Lessons From MLK for a Better Post-Coronavirus Economy Deborah Douglas, Yes! Magazine, April 8, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/r2fjo25 The civil rights icon fiercely advocated for redistributive wealth and social democracy. Fifty-two years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down in Memphis, April 4, 1968, his radical economic agenda reverberates through a pandemic-ridden nation at a […]
Femicides, Violence Against Women, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 […]
UN Chief Calls Gender Inequality Biggest Human Rights Challenge
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
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 […]
Women’s Day Spurs Femicide Protests Across Mexico & Turkey
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 […]
International Women’s Day: Clashes, Coronavirus, and Women Prepare to Strike
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. […]
UN Report Finds 90 Percent of People Have a “Deeply Ingrained Bias” Against Women
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 […]
Inequality is Rising, But so is the Global Movement Fighting Back
From late 2019. Inequality Is Rising, But So Is the Global Movement Fighting Back Jenny Ricks, Common Dreams, November 25, 2019 Despite the often-bleak picture we find ourselves in, the energy and dynamism of the movement that the [State of the Movement Fighting Inequality] report reveals is inspiring and cause for hope. Over the last […]