Friday Night Surfing

How do we search their Common Cause Action Team site to see what they have already so we do not duplicate websites?

why am I getting called out?…lol…

okey…I shall go click happy. brb.

All y’all … gather a bunch and then send to action center… onesies twosies will take forever to open, copy, paste etc. In other words try to consolidate the gems before sending to actioncenter@pumapac.org

murphy 01.02.09 at 9:50 pm Geez, all that FREE booze!!! And I can’t have any.

mountainsong 01.02.09 at 9:59 pm [edit]
murphy 01.02.09 at 9:50 pm Geez, all that FREE booze!!! And I can’t have any.
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Same here….BUT, grab as much as you can. One word:
RESALE!

Thank you Murphy & thanks in advance to all Friday night surfers.

Here’s what the spreadsheet has now:
- a placeholder for every senator from all 50 states
- a placeholder for every representative from all 50 states.
- we are putting names/email addys/websites/snailmail/phone/fax for the above into the spreadsheet so you don’t need to do that

- we have some blogs & websites relevant to ERA actions. We have their websites.

Here’s the fun part – that’s what we need you to do

Surf the PUMA blogosphere. Go to the sites on the right sidebar.

Get contact info including:
- url for the blog
- email address
- person name if there is a contact person
- phone/fax info
* * * * what causes do we have in common with them? ERA? Birth Certificate? Femicide? Whatever, just name it & email to the Action center

wow… the first paragraph on the source of that surfer:

“Wednesday, January 02, 2008
With All of this Talk About Equality…

Maybe the UCI, the international governing body of cycling, made a New Year’s resolution to equally compensate women professional athletes in prize money… but most likely they didn’t.”

Here is a good one. I Don’t know ifwe already have a list of colleges, especially Womens’ colleges, but with Womens’ Studies curricuums.
Seems like a good place for the disemination (do I like that word?) of information.

http://www.womenscolleges.org/

Murohy
From now on, any image that is not an original from one of our members will include a link to where I found it, with credit to the artist if I can find it.
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You’re making me cry … again.

((((((((((MKinLA and PumaBear)))))))))
Fan-freakin-tastic!!!!!!!!!!!!

femisex is on the right sidebar blogroll.

Thanks.

Here’s some history of infor…Living the Legacy:
The Women’s Rights Movement 1848 – 1998

Introduction Revolution Declaration Convention Backlash Expansion
Vote Won! Second Wave New Issues ERA Complex Issues 1998

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” That was Margaret Mead’s conclusion after a lifetime of observing very diverse cultures around the world. Her insight has been borne out time and again throughout the development of this country of ours. Being allowed to live life in an atmosphere of religious freedom, having a voice in the government you support with your taxes, living free of lifelong enslavement by another person. These beliefs about how life should and must be lived were once considered outlandish by many. But these beliefs were fervently held by visionaries whose steadfast work brought about changed minds and attitudes. Now these beliefs are commonly shared across U.S. society.

Another initially outlandish idea that has come to pass: United States citizenship for women. 1998 marked the 150th Anniversary of a movement by women to achieve full civil rights in this country. Over the past seven generations, dramatic social and legal changes have been accomplished that are now so accepted that they go unnoticed by people whose lives they have utterly changed. Many people who have lived through the recent decades of this process have come to accept blithely what has transpired. And younger people, for the most part, can hardly believe life was ever otherwise. They take the changes completely in stride, as how life has always been.

The staggering changes for women that have come about over those seven generations in family life, in religion, in government, in employment, in education – these changes did not just happen spontaneously. Women themselves made these changes happen, very deliberately. Women have not been the passive recipients of miraculous changes in laws and human nature. Seven generations of women have come together to affect these changes in the most democratic ways: through meetings, petition drives, lobbying, public speaking, and nonviolent resistance. They have worked very deliberately to create a better world, and they have succeeded hugely.

Throughout 1998, the 150th anniversary of the Women’s Rights Movement is being celebrated across the nation with programs and events taking every form imaginable. Like many amazing stories, the history of the Women’s Rights Movement began with a small group of people questioning why human lives were being unfairly constricted.
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A Tea Launches a Revolution
The Women’s Rights Movement marks July 13, 1848 as its beginning. On that sweltering summer day in upstate New York, a young housewife and mother, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was invited to tea with four women friends. When the course of their conversation turned to the situation of women, Stanton poured out her discontent with the limitations placed on her own situation under America’s new democracy. Hadn’t the American Revolution had been fought just 70 years earlier to win the patriots freedom from tyranny? But women had not gained freedom even though they’d taken equally tremendous risks through those dangerous years. Surely the new republic would benefit from having its women play more active roles throughout society. Stanton’s friends agreed with her, passionately. This was definitely not the first small group of women to have such a conversation, but it was the first to plan and carry out a specific, large-scale program.

Today we are living the legacy of this afternoon conversation among women friends. Throughout 1998, events celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Movement are looking at the massive changes these women set in motion when they daringly agreed to convene the world’s first Women’s Rights Convention.

Within two days of their afternoon tea together, this small group had picked a date for their convention, found a suitable location, and placed a small announcement in the Seneca County Courier. They called “A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.” The gathering would take place at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls on July 19 and 20, 1848.

In the history of western civilization, no similar public meeting had ever been called.
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A “Declaration of Sentiments” is Drafted
These were patriotic women, sharing the ideal of improving the new republic. They saw their mission as helping the republic keep its promise of better, more egalitarian lives for its citizens. As the women set about preparing for the event, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used the Declaration of Independence as the framework for writing what she titled a “Declaration of Sentiments.” In what proved to be a brilliant move, Stanton connected the nascent campaign for women’s rights directly to that powerful American symbol of liberty. The same familiar words framed their arguments: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

In this Declaration of Sentiments, Stanton carefully enumerated areas of life where women were treated unjustly. Eighteen was precisely the number of grievances America’s revolutionary forefathers had listed in their Declaration of Independence from England.

Stanton’s version read, “The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.” Then it went into specifics:

Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law
Women were not allowed to vote
Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation
Married women had no property rights
Husbands had legal power over and responsibility for their wives to the extent that they could imprison or beat them with impunity
Divorce and child custody laws favored men, giving no rights to women
Women had to pay property taxes although they had no representation in the levying of these taxes
Most occupations were closed to women and when women did work they were paid only a fraction of what men earned
Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law
Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university would accept women students
With only a few exceptions, women were not allowed to participate in the affairs of the church
Women were robbed of their self-confidence and self-respect, and were made totally dependent on men
Strong words… Large grievances… And remember: This was just seventy years after the Revolutionary War. Doesn’t it seem surprising to you that this unfair treatment of women was the norm in this new, very idealistic democracy? But this Declaration of Sentiments spelled out what was the status quo for European-American women in 1848 America, while it was even worse for enslaved Black women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s draft continued: “Now, in view of this entire disenfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation, — in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.”

