tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78974312011-07-08T10:52:27.811-06:00I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. ~Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonMa's Premanoreply@blogger.comBlogger861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897431.post-10332506674166395462010-01-20T07:07:00.001-07:002010-01-20T07:30:58.029-07:00

I was not much of a feminist until I read God, The Father by Mary Daly. Even during the reading I felt my perception of reality being scrubbed clean. Once I saw, really saw, the patriarchal bent to all aspects of Christianity ( and all religions, I came later to understand) my life changed. Suddenly. Irrevocably.

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That was the title of the feministe article on the passing of Mary Daly. "She was a controversial figure, penning incredible works on feminism and religion and refusing to allow male students into her class; she also fell out of favor with many feminists (myself included) who read and enjoyed her early works but were appalled when we discovered her transphobia in later writings, and when we

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Sarah Thomas, one of five women who officiate major college football, became the first woman to official a bowl game when she worked the Little Caesars Bowl on Saturday.Thomas became the first woman to be an official for a major college football game in 2007 and is on the NFL's list of officiating prospects. The married mother of two young sons is from Brandon, Miss., and is a pharmaceutical

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I read the NYT every day and am appalled at the number of men who are dying, compared to the number of women. Today, for example, there were 12 obituaries. One was of a woman. Whew. What are the odds?So, who was this woman? Millvina Dean the Titanic’s last survivor.Not every day is this slant so apparent. Sometimes there are two women.Boys who put out the paper report on what is important to them

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A woman has been elected, by a landside margin (almost 70% of the vote!), to be Lithuania's president. She was the EU budget commissioner and is a karate black-belt. She speaks English, Russian, Polish and French. From what I have read, Lithuania's economy is so bad (they are anticipating 15.5% unemployment this coming quarter) that she seems to have the training and experience to be the perfect

Ma's Premanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897431.post-42461761775039859012009-05-08T07:56:00.018-06:002009-05-08T09:54:22.569-06:00

Who is this woman? Why is her name coming up in the news?That is a picture of Comrade Parvati being interviewed last year. She is in the news because the other day there was a riot by women in Kathmandu, Nepal.The women are pissed.They are members of the All Nepal Women's Association (Revolutionary), of which Comrade Parvati used to be the head. They are rioting because the police didn't like

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from this morning's NYT:Dr. Carole C. Noon, a primatologist whose passion — and compassion — for her subjects led to her founding of Save the Chimps, the organization that provides the world’s largest sanctuary for captive chimpanzees, died Saturday in Fort Pierce, Fla. She was 59 and lived on the sanctuary grounds in Fort Pierce.Save the Chimps all started because of Carole Noon. Read about the

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The Saturday NYT had this article:The writer Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate on Friday, becoming the first woman to take a 341-year-old job that has been held by, among others, Dryden, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Cecil Day-Lewis and Ted Hughes.Not being a poetry reader I didn't recognize her name, so read this:Valentine by Carol Ann DuffyNot a red rose or a satin heart.I give you

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I did two blogs about the women in the present government ...here and here , but slipped up and didn't do anything about Lisa Jackson. I was reminded about her when I read this article in ForbesThe passing of the environmental torch between the Bush and Obama administrations became ever more evident last week when EPA head Lisa Jackson announced that carbon dioxide is now an official pollutant.

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Books written by women and judged for literary merit by women. Sounds ideal? Well June 3rd there are three American women who are shortlisted for the $43,000 Orange Prize. Whoever the winner is also gets a statue, "Bessie", for a year.Marilynne Robinson was nominated for her novel called Home. She is very well known for her novels Housekeeping (review by NYT ..."So precise, so distilled, so

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Last week Eve Sedgwick died. This is part of the the NYT obit:Ms. Sedgwick broke new ground when, drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of the French poststructuralist Michel Foucault, she began teasing out the hidden socio-sexual subplots in writers like Charles Dickens and Henry James. In a 1983 essay on Dickens’s novel “Our Mutual Friend,” she drew attention to the homoerotic element in

