Posted in Colonialism, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Empire, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Gaza, Genocide, Her, Home Birth, Homelessness, Homes, Imperialism, Indigenous Women's Rights, Internalized Misogyny, It's all connected, Lesbophobia, Liberation Theology, Loss, Love, Midwifery, Mother-Right, Nonviolent Resistance, Oppression of Women Journalists, Our Blood, Patriarchal Medicine, Patriarchal Science, Patriarchal Politics, Peak Oil, Pornography, Prayers, Prostitution, Quiverfull, Racism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Rural Womyn, Saudi Women, The Mother, War on Animals, War on Women, Women and Music, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Excellence, the Animals on Feb 22nd, 2010
The story of what happened to the Irish is the story of Native Americans is the story of indigenous and aboriginal people throughout the world is the story of women is the story of all colonized people.
OK, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the “famine”
About the fact that there never [...]
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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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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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From a real life friend and colleague:
Around this time every year I disappear for a few days to one of my favorite benefits and festivals - the HERDELJEZI ROMA FESTIVAL in Sebastopol, California. I fly or drive to California, work my a*** off, and donate 50% of my profits to VOICE OF [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Homelessness, Homes on Apr 9th, 2009
SEATTLE — An innovative program that takes homeless alcoholics off the street and gives them a place to live without requiring them to stop drinking is saving taxpayers more than $4 million a year in emergency social and health programs, according to a study released Tuesday.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical [...]
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My county and state governments are currently considering these two options for cutting costs:
Selling Joemma Beach State Park (above) to the highest bidder (read, most likely, out-of-state, possibly out-of-country, almost-certainly developers).
Joemma Beach is 122 acres of forested saltwater frontage. Local crab fishermen — most of them poor immigrants — regularly throw their crab pots [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Cronehood, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Inspiration, It's all connected, Practical Radical Feminism, Rural Womyn, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, Women as Writers, Women's Art, Women's Culture, Working Class People, the Animals on Dec 21st, 2008
Carla Emery as a young woman
I’ve been thinking about the women in my life who have most deeply influenced me (besides my mother, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, relatives by blood, all of whom have so deeply influenced me and who have given me so much). One of these women was Carla Emery, who died [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Her, Heroes, Homelessness, Homes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, Sustainability, The Mother, The Skies, War on Women on Nov 22nd, 2008
UPDATE: Irene Fernandez has been ACQUITTED. H/t to People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty
Dr. Irene Fernandez on receiving the Right Livelihood Award in Stockholm, Sweden in December 2005:
“… I am a product of migrant labour. My father was a migrant worker from Kerala, India. He worked in the rubber plantations during the British rule [...]
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I’ve been receiving bulletins from these folks for some months now, and I really like their style, their ideas and their plans for making a revolution that can change the world for everyone. This is how you do it.
After several months of planning, the time has come to start our new program based on the [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Financial Meltdown, Homelessness, Homes, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Racism, Racism and Feminism on Sep 28th, 2008
Consider the demographics of the people above, who just created the $700 billion bailout plan, selling all of us ordinary taxpayers down the river. White, male and rich, save one.
Don’t anybody even try to tell me how much things have changed in the last 80, 100 years. It’s an insult to the intelligence of all thinking [...]
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