That summer, change was in the air and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was full of hope that the future could and would be brighter for women.
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The First Women’s Rights Convention
The convention was convened as planned, and over the two-days of discussion, the Declaration of Sentiments and 12 resolutions received unanimous endorsement, one by one, with a few amendments. The only resolution that did not pass unanimously was the call for women’s enfranchisement. That women should be allowed to vote in elections was almost inconceivable to many. Lucretia Mott, Stanton’s longtime friend, had been shocked when Stanton had first suggested such an idea. And at the convention, heated debate over the woman’s vote filled the air.

Today, it’s hard for us to imagine this, isn’t it? Even the heartfelt pleas of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a refined and educated woman of the time, did not move the assembly. Not until Frederick Douglass, the noted Black abolitionist and rich orator, started to speak, did the uproar subside. Woman, like the slave, he argued, had the right to liberty. “Suffrage,” he asserted, “is the power to choose rulers and make laws, and the right by which all others are secured.” In the end, the resolution won enough votes to carry, but by a bare majority.

The Declaration of Sentiments ended on a note of complete realism: “In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and national Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country.”
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The Backlash Begins
Stanton was certainly on the mark when she anticipated “misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule.” Newspaper editors were so scandalized by the shameless audacity of the Declaration of Sentiments, and particularly of the ninth resolution — women demanding the vote!– that they attacked the women with all the vitriol they could muster. The women’s rights movement was only one day old and the backlash had already begun!

In ridicule, the entire text of the Declaration of Sentiments was often published, with the names of the signers frequently included. Just as ridicule today often has a squelching effect on new ideas, this attack in the press caused many people from the Convention to rethink their positions. Many of the women who had attended the convention were so embarrassed by the publicity that they actually withdrew their signatures from the Declaration. But most stood firm. And something the editors had not anticipated happened: Their negative articles about the women’s call for expanded rights were so livid and widespread that they actually had a positive impact far beyond anything the organizers could have hoped for. People in cities and isolated towns alike were now alerted to the issues, and joined this heated discussion of women’s rights in great numbers!
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The Movement Expands
The Seneca Falls women had optimistically hoped for “a series of conventions embracing every part of the country.” And that’s just what did happen. Women’s Rights Conventions were held regularly from 1850 until the start of the Civil War. Some drew such large crowds that people actually had to be turned away for lack of sufficient meeting space!

The women’s rights movement of the late 19th century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women like Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth traveled the country lecturing and organizing for the next forty years. Eventually, winning the right to vote emerged as the central issue, since the vote would provide the means to achieve the other reforms. All told, the campaign for woman suffrage met such staunch opposition that it took 72 years for the women and their male supporters to be successful.

As you might imagine, any 72-year campaign includes thousands of political strategists, capable organizers, administrators, activists and lobbyists. The story of diligent women’s rights activism is a litany of achievements against tremendous odds, of ingenious strategies and outrageous tactics used to outwit opponents and make the most of limited resources. It’s a dramatic tale, filled with remarkable women facing down incredible obstacles to win that most basic American civil right – the vote.

Among these women are several activists whose names and and accomplishments should become as familiar to Americans as those of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of course. And Susan B. Anthony. Matilda Joslyn Gage. Lucy Stone. They were pioneer theoreticians of the 19th-century women’s rights movement.
Esther Morris, the first woman to hold a judicial position, who led the first successful state campaign for woman suffrage, in Wyoming in 1869. Abigail Scott Duniway, the leader of the successful fight in Oregon and Washington in the early 1900s.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Mary Church Terrell, organizers of thousands of African-American women who worked for suffrage for all women.
Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Stone Blackwell, Lucy Stone’s daughter, who carried on their mothers’ legacy through the next generation.
Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in the early years of the 20th century, who brought the campaign to its final success.
Alice Paul, founder and leader of the National Woman’s Party, considered the radical wing of the movement.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now a Supreme Court Justice, learned the story of the Women’s Rights Movement. Today she says, “I think about how much we owe to the women who went before us – legions of women, some known but many more unknown. I applaud the bravery and resilience of those who helped all of us – you and me – to be here today.”

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After the Vote was Won
After the vote was finally won in 1920, the organized Women’s Rights Movement continued on in several directions. While the majority of women who had marched, petitioned and lobbied for woman suffrage looked no further, a minority – like Alice Paul – understood that the quest for women’s rights would be an ongoing struggle that was only advanced, not satisfied, by the vote.

In 1919, as the suffrage victory drew near, the National American Woman Suffrage Association reconfigured itself into the League of Women Voters to ensure that women would take their hard-won vote seriously and use it wisely.

In 1920, the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor was established to gather information about the situation of women at work, and to advocate for changes it found were needed. Many suffragists became actively involved with lobbying for legislation to protect women workers from abuse and unsafe conditions.

In 1923, Alice Paul, the leader of the National Woman’s Party, took the next obvious step. She drafted an Equal Rights Amendment for the United States Constitution. Such a federal law, it was argued, would ensure that “Men and women have equal rights throughout the United States.” A constitutional amendment would apply uniformly, regardless of where a person lived.

The second wing of the post-suffrage movement was one that had not been explicitly anticipated in the Seneca Falls “Declaration of Sentiments.” It was the birth control movement, initiated by a public health nurse, Margaret Sanger, just as the suffrage drive was nearing its victory. The idea of woman’s right to control her own body, and especially to control her own reproduction and sexuality, added a visionary new dimension to the ideas of women’s emancipation. This movement not only endorsed educating women about existing birth control methods. It also spread the conviction that meaningful freedom for modern women meant they must be able to decide for themselves whether they would become mothers, and when. For decades, Margaret Sanger and her supporters faced down at every turn the zealously enforced laws denying women this right. In 1936, a Supreme Court decision declassified birth control information as obscene. Still, it was not until 1965 that married couples in all states could obtain contraceptives legally.
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The Second Wave
So it’s clear that, contrary to common misconception, the Women’s Rights Movement did not begin in the 1960s. What occurred in the 1960s was actually a second wave of activism that washed into the public consciousness, fueled by several seemingly independent events of that turbulent decade. Each of these events brought a different segment of the population into the movement.

