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.

Surveillance in the Age of Covid-19.  Be Afraid – Be Very Afraid.

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“Dictatorships and authoritarian societies often start in the face of a threat,” Umberto Bacchi from the U.N. told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview on March 31, 2020. PBS reported on 3/31/20 that the surveillance methods put into place in China during the outbreak are likely to stay in place and that people are … Read more

Know Your Rights During a Pandemic

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  The National Lawyers Guild put out an updated and constantly changing Know Your Rights brochure on March 27 in response to the pandemic. The Rule of Law, already on precarious ground in the U.S., is often the first to go in a crisis.  As Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has shown, fascism never … Read more

Renters Assistance in the CARES ACT (COVID 19 Stimulus)

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Most of us have heard by now that the COVID 19 package passed by both the Congress and the state legislature contains language in it about delaying evictions for 120 days during the pandemic.  The Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Stimulus Act (CARES ACT (HR 748)) passed by voice vote in the House of Representatives … Read more