March 2010
42 posts
You are what you feel... by Griselda
We aren’t just flesh and bones!
“I was inspired to share this information after going through Erykah Badu’s new CD jacket. For those who have it, you will notice how the person growing out of Badu’s ‘head’ is holding a tuning fork on the cover of the CD. I went online to learn more about the healing powers of a tuning fork and ran into this simply amazing...
Chavez Arrests the President of Globovision...
Venezuelan government arrested Guillermo Zuloaga, president of Globovision Television, the only remaining television on public airwaves critical of Hugo Chavez. According to the government, Zuloaga made offensive comments about Chavez (which is against the law in Venezuela) while speaking at a conference of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) in Aruba, where media representatives...
African women’s depression rising →
via abbyjean:
Cases of anxiety and depression, two leading mental health illnesses, are on the rise among women in some African countries, thanks to the current difficulties in the economy, gender roles and violence, writes Arthur Okwemba. Findings of study done at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi by the African Mental Health Foundation shows that 42% of adults and 41% of children who went...
Voices of Concerned Educators: Call Me Ms. Mala,... →
“But something interesting happened to this Nuyorican girl who was raised by Puerto Rican immigrants to think of herself [as] a white girl with a Spanish surname.”
Maternal Health is a Human Right: Take Action Now!
USA: 41st in Maternal Death
Women are dying needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth. Half of deaths are preventable. We are failing our moms. You can help stop it.
The United States is facing a maternal health crisis. Two to three women die of pregnancy-related complications every day. African American women are nearly 4 times more likely to die than white women. And deaths are just...
Chemical Castration Approved in Argentina: Your...
Argentina has just approved chemical castration for convicted rapists in the Mendoza province. The treatment must be voluntary, and because it’s a medication administered for the duration of their consent to treatment, it’s not permanent.
view more: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/03/19/chemical-castration-in-argentina/
Editorial - Helping Haitians to Work - NYTimes.com →
viaa abbyjean:
One very good thing the United States did to help Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake was to declare that Haitians living here when the quake hit could apply for temporary protected status, a special 18-month amnesty granted to illegal immigrants who cannot safely return home because of natural disasters or other reasons. This was supposed to help Haitians help one another, swiftly...
Big Booty Beauty and the New Sexual Aesthetic by... →
“buttocks are an ever-shifting symbolic site in the body…. Never do they represent themselves.”
“While the poor are offered addiction as a way to escape thinking too much,...”
– Where We Stand: Why Class Matters by bell hooks
Dear Robert Groves
Dear Robert Groves, Director of the US 2010 Census, We are currently in a recession, 10% of America is unemployed, there aren’t going to be too many tax dollars coming in this year. You should try saving money where ever and whenever possible. For instance, AMERICANS DON’T NEED A NOTICE IN THE MAIL SAYING “IN ABOUT A WEEK YOU WILL BE RECEIVING A 2010 CENSUS. PLEASE FILL THIS OUT...
The Womens Crusade: How changing the lives of... →
“Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos…
Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html?_r=1
Three Proven Steps to Advance the World’s Women,... →
Today is International Women’s Day, and in fact the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. It’s a date that is much better known abroad but is beginning to get more traction in the U.S. as well.
So what interventions get the most bang for the buck in raising the status of women around the world? What is most helpful in overcoming injustices such as human trafficking and acid attacks?...
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!
