DON’T DESPAIR ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT by Howard Zinn
in The Progressive, a voice for Peace, Social Justice and the Common Good
“It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”
TELL A WOMAN
When The Powerful Use Their Position To Bully Others, We All Lose – also talking about New Models of Manhood
From Meryl Streep to Tracee Ellis Ross, women took center stage at Sunday’s Golden Globes and demanded we celebrate them –
not for what they’re wearing, but for who they are and what they do. On the red carpet, Evan Rachel Wood explained she wore a tuxedo so that, “young women and girls know that [dresses] aren’t a requirement and that you don’t have to wear one if you don’t want to. Just be yourself, because your worth is much more than that.” Continue reading
Addiction Resource, Substance Use, Domestic Violence & Consumer Safety Information
Defective Medical Devices and Dangerous Medications
Aretha Franklin Queen of Soul laid to rest in Detroit. “Make Love Great Again!”
Stevie Wonder’s full performance. “Make love great again!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Jennifer Holliday and choir help Aretha climb higher.
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WOMEN ARE NOT PROTECTED in the U. S. Constitution – Here Are the Ramifications
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, may appear to safeguard women against discrimination, but Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went on record insisting this isn’t the case.
“Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex, the only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn’t. Nobody ever voted for that,” he said. (In an interview for the January 2011 issue of California Lawyer)
A good summary of what happened this week in the NC General Assembly
Sent in by Diane Amos July, 2018
• North Carolina: It’s truly astonishing how relentless North Carolina Republicans are in their ceaseless zeal to undermine democracy. This week, they called a blitzkrieg legislative session where they swiftly advanced two more measures to entrench their power by unfairly and arbitrarily tilting the playing field to their benefit.
RISING SUN NEWSLETTER from the Women Proutists of North America
Mission Statement
Women PROUTists are working together to create a world in which all people have the opportunity to develop their full potential. We educate and organize our communities to resist oppression, exploitation and discrimination.
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WNC LEGACY: VISUAL ART Norma Bradley and The Earth Quilt Project 1986-2008
Quilts tell the stories of our lives through their shapes, colors and textures. They hold a history of their makers as well as the people who care for them. They become sacred treasures.
LIKE HEADLINES: New & Selected Poems by Nancy Dillingham
This collection begins with clear-eyed reportage on the heartbreak and devastation in the lives of women, historical and contemporary. The universal implications of their fate serve as “frame” for the rest of the book as the poet, in strikingly spare language, takes impassioned aim at the complexities of love, marriage, and society. “She has chosen to follow her own light and report what her vision discovers…with a dark mordancy that is tonic and enviable.” Fred Chappell “Nancy Dillingham writes…with a beautiful balance of concision and eloquence.” Ron Rash “History, the land, and family beckon with a ‘finely formed hand.’ ” Katherine Soniat Click here for more information
Casual sexism creates victims. We should acknowledge that and police it.
By Libby Brooks in the Guardian
What can a man say to a woman on the street these days without fear of prosecution? Ever since campaigners and police forces started talking about treating the public harassment of women as a hate crime, there has been an equal and opposite push to defend some bloke’s right to … what exactly? Shout a catalogue of sexually explicit demands at a stranger while following her down a street at midnight? Exchange friendly observations about the state of the weather in a shop queue in daylight?
As with #MeToo, this is far less complicated than some would like us to imagine.
THE FREE CLINICS – Creating a Healthier Community – Henderson and Polk Counties
The Free Clinics invites our community to join our HealthWays team and help make Henderson and Polk Counties healthier places to live, work and play. HealthWays is a new pilot site of Microclinics International that improves community health by building on the premise that healthy living is contagious. HealthWays will create a local model of “viral health” building upon existing social networks of friends, families, neighbors, and colleagues and nurturing dynamic peer-to-peer learning and support.
Illinois becomes 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Will North Carolina be the 38th?
Sent in to SheVille.org by Roberta Madden ERA-NC Alliance Immediate Release May 30, 2018
P.O. Box 11712 Durham, NC 27703 www.era-nc.org (984) 244-0611 For more information contact: Audrey Muck, fanninmm@gmail.com, 336-480-1947
WESTERN WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER Services and Events
The Community Foundation of WNC Women for Women Giving Circle Makes Historic Commitment to Prevent Violence
Helpmate, Our VOICE, Mountain Child Advocacy Center and Pisgah Legal are launching a long term plan to prevent domestic violence, sexual violence and child abuse in our community!
NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS’ NETWORK: Critiquing and Editing Service: A Reintroduction
Did you know the North Carolina Writers’ Network offers an ongoing critiquing and editing service for its members? Through this program, Network writers have the opportunity to open a dialogue about their work with established writers and editors of varying backgrounds and areas of expertise.
Whether you write fiction or essays, poetry or travelogues, there is a critiquer waiting to help you and your writing take that next step.
BLUE RIDGE MUSIC TRAILS of North Carolina – Events
Click here for Events Listing: Blue Ridge Music Trails Events and places of interest.
| Wednesday night bluegrass at the Ugly Dog Pub in Highlands Monday night music at the Tasty Weasel Taproom in Brevard and…need a holiday gift idea??? How about the Beautiful Blue Ridge Calendar? It WILL fit in a stocking! All proceeds support the work of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, including The Blue Ridge Music Trails. |
How to Talk to Little Girls
I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time. Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown. I wanted to squeal, “Maya, you’re so cute! Look at you! Turn around and model that pretty ruffled gown, you gorgeous thing!”