First: Esther Peterson was the director of the Women’s Bureau of the Dept. of Labor in 1961. She considered it to be the government’s responsibility to take an active role in addressing discrimination against women. With her encouragement, President Kennedy convened a Commission on the Status of Women, naming Eleanor Roosevelt as its chair. The report issued by that commission in 1963 documented discrimination against women in virtually every area of American life. State and local governments quickly followed suit and established their own commissions for women, to research conditions and recommend changes that could be initiated.

Then: In 1963, Betty Friedan published a landmark book, The Feminine Mystique. The Feminine Mystique evolved out of a survey she had conducted for her 20-year college reunion. In it she documented the emotional and intellectual oppression that middle-class educated women were experiencing because of limited life options. The book became an immediate bestseller, and inspired thousands of women to look for fulfillment beyond the role of homemaker.

Next: Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race, religion, and national origin. The category “sex” was included as a last-ditch effort to kill the bill. But it passed, nevertheless. With its passage, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was established to investigate discrimination complaints. Within the commission’s first five years, it received 50,000 sex discrimination complaints. But it was quickly obvious that the commission was not very interested in pursuing these complaints. Betty Friedan, the chairs of the various state Commissions on the Status of Women, and other feminists agreed to form a civil rights organization for women similar to the NAACP. In 1966, the National Organization for Women was organized, soon to be followed by an array of other mass-membership organizations addressing the needs of specific groups of women, including Blacks, Latinas, Asians-Americans, lesbians, welfare recipients, business owners, aspiring politicians, and tradeswomen and professional women of every sort.

During this same time, thousands of young women on college campuses were playing active roles within the anti-war and civil rights movement. At least,that was their intention. Many were finding their efforts blocked by men who felt leadership of these movements was their own province, and that women’s roles should be limited to fixing food and running mimeograph machines. It wasn’t long before these young women began forming their own “women’s liberation” organizations to address their role and status within these progressive movements and within society at large.
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New Issues Come to the Fore
These various elements of the re-emerging Women’s Rights Movement worked together and separately on a wide range of issues. Small groups of women in hundreds of communities worked on grassroots projects like establishing women’s newspapers, bookstores and cafes. They created battered women’s shelters and rape crisis hotlines to care for victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. They came together to form child care centers so women could work outside their homes for pay. Women health care professionals opened women’s clinics to provide birth control and family planning counseling — and to offer abortion services — for low-income women. These clinics provided a safe place to discuss a wide range of health concerns and experiment with alternative forms of treatment.

With the inclusion of Title IX in the Education Codes of 1972, equal access to higher education and to professional schools became the law. The long-range effect of that one straightforward legal passage beginning “Equal access to education programs…,” has been simply phenomenal. The number of women doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects and other professionals has doubled and doubled again as quotas actually limiting women’s enrollment in graduate schools were outlawed. Athletics has probably been the most hotly contested area of Title IX, and it’s been one of the hottest areas of improvement, too. The rise in girls’ and women’s participation in athletics tells the story: One in twenty-seven high school girls played sports 25 years ago; one in three do today. The whole world saw how much American women athletes could achieve during the last few Olympic Games, measured in their astonishing numbers of gold, silver, and bronze medals. This was another very visible result of Title IX.

In society at large, the Women’s Rights Movement has brought about measurable changes, too. In 1972, 26% of men and women said they would not vote for a woman for president. In 1996, that sentiment had plummeted to just over 5% for women and to 8% for men. The average age of women when they first marry has moved from twenty to twenty-four during that same period.

But perhaps the most dramatic impact of the women’s rights movement of the past few decades has been women’s financial liberation. Do you realize that just 25 years ago married women were not issued credit cards in their own name? That most women could not get a bank loan without a male co-signer? That women working full time earned fifty-nine cents to every dollar earned by men?

Help-wanted ads in newspapers were segregated into “Help wanted – women” and “Help wanted- men.” Pages and pages of jobs were announced for which women could not even apply. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled this illegal in 1968, but since the EEOC had little enforcement power, most newspapers ignored the requirement for years. The National Organization for Women (NOW), had to argue the issue all the way to the Supreme Court to make it possible for a woman today to hold any job for which she is qualified. And so now we see women in literally thousands of occupations which would have been almost unthinkable just one generation ago: dentist, bus driver, veterinarian, airline pilot, and phone installer, just to name a few.

Many of these changes came about because of legislation and court cases pushed by women’s organizations. But many of the advances women achieved in the 1960s and ’70s were personal: getting husbands to help with the housework or regularly take responsibility for family meals; getting a long-deserved promotion at work; gaining the financial and emotional strength to leave an abusive partner.
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The Equal Rights Amendment Is Re-Introduced
Then, in 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, which had languished in Congress for almost fifty years, was finally passed and sent to the states for ratification. The wording of the ERA was simple: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” To many women’s rights activists, its ratification by the required thirty-eight states seemed almost a shoo-in.

The campaign for state ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment provided the opportunity for millions of women across the nation to become actively involved in the Women’s Rights Movement in their own communities. Unlike so many other issues which were battled-out in Congress or through the courts, this issue came to each state to decide individually. Women’s organizations of every stripe organized their members to help raise money and generate public support for the ERA. Marches were staged in key states that brought out hundreds of thousands of supporters. House meetings, walk-a-thons, door-to-door canvassing, and events of every imaginable kind were held by ordinary women, many of whom had never done anything political in their lives before. Generous checks and single dollar bills poured into the campaign headquarters, and the ranks of NOW and other women’s rights organizations swelled to historic sizes. Every women’s magazine and most general interest publications had stories on the implications of the ERA, and the progress of the ratification campaign.

But Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved prophetic once again. Remember her prediction that the movement should “anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule”? Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment, organized by Phyllis Schlafly, feared that a statement like the ERA in the Constitution would give the government too much control over our personal lives. They charged that passage of the ERA would lead to men abandoning their families, unisex toilets, gay marriages, and women being drafted. And the media, purportedly in the interest of balanced reporting, gave equal weight to these deceptive arguments just as they had when the possibility of women winning voting rights was being debated. And, just like had happened with woman suffrage, there were still very few women in state legislatures to vote their support, so male legislators once again had it in their power to decide if women should have equal rights. When the deadline for ratification came in 1982, the ERA was just three states short of the 38 needed to write it into the U.S. constitution. Seventy-five percent of the women legislators in those three pivotal states supported the ERA, but only 46% of the men voted to ratify.

