Toward a World that Works for Everyone
(Click on graphic top watch video) The Power of Connection Healing Trauma & Addiction Series Dr. Gabor Maté October 1, 2020 67 Minutes Gabor weaves together the role of early childhood trauma, difficulties and stresses in the household, the wounds that parents carry and inadvertently pass on to their children, as well as societal and […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re going to change to a format used fairly widely these days – a summary of information with the URL for you to go to and read at more length if you so choose. Some of the subjects are hard to take and so […]
April 17, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/yd8cxr6r My blessed, beautiful child, it is easy to believe that you are at fault, that there is something you should have done better or differently. Yet you could be nowhere other than where you are now, and the person who has to help you first will always be you. You are […]
Coronavirus: When home gets violent under lockdown in Europe Natalie Higgins BBC News, Brussels, April 12, 2020 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52216966 Flags were lowered to half-mast and three days of mourning were declared in the Spanish town of Almassora to mark Carina’s death. In normal times, this community near Valencia would have gathered in silence to remember their […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Put aside your political labels and religious doctrines. This is what appears to be going on. Thanks to Suzi on Patreon: How COVID-19 isolation increases domestic violence & animal abuse Elana Shepert, Vancouver is Awesome!, April 8, 2020 […]
www.voiceoffreedom.ca In February of this year the brutal killing and mutilation of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, her body skinned and missing some of its organs, and the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Fátima Aldrighett, her tortured body discovered in a plastic bag, sparked enormous outrage in Mexico and around the world. According to my friend, who […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Women’s International Day, 2018 About International Women’s Day https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated annually on March 8. The day has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911. The day is not country, group or organization specific – and belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. Gloria Steinem, world-renowned […]
