Excerpted remarks from Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai on the election of Barack Obama:
“This morning I am going to Uhuru Park in Nairobi to plant a tree. A plaque on it will read: “This was planted to mark the moment Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America.” It will stand […]
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Statement on the U.S. Election from the Gabriela Network and the Mariposa Alliance Initiating Committee:
The Ballot box is not the end; Obama’s historic victory demands that women must cotinue the struggle for liberation with “The Fierce Urgency of Now.”
Yesterday, nearly a hundred million citizens of the United States of America cast their vote, to underline […]
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A recent think piece in the Washington Post declared that this has been “a transformative year for women in politics.” This pronouncement was based primarily on Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s attempt to brand herself as a feminist who happens to hold opinions contrary to traditional feminist values and important changes like women not […]
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Every Halloween, I put in a lot of thought as to the scariest possible costume. Wearing a great big heart appeals to me–what after all is scarier than love. And this year, a McCain, Rove or Cheney costume would certainly be appropriate, but as long time readers of this blog know, I’ve longed […]
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Okay, perhaps not entirely politically correct on this blog, but she does a nice job nailing the old white guy-ness of the U.S. political system, enjoy:
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By any standard, the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) is a remarkable organization. The amazing projects that they have been able to bring to fruition during the last 5 years, often at extreme risk, are an inspiration to us all. As they write in the introduction to their latest annual report:
After 5 years […]
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From Amnesty International:
The detention of two activists from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has been extended until Friday. A bail hearing in the case was held on Tuesday without them being present, after the state alleged that there was no transport available to take them to the court.
Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu were arrested […]
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received via e-mail:
Feminist Activists Condemn the Government of Nicaragua
at the Americas Social Forum, Guatemala
As women and feminists present in the Social Forum of the Americas in Guatemala, we energetically condemn the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua for recent egregious violations against women’s rights including:
• Physical violence and political persecution of feminists and their organizations
• […]
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As we noted last week, while women and children surely bear the brunt of corporate centric economics, their voices, to the detriment of us all, are routinely excluded from policy level discussions about economics. There is nothing new about this. In a recent piece in The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel writes,
“(M)ore than a […]
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Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
By Starhawk
“While the financial markets have been melting down around us, another sort of meltdown has been occurring, one even more frightening and dangerous. Climate change has been progressing, more quickly than anticipated, fueled even more rapidly by methane bubbles released from a warming Arctic sea, in just one […]
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