Despite polls consistently showing a large majority of the population supporting the ERA, it was considered by many politicians to be just too controversial. Historically speaking, most if not all the issues of the women’s rights movement have been highly controversial when they were first voiced. Allowing women to go to college? That would shrink their reproductive organs! Employ women in jobs for pay outside their homes? That would destroy families! Cast votes in national elections? Why should they bother themselves with such matters? Participate in sports? No lady would ever want to perspire! These and other issues that were once considered scandalous and unthinkable are now almost universally accepted in this country.
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More Complex Issues Surface
Significant progress has been made regarding the topics discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. The people attending that landmark discussion would not even have imagined the issues of the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1990s. Much of the discussion has moved beyond the issue of equal rights and into territory that is controversial, even among feminists. To name a few:

Women’s reproductive rights. Whether or not women can terminate pregnancies is still controversial twenty-five years after the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade affirmed women’s choice during the first two trimesters.
Women’s enrollment in military academies and service in active combat. Are these desirable?
Women in leadership roles in religious worship. Controversial for some, natural for others.
Affirmative action. Is help in making up for past discrimination appropriate? Do qualified women now face a level playing field?
The mommy track. Should businesses accommodate women’s family responsibilities, or should women compete evenly for advancement with men, most of whom still assume fewer family obligations?
Pornography. Is it degrading, even dangerous, to women, or is it simply a free speech issue?
Sexual harassment. Just where does flirting leave off and harassment begin?
Surrogate motherhood. Is it simply the free right of a woman to hire out her womb for this service?
Social Security benefits allocated equally for homemakers and their working spouses, to keep surviving wives from poverty as widows.
Today, young women proudly calling themselves “the third wave” are confronting these and other thorny issues. While many women may still be hesitant to call themselves “feminist” because of the ever-present backlash, few would give up the legacy of personal freedoms and expanded opportunities women have won over the last 150 years. Whatever choices we make for our own lives, most of us envision a world for our daughters, nieces and granddaughters where all girls and women will have the opportunity to develop their unique skills and talents and pursue their dreams.
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1998: Living the Legacy
In the 150 years since that first, landmark Women’s Rights Convention, women have made clear progress in the areas addressed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her revolutionary Declaration of Sentiments. Not only have women won the right to vote; we are being elected to public office at all levels of government. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916. By 1971, three generations later, women were still less than three percent of our congressional representatives. Today women hold only 11% of the seats in Congress, and 21% of the state legislative seats. Yet, in the face of such small numbers, women have successfully changed thousands of local, state, and federal laws that had limited women’s legal status and social roles.

In the world of work, large numbers of women have entered the professions, the trades, and businesses of every kind. We have opened the ranks of the clergy, the military, the newsroom. More than three million women now work in occupations considered “nontraditional” until very recently.

We’ve accomplished so much, yet a lot still remains to be done. Substantial barriers to the full equality of America’s women still remain before our freedom as a Nation can be called complete. But the Women’s Rights Movement has clearly been successful in irrevocably changing the circumstances and hopes of women. The remaining injustices are being tackled daily in the courts and conference rooms, the homes and organizations, workplaces and playing fields of America.

Women and girls today are living the legacy of women’s rights that seven generations of women before us have given their best to achieve. Alice Paul, that intrepid organizer who first wrote out the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, said, “I always feel the movement is sort of a mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” Women, acting together, adding their small stones to the grand mosaic, have increased their rights against all odds, nonviolently, from an initial position of powerlessness. We have a lot to be proud of in this heroic legacy, and a great deal to celebrate on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Rights Movement.

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Please pay special attention to A “Declaration of Sentiments” is Drafted…. Sorry, it long but, well worth reading

TerryDo 01.02.09 at 10:01 pm Well, I said I’m willing to do whatever you ask that will help that cause.

“By not giving women equal rights under the Constitution that is discriminatory and by fighting against this just cause is abusive behavior towards women.

And I believe that until this long past history of discriminatory and abusive behavior is ratified, women will not feel equal and free, to actually scream, ‘Hey, you’re stepping on my toes, without apologizing first’.”

I have to say, between helping younger women in AA and NA, and being in the club dancing, am around alot of ‘younger’ women who don’t seem to feel like that. They scream when they want to, and they don’t hesitate to tell some guy to get the F outta the way.
Sexism does work both ways. It’s not a uni-gender anomally.
One thing I’d REALLY like to see is a list of Equal Rights~~~besides voting, bearing arms,yada, yada. Pursuit of life, liberty and happiness is an equal right to pursuit, anyway..
If a man says or does something against another man, he can get punched out just as fast as a woman can.
No, changing attitudes isn’t ‘old-fashioned’. But DEMANDING anything from anyone is a good way to get laughed at….if you don’t have a big stick.

OT Puma Bear has a good point, I think, about interconecting with the rest of pumasphere~~~while we still have computer access.

Alice Paul, that intrepid organizer who first wrote out the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923, said,
“I always feel the movement is sort of a mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”

#16 mountainsong 01.02.09 at 10:06 pm

Here is a good one. I Don’t know ifwe already have a list of colleges, especially Womens’ colleges, but with Womens’ Studies curricuums.
Seems like a good place for the disemination (do I like that word?) of information.

http://www.womenscolleges.org/

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Thank you mountainsong!

Casper Cat~~~~Thanks aot, Hon~~~ I was looking for a good book to read tonight and what’s better than 150 years of Womens’ Movements?!? Long as we’re all talking about the same kinda ‘movements’.

DancesWithPumas 01.02.09 at 10:31 pm Retrieve? You mean, “Seek and Fetch”!!!?

#24 Casper Cat 01.02.09 at 10:18 pm

And I see you included all the contact info, and you know where that’s going, don’t you!

Thank you for contributing to the PUMAPAC Contact List!

mountainsong 01.02.09 at 10:32 pm [edit]
DancesWithPumas 01.02.09 at 10:31 pm Retrieve? You mean, “Seek and Fetch”!!!?
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“Seek and Fetch” is good. The contacts can be added to the common cause database.

Sorry, Puma’s for the long,long read…And, Murphy there is some really great information in there….We are the Fourth Movement…That is the way I see it…”this was definitely not the first small group of women to have such a conversation, but it was the first to plan and carry out a Specific, large-scale program”. that is what it is about…

Pumas working on “common cause” FYI. Other blogs have blog rolls that include different contacts than the one we roll.

Thanks.

SadStateOfAffairs 01.02.09 at 10:38 pm [edit]
Complete Media Contact List in Alphabetical Order and by State:
http://www.hillarysvillage.net/showthread.php?t=15
Cheers!
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Great listing!! Would you happen to know how current it is?

