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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Posted in Being Poor, Capitalism, Colonialism, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Female Ritual Servitude, Femicide, Feminism, Heroes, Immigrants, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Prostitution, Racism, Racism and Feminism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Sex Trafficking, Sexism in the Military, Sisterhood, Sustainability, War, War on Women, World March of Women on Nov 7th, 2008
I received the following Call to Action in my e-mail a few days ago. I’ve been part of the World March of Women since its beginning 10 years ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long! In 1999 I participated via telephone in NOW’s organizing meetings as the group in charge of U.S. women’s involvement. I [...]
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Posted in Femicide, Financial Meltdown, Heroes, Indigenous Women's Rights, Inspiration, Male Terrorism, Rape and Sexual Assault, Revolution, Small is Beautiful/Sustainable Agriculture/Alternative, War on Women on Oct 1st, 2008
Kirsten Brydum
The following letter from swaneagle came through this morning on a list I’m on. Kirsten Brydum, who was found murdered in New Orleans, was the amazing, visionary founder of the Really Really Free Market, something I’ve been meaning to blog about for a while now, but particularly recently, when there is all of this talk about money and about [...]
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Posted in Being Poor, Exile, Female Ritual Servitude, Heroes, Indigenous Women's Rights, Love, Love Between Women, Male Terrorism, Pornography, Prostitution, Rape and Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, War on Women on Sep 16th, 2008
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by Somaly Mam with Ruth Marshall
Somaly Mam’s haunting story starts in Cambodia’s mountains, before she’s sold into prostitution.
She is a child. No name, no parents, no home. She forages for wild fruits and sleeps in a hammock under the moon, whispering to trees her [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Being Poor, Capitalism, Colonialism, Earth, Feminist Politics, Her, Indigenous Women's Rights, It's all connected, Peak Oil, Practical Radical Feminism, Sustainability, The Skies, Working Class People on Aug 25th, 2008
At a May hearing of Congress, oil industry piously called the chaos a natural and even healthy display of market forces — the law of “supply and demand” at work. Their solution: “stay the course” and drill for more oil in environmentally sensitive areas. This might make a small dent in prices in 2030! But it [...]
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