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.

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

Hypocrisy Underlies the Lukeville Border Closing Hysteria.

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In this season of hope and cheer, in this season of love and joy, the response of Arizonans to the closure of the Lukeville Border crossing between Arizona and Rocky Point, especially as Christians celebrate the birth of the revered child of the migrant Holy Family desperately seeking refuge, is a revolting display of hypocrisy when … Read more