Dances,

These were compiled during the primaries so they should be fairly current. Within the last 6 months or so.

SadStateOfAffairs 01.02.09 at 10:48 pm [edit]
Dances,
These were compiled during the primaries so they should be fairly current. Within the last 6 months or so.
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Thank you!

#39 admin 01.02.09 at 10:33 pm

oh, this is actually fun!

i just sent a couple contacts to actioncenter for woman-lynching.

they are for local orgs in MA that deal with hate crimes and assaults on women and children.

Remember your local orgs — the groups that you actually know “personally”

Local contacts are very excellent because the offices are often smaller, the people running them perhaps more responsive, and the opportunity for spreading Puma seeds greater.

Act locally!

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oh, I forgot to tell all you friday night surfers – the spreadsheet also has a place for locale – so tell us if this is a national contact, a state contact & which state, a local contact, etc

thanks!

#41 SadStateOfAffairs 01.02.09 at 10:38 pm

wow.

No, what I actually meant to say is

WOW.

Factoid: The last time we scrambled as a group and set out to ’seek and fetch’ (love it) links it was a Friday night too! Those fetches were the beginnings of our loverly action center! And, here we are again!
Very cool.

It’s not a “hotlink” (i think)
That’s right, if you right click on the photo and then click “properties”, you can see both the link and where the image is hosted.

I’m afraid did a naughty thing once. There was this bot site that was pretending to be neutral and I sort of hotlinked to an image of Teh Precious they had, just because I was still trying to figure out how to do stuff. Then I forgot about it until suddenly half of my hits were for just that one photo, and by then they were really in the tank, poor things, but paying for their own bandwidth, while I was getting all the google mojo free. It’s been fixed now, and I myself have the image safe, but I’m afraid I was lazy for a loooonnng time.

Dances,
Guess that’s gonna be me!

PumaBear…
But of course!! Silly me!
…incoming.

#58 MKfromLA 01.02.09 at 10:54 pm
#41 SadStateOfAffairs 01.02.09 at 10:38 pm

wow.

No, what I actually meant to say is

WOW.

You are more than welcome. We have many resources and we are more than happy to share for our common cause!

Murphy,

I am humbled by my ignorance of the pumasphere, but I’m trying to correct that inadequacy.

#70 murphy 01.02.09 at 11:14 pm

Thanks Murphy! We have a motivated group and we love PUMApac!

murphy 01.02.09 at 11:21 pm
“fail better”
_______
I like that!!

It’s perfect. It’s a thing of beauty, really.

brad
i forwarded your new number to taggles

PUMA’s it was sure fun seeing Bill & Hillary at Times Square this week, I thought they were a class act & was really happy to see them happy.

Murphy, Murphy. I am great pals with better failure.

Think Kat’s idea sounds good, but not sure of the mechanics.

A huge prowl at TIME (Obama’s rag) Hear US ROAR? I love it but what are the pros and cons. Waddya think Murphy?

Pumas

Just found this information about John Travolta’s son. Very sad! My prayers are with his family.

John Travolta’s Son, Jett, Dead At 16
Published by Josh Horowitz on Friday, January 2, 2009 at 10:14 pm.
Tragedy struck the Travolta family this holiday weekend when Jett Travolta, just 16 years old, was found unconscious in the family’s vacation home in the Bahamas, later to be pronounced dead. According to a report by the Associated Press the son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston suffered a seizure and hit his head rendering him unconscious in a bathroom at the home. A caretaker at the house found the teenager on Friday morning. After being taken to a local hospital he was pronounced dead.

Police Superintendent Basil Rahming indicated in a statement that Travolta was last seen entering the bathroom on Thursday. He had a history of seizures, according to the statement.

Reportedly Jett Travolta had a developmental disability that his parents linked to Kawasaki disease, an inflammatory disorder of the artery walls that most commonly occurs in young children and can lead to heart disease.

MK
Wow I can’t wait to open your lovely gifts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you from the bottom of my PUMA heart
———————
Overnight special delivery awaits you.
Btw, I think you’re gonna need a bigger mailbox.

smartkat

murphy 01.02.09 at 10:43 pm Well, if you enjoy it so much….and you have so much spare time to read and blog the blogs……… ummmmm…..

kat in your hat 01.02.09 at 11:51 pm

La Chanson du Cœur, j’aime comment vous pensez.

Pumas,

We gotta take a break or the dogs will leave without us.

bbl

DancesWithPumas 01.02.09 at 10:46 pm See? They don’t even need me.

@ #103

I see an organization can be added to that list…*someone* might want to email them, and get Puma PAC on that list..?

off topic….
you know that pair of shoes you can’t find….
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28474192#28472321

kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 12:14 am Dances gave me the job of finding all the contact info for those groups. I think your Letter of Invitation to them would be a great idea. If they add us to their list, perhaps they will be more inclined to share their list with us.
Inbetween dinner and phone calls I was thinking about what I might write to them. Your suggestions are a good outline.

Oops see, you are a much better writer than me.

I was waiting fo rmy next comment to apologize for all caps… left ot on for subject headings.

Friday Night Surf sent to Action Center!!

I am slowly gathering contact info from the same list you provided, Kat. From the ones that have links, anyway, but still want to send a letter to the parent ERA group.

NIMJA GOT IT AND FORWARDED. THANKS

Just bragging–it’s quiet tonight.

kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 12:32 am While I am copying down all the contact info, can, how bout if you compose a draft letter. I’ll ask Dances to give you my email to send it to me. LOL

will do, mountainsong.
sorry for the caps… subject headings for forwarding links etc.
—————–
Murphy,
pssst NORTHERN Italian
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I gotta go to bed now… soon as I forward the email address.

Great work, all!!!

Do we want to interface with the churches?

TerryDo 01.03.09 at 12:40 am That takes care of getting us on their list. I’ll keep looking for others.
What else can I b doingfor you, Terry?

Today is always a new day, as is each moment.

This is going around the internet big time .

Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you’re so darn stupid that we’re going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That’s what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below……………

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren’t going to believe this.

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas , it is true – all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening.
She quotes…’ We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn’t Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.’ (I am not rich, are you?)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
‘We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as ‘Americans’.’ (Read that quote again and again and let it sink in. ‘Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it’.

Send it on to your friends. This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house !!

kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 12:43 am Yeya, it can’t hurt. I can’t wait to look for Lakeside and Saddleback.