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Asheville, NC took away the benches in front of the library because homeless people sat there. My heart sank when I read this. I loved those benches, and the folks who sat there. (I am sure the woman on the right is heading to the library.)It got me thinking hard about homelessness. Womanist Musings has a wonderful page about this. As long as we live under a capitalist system we are always going

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This title is the name of an ant. There was an article in the bbc about a species of ants which (who?) are female only. They don't reproduce, per se, but clone. The queens clone themselves and tend to a special garden of fungus, which develops asexually. Dr Himler, who lead the research, was originally interest in their ability to cultivate crops because they can grow "a greater number of crops

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Report Released on Los Angeles Rape Kit Backlogfrom Feminist Daily News WireApril 1, 2009A Human Rights Watch report released yesterday found that there are at least 12,669 untested rape kits in Los Angeles County, the largest known backlog of its kind in the US.Here is the report from Human Rights Watchreport (see PDF) . The report found that of the 12,669 kit backlog, 499 kits are past the

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Michell Bachelet just came to my attention due to a diplomatically polite knock down of Gordon Brown, the UK PM.Our correspondent said Mr Brown, who is the first UK prime minister to visit Chile, is a particular admirer of Ms Bachelet, who has spent much of her country's copper wealth on relieving poverty, investing in public services and improving education.But she went on to say that because of

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Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley has been a military lawyer in the US for 20 years. Following an appeal for military lawyers to take up the cases of Guantanamo detainees in 2005, she volunteered. She represented British resident Binyam Mohamed, who was being held in Guantanamo Bay prison camp.She recoiled, thinking he was "the worst of the worst" and tried to get out of representing

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Do you remember that song? Well, it was thirteen year old Molly Bee who just passed away last Saturday. She started singing at 10, married 5 times, had a problem with drugs, and revitalized her career in the '70's with an album called "Good Golly Ms Molly".I loved her song "She kept on Talking"" .. she kept on talking, I guess she didn't know I was your wife ..."She was raised in Beltbuckle,

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Just read an article by Posie Rider in one of my favorite blogs (thefword), who went to buy a laptop.On a mission to buy a new laptop, Posie Rider found that manufacturers and sales staff believe the best way to get women to buy a laptop is to make it pink.Delightful musings and interesting investigation into the minds of marketeers (mousekateers?). Please read this whole article.The only pink

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A woman in Asheville, NC had the police called on her for breastfeeding. (Video news report at link).Crystal Everitt says an employee approached her at her table. "She said you can stay if you're not going to breastfeed your child anymore, but if you're going to breastfeed your child, you need to leave," said Everitt. "And of course he still needed to eat, so I had to leave."Asheville Police were

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In the news lately has been the story of Eluana Englaro, who had been in a vegetative coma for 17 years, and the Italian Prime Minister who was trying to get the feeding tube re-inserted.From the Guardian: The Italian government has been plunged into a constitutional crisis over the fate of a 38-year-old woman who has been in a coma for the past 17 years. Eluana Englaro was left in a vegetative

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Aspen resident Jennifer Figge , reaching a beach in Trinidad, became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds.Figge woke most days around 7 a.m., eating pasta and baked potatoes while she and the crew assessed the weather. At night she ate meat

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This sparked some science fiction interest. The report is from Wikipedia.Some anglerfishes of the superfamily Ceratioidei employ an unusual mating method. Because individuals are presumably locally rare and encounters doubly so, finding a mate is problematic. When scientists first started capturing ceratioid anglerfish, they noticed that all of the specimens were females. These individuals were a

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Homeland SecurityGov. Janet Napolitano President-elect Barack Obama rewarded one of his earliest supporters. She will be the third leader of the department created in 2002. The 51-year-old second term governor of a border state has been known for taking the middle ground on immigration, calling for tougher enforcement of the border but opposing several state proposals that would punish illegal

