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.

The Destruction of the Supreme Court

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    As my reading pile diminished, I asked my housemate who works in a still operating library to bring me home a pile of books to keep me busy. One of the books she brought me was  Supreme Inequality:  The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for A More Unjust America,Adam Cohen, Penguin Press, NY, 2020. … Read more

What your politicians say and who they say it for.

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  Project Vote Smart started in 1988 and by 1992 morphed into just Vote Smart (www.votesmart.org).   The original founders ranged from Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford to Senators Barry Goldwater and George McGovern, Governor Michael Dukakis and Congresswomyn Pat Schroeder and Geraldine Ferraro. Arizona native Richard Kleindienst, former Nixon U.S. Attorney General, who pled … Read more

COVID Bares Inequality for Women

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    While the entire country is consumed with COVID-19 medical and economic issues as well as the impact on culture and most importantly on our democracy, unspoken is that the crisis lays bare the inequality in America for women. That inequality extends to infrastructure, employment, insurance, medical care, the shredded safety net, domestic violence, … Read more

The Cabal Ruling/Ruining Arizona

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  I didn’t move to Arizona until 1980 so I didn’t know much about Arizona history.  In preparation for the current “stay at home” order, my housemate brought a stack of books for me from the library.  One of them was Border Citizens:  The Making of Indians, Mexicans and Anglos in Arizona, Eric V Meeks, … Read more