Yesterday I wrote a post critical of Robert Greenwald’s co-opting of Mother’s Day to raise money for a small charity that helps a small number of children. Today I got a form letter from Don Hazen, executive editor of Alternet, forwarding a letter from Meg Ryan for Care that has a banner at the […]
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Please join the Standing Women Vigil at 1pm on Mother’s Day. Here is the inspiring call to action that they have issued:
We are standing for the world’s children and grandchildren, and for seven generations beyond them.
We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, […]
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Movie producer Robert Greenwald has put together a beautiful video of Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Christine Lahti, Alfre Woodward, Fatma Saleh, Ashraf Salimian, and Gloria Steinem reciting Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation (see below for text). They put together the video as a fundraiser for an organization called No More Victims, a group […]
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The reasons that women choose to become suicide bombers are complex. But it is clear that their motivations are somewhat different than those of men. Time Magazine examines the phenomena and offers this chilling explanation:
“It is doubtful that all–or even most–of those Palestinian women who sign up to become martyrs do so voluntarily. Some fall […]
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This week the FPN blog will be celebrating mothering in the broadest most inclusive sense of the word. This first post is a letter that I received a few weeks ago from Janie Rezner, writer, artist, musician, friend and phenomenal woman.
Her thoughts about the need for outrage echo my own. I hear so […]
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While one wonders what comment the folks at Time Magazine were trying to make when they put NBC News Anchor Brian Williams in the list of influential artists and entertainers, it is quite clear what they are saying when only 29 out of 100 people whom they deam “influential” happen to be women.
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(Get out the barf bag before reading further…) There are days when you’ve truly got to wonder what the ef is wrong with people. Many thanks to Jennifer Drew for alerting us to this little vomitous item. It seems that the British version of Amazon is selling a Rape Number One Doll, […]
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Last week, Amnesty International released a report documenting the horrific levels of sexual assault being perpetrated on indigenous American women. The report was interoduced with a quote from activist Sarah Deer.
This week, Deer has written a wonderful piece talking about why she worked with AI on this report and why it is so important. Her […]
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Yesterday I posted a quick blurb about Joan Baez being denied a chance to sing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Today we learn that Senator Claire McCaskill, who had been invited to speak at her daughter’s graduation from a Catholic high school has been uninvited. Why? Because of her stances on […]
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Joan Baez was not allowed to perform at Walter Reed Army Medical Center last Friday.
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