I’ve been pleasantly surprised to hear how many of you have written my name in on your ballot at the polls! THANK YOU! And more of you still can, in my area we have until 8 p.m. this evening. I vow to live up to my supporters’ votes of confidence in the years to come.
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Now THAT would have been a Presidential race. Oh, the debates we might have had! With, I’m betting, far fewer displays of misogyny and sexism.
But no. Of the four candidates, the one woman, Palin, is connected with the least favored of the three male candidates and is therefore without the (patriarchally prescribed) protections she might have had had she been [...]
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The American women who are acquiescing in the virtual stoning of Sarah Palin are obeying the same sick dynamic that animates every patriarchal society on earth. It’s why women in tribal hellholes nod approvingly when their menfolk stone the local adulterer. It’s why women cheer when other women, uppity women, are publicly shamed and abused. [...]
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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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During the month of September, the United States government took over mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, filed for bankruptcy. AIG, an insurance company, collapsed. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. Washington Mutual Bank failed, the largest bank failure in history. It is expected that Wachovia might be [...]
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Posted in 2008 Presidential Election, Earth, Erasure of Feminist History, Erasure of Feminist Leaders, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Feminism, Feminist Politics, Heart for President, Her, Heroes, Inspiration, Love, Male Terrorism, Party Politics, Police Violence, Practical Radical Feminism, Racism and Feminism, Revolution, Sisterhood, Sustainability, The Left, The Mother, The Rape of Iraq, The Skies, War, War on Women, the Animals on Aug 31st, 2008
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Candidate for President of the United States, outside the Convention, Sunday, August 24, 2008: :
Our country has been hijacked, and the Democrats are in on the plan… When it came to war and occupation, the Democratic leadership showed us that financing an illegal and immoral war, based on lies, was more [...]
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