Toward a World that Works for Everyone
By James Doubek, NPR, March 9, 2020 https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/813699719/mexican-women-stay-home-to-protest-femicides-in-a-day-without-us What would happen if all the women in a country simply disappeared? Mexico got a preview Monday, when women across the country stayed home as part of a 24-hour strike to protest staggering levels of violence against women. Calling it “a day without us” or “a day […]
The Associated Press, March 8, 2020 Gender study finds nearly 90% of both men and women hold some kind of bias against women A woman in a gas mask attends a protest demanding equality on International Women’s Day in Paris on Sunday. The placard reads ‘Patriarchy virus. We are the antidote.’ (Pascal Rossignol/Reuters) Calling himself […]
Excerpt from: Slow-moving storm brings much-needed rain to Southern California By Brandon Buckingham, AccuWeather, March 10, 2020 https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/return-of-wet-weather As of 5 a.m. PDT Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Oceanside, California, had received 0.83 of an inch of rain from the new storm with nearly 0.75 of an inch falling well inland at Palm Springs, California. The […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
www.voice of freedom.ca Women in Mexico have been protesting gender violence and inequality for years. March 9th, the day after International Women’s Day, they are planning something new — mass withdrawal — not going to work for the day. This latest idea was spurred on by the violent death, February 9, of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla. […]
Two articles on sport-wide and individual victories. CBC Sports Commits to Gender-balanced Coverage Across All Platforms By Signa Butler, CBC, March 06, 2020 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/iwd/cbc-sports-commits-to-gender-balanced-sports-coverage-1.5487976 ‘One of the critical pieces to keeping girls in sport is representation’ All it took for Olympic moguls champion Jennifer Heil to get into sports was a Sports Illustrated cover at […]
By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, March 4, 2020 https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/afghan-women-us-taliban-deal/index.html Washington (CNN) One of the women honored for her courage at the US State Department on Wednesday made a personal appeal to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to safeguard women’s rights in Afghanistan amid an uncertain future in the wake of the US-Taliban agreement. […]
“No women in offices or schools. No women in restaurants or stores. No women on public transportation, in cars or on the street. “A country without women, for one day. “An alliance of feminist groups in Mexico that — fueled by the rising violence against women and girls, including two horrific murders that appalled the […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca From protesting to building tiny houses, Indigenous women are the on the front-lines of change. Below are 2 posts illustrating their courage. Women are the Face of Mohawk Resistance Christopher Curtis, Montreal Gazette, March 1, 2020 https://popularresistance.org/women-are-the-face-of-mohawk-resistance/ On the front lines of the Indigenous resistance movement, it is young women — born after the […]
