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Topic: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Civil Rights Watch (3)

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Thomas P.	November 03, 2009 5:07 AM The Internet can not operate unless IP addresses are exchanged between servers. [ send green star]
anonymous	If you believe in rights please help November 02, 2009 7:00 PM Please help by calling, have everybody you know call the police and tell that I hacked your group. They all ready know and are wainting to get a lot of complants so they can shut down this group at care2 October 31 2009 Henry Massingale 561 734 1376 Dear care2 members, Please contact the Redwood City Police Dept. Redwood Ca. 650 780 7100 650 780 7134 note copy and paist this into your word processer I have tried for over 3 days to let the public know that I have found a ghost program within care2.com and the only way that I saw into this is because I dropped my anti virus so that my spy ware would be my first petition. So I filed a activist alert on care2.com that this program allows people to look into your groups and your personal information with out permission. I gave it a name, N.A.N.U. T.E.C. Knowledge, as watched my spy ware light up in 30 to 60 second intervals, it became apparent that through, your data stream as it flows through the system that this N.A.N.U. Is created and these little {worms} that are so small and are attached to a symbol or letter and as this goes through the system it awaits for the rest letters or symbols to reach it destination and through a I.P. Recognition placed into its creation these worms, they know each other and they then join to perform it purpose and that is to look in to your personal thing and in hopes not ever be found out. These worms are not a virus it is a ghost program set up at care2.com and I do not know as of yet how far it goes into facebook.com As of right now by accident,I capture the access code and I have the ability to go into that program and look into the groups and the lives of around 12 to 30 million people. It is a remarkable new concept to spy on people and you will never know that they are there. You see this ghost program is a split petition that works like this the I.P between you and , OH, let at ebay the symbol of trust is that the ebay system gives your computer a I.P. And when to go to ebay there system see who you are and says, Hi Tom. But somehow with in the data stream at care2.com someone has placed this N.A.N.U. In to the I.P. ,which for your computer system. Now if I was a hacker like them I could cause all kinds of hell and no one would know it was me because the trail would end at care.com within the person who built this ghost program. I did try to file a alert at care2.com, of how to drop you anti virus and you will be able to see the eye symbol light up, but we had 4 account deleted at care2 and there was never a care2 suspension notice. So if you want to come over and play, I will show you a world within a ghost program and you do not have no privacy at all. We have found one of the groups at myspace.com Henry Massingale I am sorry, but this is the only way for me to let the people at care2 know that there is a spyware in place, I have contacted over 30 United States Republican Officals and let them know that to talk about the healthcare issue is to be not permitted at care2. I do believe in a healthcare that is for the good of mankind and not for the dollar. About 10 minutes ago this account info was deleted but they can not stop this ghost pragram because they created it Henry Massingale [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Blue B.	October 08, 2009 4:43 PM New Report: "Start With a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health" http://post.ly/7Vtv "In a pathbreaking follow-up to the 2008 report Girls Count, Miriam Temin and CGD vice president Ruth Levine shed light on girls' health worldwide and its impact on the wellbeing and productivity of girls, their families, and their nations. Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health highlights successful efforts to break the cycle of ill health and proposes a comprehensive, practical global health agenda that starts with adolescent girls..." [ send green star]
Blue B.	October 08, 2009 4:34 PM WEBCAST: Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn on "Half the Sky" Thank you for all who caught the live show - we have folks from around the world. You can catch the recording by hitting the play button on clicking on the link. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/saja/2009/10/07/Nicholas-Kristof-Sheryl-WuDunn (you can set an e-mail reminder for yourself at that link) Or call-in to listen and/or talk to them at +1-347-324-5991. ~ ~ ~ SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, celebrating SAJA@15, its 15th Anniversary Year - in cooperation with the Asian American Journalists Association (NY chapter), the Arab & Middle East Journalists Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism - presents... a special webcast with NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF & SHERYL WuDUNN, authors of the widely-acclaimed "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" (and as seen on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, "Colbert Report," "Oprah," the NYT Bestsellers list). More about them and their book at http://halftheskymovement.org [Folllow Kristof on Twitter: @nytimeskristof] "If you have always wondered whether you can change the world, read this book. