Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghan Women, Afghanistan, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Imperialism, Male Terrorism, Oppression of Women Journalists, Patriarchal Politics, RAWA, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women and Fundamentalism on Aug 20th, 2009
Malalai Joya in this morning’s Independent:
Like millions of Afghans, I have no hope in the results of today’s election. In a country ruled by warlords, occupation forces, Taliban terrorists, drug money and guns, no one can expect a legitimate or fair vote. Even international observers have been speaking about widespread fraud and intimidation and, among [...]
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In July of 2006, I wrote the post that follows and several others about the rape and murder of 14-year-old ‘Abir Hamzah and her family in Iraq. The soldier in the photograph above is Steve Green, one of the men who confessed to the rape and murders. It came from [...]
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I must admit it was a surreal moment of sisterhood….We would have linked arms, if it had been possible. We were comrades then. We did not need to know each other’s names. We knew we were watching history unfold in front of our eyes.
Feminist Review submitted this letter to the Carnival, written by a reader, [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Afghanistan, Bailout Bill, Big Pharm, Capitalism, Earth, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Femicide, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, It's all connected, Pakistan, Party Politics, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Peak Oil, Power in Relationships, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Skies, Women's History Month Blog Carnival, the Animals on Mar 26th, 2009
The system is not even true to its own principles, let alone principles that affirm life, but will be defended to the last breath by the new leadership as well as the old. The system has revealed its fatal core rot. Let the institutions that deserve to fail die by their sword, unbridled debt and [...]
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President Obama has appointed a record six women to his Cabinet:
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Officer
Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security
Susan Rice, UN Ambassador
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor
I think this is great! And that we ought to give credit whenever and [...]
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One of my favorite women ever of all history, a heroine to me, is Elizabeth Cady Stanton (right). I have studied, studied, studied her life. I love her. I like Susan B. Anthony (left), as well, but I relate more to Stanton, who had seven children, homeschooled them all, advocated for battered women and took [...]
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Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, soldiers carrying out orders to commit crimes against humanity
Thirteen or fourteen years ago now,I did some research and writing about coercion and mind control, in part in the effort to make sense of the battering I was taking at the hands of the Religious Right. As part of my research and [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Deciding to Live, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Giants, Her, Heroes, Love Between Women, Party Politics, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Womanism, Women as Writers, Women in Media, Women's Art on Jan 22nd, 2009
Suppose Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic nomination and went on to win the election last November. Suppose she’d been the one to be inaugurated this week and suppose she was President right now.
If she were, I think there would certainly be an equivalent of The New Agenda, but created by frustrated Obama supporters this [...]
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In November when Obama became the Democratic candidate for President, I wrote this post. I stand by what I wrote, I meant it, felt it, and I mean it and feel it today. My kids are flying high today, many people I love are flying high, and it is contagious and honestly, wonderful [...]
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I didn’t see Rev. Lowery’s benediction live and I wish I had! To me, it is wonderful, maybe my favorite of all three prayers. It is old school, passionate, poetic, eloquent, soul-stirring Liberation Theology at its finest, the kind of sermon that has always moved and mobilized oppressed and disenfranchised people. I [...]
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