WOMANKIND WEB WANDERINGS - 3/14/2012
RESOLVED: The primary goal of The Womankind Party.com is to create a woman-centered political agenda and run a candidate of our choosing in the 2020 presidential election on the 3rd of November, 2020. The secondary goal, and perhaps actually the most important, is to provide a safe haven for all women, children and "minorities" in our own little corner of the Web, safe from dragons.
Free Speech Movement - Bettina Fay Aptheker
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests unprecedented in this scope at the time, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. (wikipedia.com)
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg, and others. In protests unprecedented in this scope at the time, students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. (wikipedia.com)
Bettina Fay Aptheker (born September 13, 1944) is an American political activist, feminist, professor and author. A former member of the Communist Party USA like her parents, she was active in civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and has worked in developing feminist studies since the late 1970s.
March 9, 1998
Prominent women's studies professor to deliver Humanities Lecture
Bettina Aptheker
By Barbara McKenna
The culture we live in and the media messages we are exposed to form a myriad of attitudes that we tend to internalize. For most women in our society these attitudes include displeasure with their bodies, difficulty in expressing their ideas, fears of violence against themselves and their children, and a fear of expressing anger. When women learn to think independently of these cultural and media messages, they can make transformations personally and politically--shedding critical and destructive perspectives and counteracting them in society, explains noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker.
Aptheker, a professor of women's studies at UCSC, will address the subject in the lecture, "Teaching Women About Themselves: Toward Personal Healing and Political Transformation." Her talk is part of the 1997-98 Humanities Lecture Series, sponsored jointly by UCSC's Humanities Division and the Museum of Art and History. It takes place from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, at the Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz. The talk is free and open to the public. A reception follows.
A leading scholar in the field of women's studies and a popular lecturer on and off campus, Aptheker will discuss the field of women's studies and the ways in which work in it can spark personal and societal changes.
"Many disciplines rely on experience-based or empirical research as a basis of study. Psychology and sociology are examples. But in these fields the experiences are not those of the researchers themselves but of those whom they study," Aptheker says. "In women's studies we are using our own experiences as a method of work for understanding the subordinated position of women in society. We teach women how to learn from their own experiences and those of other women, and trust in their judgments. From this we generate theories about women's lives and ways of changing our conditions."
Through this approach, Aptheker explains, women find their own voices and their own direction. "That process," she says, "is both personally healing and politically effective."
Aptheker has been a prominent activist for more than 30 years in the women's, peace, civil rights, and lesbian movements. A member of the UCSC faculty since 1980, she is author of several books, including Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience. She has been honored for her work in teaching and activism by numerous groups, most recently by the Santa Cruz County Women's Commission for her extraordinary contribution to improving the status of women. For more information on the lecture, call (408) 459-2696.
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THE SONG REMEMBERS WHEN
“The Song Remembers When” by Trisha Yearwood with lyrics beneath the video.
Dedicated to all women because it’s true; the song does remember when.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96YztHk1epY
“She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful” by with lyrics – Dedicated to Beth Johnson of San Diego
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTXXchDKKfw
"In The Ghetto" by Dolly Parton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV5tUb7VV3U
“Tom Dooley” by The Kingston Trio with lyrics beneath the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYjc57V55U
“Where Have All The Flowers Gone” by Pete Seeger with a brief history by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y2SIIeqy34
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of Pete's darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quie Flows the Don".
Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as "Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?" Shortly after she sang it in German. The song's impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering.
It's universal message, "let there be peace in the world" did not get lost in its translation. To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
Thank You, thespadecaller.
Uploaded by Thespadecaller on Feb 18, 2008
The Doonesbury Comic Strip Republicans Don’t Want You To See:
The Wednesday Edition March 14, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
The Wednesday Edition March 14, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
It’s definitely the most talked about comic strip at the moment. Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury abortion segment has generated a lot of discussion because of it’s controversial yet accurate portrayal of Republican attempts to fit small government into the uteruses of women everywhere.