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have written a brilliant call to arms that describes one of the transcendent injustices in the world today - the brutal treatment of women. The authors vividly describe a terrible reality about the world we live in but they also provide light and hope that we can, in fact, change it." - Fareed Zakaria, author, The Post-American World and host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 15, 2009 2:37 PM EXCLUSIVE: ANTI-ABORTION GROUP MAY HAVE VIOLATEDTAX CODE [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 7:32 PM SEBELIUS EYES EXPLICIT BAN ON ABORTION FUNDING.... It seemed like an issue that had already been settled -- health care reform would not offer public subsidies to pay for terminating unwanted pregnancies. Conservatives, unwilling to take "yes" for an answer, have said the restrictions don't go far enough. George Stephanopoulos explored the issue further yesterday, and the administration is apparently willing to give the right what it's looking for. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told me on 'This Week' the President will go beyond language in a House bill to make sure no public money goes to pay for abortions under health care reform. Abortion foes argue language in the House bill has too many holes and that taxpayers could potentially subsidize abortions. Sebelius told me there will be no uncertainty with the President's plan. "In fact recently the Catholic bishops came out, after the President's statement saying that his statement about what he intends in the plan that no public fund would go to fund abortion and the fact that he has come out firmly for insuring all Americans and saying that it's a moral issue as well as an economic issue and they endorsed moving forward. I think the legislative language will reflect what the President has just said." I continue to think these are not exactly effective negotiating techniques. Republicans say, "We want explicit language in the bill that would restrict coverage for illegal immigrants." The White House responds, "You got it. What are you willing to concede in return?" To which the GOP answers, "Nothing." Likewise, Republicans say, "We want explicit language in the bill that would prohibit funding for abortion." The White House responds, "No problem at all. What are you willing to concede in return?" To which the GOP answers, "Nothing." My hunch is, the White House wants to make it as politically awkward as possible for Republicans to oppose the bill. The president wants to be able to tell the public that he offered the GOP a reform bill with tort reform, no funding for abortion, no coverage for undocumented immigrants, no deficit increases, no tax increases on the middle class, no "death panels" or "death books," and quite possibly no public option -- and the congressional minority stll rejected the legislation. For all I know, this would be an effective rhetorical/political strategy for the White House, and the public would be disgusted by Republican obstinacy. But no one should have any doubts as to whether these concessions will actually garner GOP votes. They won't -- Republicans don't support health care reform. —Steve Benen 8:00 AM Permalink \| Comments (31) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 11, 2009 11:25 AM Anti-Abortion Activist Killed Outside Michigan School Quick Read \| Comments (103) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 04, 2009 12:00 PM Great rally! Pics! http://bit.ly/qNLRn Women walk and stand united for health reform! PHOTO: Michelle Del GuercioWhat do we want? Health care! When do we want it? Now! Shouting that chant, more than 125 women gathered at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City Saturday and walked together to Times Square to join a pumped-up crowd of 3,000 demanding health reform this year. Along the way, the women's walk attracted cheers from tourists passing by on sight-seeing buses and applause from theater-goers waiting for Broadway matinees. The rally was organized to demonstrate that the raucous town hall meetings shown over and over on television and the internet in August do not reflect the sentiments of many Americans. Contingents representing a wide array of health reform supporters -- from unions to physicians to low-income people and even Upper West Side baby boomers -- walked to Times Square from hospitals all across the city. Chief organizers for the event were NYC for Change, Health Care for America Now and Organizing for America. The Women's Walk for Health Reform was organized by Raising Women's Voices. Participants represented 14 organizations dedicated to promoting access to women's health, including the Planned