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    • Do Women Have an Inner Glass Ceiling?

      Posted by Shemuses from Alternet

      That's the reason circulating in the media for why more women aren't in politics. That conclusion is convenient -- and flawed. Imagine this: You are running for Congress, campaigning and trying to carry out all your usual obligations. Then one morning your home burns down. While you and your family escape unharmed, almost every single thing you owned has disappeared. How long would you take before you'd start campaigning again? Six months? A year? Never?

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      Black and single: Is marriage really for white people?

      Posted by Shemuses from CNN

      Mrs. Allen had it all. A career she enjoyed, a nice home, two adorable children and a husband. She shared her tools for success with me at an early age. She went to college, got married and waited until she was 26 to have her first child. The perfect life. The perfect plan. It was one I decided to model.

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      Aboriginal designer calls Miss Universe Canada’s 2008 costume “offensive”

      Posted by Shemuses

      Wearing a Cree-inspired, fringed leather bikini encrusted with rhinestones and a feathered war bonnet, the woman representing Canada at the Miss Universe pageant 2008 in Vietnam appeared before more than one billion global TV viewers on July 13. Samantha Tajik, 26, who was born in Iran, grew up in Vancouver, and now lives in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Yesterday, however, one of Canada's foremost aboriginal designers called Tajik's national costume "offensive". Dorothy Grant told the Georgia Straight that sexualizing the war bonnet is tantamount to sexualizing another cultures' spiritual symbol.

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      When An Immigrant Mom Gets Arrested

      Posted by Shemuses

      BEHIND THE THICK GLASS THAT RUNS THE LENGTH of the Yuba County Jail's visitation corridor, Tatyana Mitrohina's eyes glisten, and then fill with tears as she recounts the last time she saw her son. "During the visit, he climbed into my arms and fell asleep with his head on my shoulder while I walked around with him," she remembers.

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      HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

      Posted by Shemuses

      In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments.

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      Invincible: Opportunity in Crisis

      Posted by Shemuses

      The Detroit rapper reflects on her music, activism and inspirations. Balancing art and activism is a challenge. Just ask Ilana Weaver, better known to hip-hop fans as Invincible, the Detroit-based emcee who has been rapping for well over a decade. A 2002 XXL Magazine feature lauded her as a talented lyricist and seasoned performer. She was also called "every A&R's worst nightmare" due to her notorious reputation for turning down record deals and butting heads with industry stalwarts.

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    PeggySalwen comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

     The media keeps referring to Bush as a ‘Lame Duck President’, but this is just the sort of damage to freedom that people can expect from the Bush/Cheney White House before a new president is sworn into office in January.  They are expecting us to let down our guard.

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    7:05 am 7/20/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

    I think we can expect an acceleration of unfathomable, unreasonable, unstomachable executive orders and administrative rulings in the final days of the Bush administration.

    The Democratic Congress, elected to a majority in ‘06 to end the Iraq war, has taken a huge bet in not impeaching and not confronting Bush and the GOP agenda in order to keep approval numbers low enough for a sweep in November. It’s a huge doubling down – gambling with nothing less than our democracy.

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    11:51 am 7/16/08
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    Shemuses comments on:

    Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

    there are several differences between a medical doctor who has not broken the law and a convicted pedophile serial killer. suggesting said convicted felon be freed?

    many canadians, the majority in fact are proud that our country enables women access to essential healthcare. these services save lives, often lives of the most vulnerable women in our society. there is a viable and empathetic middle way that combines health care, education, abstinence, birth control, and abortion. we need to look beyond our idealogy and meet the real needs of families in our communities.

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    10:52 pm 7/06/08
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    frankson comments on:

    Outrage brews as Ottawa set to honour Morgentaler

    ....... a sad day for Canada.

    why don’t we free Cliff Olson and add him to the list !?

    No difference. 

     

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    7:11 am 7/02/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Calling Michelle Obama An Angry Black Woman Makes Black Women Angry

    Hi A.R.G., do you want to provide some facts e.g. perhaps some sourced quotes from Michelle Obama indicating anger?

    Could you provide a link to a sourced article indicating Michelle Obama’s endorsement of Dr. Cone’s views on this topic?

    Here is a link to Wikipedia for more context on Dr. Cone.

    I rated this inaccurate, it seems to be repeating a right wing talking point – as with a lot of the other emails I’ve received from you.

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    11:30 pm 6/29/08
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    arepulicangirl comments on:

    Calling Michelle Obama An Angry Black Woman Makes Black Women Angry

    Obama’s wife is an angry woman. She was angry way before she became a member of The Trinity United  Church of Christ. Rev. Jeremiah Wright perfected her anger even more with his unspiritual teaching of Black Liberation Theology. She is a black person who suffers with a sin problem called bigotry. 

     Read  Dr.James Cone ’s own words.—-"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community — Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not."
     

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    8:32 am 6/29/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Grace For President | Views | TheRoot.com

    Cool. I bet even Grace would know how to exit Gracefully if the time came.

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    12:32 pm 6/04/08
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    Shemuses

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    Jodie lives, plays, and blogs in Vancouver, BC. Her day job at ONE/Northwest puts her talents to work supporting social change strategies for greening our world.

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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    Srebrenica genocide historian.

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