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Shirin Ebadi has been awarded these honors (among many others.: (thanks to wikipedia) Awarded Rafto Prize, Human Rights Prize in Norway, 2001Nobel Peace Prize, 2003International Democracy Award, 2004Legion of Honor award, 2006According to the Fri Jan 2 2009 NYT, the "authorities stormed her private office, seizing her computers and her client's documents." The week before they "closed her Center

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According to Guardian Newspaper on 11/17/2005, Geeta Shroff works in a 3-story, 20-bed hospital called Nu Tech Mediworld in South Delhi. She graduated from Delhi University school of medical science in 1993 and worked with Vera Hingorani at India's top medical institute, the All India Institute of Medical Science. She apparently devleoped a technique for determining a baby's sex without taking a

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Hillary Clinton, Secretary of StateInner Circle:Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor — Valerie Jarrett (co-chair of the Obama transition team) is an accomplished political counselor and businesswoman (real estate). The NYT said of her "She is an expert in urban affairs, particularly housing and transportation, in an administration expected to lavish more money and attention on cities than its

Ma's Premanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897431.post-28040056597092835922008-12-08T14:58:00.003-07:002008-12-08T15:11:06.074-07:00

privilegea poem for men who don't understand what we mean when we say they have itby D.A. Clarkeprivilege is simple:going for a pleasant stroll after dark,not checking the back of your car as you get in, sleeping soundly,speaking without interruption, and not rememberingdreams of rape, that follow you all day, that woke you crying, andprivilegeis not seeing your stripped, humiliated

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On Dec. 1st, Jennifer Figge plans to dive into the Atlantic ocean and swim her way across 2100 miles from the Cape Verde Islands off the African coast to Barbados. She will do it in a shark cage attached to a sailboat, swimming for six to eight hours a day without rest, in Atlantic waters that should be freezing cold. The journey will take about two months and, if successful, will make her the

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remembered for her role in the famous "Person's Case" which saw Canadian women declared persons in 1929She led Manitoba Premier Rodmond Roblin through the city's sweatshops to demonstrate the appalling working conditions many women faced. When Roblin suggested "nice" women did not want the vote ( I confess. I really don't want to vote. Same ol same ol. But this year might turn out to be different

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Kay Ryan Rocks!"Known for her sly, compact poems that revel in wordplay and internal rhymes...."from http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/2008/08/ : Where do you typically find the germ for a poem?The world doesn’t fit me right, so now and then I have to push a new bulge into it or tighten it up someplace. I do this with poems, which can actually create or absorb space. You are perhaps best

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I just read the Feminist Science Fiction blog. (For all of the science fiction/fantasy women out there, there is another site with lots of info: feministsf.org )I had never heard of several of the top winners ofTop Ten (Eleven) Obscure Works. I am ashamed and very surprised. Ah, but what a thrill to find new authors. The first book that caught my attention was this one, The Shadow Speaker by:

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The Nation had an article that captured my attention about today's economic outlook and men who don't listen. Especially to women. The Woman Greenspan, Rubin & Summers Silenced by Katrina vanden Heuvel (I abbreviated, rearranged and emphasized the article. Go here to read the whole, uncut version.)If there is any accountability left in our system, Greenspan, Rubin and Summers should not be

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I have been thinking about vacation lately."Vacation is a term used in English-speaking North America to describe a lengthy time away from work or school, a trip abroad, or simply a pleasure trip away from home, such as a trip to the beach that lasts several days or longer." WikipediaQuestions which aroseWhat is work?What's a pleasure trip?Where is home?Where to go?I love to plan a trip. Find out

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It is a love from afar. We've never met. But I have this warm fuzzy feeling whenever I think of him.His name is Harold McGee. He is an author of books: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen and The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore, which are dense and chewy. I know him through his NYT articles in the Food and Wine section under the column "The Curious Cook". Every