Parenthood of NYC Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, Choices in Childbirth, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Physicians for Reproductive Choices and Health, WCLA-Choice Matters, the Community Healthcare Network, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault, NOW-NYC, the Public Health Association of NYC, Gynuity Health Projects, the Pro-Choice Education Fund and the Women's City Club of New York. Jessica Silk, a 28-year-old public health professional and member of the board of the Public Health Association of NYC, told her personal story of being uninsured: "I'm one of the millions of young adults in this country who currently don't have health insurance. I didn't have it all through graduate school in public health and I haven't had it since I graduated in May. The policy offered by the insurance company that my school referred us to was simply too expensive, at over $300 per month. With such high rates, young adults like me are forced to prioritize rent and food over health insurance. For most of us, then, being uninsured is not a choice." On September 1, Jessica will finally get health insurance through her new job, she said, adding that: "Until then, I will be praying I don’t end up like my friend, Sarah, who received a $50,000+ hospital bill after having a completely unexpected heart condition soon after graduating from college at age 21. Or like my partner, who now has a $1,200 emergency room bill for the stitches he got after cutting his hand open when a glass broke while doing his dishes." She quickly broadened her focus, explaining that, "while young adults have the highest rates of being uninsured, this is an issue that affects all age groups and does not discriminate in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, etc. And even many of those who are insured remain underinsured. "As a woman, I am especially concerned--knowing that women may be disqualified from receiving affordable care due to pregnancy; knowing that many forms of birth control are not covered by insurance plans; knowing that health insurance companies can decide a woman’s options for how she will deliver her baby; knowing that so many children go without health insurance. As a New Yorker, I am concerned--knowing how many immigrants in our city are without health insurance; knowing how many low-income and middle class New Yorkers fall between the cracks; knowing how many elderly New Yorkers go into debt for health care costs instead of being rewarded with their hard-earned retirement savings... Please, members of Congress, go back to Washington and get it done!" Amen! The rally attracted media coverage on radio, television, in print and on the internet. Here are some samples: (click on link above for web links and pix) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 01, 2009 8:48 PM On Losing a Human Rights Icon and a Beloved Uncle Kerry Kennedy, 09.01.2009 Founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights For 30 years, Ted Kennedy was the human rights movement's strongest ally and its soul on Capitol Hill. He was my "go to" guy, and it wasn't just about being family. Read Post \| Comments (23) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 01, 2009 3:36 PM WATCH: "Great White Hope" Rep. Laughs Off Uninsured Single Mother At Town Hall [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 26, 2009 2:25 PM Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution' Read Post \| Comments \| Iran [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 18, 2009 6:21 PM Women's Health Is Universal Health Care Cecile Richards, 08.18.2009 President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Does anyone else see the irony in the U.S. bishops wanting to define universal health care as covering everything except for what they don't support? Read Post \| Comments (11) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 6:17 PM IT NEVER ENDS.... The right said a bipartisan, common-sense measure on end-of-life care was scandalous. It wasn't, but reality didn't matter -- conservatives believed it was true, and now it's apparently gone from the bill. The right said a public option would represent a Soviet-style takeover of the health care system. . It wasn't, but reality didn't matter -- conservatives believed it was true, and now the idea is in trouble. Ideally, reform advocates would be able to see around the curve, predicting what the next ridiculous right-wing attack might be, and preparing a response in advance. But that's not easy; the Republican Attack Machine features a painful combination of creativity, paranoia, and pathological dishonesty. For example, Amy Sullivan reports on the next conservative temper tantrum. Now conservative opponents of health reform have found a new threat: home nurse visits to low-income parents. "We are setting up a situation where Obama will be invading parent's [sic] homes and taking away their children," one columnist warned on RightWingNews.com. That something as harmless as home nurse visits has become a target of conservative ire is surprising because of its longstanding popularity