People United Means Action
From the monthly archives:
Another county joins the long list of those that have elected a woman president. What’s up with that, USA? Brazil elects Dilma Rousseff, nation’s first woman president!! Brazil’s new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor’s move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night. “My mission [...]
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Halloween From a Wiccan/Neopagan perspective Many Neo-Pagans, including Druids and Wiccans, trace their annual seasonal days of celebration back to Celtic times in Europe. They celebrate the most important of their four major Sabbats, Samhain, on or near OCT-31 each year. Modern misconceptions about Samhain/Halloween: Fundamentalist Christians and most other evangelical Christians believe that the [...]
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President Obama Heads into Midterms at Lowest Approval Rating of PresidencyTwo-thirds of Americans believe country going off on the wrong track NEW YORK , N.Y. – October 25, 2010 – President Obama is spending the next week crisscrossing the country in support of Democratic candidates before this year’s midterm elections. While the president may do [...]
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• There cannot be true democracy unless women’s voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country. –HRC, July 11, 1997 “The challenges of [...]
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Whatever your political persuasion is– please VOTE and take advantage of the rights many women suffered to achieve. ‘Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.’ (see: Biden’s diagnosis of Anita Hill as just one example). This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not [...]
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October 24, 2010 Giants Punch Out Phillies, Looking By DAVID WALDSTEIN PHILADELPHIA — Unheralded but undaunted, the San Francisco Giants concluded an improbable run to the World Series here Saturday, stunning a crowd of 46,062 and much of the baseball world by reaching the sport’s ultimate stage with a ragtag roster filled with players other [...]
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I’m not one to involve myself in tabloid news/gossip yet I just can’t resist reprinting this article. I know it probably isn’t a surprise to any woman, with the exception of maybe “Ginni” Thomas, but I must admit that I take some satisfaction in this reinforcement of the truth of Ms. Anita Hill’s testimony during [...]
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Obama Underappreciation Syndrome By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 22, 2010 In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they’ve habitually attributed to the American right — the paranoid style in American politics. The talk is of dark conspiracies [...]
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In honor of Spirit Day… Hillary Clinton wears purple!! That’s leadership! That’s walking the talk! That’s Presidential! Presididnt Oblahblah… not so much. The Today Show, The View, The Talk and Ellen DeGeneres among those ‘Going Purple’ for Spirit Day. Today millions of Americans including media personalities and celebrities have ‘gone purple’ to show their support [...]
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From guerillawomentn: Bonus Quote of the Day “[T]he administration has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And soon there won’t be any more opportunities to miss.” – Paul Krugman, Epitaph For An Administration All of the posts there are worth the read. Riverdaughter with a round-up of left blogosphere posts. D’OH! A Round [...]
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