Posted in Apropos of Random, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Deciding to Live, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Motherhood, Radical Feminists Can Sometimes Cook, The Mother, Warm Fuzzies, Witchyness, Women and Creativity, Women's Art, Women's Culture on Jan 5th, 2009
I started a new tradition for my youngest two kids, who are 10 and 13 (Jeyoani, too, and whatever other of my kids happens to be at my house :)). The night before I go back to work after the holidays, we will continue each year to do three things that we did for the first time [...]
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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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It stinks, but both Obama and McCain support the bailout agreement reached shortly after midnight this morning.
According to the New York Times, the agreement would:
Bail out Wall Street at a cost of $700 billion;
Limit pay for some executives whose firms seek help;
Require the government to use its new role as owner of distressed mortgage-backed securities to [...]
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Posted in Feminism, Giants, Her, Heroes, Homes, It's all connected, Love, The Mother, The Skies, Women's Art, Women's Bodies, Women's Culture, Women's Health, the Animals on May 31st, 2008
In the United States, where milk and honey cost little enough, where private serenity is prized above all things by the wealthy, privileged and well-washed, where tension, intensity, passion, and the concomitant loss of self-possession are detested, the idea that your attitudes and behaviors vis a vis your body are your politics and your spirituality, [...]
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