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.

Police Riot, Attack Black Community – Greenwood, OK, 1921

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  Too much success can be a bad thing – if you are African-American Greenwood, OK was a district of Tulsa organized in 1906. By 1921, it was home to 10,000 Black residents.  Greenwood Avenue ran only through the Black area so they had it all to themselves. It was home to the Black commercial district that … Read more

What Happened to Guantanamo?

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    On April 22, 2020, the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights issued a decision on a case brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Center for Justice and International Law  for a prisoner in Guantanamo. (IACHR. Report No. 29/20. Case 12.865. Merits (Publication). Djamel Ameziane. United States. April 22, 2020)  The full … Read more

The 28thAmendment – Finally after 97 years

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In 2020, we celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth amendment granting women the right to vote.  However, Virginia did not ratify until 1952. Alabama waited until 1953. Louisiana only ratified in 1970. And Mississippi did not ratify women’s right to vote until 1984. While vitally important, even in 1920, the women knew that voting wasn’t … Read more

Good Without God

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The American Atheists sent out their annual survey to known atheists expecting to get 5,000-10,000 responses.  They got 34,000.  They produced Reality Check:  Being non-religious in America in May 2020 as the first analysis with more detailed information to follow. The 32-page report is well done with graphs, charts, photos, sidebars with participant comments, methods, … Read more

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