Sisterhood is powerful!
That was the rallying cry, back in the day. And by so claiming, and believing, they were powerful. It was an amazing period of history, when women got fed up …
GOP legislators make teabaggers proud with rude, out of order disruptions on House floor
This morning, prior to the vote on health care reform, the GOP orchestrated, in the now world-renowned teabagger style, an ugly disruption of the Democratic Women’s Caucus statements for the …
Fair payback
The company that knowingly screwed Lilly Ledbetter out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, then spent hundreds of thousands to “defend” itself from her discrimination lawsuit all the way to …
Stimulating family planning
There is a great op-ed, Counting Out Women, by Melissa McEwan published today in the Guardian (UK) about Chris Matthews and the general idiocy in the US media (not to …
OETA interview with Wilma Mankiller to repeat 1pm Sunday
OETA’s program “A Conversation With …” has completed that sentence with “Wilma Mankiller” and the program will be replayed several times in the next couple of weeks. An excerpt is …
Demographic forecast: political changes for OK panhandle
James over at Mahatma X Files has an interesting post about demographics and politics in the Oklahoma panhandle. He shows a map that delineates, by country, where the Hispanic population …
Activist-singer Miriam Makeba passes away
In 1963 (a year after Nelson Mandela was imprisoned), she testified before the UN and asked them to intervene, give black South Africans rights in their own country, release political …
The great women bloggers, as collected by Firedoglake
Meet the New Boss: Note link to great article on Colbert & the media at start of the post. Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend Taylor Marsh Arianna Huffington Watertiger …
Abortion is good
Kos won’t put this on his front page, but I will. It’s always painful when places you thought might be one of the last few outposts of saniety’s [sic] owner …