The final months of 2021. Reproductive freedom advocates and Womens Health Care workers are grappling with how to protect women in the wake of the Supreme Courts audacious refusal to block a law that all but bans abortion in americas second largest state. Late on friday, a Texas Judge granted a Restraining Order blocking the states largest antiabortion group, that would be texas right to life, from using the Abortion Ban to sue planned parenthood. But as The New York Times is reporting, quote, the orders reach is narrow, and it is set to expire on september 17th. That is 11 days from today. It is a very small and a very temporary victory, as Abortion Rights advocates assess their limited options to Fight Back against the ban. One of the most effective strategies will No Doubt be public opinion. And ads like this one from bestselling Author And Activist don winslow, are likely a preview of whats to come motivating women and democratic voters to activism. If im beaten and raped in the st
there s an element of alchemy in making music. almost a sorcery or a magic that, i don t necessarily understand, but i know that it moves me. i seen the lights go out on broadway i saw the empire state laid low and life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs and left there long ago to tell the world about the way the lights went out and keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason, we can tap into that, musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing a series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people, we started thinking about whom we should try to get, and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dalai lama. and i kept coming back to the idea, of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is that i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a
broadway i saw the empire state lay low life went on beyond the palisades they all bought cadillacs left there long ago to tell the world about the way the light went out to keep the memory alive it s all these human emotions. for some reason we can tap into that as musicians. when we came up with this idea of doing this series of in-depth interviews with really extraordinary people we started thinking about whom we should try to get and whom we should ask. and we thought about the usual political figures, obama, the dali lama. and i come back to the idea of interviewing the person i really wanted to interview, and that was billy joel. and the reason is i ve been in love with his music ever since i was a teenager growing up in india. billy joel has been a rockstar for five decades. today he keeps up his nearly ten-yearlong residency at madison square garden playing the piano and belting out the lyrics that so many fans adore. he s sold more than 150 million reco