with both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. But health reform advocates are scratching their heads at the attacks for another reason: funding for home nurse visits was largely included in health reform legislation to accommodate social conservatives. [...] [H]ome nurse visits are exactly the kind of pro-family policy that social conservatives would embrace. And they have. The home visitation provision in health reform legislation was modeled on a bill authored by Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri. Bond went through a parenting education program in Missouri when his son was born three decades ago and has been a fan of the idea ever since. [...] Home visits have been so popular with conservatives that the idea kept coming up during conversations White House aides hosted with pro-life advocates earlier this year in an effort to find common ground on abortion. And when Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan and Rosa DeLauro drafted the abortion reduction bill they introduced last month, they specifically included funding for home nurse visits as a way of accommodating pro-life preferences for policies that support women who decide to give birth instead of having abortions. But that was before conservative anxiety over health reform reached its boiling point. Now, prenatal counseling, according to the Heritage Foundation, Chuck Norris, and assorted right-wing voices, are "mandatory home inspections." Will it matter that the idea was sought by the right? Almost certainly not, because intellectual consistency, honesty, and seriousness have had absolutely no role in the policy debate whatsoever. Kevin Drum added, "It hasn't gotten a ton of attention yet, but that's only because the loonies have been obsessed with death panels instead. If that weren't in the bill, Sarah Palin would have dubbed the home nurse program as the Baby Brainwashing Brigades and everyone would be going nuts over that instead." We know the drill. The right makes something up ... Fox News and Limbaugh say it's true ... Republican lawmakers start condemning the imaginary threat ... major mainstream news outlets report that "some say" the imaginary threat is real ... millions of Americans believe it ... Democrats point to reality, but it's too late ... and the worthwhile idea is dropped from the legislation. The challenge in overcoming this is more than just overwhelming; it's also endless and unpredictable. Our political system just doesn't work the way it should. —Steve Benen 1:30 PM Permalink \| Comments (44) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 12, 2009 9:43 PM Killing Grandma vs. Killing Babies/Fetuses Steven Waldman, 08.12.2009 Editor-In-Chief and Co-Founder of BeliefNet It's tempting to equate the assertion that Obamacare pays for abortions with claims that death panels will kill your grandma, but they're different. Death panels are a lie. The abortion charge is an exaggeration. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 10, 2009 2:09 PM Go Ahead, Let Outrage Start the Much Needed Gender Conversation Andrea Learned, 08.08.2009 women's market and gender trends expert, author and speaker We don't need a fight to the death between men and women to see who is "better." Rather we need to be identifying those qualities women tend to have that make them transformational leaders. Read Post \| Comments (12) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 06, 2009 11:47 PM The Inspiration of a Confirmation: What Sotomayor Means for Women and Girls Marie Wilson, 08.06.2009 Earlier this summer, I traveled to Georgia to help train nearly 200 women to run for office. What was unusual was the high number of women who intended to run for judiciary positions. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 06, 2009 1:38 PM OUR NEW JUSTICE Quick Read \| Comments (865) \| Sonia Sotomayor [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 06, 2009 1:23 PM Senate Confirms Sotomayor, First Hispanic on Supreme Court \| Comcast.Net Judge Sonia Sotomayor won U.S. Senate approval on Thursday to become the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 05, 2009 7:18 PM GOP Senate candidate: I'd send abortion docs to jail [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 03, 2009 3:14 PM Misleading Attacks on Women's Health Cecile Richards, 08.03.2009 President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops. Read Post \| Comments (18) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 11:04 PM Ohio Republican Re-Introduces Bill Making Abortion Illegal Without Permission From A Man [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 4:51 PM It's time to the put our personal convictions aside, and look at the bigger picture. Sign the petition to the U.S. Senate to ensure we keep anti-choice amendments out of health care reform and focus on the real issues. Read more: womens rights [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 17, 2009 11:07 PM GAO: VA Failing to Serve Women Warriors Paul Rieckhoff, 07.17.2009 Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) This week, the Government Accountability