Oops, my block quote HTML tag didn’t work. The last paragraph is my reaction to the other paragraph.

Too bad my brother-in-law and I don’t get along. Some time after he left the CIA and Chrysler(he is a good friend of Iacocca) he went to do the reorganization of the 700 Club for Pat Robertson, in 2000, I think it was. They still need to work on their PR with the LGBT community, LOL.

mountainsong, if you do anything with churches, you might want to think about sending to the education director. A lot of times that position will be a woman who is ordained.

You prolly already think I’m strange, but a few minutes ago, I had a feeling, a strange sensation, and then heard the same voice I always hear in my visions, saying, “This is what it is meant to be.” I think it means THIS is what I saw all those years ago.

I know several assistant pastor/education director type women pastors active in GLTB issues. that’s probably the overlap. Oh, I forgot about the reconciling congregations movement–definably some GLTB overlap there.

Ya know, my church has done all this reconciling stuff, but I sure would like to see women’s issues tackled on the theological level by someone who knows what they’re doing. The male preachers look at an icon of Saint Sophia and don’t get it.

Who’s sending the LGBT stuff? Is it you mountainsong?

#114 Nijma 01.03.09 at 12:28 am

Friday Night Surf sent to Action Center!!
+++++++++++++++

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo Nijma

I hate blindly searching the net…I always run into this kind of crap and remember just how third class citizen’s some of us are..more rights taken away JAN 1ST 2008..anti was just talking about this subject this morning….

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28470933#28400090

oh well I’m sure Pastor Warren ohenoughalready new pick would approve..
but then he also approves of women not having the right to choose…
and he approves with abuse not being a reason for divorce….

ever feel like we are moving backwards????

MKfromLA
say what?
I think that was a California compliment.

The really weird part about the phone call was that she was calling from California….why wouldn’t it be PA volunteers calling PA? It doesn’t make sense.

I just had an idea (Lookout) lol~~~
Are there an Grant writers among us?
When I advocated with the DV/SA Crisis Service, one of the things I did was work with the Finance Director researching grant funding sources for the grants she wrote.
I also have taken a college level class in grant writing, although I’ve never actually done one yet.But they do fascinate me a bit. I’d definitely be into working on such a project.
And Murphy commented recently about ‘if we only had a bigger budget to work with’.
PUMA has the same non-profit tax number and exemption as the Crisis Service, I think. I don’t see why we couldn’t organize on a similar level.
I get excited thinking about that idea. There really are so many, man grant sources.
I’m talking about a operating grant that would provide an office space, communication and computer equipment, Insurance, salarys for a Director, Finance Director, Programs Director, Volunteer Coordinator etc. with the rest of us, an army, a network, of volunteers to do everything else. A nation-wide outreach (Hey, this kinda makes me think of some nut) only above board and legal.
Think about it. Think about how many bright, talented, entreprenurial, educated, professional members we already have now, and the incredible vast potential we have now.
We can do it. We can take back our honor and defeat the evil that has usurped our national dignity. It is the ONLY way we will survive.

#121 murphy 01.03.09 at 12:36 am

new FECK Obama page posted. It lists most of the blatant and egregious inconsistencies and violations of his corrupt money machine.

amazing work by the FECK Team.

blog links to this page wherever you go.

http://pumapac.org/forums/feck-obama-team/

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Yes! Blog the above link!

I will post a note with the some of the audacious entries we mentioned on earlier threads.

Thank you Murphy!

Nijma 01.03.09 at 1:11 am No, my friend. I have had visions since I was an infant. Every single one has come or is coming true.It doesn’t matter at all to me, whether anyone else believes it. I do. and because I do, my life was literally saved once when Mt St Helen’s blew up and several times since.
If I wasn’t getting enough sleep, I wouldn’t be here now.

mountainsong #158

Yes, very good idea.

Maybe that can even be a team. Grant Team. I don’t know about it. You are talking about writing a proposal for a grant? For physical space and equipment?

goodnight pumas…………..

“The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women”

http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/27/most-powerful-women-biz-powerwomen08-cz_me_cs_0827women_land.html

(just posting, jus’ ’cause.)

kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 1:21 am Well, I’m talking about establishing a Operational Grant, possible on a recurring schedule, that would provide us the opportunities of other non-profit organizations, eg, the Crisis Services, DD Services, Outreach programs, and a whole cornucopia of others.
such a grant requires much research and needs to be written and submitted in much the same form as a Business Plan. There are specific outlines for grant writing, very similar to writing papers in college.
Start with an introduction and statement of purpose.
Mission/Purpose
Show background supporting info that documents the need for such an organization. Then a plan of how the money’s would be budgeted and how shortfalls would be acquired.

All this is to demonstrate a successful outcome.
And then Conclude it and submit it.
It’s not a one time thing. I mean we might be awarded one grant for x amount of money which would cover x amount of expenses, but may need other sources of operating capital.
And ‘borrowing’ is out of the question. But large scale donations are there to be had and many orgs supplement grants with the donations. I know the YWCA does. The emergency and transitional housing director there is a friend. And I worked at several other non-profits, enough to observe the operation and get an idea how it all operates.
I mean, any business is only as effective as it’s accountant accurate and honest. So they are very committed and above board and very well accepted in the communities.
We can do that. We ARE doing that. Damn, Murphy is already on the way to international celebrity. lol

I think we have all been going thru ’stuff’ since the election. I know I have been in some turmoil over whether to follow some direction this year. Or just cast my fate to the wind.
So it’s taken awhile to make a decision.
But, ya know it’s like the story about the frogs….?
# frogs on the log, one decides to jump in the water. How many are left?
That kinda thing. I ‘decided’ I wanted to be part of this thing as best as I can, and learn as much from it as I can back in June. So I’ve been here ever since I mad that decision, but I haven’t really followed thru on that decision.
So, now, I’m thinking, if PUMA goes down (And I think we are going to grow) it wont be because I quit. Or because I think I shoulda done better.So, in the last couple days I decided to quit being so chickenshit and really jump in the deep water with the rest of ya.
And the water’s not bad.

Thank you kat.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox to you too! and hugs (((((((((kat)))))))))))

#172 mountainsong

So, now, I’m thinking, if PUMA goes down (And I think we are going to grow) it wont be because I quit. Or because I think I shoulda done better.So, in the last couple days I decided to quit being so chickenshit and really jump in the deep water with the rest of ya.
And the water’s not bad.

