Blog Entries tagged 'Global Feminism'

Passover Bread for the Breadless

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We received these passover reflections from poet, writer and historian Aurora Levins Morales. We asked her to share them with you. Aurora and her mom Rosario were both members of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union.

Dear Friends: Like other Jews around the world, I am preparing for Passover, our annual feast in celebration of freedo [...]

Feministing.com starts a Feministing Alliance

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Feministing.com is a bold brash feminist blog site where many women and some men start their day by reading the articles and opinion pieces and then posting their comments.

The youngish organizers of Feministing represent a generation of women who are fighting the complex 21st century battle for gender equality. They are web-savvy, very smart and refreshin [...]

Mardge Cohen to be honored at the annual Debs-Thomas-Harrington

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When Mardge Cohen and her partner Gordy Schiff left Chicago for Boston, they were warned that their old friends in the Windy City would do what was necessary to drag them back here.

Mardge is one of the world's leading experts on the treatment of HIV/AIDS and a former CWLU member. Gordy is a prof at Harvard and has written extensively on patient s [...]

Women in the Global City

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Women in the Global City 6-8pm Tuesday, March 4th
The Rudy Lozano Public Library
1805 S. Loomis St., Chicago

In an effort to remake Chicago into a "global city" – one attractive to businesses and tourists worldwide – Chicago's educational, environmental, employment and housing policies have been rewritten over the last two decades. These chan [...]

Are you a Marjane Satrapi fan?

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Call for contributions for an edited essay collection on Marjane Satrapi’s works (film, literature, and art).

Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, was an instant success in France and the U.S. It has garnered numerous book prizes, and the animated film version was awarded the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Satrapi [...]

Remember your sisters...

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This came to my e-mail box and it really made me think, so I decided to share it. I have no idea who wrote it, but thanks to my friend Gail for sending it to me.

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A young wife sat on a sofa on a hot humid day, drinking iced tea and visiting with her Mother. As they talked about life, about marriage, about the responsibilities of life and the obligations of adulthood, the mother clinked the ice cubes in her gl [...]

Iranian feminists against a US war on their country

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We recently received a communication from Azer Majedi , leader of the Organization for Women's Liberation, an Iranian feminist organization. Azer Majedi lives in exile in the UK. In her statement, she calls upon the people everywhere to join together and say,"No to a US military attack."

She was especially concerned with the recent meetings betwe [...]

PulseWire will connect women around the planet

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If you are working in the fields of human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and water sustainablity, PulseWire welcomes you to their founding online community.

Here, any woman with access to a basic computer, and eventually a cell phone, can speak her truth, ask for what she needs and share her solutions through pictures, audio, video and the written word.

Please visit Pulsewire to learn more.

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Aung San Suu Kyi on Non-Violence

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As the terrible repression continues in the nation of Burma, here is a video of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi talking about the importance of non-violence in the struggle for democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest by orders of the corrupt Burmese military regime for most of the past 17 years. If the people of Burma could realize their dreams, she would be leading the country instead.

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Robin Morgan on the September 11, 2001 Attacks

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A day after the September 11, 2001 attacks, feminist writer Robin Morgan sent out this letter from her home in Greenwich Village, NYC not far from where the Twin Towers had once stood.

On this anniversary of the attacks, we thought it appropriate to republish her original letter. We also recommend her book The Demon Lover, which is one of the best explanations of terrorism available.

From: Robin Morgan
Subject: Robin Morgan: NYC Day 2 First-hand Report

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

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Adella Ladjevardi of Zohe Film Productions contacted us about a new film that will open in Chicago at the Siskel Center September 14-18.

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman is a global conversation among women that spans 17 countries. According to the film's press kit:

Never before in our collective human history have so many [...]

�Educate a woman, you educate a nation�

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That was the lead story on August 28 from the Women News Network, a new online project that spotlights news from Women's UN Report Network.

Dedicated the notion that feminism is global and that the means of communications should be in the hands of women everywhere, WNN uses video, audio and text to deliver the women's news you'll never see even on the Oxygen channel.

Startin [...]