Office released a stunning new report detailing significant barriers that many female veterans face in accessing health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read Post \| Comments (38) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 15, 2009 8:23 PM US may allow asylum for abused women "Victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse" could be granted asylum. [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 15, 2009 12:27 PM Wise Women Unite! What Sotomayor Should Have Said C. Nicole Mason, 07.15.2009 Assistant Professor, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU Racial and ethnic minorities and women are the only groups asked to check their identity at the door. It is assumed that once given access to power, they will try to funnel those resources to their own kind. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 13, 2009 9:25 PM What do you do when you're an ultra-Orthodox divorcee? [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 13, 2009 3:38 PM Sotomayor's "Wise Latinas" Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, 07.13.2009 Historian and Professor Emerita at CUNY-Brooklyn College Informed initially by their own experiences, these Latinas galvanized efforts to effect societal change that produced results far beyond identity politics. Each could serve as a worthy role model for Latina and non-Latina professionals. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 10, 2009 8:06 PM Judith Warner: Dangerous Resentment By Judith Warner Why are educated and affluent women suddenly coming under attack? [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 07, 2009 7:47 PM Oh Bloody Hell About that medical insurance? It may not cover care for lady parts. -Atrios 16:34 Comments (315) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 03, 2009 7:50 AM It's Time to Make Mothers a Priority Sia Nyama Koroma, 07.03.2009 First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone Maternal mortality has sadly become the rule not the exception. But this can change. We have the knowledge and the skills to deliver -- we just need the political will and resources to support us. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 30, 2009 5:01 PM Jodi Jacobson: What Comes After Abstinence-Only: Advocates Urge White House and Congress to Broaden Teen Pregnancy Initiative Advocate and expert on women’s health and human rights. Far more must be done to address teen sexuality, prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and to prevent the violence and coercion by intimate partners. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 30, 2009 7:50 AM Jenny Sanford -- The Political Spouse Role Model for My Daughter Joanne Bamberger, 06.29.2009 Political/media analyst, author, Founder of PunditMom political blog The message often sent to our kids is that it's okay for husbands to wander and that wives will still stick around, regardless of how badly they've been betrayed. That is, until Jenny Sanford. Read Post \| Comments (33) [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 23, 2009 11:30 AM Obama Administration Seeks To Join U.N. Rights Of The Child Convention Kids The treaty says children have basic rights to education, health care and protection from abuse. Its supporters have used it to improve child protection laws for schools and courts in places like Lebanon, South Korea, South Africa and Sri Lanka. [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 18, 2009 6:38 PM A Radical Notion: Women's Health Care as Mainstream Cecile Richards, 06.18.2009 President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Maybe one day we won't need a special campaign to support women's health. But until then, Planned Parenthood is here to make sure women aren't worse off after health care reform than before. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 13, 2009 7:58 AM New Resources Examine Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Women at the State Level The Kaiser Family Foundation this week released a package of resources including a comprehensive report, state fact sheets, and interactive data tables, that illuminate and document the persistence of disparities on 25 indicators between white women and women of color, including rates of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, AIDS and cancer, and access to health insurance and health screenings. The report, "Putting Women's Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level,” moves beyond national statistics to provide a rare look at state-level variations, quantifying where disparities are greatest. Also available are state-level data for women of many racial and ethnic populations that are often difficult to obtain. The data show that, a decade after U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher called for the elimination of racial disparities in health; women of color i n every state continue to fare worse than white women on a variety of measures of health and health care access. The Foundation released the report and other resources, including a video documenting the real-life struggles