still paid 78% of white men’s pay, with little change seen since the … Read more

Panic in the aisle; death in the street; prison in the wings.

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Bills have been introduced in the state legislature to deal with an alleged shoplifting epidemic especially by retail gangs. The problem is it’s not true and even if it were, it’s the wrong solution. Shoplifting has increased but you cannot look at year-on-year changes because shoplifting decreased 60% during the pandemic. The pandemic dramatically increased … Read more

Reconstruction after the Civil War and after the Civil Rights Movement

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It was immediately evident after the Civil War that assistance would be needed from the North for the South to rebuild not just physical infrastructure but a whole new legal and social system. Reconstruction governments established public schools, passed laws to allow plantation laborers more power, made taxation more equitable, and outlawed racial discrimination.   After … Read more

The Walmart Effect

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I have never shopped at Walmart.  I have taken my mother there several times as she refused to heed my advice about why she should not shop there.  She pointed out that I never heeded her advice either, so I guess we are even. I refused to shop there because of the abysmal factory conditions under which … Read more