Posted on June 29, 2009 by freemenow
Ladies – please read the following and give me your opinions . I realize many of you have not yet joined NOW so I am bringing you the current president’s announcements for your perusal and I want your input as to where we stand on this particular issue. Maybe we can talk about this on [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by freemenow
By: BettyJean Kling, Katherine Morrison @ 2009
Hillary Clinton during the 2008 election stated that ‘women’s rights are human rights.’ If one accepts this statement as true then there needs to be a realigning of priorities for women’s groups. For quite awhile many women’s groups have slowly become political organizations with a platform similar [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by freemenow
Posted on June 27, 2009 by kmorrison33
News of late has obviously focused on Michael Jackson’s death. Yet this is not a good reason for news networks to again ignore the ongoing issues in Iran. The above video showed superbly how major events can share the same stage. Please let the news networks know that [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2009 by freemenow
Contributed by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/06/dc-theater-soraya/
On Friday night June 26, in Washington DC, the E Street Cinema theater had a packed showing for the film “The Stoning of Soraya M.” The audience reacted with concern and anguish over the suffering of women portrayed in the movie, based on the story of an actual stoning in Iran in [...]
Filed under: Feminism, Misogyny/Sexism, Violence against women, Women's Rights | Tagged: Jeffrey Imm, R.E.A.L., realcourage.org, Responsible for Equality And Liberty, Soraya M, The Stoning of Soraya M | 5 Comments »
Posted on June 26, 2009 by kmorrison33
Since the election in Iran on the 12th of June, information about the protests and brutal government crackdowns has flowed in via the internet, particularly social media sites, and specifically Twitter. Twitter was the first place to provide information about the protests as the media largely missed the story in the beginning.
Filed under: Media Bias, Uncategorized | Tagged: free iran, iran info, iran internet, iran recap | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 25, 2009 by freemenow
Another Rant By: BettyJean Kling
What have we come to when we sit back and allow men to have at a woman day after day after day just because she is a Republican? Kerry is not a comedian and this is not acceptable neither is our silence! It’s about the sexism and you know it. Can’t [...]
Filed under: ERA, Feminism, Misogyny/Sexism, Sarah Palin, Women in Politics, Women's Rights | Tagged: John Kerry, Sarah Palin | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 25, 2009 by freemenow
This Friday night, a ground-breaking, critically acclaimed film opens in select theaters, The Stoning of Soraya M.
It is a powerful and timely film, based on a true story, about an Iranian village’s persecution of an innocent woman as she is falsely accused of a crime under Shari’a law. The importance of this movie is that [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by freemenow
Not sure if this is for real but it certainly echoes what many of us are or should be saying loud and clear. ENOUGH already – this is our country and ENOUGH with these parties!
GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation’s leadership:
I’m a [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by freemenow
A reluctant reader rethinks her position, I am grateful; we need every woman we can get. I love her acronym and I sense there is an opportunity to create and unstoppable momentum here- a wave – no a tsunami.
We have only just begun – if folks can rise in the streets of Iran and face beatings, bullets and [...]
Filed under: ERA, Feminism, Women in Politics, Women's Rights | Tagged: ERA, Feminism, NOW, The Majority United | 3 Comments »