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and it’s gettin’ better & better

Anyway, I think its worth discussing with Murphy, and Mama, and Dances and EVERYONE else to see if we think it’s how we want to go, and I would love to be part of that process.
I mean, face it, alot of us don’t have the funds available to match the donations of others. And that’s really great that we can still do it this way and stay functional.
But wouldn’t it be wonderful not to have worry about core expenses? I don’t mean to stop donating. It’s going to get really tight in America. So we need to be really tight. We need to REALLY have our act together.
I see something coming together in pumasphere and I want to be part of it, one piece in the grand mosaic.

mountainsong #178

Did you see the thread discussion about Puma Action School/ center…

You know, that sort of thing would have to get grants. I don’t know how we could get grants as is…for internet grassroots group.

So a house, with property…a plan, then grant proposals…

Did you catch that thread by any chance? Well, I think it’s possible puma will get a physical address/ Headquarters one day–maybe, ya never know.

Mk and kat I’m afraid to ask any more.
should I say something like
تحصل على غرفة
?
Mountainsong don’t look at me, none of my grant proposals have ever been funded. Don’t you have a project you’re working on? Can you use that for your proposal?

Nijma 01.03.09 at 2:00 am Yes, I would certaily use the info I obtain, as well as every other PUMA source for background and need.
I got what that teacher was saying. Basically, there’s no room for error. A grant is only successful if successfully written, and that means, no mistakes.
It’s like doing your Master’s or Phd thesis.
You either do or you don’t, cuz ‘try’ doesn’t count.

Puma is not going anywhere as long as sh*t is happening. Like obot sh*t, Favreau sh*t,…Everytime the MSM fawns over AA and lynches a woman the Pumas will be ready. and it has been effective so far because it is mobile and tech savvy and moves quickly to solve problems. There were how many women’s groups in Denver, and who made it possible for me to be there? Puma. I don’t want to say the other groups were elitist or snobbish, cuz everyone had their own thing going. Once I arrived more things fell into place, but without the Puma agility and openheartedness, it probably wouldn’t have happened. How many other people came out just because they knew someone would meet them at the airport.

If things quiet down, Pumas won’t have to do so much, just watch the news for stuff that has to be pounced on, and keep the pressure on Teh Messiah to enact the Puma agenda.

PUMAbear 01.02.09 at 10:12 pm
A couple of days ago I asked a question at Femisex regarding the inadequate responses of so called women’s organizations to the Rick Warren invocation outrage. She gave me a lengthy and detailed response which I thought smoked. I posted it but nobody made a response either on this blog or on hers. This can get quite discouraging to people who do extensive research and spend loads of time.
If some of you would go to the Femisex website and make a response it would show an attitude of sisterhood.
….
http://www.femisex.com/
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I went there and scrolled back through a few pages and didn’t see anything that looked like the item you described. Could you give the full url of the item?

Talking about California, I signed up for their ERA movement today and will pass on info to the ERA PUMA group. And look at one of the things they are working on in Calif……….

November 19, 2008 – UPDATE – California Supreme Court Grants Review in Proposition 8 Legal Challenges

Today the California Supreme Court granted review in the legal challenges to Proposition 8, agreeing to hear the case and setting an expedited briefing schedule. If let stand, Proposition 8 — a California ballot initiative narrowly passed on November 4, 2008 — would eliminate the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry. Although it granted review, the Court denied petitioners’ requests for an immediate stay of the implementation of Proposition 8.

On November 17, Equal Rights Advocates joined in the legal challenges to Proposition 8 by filing a writ petition along with The California Women’s Law Center.

For more information on the recent developments in this case, and to read the various writ petitions and the Court’s order, go to: http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/highprofile/prop8.htm

whoah whoah whoah!!

Nijma….LOLOLOL.

Never mind that arabic post I put @ #187. I reversed it back to english and it did NOT translate the way I wanted it too!!

I put “LOL!”

and it translated to “Spread!”

wtH. lolol.

(nevermind)

BillieJo 01.03.09 at 2:19 am Thanks for that update, billieJo.

Damn good thing French ain’t like that!!!!

Today is kind of a bum day in a way~~~~Some people called me earlier this evening to say they are afraid I’m going to get hurt if I go to the club again. One side of me is saying, “Fk that!” and the other is saying , ” Don’t go being a dumbshit, Ashleigh!” But tomorrow is Saturday night. Maybe I’ll be too busy doing PUMA stuff to even think about dancing for awhile.

Invalidresponse #188

IYou have to click on the title of the subject. I think it’s #3 but here it is. Anybody not interested can scroll through. A nice response to her comment would probably be supportive.

Where’s the Beef? Feminist Leaders on tiptoe with Submission to Obama and Rick Warren?
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 12:07 pm — admin

A concerned reader wrote us to ask if any Feminist organization has publicly denounced Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren give the invocation on Jan. 20th. Excellent question…we decided to do a quick round-up.

Sadly most have been utterly silent or tiptoe upset–That is a press release was issued but is not being actively disseminated and promoted. There is no OUTrage. Just a dilute press release w/o a press conference. (psst…dear Feminist leaders at NOW and Feminist Majority and NARAL…all u gotta do is call CNN or Fox or Today or …etc….and request a sitting! They will lap u up if you so choose!) As it is, one must search out the answer vs getting it on the 6 o’clock news!
So here are how things stand:

This statement came from Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation:
“America is coming together for the historic Inauguration. Providing a visible ceremonial leadership role to a man who has chosen to use religion to divide rather than unite people is deeply troubling and disappointed.”

Rather tame Eleanor and notably this item was Left OFF the FM home page, but at least it is a little somin’somin’.

Here is the link:
http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11445

The National Organization for Women, put out a press release on its home page (kudos), but did not feature a strong message of dissent from NOW pres, Kim Gandy. Here is that link:

http://www.now.org/press/12-08/12-18.html

NARAL has nothing, nada, zip, on its web site, and president Nancy Keenan was most supportive of Obama before Clinton had left the race. We called NARAL for any comment Nancy may have on the Warren Pick, and will let you know if they respond.

But the grassroots is afoot! I found a blogsite called 4th Wave Feminism.com that is running a petition to Obama asking that he change his mind about having the despicable Warren lead us in payer!…..Yuck, need a shower! Here is a link to the site and their petition! Sign it!!

http://www.fourthwavefeminism.com/2008/12/rick-warren-petition.html

Now for all you folks who wonder why Feminist Organizations are not up in arms, who wonder them nice feminist ladies want to keep their nice round Obama buttons on and not stir up too big a fuss…here is something culled from a Rick Warren website: Pastors.com, a ministry of Saddleback Church. It tells women how to place themselves in marriage—Under, Below, and be Neat about it you 2nd class XX humans.

