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.

Arizona House Votes on ERA – Messages from Beyond.

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On May 19, 2021, the Arizona House of Representatives voted on the ERA and defeated it on party lines 31 – 29. First, speaker Grantham refused to even recognize Melody Hernandez to make a motion and instead Toma hurriedly made a motion to adjourn.  That was from a playbook in 2017 where they made a motion … Read more

Parallel Universes

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  The Arizona we have and the Arizona we want seem to bear no relationship to each other.  What does that say about the state of our democracy? First, let’s look at the AZ we have. The Southern Poverty Law Center has released its 2020 “The Year in Hate and Extremism” report. https://www.splcenter.org/year-hate-and-extremism-2020 They count … Read more

Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent

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  The National Lawyers Guild, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and National Conference of Black Lawyers along with 600 groups requested that the United Nations Human Rights Council convene an investigation into the pattern and practice of murder in the United States directed against the African American population.  Whining ensued. The UN capitulated to the … Read more

The Cultivation and Maintenance of Horror

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Albert Woodfox was born six weeks after me.  We were both poor.  We were both smart. That is where the similarities ended.  From then on, you don’t have to be a physicist to know that we lived in parallel universes. The injustice that he lived through is so brutal that many people won’t believe it.  … Read more