Tag Archives: Women

Trust Women, Blog For Choice 2010

Stun­ned, but not sur­pri­sed, at the Supreme Court deci­sion giving cor­po­ra­tions inc­rea­sed pershood ( Cor­po­rate Per­sonhood), allo­wing them to wield all their power and money to purchase can­di­da­tes and elec­tions, and seeing a dis­tinct trend, I thought it impor­tant to take part in Blog for Choice again this year.
Today is the 5th Blog For Choice day

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

As Octo­ber takes her first breaths, I dis­miss the steady source of cor­po­rate income, the pink rib­bon. In it’s place, another rib­bon, this one pur­ple, and not a rib­bon that Estee Lau­der would be inte­res­ted obtai­ning legal coun­sel over. The pur­ple rib­bon stands for domes­tic vio­lence awa­re­ness, and Octo­ber is Domes­tic Vio­lence Awa­re­ness Month.

Domes­tic Vio­lence

Google Women, Strangely Irritating

I was orga­ni­zing my Goo­gle home pages. I have many cate­go­ri­zed pages, from science and inter­na­tio­nal deve­lop­ment, to blogs and anth­ro­po­logy. I deci­ded to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”.
I star­ted the tab, and labe­led it women. I inad­ver­tently left their “I feel lucky” box chec­ked. The six sites which

Rethink Afghanistan

Renee remin­ded me of this with a clip she pos­ted.
Brave New Films has part­ne­red with RAWA, to help Afghans dis­pla­ced by US war, focu­sing on what is really hap­pe­ning in Afgha­nis­tan as a result of US policy. The part­nership is to pro­vide direct aid to dis­pla­ced peo­ple living in des­pe­rate con­di­tions in suburbs of