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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

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      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

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      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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      Community Stunned by Murder of Young Activist

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      An amazing activist in Lawrence, Kansas was murdered this week by her ex-boyfriend. Jana Mackey was a 25-year-old law student. After a short time working for political campaigns and serving as one of the youngest lobbyists at the Kansas State House, her life was cut tragically short.

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    ap101 comments on:

    Blogging Connects Women Across the World

    Read and comment on the Advocacy Project Peace Fellows’ blogs at http://advocacynet.org/blogs

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    11:16 am 10/22/08
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    ecom123 comments on:

    Women accountants: still a long way to the top

    Our community encourages women to get great jobs as accountants.So if you are looking to talk with others or you just want to search for a job you should join us.Come to: http:/ www.bigfour.com and see for yourself what we can do for you.

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    7:52 am 10/14/08
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    thaimat comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    Her politics of racism, hate, support for Big Oil, the Alaskan Independence Party, all make her as un-MILFY as is possible, for me. Add to that her bizarre religious practises, her lying at will, even her backstabbing of her Republican patron in Alaska, all make her so repulsive as a human being, she’s the quintessential MI (would never, ever, even if she was the last woman on earth)LF.

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    7:42 pm 10/12/08
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    papadavid comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    jeff, you dirty old man….............

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    4:54 pm 10/12/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    The MILFy Way

    She had me at hello.

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    12:19 pm 10/08/08
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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

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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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    I am independent in all things. I think for myself.

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    ap101

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    The Advocacy Project is a Washington, DC-based NGO. We seek to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice. AP works directly with a selected number of partner organizations and offer them services aimed at strengthening their information and advocacy.

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    Srebrenica genocide historian.

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