Excerpt of what Warren thinks ought be taught to the gals:

“…just exactly what does {submission} mean?
The Greek word for “submit” is hupotasso. Hupo means “under” and tasso means “to place in order.” The compound word hupotasso means “to place under or in an orderly fashion.” Paul didn’t dislike women, he liked order! He advocated order in the church, order in government, order in business, and, yes, order in the home…
God granted women a measure of freedom in submission that we can learn to enjoy.
It is a relief to know that as a wife and mother I am not totally responsible for my family. I have a husband to look to for counsel and direction. I can rely on his toughness when I am too soft and his logic when I am too emotional.”

Nothing here for women to get worked up about at all…really, to get worked up might make Feminist leaders seem too emotional! Instead we must Thank the Lord for a “Measure of Freedom” and look to a man to give us logic. Oh and don’t forget that to exercise control over our own bodies makes us equivalent to Hitler per the esteemed Preachy Teachy Man Wonder Warren. PUKEY. Enough to kill ur appetite for good!

This is the culture that Obama is giving national relevance to. (Hmmm, Wonder if Obam would give Warren the national stage if he preached that blacks ought be submissive to whites…yeah, trust me…Warren would be safe for a Jan. in SoCal if that were the case.) This is the roast beast Obama is having to the National dinner for the U.S. to feast upon! Eat it up Kiddies, cause Feminist Leaders are NOT leading loudly for us. We CAN’T hear YOU!

Link: http://legacy.pastors.com/RWMT/article.asp?ID=122&ArtID=3908%20

* Feminist Majority
* misogyny
* Naral
* NOW
* Obama
* rick warren

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mountainsong, yeah, chicago; if the bots get rambunctious, there’ll be plenty of prowling to do, but if they behave, things can stay quiet. If Teh One enacts our agenda and stops dissing women, our reason for living will be gone and we can go to the dance club all week long. On the other hand, if it’s all bit*hes and ho*s and Ludicris, and no jobs for women, we’ll have a lot of free time to blog, and no money for cover charges.

there’s only one club mountainsong? sounds like you need some variety.
ليلة ليلة ، لا تدعوا علة في السرير لدغة

I was looking at the 4th wave feminism blog and thought WOW if pumas had their own online magazines featuring cooking, health, sports (men and women) fashion, etc. we could stop buying Ms. and Oprah and get our own advertisers.

LOLOLOLOL
Aren’t these machine tranlations amazing? and it keeps you know who,.. well… shhhhh they won’t know we’re here.
I have a slight preference for google
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&langpair=ar|en#

PUMAbear #206

One of the best things about pumas is that they have an endless list of ideas. Really. Tons of new ideas everyday. It’s impressive.

ليلة ليلة بوماس

PUMAbear 01.03.09 at 2:47 am YESSSS!!!!!

kat~~ I gotta save this for some future day~~
“Working on the ground off donkey laugh me”

WOTGODLM

Nijma 01.03.09 at 2:59 am I didn’t really have a place to run to… I just ran. When I was 18, I finally left for good and went to LA/Hollywood.
But ‘running to’ is always much better than ‘running from.’

Sleep tight pumas!

PUMAbear: gnight to you. xo

I am almost going as well.

kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 3:11 am Way too many. At one time, in 1963, it was estimated that Hollywood grew by 1000 young people every 2-4 weeks. Survival wasn’t easy.

It was a migration that changed how we lived.

I don’t know about other languages, but i don’t think the latin languages directly translate. Changes in sentence structure and word can change the context and intent. That’s why so many challenge the authenticity of the Scriptures.

lol Come with me and protect me.
Actually, i think it’s much harder in hollywood now. I’ve heard it degenerated badly~~~which is really kinda hard to even imagine.

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kat in your hat 01.03.09 at 3:37 am WOW!!!! That’s just amaaaazing!!! NYC is changing.
About 10 days before I left Michigan, My Dad took me down in the basement and told me that I could either stay and live in his house, by his family rules, or I could go out into the big old world and live by my own. What a gift!
I asked him for a quarter, flipped it in the air and said, “Heads, Los angeles, Tails, New York City.”
It came up Heads and that was the fork in the road I took when I was 18.

Oh yeah, NYC is very different. Giuliani played a big part in that actually…crime rates (tons more cops), broken windows theory (if you fix it, you won’t want to break it–keep it clean), plus welfare reform, and getting the homeless taken care of, stopping graffiti on subways and squeegie men and panhandling (part of broken windows theory)….and so much more–getting a lot of the sex joints shut down, etc.

Then Bloomberg made smoking illegal in restaurants, raised prices on cigs by 3 X, and made recycling mandatory in every single house, business, school, etc. More green buses and buildings and taxis…etc.

Oh and yeah, I know about flipping a quarter and going somewhere…*and* I have also been on my own since a pretty young age.

But I’ll talk to you more soon. I’m sleepy.

gnight. sweet dreams. xo.
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Montagne. Chanson.

Faire attention autour des étranger, surtout les hommes. Quelquefois les gens peuvent vous étonner et est dangereux. Je sais que vous êtes intelligent et vous ferez attention. Essayer d’obtenir le bon sommeil. Vous avez fait le bon travail ce soir.

Se rappeler, continue à embrassant juste l’amour bien que le monde peut sembler quelquefois cruel. Vous serez heureux et vous trouverez l’amour pourvu que vous gardez votre coeur ouvre.

Bonne nuit. Les étreintes et Embrasse.

PUMAbear 01.03.09 at 2:40 am
IYou have to click on the title of the subject. I think it’s #3 but here it is. Anybody not interested can scroll through. A nice response to her comment would probably be supportive.

Where’s the Beef? Feminist Leaders on tiptoe with Submission to Obama and Rick Warren?
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 12:07 pm — admin

A concerned reader wrote us to ask if any Feminist organization has publicly denounced Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren give the invocation on Jan. 20th. Excellent question…we decided to do a quick round-up.

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Here’s the direct url:

http://www.femisex.com/content/where’s-beef-feminist-leaders-tiptoe-with-submission-obama-and-rick-warren#comment-506

It will be an interesting day in the Senate next Tuesday, with both parties trying to block a senator from the other side/same side o flimsy reasons
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/senate-games-racial-chicken-part-deux/

With all the bad and getting worse news stories around, I want to post this god news news story. Women big rig drivers are not all that common and this woman is breaking the traditions of her Asian upbringing and doing what many still consider mans job.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/561188