Women’s Space

An uncensored interview with the amazing Patch Adams. Thanks to Max Dashu, Rachel Lindley Almanas and others who posted this on Facebook, it’s an inspiration.

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…in the beginning a political theory is born of genuine feeling, a sense of reality.  But in a state of feeling alone, the knowledge of oppression remains mute, and the reality of oppression is explained away by oppressive theories; it is said, for instance, that members of the working class have failed to raise themselves [...]

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When death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
To buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
When death comes like the measle pox;
When death comes
Like an iceburg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
What is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I [...]

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Originally published January 3, 2009.

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Tiffany Faith Lindsey
February 17, 1985-May 6, 2010
A terrible thing has happened in my life.   My 25-year-old daughter, Tiffany Faith, died last Thursday in Los Angeles.

Two of my adult daughters and I are driving to Los Angeles, leaving today.  We are driving straight through and hope to arrive Thursday. We are [...]

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[Originally posted May 15, 2006.-- Heart]
Mother’s Day Proclamation of 1870
“Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!
Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and [...]

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Here is a link to the online recording of the webcast from the May 1, 2010 Mary Daly Memorial. Please note, a webcast is not the same as a broadcast. Events viewed using this particular technology, live or recorded, will not be like watching TV or other professional video streaming services.
This recording [...]

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[Originally published May 26, 2006.]
I listen to what young progressives and activists say about the U.S., I listen to their anger and frustration, and I empathize.  At the same time, I am often struck by their indignation, their sense that the movement in the direction of fascism in the United States is something new.  There [...]

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