According to The Guardian,
“The strip deals specifically with a law introduced in Texas and other states requiring a woman who wants to have an abortion to have an ultrasound scan, or sonogram, which will show an image of the fetus and other details, in an attempt to make her reconsider.”
Unfortunately, even though this particular comic strip segment should be seen by everyone, there are some newspapers that have censored it in an attempt to keep people ignorant of the egregious actions against women that the Republican Party has taken these past few weeks. We here at Addicting Info seek to keep our readers as informed as possible, and since some news sources have decided to do their jobs irresponsibly, we’ve decided to publish The Doonesbury abortion segment all week long.
On Monday, we brought you the first day of the segment that portrayed a woman being told to sit in “the shaming room” to wait for a Texas state legislator to assist her.
And on Tuesday, we brought you the second day of the segment that portrayed the woman meeting with a state legislator who calls her a slut after the woman tells him that she had previously been to the clinic to get contraceptives (As shown below).
Well, it’s time to bring you the Wednesday edition of the Doonesbury which you can see below. This edition shows the woman sitting in her doctor’s office while he reads off information from a document required by Rick Perry and the state of Texas that explains the trans-vaginal ultrasound and the procedure to get an abortion, much to the annoyance of the woman and her doctor. Keep in mind that Republicans don’t want us to see this comic strip.
According to The Guardian,
“The strip deals specifically with a law introduced in Texas and other states requiring a woman who wants to have an abortion to have an ultrasound scan, or sonogram, which will show an image of the fetus and other details, in an attempt to make her reconsider.”
Unfortunately, even though this particular comic strip segment should be seen by everyone, there are some newspapers that have censored it in an attempt to keep people ignorant of the egregious actions against women that the Republican Party has taken these past few weeks. We here at Addicting Info seek to keep our readers as informed as possible, and since some news sources have decided to do their jobs irresponsibly, we’ve decided to publish The Doonesbury abortion segment all week long.
On Monday, we brought you the first day of the segment that portrayed a woman being told to sit in “the shaming room” to wait for a Texas state legislator to assist her.
And on Tuesday, we brought you the second day of the segment that portrayed the woman meeting with a state legislator who calls her a slut after the woman tells him that she had previously been to the clinic to get contraceptives (As shown below).
Well, it’s time to bring you the Wednesday edition of the Doonesbury which you can see below. This edition shows the woman sitting in her doctor’s office while he reads off information from a document required by Rick Perry and the state of Texas that explains the trans-vaginal ultrasound and the procedure to get an abortion, much to the annoyance of the woman and her doctor. Keep in mind that Republicans don’t want us to see this comic strip.
Forcing women to do things against their will is wrong and the GOP knows it. They just don’t give a damn because they want to crush women under their boot heel. So please be sure to share as much as possible, because doing so is the best way to defeat Republican censorship.
IMHO: This strip needs to be shared with every woman you know. If she has a computer with Internet, give her this web page url. If not, cut, paste into a word document and print it out for all your friends. It is vitally important that women fully understand right now how quickly their rights over their own body are being taken from them all over the United States.
IMHO: This strip needs to be shared with every woman you know. If she has a computer with Internet, give her this web page url. If not, cut, paste into a word document and print it out for all your friends. It is vitally important that women fully understand right now how quickly their rights over their own body are being taken from them all over the United States.
Posted by Gay Girl Revolution
Posted by Nancy Summers-Long
Posted by Sharon Starkey Jacobs
SUGGESTIONS FROM AN OLD ACTIVIST
A tip for Outreach in your community for whatever you as a collective of women are organizing for: find women within your group who are pogo.com members. Ask them to go to as many of the game rooms they can and make just a brief mention about your group. For instance: "Did you know Senator Boxer has a great web site at WinWithWomen2012.com? You should check it out." Pogo.com is a huge community of women and very worthy of serious outreach for any women-centered organization.
posted by Karen Oakley: The bureaucrats strike again. Poor little girl.