of women at a community clinic in Arlington, Va.,at a June 10 briefing in our Washington, D.C. office. The report and other resources, including an archived webcast of the briefing, are available online. [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 11, 2009 12:02 PM Asking Anti-Abortion Demonstrators An Important Question Q.:"Should abortion be illegal?" A.: "Yes." Q.: "What should the punishment be?" " A.: Duhhhrrrrr.... I don't know, I don't think things through obviously, because I'm a fundie abortion protester." [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 10, 2009 8:42 PM * Operation Rescue may purchase Dr. George Tiller's clinic. [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 10, 2009 8:36 PM White Women: The Silent Racist All too often when people think of racist they envision the white male. The confederate flag-totting red neck, the red-faced arrogant supervisor, or the corporate god sitting on the golden throne of a large company, [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 02, 2009 2:22 PM LEAHY: SHE CAN'T SPEAK OUT SO I WILL ATTACKS ON SOTOMAYOR "UNBELIEVABLE," "AMONG THE MOST VICIOUS" I'VE SEEN Quick Read \| Comments (1374) \| Sonia Sotomayor [ send green star]
Blue B.	June 02, 2009 2:19 PM Pundit who called Mexicans 'primitives' returns to airwaves [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 30, 2009 4:39 PM A Supreme Sotomayor: How My Country Has Caught Up to Me Maria Hinojosa, 05.29.2009 Senior Correspondent, NOW on PBS What President Obama has done for men of color, Sonia Sotomayor will do for Puerto Rican women. She will forever and profoundly change the image of what a "Puerto Rican girl" really is. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 29, 2009 4:59 PM Guardsmen filmed female soldiers nude Army probes pics of women's shower by National Guard unit. [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 26, 2009 10:35 AM Why Are Women Still Treated Like Second-Class Soldiers? Helen Benedict, The Nation Rights and Liberties: More women have fought and died in Iraq than in all the wars since World War II combined. Yet the military continues to treat them as inferior. [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 6:57 PM I'm one of the knitters who contributed to the "Radical Act of Knitting in honor of Mother's Day" organized by CODEPINK. [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 11:56 AM Mother's Day Thoughts from a Political Mom Melinda Katz, 05.09.2009 Like many women in New York and throughout the country, I'm all too accustomed to the challenges, trials and tribulations of balancing work with motherhood. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 11:51 AM Mother's Day is Going Viral: Talking Babies and a National Mom Uprising Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, 05.10.2009 Co-founder and Executive Director of www.momsrising.org Michelle Obama isn't the only one flexing her right to bare arms. The millions of women proclaiming their friends as Mom of the Year this past week is nothing short of a national mom uprising. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 11:49 AM To Mom, With Love: HuffPosters Share Their Mother's Day Stories [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 11:45 AM On Mother's Day: A Message of Hope and Survival Rachel Brown, 05.08.2009 Masters candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy We need to recognize that the respect accorded to our mothers is compromised by the suffering of mothers in places like Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 10, 2009 11:44 AM More Than Breakfast In Bed: A Legislative Agenda for Moms Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, 05.05.2009 U.S. Senator from New York This year, with the difficult economy posing challenges for all families, our mothers need more than just attention on Mother's Day. They need a legislative agenda that enables them to thrive. Read Post \| Comments (32) [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 09, 2009 2:14 PM Mother's Day for Peace Gloria Steinem, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Fatma Saleh, Alfre Woodard, Ashraf Salimian, Christine Lahti and Mother's Day for Peace talk about the origin of Mother's Day by Julia Ward Howe as a protest against war. [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 09, 2009 1:31 PM In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity by David Swanson \| May 8, 2009 - 9:48am \| permalink Imagine that tomorrow you begin to feel ill and rush to the hospital where you are eventually diagnosed with a horribly debilitating and probably incurable disease. Within a week your body and mind have deteriorated drastically. You cannot dress yourself. You have difficulty getting out of a chair or walking at all. You have no control over your bowels. You literally lack the sense to come in out of the rain or not wander into traffic. You are a danger to yourself and require a fulltime caregiver, one or more people of infinite patience and devotion who can turn their own lives into the handling of your life 24-7. And what if there is nobody