WRITING THE LONGEST REVOLUTION
Posted in Feminism on Mar 9th, 2010
The power of your presence is requested at a memorial. All are welcome.
Re-membering Mary Daly
A celebration of her life and work will take place on Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 2 P.M. at:
The Auditorium of Washburn Hall
Episcopal Divinity School
99 Brattle Street
Cambridge, MA
It will help in our organizing if you visit www.marydaly.org by April 4, 2010 [...]
Posted in Feminism on Feb 5th, 2010
Photo of spiral dance from from Starhawk’s blog
I do think women could make politics irrelevant by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen, just so far from peoples’ ideas of state structures and viable social structures that it seems to them like total anarchy, when what it really [...]
Posted in Feminism, Nonviolent Resistance, Peace on Feb 5th, 2010
Former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party Presidential Nominee will participate in an International Peace Conference scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany on February 6 - 7, 2010 while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meets in the same city to plan war. McKinney, a long-time proponent of abolishing NATO, is scheduled to speak [...]
Posted in Feminism, Heroes, Iranian Women's Activism, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Women and Fundamentalism on Jan 20th, 2010
Photo from Payvand, originally from here
According to the Feminist School in Iran, 19 more Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested January 14; fourteen were members of Mothers for Peace; also among the arrested was the sister of Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. According to Ebadi, her sister was not involved in political activism:
“I am not aware of [...]
Posted in Feminism on Jan 15th, 2010
I want to blast out of bore-dom, every way, every day. “That’s so extreme,” they say. “It is High Time to be Extreme,” I say. While we wade knee deep in the blood of women shall I chat about Freud, Derrida and Foucault? No, I don’t think so.
Better to catch a [...]
Courage is that strand of steel that holds you together. It is the inner voice that sees truth when others around you insist you are a liar. It is the refusal to compromise integrity, the demand to be considered as a human being, the acceptance of fear rather than the denial of it…
Courage does not [...]
Posted in Feminism, Iranian Women's Activism, Revolution in Iran on Aug 19th, 2009
Iranian blogger and journalist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested June 30, is still in prison and has been tortured. According to Revolutionary Road:
An informed source in an interview with the “green waive” reporter talked about a disturbing torture of a journalist by investigators. According to “green wave” this source who didn’t want to be identified, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Giants, Heroes, Inspiration, Single Moms on Jul 12th, 2009
Photo of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Ruven Afanador for The New York Times
The New York Times has published an amazing and inspiring interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (above). Some of my favorite parts:
In late February, three weeks after she had an operation for a recurrence of cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went [...]
Posted in Feminism, Women and Fundamentalism on Jul 8th, 2009
Breaking Free Blog
Covenant Eyes has blocked http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB…
I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES – JOB 31:1
I clicked on an incoming link that brought me to a screen that included the above. The woman who either blocked Women’s Space or whose “guardian” blocked Women’s Space is a former long-time subscriber to the magazine I [...]
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 [...]