In Aftermath of ICE Operation, Wyoming Woman Burns Herself and Her Daughter to Death
Friends say that after the ICE agents came, Delgado was terrified she would be separated from her daughter, and equally frightened she might be found by her abuser.
March 13, 2012 | The director of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency (ICE), John Morton, released a memo last June emphasizing “prosecutorial discretion.” Given a limited budget, the memo said that ICE personnel should use their judgment to pursue prosecution in cases that fall under the highest priority, like violent criminals that cause immediate danger to public safety. The reality, however, remains that ICE has continued to prosecute undocumented migrants, regardless of criminal history, and often with heartbreaking consequences.
Thousands of miles away from the policy makers in Washington, DC, in the vast plains of Cheyenne, Wyoming, an undocumented migrant named Erica Delgado set fire to her mobile home, killing herself and her 11-year-old daughter, Miriam Ortiz, on Feb. 3, 2012—one week after five ICE agents and two sheriff’s deputies confronted her early in the morning in her home south of the center of town.
Delgado was an undocumented migrant working at the Little America Hotel. When asked, she admitted to the ICE agents that she was in possession of a fake social security number. The agents declined to detain Delgado immediately, “for humanitarian purposes” – in other words, there was no one else who could take care of Miriam. They told her she would soon receive a “notice to appear” before a federal immigration judge, the beginning of removal proceedings.
There is little justice about Erica Delgado’s life and death. She moved to Cheyenne with her husband before her daughter was born—they had Miriam in the United States. Her husband reportedly abused her frequently, and she was relieved when he returned to the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. She lived for more than a decade in Cheyenne. Her daughter was a U.S. citizen, and had attended Afflerbach Elementary School since kindergarten.
Friends and sources say that after the ICE agents came, Delgado was terrified she would be ripped away from her daughter, and equally frightened that she might again be found by her abuser. Even though ICE isn’t supposed to prosecute victims of domestic abuse, given its track record, her fears were not unfounded.
A Crime of Moral Turpitude
Delgado was one of 35 current and former Little America employees—11 of whom were approached, all of them Latino—on the ICE list for the Cheyenne enforcement action on January 24. The regional director of communications for the agency told AlterNet in an email that the list “was generated following an audit of I-9 employment forms” at Little America. A number of employees stopped working at the hotel as a result of the action.
Two women and one man were arrested, and charged with misuse of social security numbers. This is classified as “a crime involving moral turpitude,” a category that has been broadly applied, and is a fatal charge for immigration purposes: it serves as the grounds for immediate deportation.
All three of the detainees are parents of U.S. citizens. The man detained has a baby; one of the women has two children, the other three. The parents have been removed from their children since the end of January.
Under the law, if a person who has been living in the U.S. for at least 10 years can show that deportation would cause hardship for their children, they are eligible to apply for a cancellation of removal, to remain with their families. However, if any of these three are found guilty of “moral turpitude,” they would be subject to immediate deportation, and also exempt from applying for a cancellation of removal.
A guilty verdict means that they would live out Delgado’s worst fear—forced separation from their families.
IMHO: This was so unnecessary. This child was born in the United States 11 years ago; her mother had been a working class undocumented citizen who paid taxes all those years and did the best she could to provide a good life for her daughter. Yet, under the government concept of "moral turpitude" she would have been "subject to immediate deportation, and also exempt from applying for a cancellation of removal", a common Catch-22 for the undocumented citizens of the US. To avoid the horror of separation from her daughter along with the fear of being again found by her abusive husband, Ms. Delgado chose death. But the only "moral turpitude" here was on the part of a horribly misogynist government that deems women and children the easiest of prey and far too often focus on the capture of such horrendous "lawbreakers"rather that the real criminals - for instance, the Wall Street executives who out of personal greed almost bought the United States to it's economical knees. Who is the REAL criminal here - Ms. Delgado, the hard-working mother of a United States citizen or the Wall Street banker who steals from us without conscience or concern for the economic survival of their fellow citizens?
