Abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kansas. Hundreds gathered at a vigil in Old Town Square Sunday. (Photo: Bob Weeks)
women's rights
Puritanism preoccupied
Purity Myth: How America's Obsession With Virginity is Hurting Young Women
(Seal Press,
2009;
$33.50)
You don't have to look any further than the mainstream media to understand why author Jessica Valenti believes there is a moral panic in America over young women's sexuality. It's hard to know what to believe when Tyra Banks and Oprah Winfrey are sounding alarm bells over an epidemic of teen sexuality, while at the same time Esquire magazine is asking "Where have all the loose women gone?"
Fundraiser in solidarity with Afghan women
Date: Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:00pm - Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 12:00am
Location
Vancouver Unitarian Sanctuary
949 W. 49th Ave. At Oak St.
Vancouver, BC
Canada
49° 13' 35.454" N, 123° 7' 38.9208" W
See map: Google Maps
An evening of speeches, music and poetry dedicated to raising funds for the Afghan Women's Mission, which works closely with RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) to support health, educational and other programs for Afghan women.
Featuring: Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director, Afghan Women's Mission, author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence and host of Uprising Radio, an hour-long daily program on Pacifica Radio.
May 20, 2009 |
The lack of an early childhood education and child-care program, the inequities that exist for women in the EI program and the pay gap between women and men have left Canadian women struggling.
Women are worse off under STV
I respond to Dennis Pilon’s rabble article specifically on his continuing claim that women stand a better chance of being elected under a Single Transferable Vote (STV) electoral system than under our current system of First Past the Post (FPTP). Perhaps his self-vaunted scholarship falls down on this point, too.
Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer and I issued a release refuting STV proponents’ claim that the system itself causes more women to be elected. We referred to Ireland and Malta, the only nations in the world to use STV in their national assemblies, not so we could omit other countries using STV who do better at gender equity.
Take back the day
Inter Pares has a campaign to 'Take Back the Day' this Mother's Day. Check out their excellent video history of the day at http://www.takebacktheday.ca/.
Related rabble.ca story:
Coverage of International Women's Day 2009 in Toronto
Ronak Ghorbani gives us a look into what took place at the International Women's Day rally/fair that was held in Toronto this year.