Thursday, May 20, 2004
I'll say it as gently as I can -Does anyone really care about Women in Iraq
THIS IS FOR ME: Writing is a haven A mode of self-instruction I brandish my pen No weapon of mass destruction Do not, therefore, silence me When I express my life's instruction I do not revile the presidency When it digresses from our Constitution I will write what happens to me You may write...
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Saturday, May 15, 2004
Rights and Wrongs v. Rights and Responsibilities
I have always believed that many problesm in the world, especially between men and women, are a matter of balancing a new lifestyle with new responsibilities. Do not look to any one country to show you what your rights ought to be. Only you can free yourself at home, in your country, while honoring...
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Friday, May 14, 2004
Italian-born Sonia to rule India? Italy never had a woman PM....
In keeping with the post below, it is NOT surprising that the Hindu majority of India are practical people. And generous too. America has no idea how to run massive elections if you think about this feat of India's elections just concluded in May 2004. The world's largest democracy - alleged haters...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Human Progress is often convoluted, with gains - then losses - zig-zags
UNEVEN progress for Women's Equality across the nations, including the "THIRD" world. I read once that in the 1960s, Argentina, had more women professionals (including dentists, doctors, lawyers and professors) than the USA! I guess that number was proportionate to total population. The point was...
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Monday, May 10, 2004
Happy Father's Day
Can Fathers be motherly? One man wrote: "So now, with respect to all in the family here, I see a new generation raised on convenience food. They don't know the pleasure of kneading dough or sitting on the patio in early July pitting just-picked cherries for freezing and cherry pies until the next...
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Thursday, May 6, 2004
Let's take our bodies back from the BUSHES
VOTE for free expression in the bedroom, in X-rated movie houses, and for women's bodies (incl.Janet Jackson) ASS or AssETS? If nudity satisfies and helps CHASTITY, bring it on! One can admire, without having to possess! Thanks to American movies, the Oscars etc., we mostly catch a man or women with...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2004
UNEVEN progress across the nations, including the "THIRD" world
I read once that in the 1960s, Argentina, had more women professionals (including dentists, doctors, lawyers and professors) than the USA! I guess that number was proportionate to total population. The point was made, all the same. I think most rights and social gains are a delicate balancing act, a...
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Thursday, April 29, 2004
Dedicated to my Daughters (Ayanda and Nirvana)
REFRAIN OF PAIN I would love all poetry to be Of the nature of joy, bouncy... Today the refrain is of pain As I turn to my pen again I grow old, my daughters grow old Goodness is not dead, I am told Alone among new immigrants I come without a language, chants Mixed colonial economies Took us to...
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
There's MARCHING in April, Is that Right or RIGHTS?
Viva Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and all warriors for Equality.
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