In Aftermath of ICE Operation, Wyoming Woman Burns Herself and Her Daughter to Death
Friends say that after the ICE agents came, Delgado was terrified she would be separated from her daughter, and equally frightened she might be found by her abuser.
March 13, 2012 | The director of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency (ICE), John Morton, released a memo last June emphasizing “prosecutorial discretion.” Given a limited budget, the memo said that ICE personnel should use their judgment to pursue prosecution in cases that fall under the highest priority, like violent criminals that cause immediate danger to public safety. The reality, however, remains that ICE has continued to prosecute undocumented migrants, regardless of criminal history, and often with heartbreaking consequences.
Thousands of miles away from the policy makers in Washington, DC, in the vast plains of Cheyenne, Wyoming, an undocumented migrant named Erica Delgado set fire to her mobile home, killing herself and her 11-year-old daughter, Miriam Ortiz, on Feb. 3, 2012—one week after five ICE agents and two sheriff’s deputies confronted her early in the morning in her home south of the center of town.
Delgado was an undocumented migrant working at the Little America Hotel. When asked, she admitted to the ICE agents that she was in possession of a fake social security number. The agents declined to detain Delgado immediately, “for humanitarian purposes” – in other words, there was no one else who could take care of Miriam. They told her she would soon receive a “notice to appear” before a federal immigration judge, the beginning of removal proceedings.
There is little justice about Erica Delgado’s life and death. She moved to Cheyenne with her husband before her daughter was born—they had Miriam in the United States. Her husband reportedly abused her frequently, and she was relieved when he returned to the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico. She lived for more than a decade in Cheyenne. Her daughter was a U.S. citizen, and had attended Afflerbach Elementary School since kindergarten.
Friends and sources say that after the ICE agents came, Delgado was terrified she would be ripped away from her daughter, and equally frightened that she might again be found by her abuser. Even though ICE isn’t supposed to prosecute victims of domestic abuse, given its track record, her fears were not unfounded.
A Crime of Moral Turpitude
Delgado was one of 35 current and former Little America employees—11 of whom were approached, all of them Latino—on the ICE list for the Cheyenne enforcement action on January 24. The regional director of communications for the agency told AlterNet in an email that the list “was generated following an audit of I-9 employment forms” at Little America. A number of employees stopped working at the hotel as a result of the action.
Two women and one man were arrested, and charged with misuse of social security numbers. This is classified as “a crime involving moral turpitude,” a category that has been broadly applied, and is a fatal charge for immigration purposes: it serves as the grounds for immediate deportation.
All three of the detainees are parents of U.S. citizens. The man detained has a baby; one of the women has two children, the other three. The parents have been removed from their children since the end of January.
Under the law, if a person who has been living in the U.S. for at least 10 years can show that deportation would cause hardship for their children, they are eligible to apply for a cancellation of removal, to remain with their families. However, if any of these three are found guilty of “moral turpitude,” they would be subject to immediate deportation, and also exempt from applying for a cancellation of removal.
A guilty verdict means that they would live out Delgado’s worst fear—forced separation from their families.
IMHO: This was so unnecessary. This child was born in the United States 11 years ago; her mother had been a working class undocumented citizen who paid taxes all those years and did the best she could to provide a good life for her daughter. Yet, under the government concept of "moral turpitude" she would have been "subject to immediate deportation, and also exempt from applying for a cancellation of removal", a common Catch-22 for the undocumented citizens of the US. To avoid the horror of separation from her daughter along with the fear of being again found by her abusive husband, Ms. Delgado chose death. But the only "moral turpitude" here was on the part of a horribly misogynist government that deems women and children the easiest of prey and far too often focus on the capture of such horrendous "lawbreakers"rather that the real criminals - for instance, the Wall Street executives who out of personal greed almost bought the United States to it's economical knees. Who is the REAL criminal here - Ms. Delgado, the hard-working mother of a United States citizen or the Wall Street banker who steals from us without conscience or concern for the economic survival of their fellow citizens?