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Gloria Steinem: In Defense of the 'Chick Flick'I found this article by Gloria Steinem at alternet. Here are a few quotes:I propose, as the opposite of "chick flick," films called "prick flicks." Not only will it serve film critics well, but its variants will add to the literary lexicon. ....Indeed, as long men are taken seriously when they write about the female half of the world -- and women

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From Colin Powell to Madelaine Albright when she was secretary of state. The whole quote: "He said, 'Oh, Madeleine, don't be so emotional, you don't know anything about the military,'" Albright said, joking that Powell would show up in full military garb with medals dangling from his chest. "I just had a little pin on. ... I was just a mere mortal woman."Madelaine Albright repeated this at the

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This came from the NY Post, where you can read the whole story.June 17, 2007 -- Who knew it was legal for a woman to walk around with her breasts exposed in New York? (personal comment: well, most women in NY, I would think. I knew about this when it went into law, and I was living in NC.)Well, one woman did - and a cop didn't - and now she has forced the city to fork over a $29,000 legal

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The Adventurist commented that I didn't read his later posts that acknowledeged Meagan McGrath really was the prime rescuer of Usha Bista. He was right. I didn't check his later reporting.So I went back and checked.Here are two quotes from his first report:"What Dave Hahn rightfully done was incredible, he saved a life that probably would have died within hours..but the media has already stepped

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feministing lead me to this story from "In These Times". This is only 2 paragraphs. You should read the whole thing. I added the red color.Emergency contraception, also known as Plan B or the morning-after pill, is available over-the-counter in all 50 states, but women in the U.S. military cannot count on accessing the medication on military bases. A 2003 survey financed by the Defense Department

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I read the RSS feeds for reddit.com in the mornings. One of their latest finds comes from a site called panasianbiz.com.This is in China.

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I told y'all about a woman, Meagan McGrath, who rescued another woman, Usha Bista, on Mt Everest. I just read another report that says it was David Hahn who did the rescuing. Then another website attributes David Hahn and Mike Haugen.Check out this report from the Hendricks Report.There is also this report from mountaineverest.net.Neither report says anything about Meagan. I was beginning to

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" ... women’s well-being and security have sharply deteriorated since the fall of his regime. ...""his", meaning Saddam Hussein. And this (the article,not the picture. The picture came from here.) came from Ms Magazine. Could this be true?from Ms Magazine:"Throughout much of recent history, Iraq was one of the most progressive countries in the Middle East for women. Saddam Hussein and his Baath

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The NYT reported today that Lee Nagrin died. Her Bird/Bear won an Obie Award for best new American play. What the report didn't mention was that she was in "The Blob" with Steve McQueen. "In 1958, Nagrin appeared alongside Steve McQeen in the cult film The Blob, and was offered a four-year studio contract by Paramount. Nagrin declined the offer in order to pursue a creative life in New York City.

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I posted a link to a horrific video about women in Afghanistan a few days ago. I looked for some good news from the area and found this video done by RosaryFilms. I checked out RosaryFilms and found that there last two films were entitled "Medical Science Proves Abortion Is Killing of Human Beings" and ""Why Does My Mommy Not Love Me"? / Abortion as Child Abuse". Hmmm... So I checked out their

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One by one I am going through the women who are in GWB's cabinet. There are many links and references to Condaleeza Rice, so I don't need to bring anyone's attention to her. I did a piece on the Department of Education Secretary - Margaret Spellings. Here is my closing comment: Does it surprise you that she graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in political science?

Ma's Premanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897431.post-43146672340978327762007-06-10T12:22:00.000-06:002007-06-10T14:45:15.556-06:00

I was looking for something on the internet and went to the http://www.usa.gov/ site. I started laughing so hard that I forgot what I was looking for. This is a tag-line that is so wrong. It says "Government Made Easy".

