Toward a World that Works for Everyone
www.positivemoney.org Hannah, Zack and the Positive Money team wrote this in their most recent newsletter: Andrew Bailey, the next governor of the Bank of England, has declared that excluding fossil fuels from the Bank’s assets will be a “priority” when he takes over next week. Getting rid of investments in companies like Shell and BP […]
This one simple strategy could eliminate the gender pay gap Scott Torrey Fast Company,. March 9, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90473520/this-one-simple-strategy-could-eliminate-the-gender-pay-gap Research from PayScale discovered that the gender wage gap closes completely with increased pay transparency. Here’s why. Pay equity has been making headlines recently. There was a class-action lawsuit against Nike for example. Yet research from the […]
How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, March 3, 2020 https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/plastic-problem-recycling-myth-big-oil-950957/ Every human on Earth is ingesting nearly 2,000 particles of plastic a week. These tiny pieces enter our unwitting bodies from tap water, food, and even the air, according to an alarming […]
Activists Appear Unveiled in Tehran on Women’s Day Michael Lipin, VOA Persian service, March 08, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/voa-news-iran/activists-appear-unveiled-tehran-womens-day Small groups of Iranian women celebrated International Women’s Day by appearing publicly unveiled in Tehran and calling on Iranians to support their defiance of mandatory veiling in the Islamist nation. VOA Persian received and verified a video clip […]
Please join our Collective Meditation, with the Mother and Archangel Michael where we say “Enough” to gender violence. Collective Meditation: 8 Minutes @ 8 AM and/or PM – Holding Love and Sending Love Mexican Women to March Against Gender Violence By Associated Press, March 07, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/americas/mexican-women-march-against-gender-violence MEXICO CITY – Protests against gender violence in […]
POOF SAID (1) Greetings and Salutations: There is a system in place that set this off to create pandemonium and the efforts to contain it are not that swift. People are not sure who to believe nor what to do. Just stay the course and make the best of each day. Be mindful and know […]
By Jason Slotkin, NPR, March 8, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813477367/international-womens-day-2020-clashes-coronavirus-and-women-prepare-to-strike Organizers and marchers have been out marking International Women’s Day. A holiday with its origins in the labor and socialist movements of the 20th century, the day now recognized by the United Nations occasions rallies and events from Caracas to Baghdad to spotlight issues facing women globally. […]
By Lisa Schlein, VOA, March 08, 2020 https://www.voanews.com/arts-culture/women-represent-one-quarter-worlds-parliamentarians GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of female parliamentarians in the world has more than doubled since the groundbreaking U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, 25 years ago, the Inter-Parliamentary Union said Friday. Part of the reason may be quotas. While female representation in national parliaments […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In quiet protest of gender violence, many women plan a one-day retreat from public life March 9. Their temporary absence might bring permanent change. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2020 https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2020/0227/Mexican-women-try-the-power-of-silence On March 9, much of Mexico will become very quiet. The silence, in fact, is meant to be […]
From Ms. Magazine. https://tinyurl.com/t39c57t Despite decades of progress in closing the gender equality gap, almost nine out of 10 men and women around the world hold some sort of bias against women, according to new findings published on Thursday from the UN Development Programmme (UNDP). The first of its kind, the UNDP Gender Social Norms Index analyzed […]
Yvonne Farrell: ” . . . how we imagine ourselves optimistically with all the potential that architecture inherently has — to make new worlds and to make new futures.” By Neda Ullaby, NPR News, March 3, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/03/811030441/in-a-first-architectures-most-prestigious-prize-is-awarded-to-two-women In a video released by the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly seen as the Nobel of the architecture […]
By Emma Fiala, The Mind Unleashed, February 27, 2020 https://themindunleashed.com/2020/02/in-world-first-scotland-moves-to-make-tampons-and-pads-free-for-all-women Scotland is set to become the first country in the world to make period products free. (TMU) — Earlier this week, Scotland’s parliament approved plans to make sanitary products free for all women making it one step closer to becoming the first nation in the […]
MARCH 8,2020 Welcome all readers, The time has arrived in which those who are ready are being guided to let go of all remaining concepts about how everything is or must to be in order to be correct and acceptable–all, not just the not so important ones. Good concepts are just as illusory as the […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca March 8th, 2020, is International Women’s Day. This year, leading up to the day, on the day of, and even the day after, we see planned protests around the world saying “Enough!” to violence and gender inequality. The passion for this change comes from escalating violence and a collective heart conscious desire for Love […]
International Women’s Day 2020 Campaign Theme is #EachforEqual https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme An equal world is an enabled world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can actively choose to broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, each one of us can help create a gender-equal world. […]
