Category: Melody Brooke Films
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Preserving Democracy and Human Rights: A Call to Action by the Filmmaker of “15”
The threat to our democracy is real. The Supreme Court’s shifting stance jeopardizes the progress we have made in ensuring equality for all citizens. We cannot turn a blind eye to the potential consequences: a regression to a society where human rights, women’s rights, and marginalized communities are no longer protected. In this post, I…
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The Number One Way You Can Protect Women’s Rights to Abortion Quickly
Why protect a right that the Supreme Court now says is not a right unless your state says it is, and even then that right will receive very weak protection. The right can come and go at the will of your legislators. As a new legislator is elected or an old one remains in office,…
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How does Dobbs Effects Transpeople?
Did you know that in our culture, trans people are assaulted at four times the rate of others of us. Just being trans is, by itself an extremely dangerous life. Imagine if every time you walked out your door, or interacted with another human in any way, there was a 4x greater risk of that…
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The Christian Truth about Choice
Since the 1970’s extreme Christian dogmas have pressed to increase the laws against abortions in this country. (I won’t even address the real cause of this, which is racism as a revolt against integration). And in one of this generations landmark decisions, the Supreme Court of the United States has now reversed a fundamental right…
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Five Ways Dobbs Hurts all of Us