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feministing had a post pointing to a blog called "a cat and twenty"."Last month, joss whedon posted a lengthy lament about the way women are perceived and treated, uniformly around the globe, as inferior and detestable beings. his thoughts were in reaction to the infamous internet video of a kurdish girl, Dua Khalil, whose death by stoning was captured for posterity* by cameraphones in the mob

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Zakia Zaki was the director of a private radio station in Afghanistan.She "had been involved in women’s rights advocacy and political activity." She was hot seven times as she slept beside her 10 month old youngest child of her six children. She was killed just six days after Shekiba Sanga Amaaj (22 years old, a television reporter) was killed.I seem to remember that one of the reasons that we

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This morning's NYT had a small report entitled "Study May Only Fuel Debate Over Title IX" (personal comment: sic Congress renamed this Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, which NYT declines to acknowledge.) and I got to thinking about the woman, Patsy Mink, who was the person who was it's principal author. But before we get to Patsy lets be clear about what Title IX is. It is a law.

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One of the blogs that I read on a daily basis is feministing. The other day they had an article about Joycelyn Elders entitiled: Dr. Joycelyn Elders is so fucking cool. I couldn't remember why I had such good feelings about this woman ... until I saw her picture and remembered her. She was Clinton's Surgeon General ... ( from wikipedia: making her the first African American, and the second woman,

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There is a full page ad in the NYT Sunday edition heralding the coverage of the New Hampshire debates. I was saddened/shocked to see that the 5 reporters were all white males. I guess we will hear what the white males consider important and relevant to the debates. Larry King, Lou Dobbs, John Roberts, Andeson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer don't represent my interests in this debate. Not that I have

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this came from http://www.bitch-phd.com/ in their Wednesday, May 30, 2007 blog"The decision came in a case involving a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., the only woman among 16 men at the same management level, who was paid less than any of her colleagues, including those with less seniority. She learned that fact late in a career of nearly 20 years — too late, according to

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Can you believe this? I found this today on feministing.comThis is what Bill O'Reilly and John McCain said when they were talking about immigration reform:Bill O'Reilly: But do you understand what the New York Times wants, and the far-left want? They want to break down the white, Christian, male power structure, which you're a part, and so am I, and they want to bring in millions of foreign

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I picked up an interesting book in the library (www.pitcolib.org/ best small library I have ever gotten to use).Zen Pioneer, the Life and Works of Ruth Fuller Sasaki. It is written (sounds like unwillingly) by Isabel Stirling. Ruth was focused, autocratic, a traveler, a seeker. Gary Snyder did the foreward to this book. If you are interested in Zen Buddhism this is very appealing for its

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I read this on http://www.dailyrotten.com/ I want to know who were the climbing "companions" of Usha Bista. I would have the inclination to charge them with murder if she had died. Not involuntary manslaughter.Usha Bista Was Saved By Meagan McGrath Below The Mountain's Summit (CBS News) NEW YORK Usha Bista nearly died on Mount Everest. The Nepalese mountain climber got sick about

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During the past month, when I should have been writing cool things on the blog, I have been listening to music sung, written and composed by women. Let me share with you some of my finds ... which may be old hat to you.Amy Winehouse Wow. Do I love her voice, her lyrics and her arrangements. This is her website:http://www.amywinehouse.co.uk/. Just yesterday she won another Ivor Novello award and

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I have had a love affair with mole poblano since I was 16 years old. While visiting Mexico I was served turkey in a dark brow, spicy, rich sauce. One of the ingredients was chocolate. I fell in love suddenly with Mexico and mole. I am going to Mexico in February to learn about Mexican cooking from the area of Puebla, where mole was invented. So I thought that I’d take a look at the famous

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Winning isn't everything. You might want to read about Iraqui women, also. This is a direct quote (except for some added links) from one of my favorite sites, feministing.While I posted on the victory of Malalai Joya gaining a seat in the Afghanistan parliament a while back, it seems that her plight to improve women’s rights within the country is being threatened, along with her life

