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International Women’s Day 2010: “This is the Time”

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Heroes, Immigrants, International Women's Day, Iranian Women's Activism, Love Between Women, Million Women Rise!, Mother-Right, Motherhood, Mourning, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Sisters, Prayers, Revolution in Iran, Rural Womyn, Single Moms, Sisterhood, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women and Creativity, Women and Food, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's History on Mar 8th, 2010

Warriors and Heroines

This is the Time

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 1

International Women’s Day, Iran, 1979, Part 2

Women and Water

Women and Land, and Food

Immigrant Mothers and the Children Left Behind

Million Women Rise 2010

The Women, The Women, the Amazing Women

For Women and in Sisterhood,
Heart

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2010, Year of the Natives in America

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Colonialism, Earth, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Imperialism, In Memorium, Indigenous Women's Rights, Loss, Love, Mourning, Racism, The Mother, The Skies on Feb 14th, 2010

2010, Year of the Natives in America, video via Mitzi Belliveau on Facebook. How might things be different had we all grown up seeing images like this all of the time, all around us, instead of the images we’ve all seen, over and over again?

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Fire on Babylon

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Heroes, Homelessness, Imperialism, Loss, Love, Mourning, Prayers, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Resurrections, Revolution, Single Moms, The Mother, War, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Excellence on Feb 3rd, 2010

This is a song of liberation, of deep and anguished longings for justice. Some believe “Babylon” (from the book of Revelation in the Christian Bible) is the United States. Some believe Babylon is the Roman Catholic Church. Some believe Babylon to be colonizers, the rich and powerful. Sinead’s “Babylon” is about child abuse (she herself [...]

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Where Do the Dreams Go?

Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Heroes, Motherhood, Mourning, Prayers, Single Moms on Jan 29th, 2010

Migrant Woman by Dorothy Lange, Library of Congress
Click to listen to \”Woman of the Well\” by Chiwonisu
It is a winter morning
The ground feels rocky and cold
Beneath her cracked and bare feet.
The woman comes to the well
limping over scattered bones.
She is weary and tired.
And this life grinds upon her,
This life of endless toil
She is weary and [...]

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Plea for Help for Lakota Families, Pine Ridge Reservation

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Cecilia Fire Thunder, Indigenous Women's Rights on Jan 25th, 2010

Via Autumn Two Bulls on Facebook:
…Lakota Families need your support in getting propane to heat their homes as they are out of heat or on the verge of being without heat. The winter weather here in South Dakota can be very brutal and harsh with temperatures going as low as 30 degrees below zero…

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They Finally Got Him: Frank Colacurcio, Pimp, Thug, and His Henchmen Indicted

Posted in Being Poor, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, Male Terrorism, Patriarchal Politics, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking on Jul 3rd, 2009

Seattle Times archived photo of Frank Colacurcio Sr. (center) in 1958, waiting to be booked on charges of threatening rival jukebox operators. With him are his attorneys, Joseph Moschetto (left) and Thomas Keefe.
I remember hearing about Frank Colacurcio, above center, who is now 92, when I was a small girl in the ’50s and Colacurcio’s [...]

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Shell Oil Settles With the Ogoni Nine

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Capitalism, Colonialism, Earth, Genocide, Heroes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Nonviolent Resistance on Jun 12th, 2009

Thirteen years ago, Ken Saro Wiwa Jr and the families of the 8 other Ogoni men who had been murdered by the Nigerian state in 1995 , together with two other Ogonis, began three separate law suits against Royal Dutch Petroleum, Shell Petroleum Development Corporation and Brian Anderson former CEO of the SPDC. The plaintiffs [...]

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What Dr. George Tiller and His Staff Were About

Posted in Being Poor, Being colonized, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Male Terrorism, Mourning, Our Blood, Practical Radical Feminism, Quiverfull, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, War on Women, Women and Fundamentalism, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies on Jun 1st, 2009

The women in my father’s practice who had abortions before abortion was legal have taught me that abortion is not about families, it’s not about babies, abortion is about women’s hopes, dreams, potential…the rest of their lives. Abortion is a matter of survival for women. Abortion is a matter of survival for women.

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10 Infants, Small Children Murdered by Fathers in Past Two Weeks? Not News, Really. Mom Murders Son? Headlines Everywhere.

Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Homelessness, Loss, Media on May 28th, 2009

A quick perusal of Google yields 10 instances of fathers or stepfathers murdering their infants or young children within the last two weeks or so: link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link, link. Had I continued to search, I’d have found many, many more. In some instances, the children [...]

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UPDATE: The American College System and the Marginalization of Disadvantaged Young Women (and Men, but this is Women’s Space)

Posted in Academentia, Being Poor, Capitalism, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Immigrants, Racism on May 21st, 2009

Naomi

I blogged earlier that I’d update when Omi made her decision about school. She will be attending the University of Washington in Seattle in the fall. She got an incredible offer, and her best friend (second from left in the photo above, next to Naomi) will be attending the UW, as well, so [...]

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