who can do that for you? What if you are on your own? And then what if there is someone, a single person, who can do everything you require and more, and be grateful for the opportunity to do it, do it with joy and love, and slowly and magically restore your faculties so that over a period of five to ten years you gradually regain your mental and physical abilities? What would your gratitude be to such a person? Would it be measurable? Most of us began life in such a situation, and our mothers -- with a lot of help from our fathers -- provided just this unfathomably devoted service, and then some. What we owe them is infinite. But now imagine the point of view of the 24-7 loving caregiver, educator, counselor, parent. A mother's life is poured into a child's life drop by drop, leaving behind in the mother no regret, no resentment, but ever increasing love and adoration. What would be the attitude of a mother, then, to the idea of shipping her child off to kill and be killed in a foreign land for the amusement and enrichment of a handful of wealthy fools without the heart of an insect? Resistance, yes, but also horror, and incomprehension, rage, fury, desperation, and despair. Mother's Day was created not so that we could be grateful to our mothers (and buy them plastic crap and pre-written notes) but so that mothers could engage with the world as an organized force of mothers, placing a greater value on human life than someone might who had never raised a human child. Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation reads in part: "Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn "All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. "We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country "To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs." It is in this spirit that CODE PINK: Women for Peace has organized a 24-hour vigil in front of the White House on Mother's Day. It is in this spirit that every day should be mother's day, every day father's day, every day a day of preserving and protecting the most precious little creatures we have ever cared for or anyone else has cared for. Every single day on which we read a number, the number of people killed by our latest bombing in Afghanistan or Pakistan, we should picture that number as a gathering of people, and we should picture each of those people's mothers. And we should be deeply ashamed with the bottomless shame of a mother who has failed her own child. And we should act, together, nonviolently, lovingly, with such intensity that the war makers suddenly sense themselves interlopers who have accidentally stepped between a mother bear and her cub. [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 09, 2009 10:27 AM Hoping for Healthy Mothers All Over the Globe Christy Turlington, 05.08.2009 As I celebrate Mother's Day, I am reminded of how fortunate those of us who have access to healthcare are and I am hopeful that those who do not, will, in the foreseeable future. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 05, 2009 12:22 AM The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Marian Wright Edelman, 05.04.2009 It's estimated that three in ten girls in the United States still get pregnant by age 20. 51 percent of Black and 53 percent of Latino teenage girls become pregnant at least once before age 20. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	May 01, 2009 8:52 AM Sec. Hillary Clinton Defends Reproductive Rights and Family Planning (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH9rC0MaBJc&eurl [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 29, 2009 5:24 PM The Top 10 Women's Health Achievements in Obama's First 100 Days Cecile Richards, 04.29.2009 President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America We are off to an incredible start, though as everyone involved in improving the long-term health of our nation knows, it's not just about the first 100 days. Read Post \| Comments (28) [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 16, 2009 9:57 PM Journalist Michelle Goldberg Covers the Global Battle Over Women's Rights Michelle Goldberg's new book is ambitious: "The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World." She covers the global battle over women's rights and connects the dots between the culture wars played out on American soil, and how the fallo [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 16, 2009 12:47 PM What's at Stake for Women in Health Care Reform Marcia D. Greenberger, 04.16.2009 Every woman in this country should have a guarantee of high quality, affordable coverage. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 15, 2009 7:11 PM Nurse Called Out Of Surgery And Laid Off Quick Read \| Comments (27) [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 15, 2009 3:31 PM A Woman's Nation Maria Shriver, 04.15.2009 For the first time in our nation's history, women now represent half of all workers and are becoming the primary breadwinners in more families than ever before. This country is now what I like to call "A Woman's Nation." Read Post \| Comments (53) [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 12, 2009 7:55 AM Nobel Women's Initiative We six women - representing North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa - have decided to bring together our extraordinary experiences in a united effort for peace with justice and equality. Read more about us here . [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 08, 2009 8:02 PM Yes, America Has AIDS Orphans -- Lots As Madonna and Angelina Jolie comb the world for orphans, American children who have lost parents to AIDS seem to have no celebrity champions. [ send green star]