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No one on the tv has yet mentioned that James Brown was arrested for domestic abuse: James Brown Arrests: 8 Convictions: 3 Time served: 5 years, 4 days 1. The Godfather of Soul, at the tender age of 15, was arrested for stealing clothes out of cars. Young Brown was sentenced to 8 years of which he served 3 years and a day. 2. In 1978, Brown sat in jail for 3 days after he defied a court order

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NYT had an article about a woman. (personal note: it is not common to read anything about women in the NYT. Usually I find these women only after they have died. Note the last bunch of blogs.) It was about a woman named Mary Meagher, who died on Dec 9th. Let me quote from it..But what was indisputably real was her eye for talent. Her clients, mostly lesser-known playwrights and directors when

Ma's Premanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7897431.post-68711824110210119182006-12-23T13:26:00.000-07:002006-12-23T17:03:50.798-07:00

I get so tired reading mainstream news. I bet you do, too.Here are some alternatives:AlternetBitch MagazineBustCHILL MagazineClamour MagazineColorLinesDaily Feminist NewsIndyBay Women's NewsINTHEFRAY MagazineIn These TimesFeminista!FeministingMs. MagazineSalonThe Scholar and Feminist OnlineTint MagazinetruthoutUN Women WatchWireTapWomen's eNewsWomen's Media Centerthis list is thanks to

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Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard died this week.The NYT said that her goal was to "reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit." She was 101 years old. She was part of Group f/64 (personal comment: I never heard about Ruth in my photography classes. Maybe because she photographed nudes. Imogen Cunningham was mentioned, and we were always shown

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She made an independent film in 1970 (also have seen '71 given as the date of this film) called "Wanda" "about a desperate woman from the Appalachian coal country (played by Ms. Loden) who gets mixed up with a petty crook..."(nyt 12/21/06) . She was born in Marion, NC, so she knew what she was talking about. She died in 1980, married to Elia Kazan. She was an actress ("Splendor in the Grass" eg.

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This was in Womens e-newsBy Molly M. GintyAcross the U.S., female animals exposed to toxic chemicals are suffering from a flurry of health problems. As scientists examine the impact of environmental pollution, some are pondering what the results may mean to female humans. In California, female sea lions are spontaneously aborting their fetuses.In the Great Lakes area, mother gulls are sharing

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"We cannot prepare students for the global economy if we don't get them to grade level first." — Secretary Margaret SpellingsThis is the quote ed.gov shows next to her picture. (personal comment: the global economy is the focus of education?) I got turned on (personal comment: off) to her from an article in the NYT today, 12/18/06. It was about an animated bunny named Baxter.Children first came

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The title comes from the Washington Post (and I got it from TrouthOut).For much of the 20th century, and under various leaders, Iraq was one of the most progressive Middle Eastern countries in its treatment of women, who were encouraged to go to school and enter the workforce. Saddam Hussein's Baath Party espoused a secular Arab nationalism that advocated women's full participation in society.

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"Pentagon is asked to investigate video"That was the headline in today's NYT. A tiny headline and a tiny paragraph that was attributed to tne AP. A group that supports religious freedom in the military (Personal question: isn't that part of separation of church and state, therefore the us gov is that group?) asked the pentagon to investigate a promotional video featuring active-duty military

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Feminist Daily News Wire December 8, 2006 A report by the United Nations (UN) has found that the current state of women's disempowerment in Arab countries is a hindrance to the success and prosperity of Arab countries as a whole. (personal comment: DUH) The Arab Human Development Report calls for guarantees of lifelong protection from physical and

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There was a short blurb in the NYT a few months ago, from a gossipy column of 80 years ago. "Tounges are wagging about the strange path of Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, the Boston portraitist, who arrived in France to paint Rosa Bonheur, whose work she admired...."To the right is the portrait of Rosa Bonheur done by Klumpke.This is what I found about Klumke and Bonheur:As a girl, Anna had been given a

