After Day 2 of the Annual NOW Conference it became very clear to me that we need to: act now to stop the erosion of women’s rights, as well as of our allies, use terms such as Christian Taliban (this is a wholly personal decision – I heard no one at the conference but me […]
Endless War and Women
An overt political rant is simmering within me. As some of you know, I spent a good chunk of my life, resources, and precious time when my daughter was in her teen years doing peace work. I joined with CodePink Women for Peace in February of 2003 in the streets of DC and last worked with […]
International Women's Day 2014
One thing I admire about women’s activism is that it is like a session on a trampoline or the net beneath a high wire acrobatics. I visualize it as women standing on a web or net that overlays a map of the country or globe. As individual women change activist levels to attend to family, work, […]
January 8th Cannot Ever Be Just Another Day
I have some really great posts in the works, I have been writing up a storm, but I doubt any of them will appear anywhere today. Today I cannot help but to remember how the Old Pueblo came together to support the families of six individuals who lost their lives, and the 12 who lived […]
Divest from Cerberus and Other Manufacturers of Mass Murder
Albertsons, Osco, Bushmaster – what do these corporations have in common? They are all part of the Cerberus Group. That includes the Freedom Group unit that made the Bushmaster Rifle used in Sandy Hook mass murder to slaughter 20 babies and their educational guardians. The Freedom Group, which includes Remington and Marlin Firearms, is one of […]
Give Local Shopping a Try for Last Minute Christmas Gifts
There is a divide in the United States that played out last week, as it does every year, that typifies the chasm between Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day. Black versus Nothing may not be the first divisive pairing you think of when you think of opposing groups in the U.S. You probably think of […]