Blue B.	April 01, 2009 11:42 PM WATCH: Africa's First Elected Female President Lifts Up Liberia Quick Read \| Comments \| Africa [ send green star]
Blue B.	March 13, 2009 5:44 PM Michelle Obama And Hillary Clinton Present International Women Of Courage Awards (VIDEO) (PHOTO [ send green star]
Blue B.	March 07, 2009 11:02 PM How The Stimulus Sells Women Short: TAP Quick Read \| Comments (12) \| Stimulus Package [ send green star]
Blue B.	March 07, 2009 10:22 PM A DeMinted Attack on College Women Cristina Page, 03.06.2009 Author of How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America Anti-contraception Senator Jim DeMint moved this week to increase birth control prices as much as 900% for college women, forcing them to "splurge" if they want to use protection. Read Post \| Comments (166) [ send green star]
Blue B.	March 07, 2009 2:48 AM Health Care Now: Women's Health Takes Center Stage Cecile Richards, 03.06.2009 President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America If we as a nation are serious about controlling costs and increasing access to health care, we need to address the real health needs of women. Read Post \| Comments (13) [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 26, 2009 4:23 PM Sexist Swine Rush Limbaugh Wonders Why Women Despise Him - Here's Why [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 23, 2009 5:37 PM Why Some Things Never Change Everybody should -- no, NEEDS TO -- read... Second Class Citizens...its focus is on the inequities between respect for women, people of color, and Native Americans that we take for granted in this society. Go read it. I'll wait. Come back and discuss... [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 22, 2009 11:38 PM More Daycare Steve noted this poll from USNews' Washington Whispers site: He asked: "Would it ever occur to them, even for a moment, to ask who would run the best daycare center: Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, or John Boehner?" Well, no. But let's take this a bit further. Here are some other polls I do not expect to see on the Washington Whispers page: If you needed some yard work done, would you hire Mel Martinez, Henry Cisneros, Xavier Becerra, or Bill Richardson? If you needed a rap DJ for a party, would you hire Barack Obama, Charlie Rangel, John Lewis, or Michael Steele? If you needed an interior decorator, would you choose Jim McGreevey, Barney Frank, Larry Craig, or the disinterred corpse of Harvey Milk? It's not just that the people who make up polls for the Washington Whispers page would not expect John McCain to run a daycare center. It's that they would probably recognize any of these other appeals to stereotypes as offensive. And yet, oddly enough, asking which one of four prominent women we'd like to have running our children's day care center is A-OK. —Hilzoy 8:49 PM Permalink \| Comments (31) [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 22, 2009 11:22 AM Meet Rahinatu, a Microfinance Success Story Rahinatu lives in Ghana and is a teenager finishing her last year at Savelugu Senior Secondary School. She's also a successful businesswoman, all thanks to a $110 loan from local Ghanaian microfinance institution, Sinapi Aba Trust. In honor of the upcoming International Woman's Day on March 8, 2009, the Grameen Foundation will be sharing a weekly story of women who are involved with microfinance. [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 22, 2009 1:55 AM Bob Herbert: The Invisible War By BOB HERBERT In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the brutal raping of women by soldiers and militias has pulled apart the entire society. And the world, for the most part, has remained indifferent. [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 19, 2009 9:45 PM Christian Domestic Discipline - Loving Godly Christian Marriages "...has the authority to spank his wife for punishment..." Yet more info & commentary: Spare the rod, spoil the wife - Broadsheet - Salon.com [ send green star]
Blue B.	February 17, 2009 8:33 PM Two Women Show Real Bipartisanship Madeleine M. Kunin, 02.17.2009 First Woman Governor of Vermont; Marsh Scholar, University of Vermont Think of what the Congress might accomplish if we had a few more women like Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe on both sides of the aisle. Read Post \| Comments (24) [ send green star]
Blue B.	Women's Rights, Human Rights, Civil Rights Watch (3) February 17, 2009 8:30 PM Discussion continues from Women's Rights, Human Rights, Civil Rights Watch (2) [ send green star]