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- Green Party staple opts for new Vision
  Posted by Shemuses from Canada
  For years, Andrea Reimer and the civic Green Party were inextricably linked in Vancouver politics. Not anymore. The 36-year-old activist left the party in March to co-chair NDP MLA Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination campaign.
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- Essential Reading - Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology
  Posted by Shemuses
  So, I grabbed Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology over the weekend and I cannot put it down. Seriously y'all - every spare minute I spend pouring over the pages. While this one is more intellectual than Chickenheads (which makes it a little less accessible) Gwendolyn D. Pough, Elaine Richardson, Aisha Durham, and Rachel Raimist brought it in this collection.
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- A Shout Out to Moms
  Posted by Shemuses
  We asked young detainees inside Bay Area juvenile halls to write about their relationships with their mothers in honor of Mother's Day and many of their responses reflected the issues that are breaking families apart today: violence, mental health issues, immigration problems, and drug and alcohol abuse. These authors write for The Beat Within, a weekly journal of art and writing from inside juvenile halls and prisons.
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- More Choice for Women Means More Sustainability
  Posted by garrettmoon from World Changing
  Robert Engelman, Vice President at the Worldwatch Institute, in his new book More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want Suggests that expanding the capacity of all women to choose when to bear children is thus the surest route to achieving an environmentally sustainable population.
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- Source of deceptive NC robo-calls exposed
  Posted by Shemuses from Dailykos
  Who's behind the mysterious "robo-calls" that have spread misleading voter information and sown confusion and frustration among North Carolina residents over the last week? Facing South has confirmed the source of the calls, and the mastermind is Women's Voices Women Vote, a D.C.-based nonprofit which aims to boost voting among "unmarried women voters." What's more, Facing South has learned that the firestorm Women's Voices has ignited in North Carolina isn't the group's first brush with controversy. Women's Voices' questionable tactics have spawned thousands of voter complaints in at least 11 states and brought harsh condemnation from some election officials for their secrecy, misleading nature and likely violations of election law.
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- Her Dream, Branded as a Threat
  Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
  Debbie Almontaser dreamed of starting a public school like no other in New York City. Children of Arab descent would join students of other ethnicities, learning Arabic together. By graduation, they would be fluent in the language and groomed for the country's elite colleges. They would be ready, in Ms. Almontaser's words, to become "ambassadors of peace and hope." Things have not gone according to plan.
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- The Abortion Conversation We Should Be Having
  Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
  Abortion is not an isolated issue of choice, but part of a complex set of issues that reproductive rights advocates need to address holistically. "The intersectional theory of Reproductive Justice is described as the complete physical, mental, spiritual, political, social, environmental and economic well-being of women and girls, girls, based on the full achievement and protection of women's human rights. It offers a new perspective on reproductive issue advocacy, pointing out that as Indigenous women and women of color it is important to fight equally for (1) the right to have a child; (2) the right not to have a child; and (3) the right to parent the children we have, as well as to control our birthing options, such as midwifery."
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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
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
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
papadavid comments on:
The MILFy Way

jeff, you dirty old man….............

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4:54 pm 10/12/08
Jeff comments on:
The MILFy Way

She had me at hello.

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12:19 pm 10/08/08
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
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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