Lunchtime at Applebee’s in Lexington, KY
photo by Rev. Cynthia Cain
Although it was almost 20 years ago, in the pre-internet era, I still remember the incredible sense of isolation that I felt after my first child was born. The overwhelming responsibility of suddenly being responsible for the welfare of an infant, the sleepless nights, hours […]
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Many thanks to these good sisters for their courageous stand:
““The National Coalition of American Nuns is impelled by conscience to call you to act promptly to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for … high crimes and misdemeanors,â€? the group wrote in a letter written on behalf of its board members.”
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Suemedha Sood’s “Rape, Pillage and Ignore” does an excellent job of documenting the lack of services available for Native American women when they are sexually assaulted or raped,
“One in three Indian women will be raped or sexually assaulted in her lifetime - a rate 3.5 times higher than any other racial groups. Many women […]
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Don’t you love it when a ‘democratic’ state acts just like a fascist state? Iraq has frozen the funds of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). Read Yanar Mohammed’s explanation of why below. Yanar assures me that you can still make safe donations through the OWFI website, and that in […]
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Many thanks to Jennifer Drew for allowing us to reprint her excellent commentary on the news coverage of rape:
The Scotsman in reporting an on-going rape and murder case in Scotland
had a headline ‘World’s End Victim “had sex with two men”. This headline relates to DNA evidence proving that two men had intimate sexual contact with […]
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Riverbend, the screenname used by a young woman who has courageously blogged about conditions in Baghdad since the beginning of the war has fled with her family to Syria. After saying that this was their plan several months ago, her loyal readers have been waiting to hear that she had safely left. With a bit […]
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All but forgotten in the so-called War on Terror are the women of Afghanistan. According to Al Jazeera, a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found that half of the women in jail in Afghanistan are, “imprisoned for what are loosely described as “moral crimes”, these women would qualify […]
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This was posted as a comment to my recent post about breastfeeding, but just to make sure everyone sees it, there are indeed going to be nurse-ins at numerous Applebee’s restaurants around the nation on Sept. 8. Use this link to find a nurse-in near you!
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When Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) speaks, we all should listen:
“If you believe the Beltway hype, members of Congress will return today to a fiery debate about whether or not the president’s so-called “surge” has produced military progress in Iraq. Beltway pundits are breathlessly predicting Democrats will be thrown into disarray by claims that the increased […]
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Cross-posted from WIMN’s Voices:
Yahoo is running an ad on its homepage for Know Menopause. Being the average age for the onset of menopause, I naturally clicked it and (oh this was so predictable) landed on a website run by Wyeth, a company that surprise, surprise is a major player in th hormone replacement biz.
A […]
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