Advocate From Where You Stand: Equal Pay Edition

I have been meaning to post this video since I first saw it which was October of LAST year. At first I thought I would wait for Equal Pay Day 2014, (the day that marks how additionally far into the new year the average woman works to earn the same wages as the average man did in the previous year) but April 14th came and went and still no blog post. Bad job, Leeds.

So rather than deprive you of truly clever and thought provoking example of awareness raising, I decided to post it now.

Think about THAT!

In Post-Soviet Russia, elections hold YOU

The director of internationally funded election monitoring organization, Golos (voice), has been detained in Moscow, on the eve of Russia's parliamentary election.

As my host mother in St.Petersburg brilliantly pointed out, "Voting for president in Russia like voting for the weather." Meaning you can vote, but good luck with that having an impact.

I'm not disputing that tomorrow's election will be transparently corrupt, but if Russia sent people to monitor OUR elections we'd be all "You're kidding, right?" It's corrupt. We know its corrupt. They know its corrupt. They know we know. Leave it alone.