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I am just getting land legs after settling in Woody Creek. I am going to be paying more attention to this blog. Not that anyone but me reads it.The picture on the left shows one of my recent surprises. After a blizzard the weather turned very cold, and parts of the bottom of the river froze.The picture to the right is from my morning walk. Enough about me and I.This week lets catch up on

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This video features Sadhu Ma (Jenny Faucher) talking about Sri Neem Karoli Baba Maharajji during the summer of 2001. This is the first of three short interview clips. Segment 2 of 3

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Check out this blog: http://eyeamvideo.blogspot.com/

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Found this at http://www.feminist.com They were reviewing Jean Shinoda Bolen’s newest book, Urgent Message from Mother.Mother’s DayThe original Mother's Day proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1870, was not a commercial idea created to sell cards, flowers, or candy. It was a proposal to bring women of all nationalities together to bring peace to humanity. Howe had seen the horrors,

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Female candidates have triumphed in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, with one bidding to become the new parliament's speaker.After a delay in counting of more than a month, official results show women secured seats ahead of male candidates in a quarter of the 34 provinces, while in one a woman was outright winner. Shukria Barakzai is standing for the role of speaker in the new parliament

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Why is it that the sex of the rioters, terrorists, dictators is never mentioned? Have you noticed that they are men?check this out: about muslim women dealing with domestic violence there is also a good link here about women opening a radio station in Baghdad.Want to know more about women... get a load of this news. Mukhtaran Mai, a 33-year-old Pakistani woman, was gang-raped by five men on

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can we get together after this and have a government that will do the job?

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everyone is talking about it. Everyone wants someone els to take the blame, but the destruction is all of our's blame. The rapacious treatment of the wetlands, the hubris of the builders, the allocation of assets to leveees protecting people who shouldn't be there in the first place, the gall of men thinking that doing oil and chemicals in such a fragile, ecologically important drainage place,

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Why am I doing this to myself? 15 hours of .java and I still can't get the problem. AGGH.Exams, final projects... Am I kidding? myself.

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Oh sadness. Andrea Dworkin died. Who will get us outraged again about the institution of marraige, amng other things.There was an editorial in the NYT this morning about theShrub's secret attack on Title IX. New criteria for determining what constitutes "interest" of women in sports.Media Technology program at school improving. We are working with Premiere ... and it is thrilling.

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The teacher that I am having so much problems with, Jonathan Ross, just apologised to the class, after 16 weeks, that he hhad been teaching the wrong class. We were meant to be able to do a multimedia project by the end of class, We can't do squuat. All we've done is review various sooftware that have the ability to do multimedia. But he didn't like some of the programs, so we diid his favorites,

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We are broadcasting a radio program called Listen2Women on WPVM.org. It is aired every Sunday night at 7pm, then again Mondays at 4pm, EST. It is worth listening to. You can stream it from http://www.wpvm.org Do it.

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Listen2Women will broadcast some of these links. I think they should be publically available. Here you go:Women really are different from men:http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21395http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Drug%20Laws%20WomenWomen are in jail ... 8 fold increase over 1980

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The world's worst teacher I have for Multimedia. He has confused us all. After a 15 minute introduction to Flash he assigned us a .fla with a looping movie, animated objects, and four accesible buttons, to 4 different web sites, a description of the audience and the purpose.I spent six hours just learning about timelines, symbols, objects, and buttons. It took me another 5 hours to get my idea to

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I posted some pics on flikr and they have appeared. Tune in Sunday night 7pm wpvm.org They will be streaming Listen2Women, as we talk about women and computers.

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I am 57 years old. I stayed up til 2am, studying Java and Fireworks for tests the next morning. I am in love with Fireworks.My arms ache, my shoulders are weary, and I can't wait to try to write a little Java code.Perpetual student.

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It takes alot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. Gertrude Stein 3. If you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. Alice Roosevelt Longworth 4. The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soap boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but

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