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Kentucky Foundation for Women seeking Arts Activity Leaders
The Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW) is looking for arts activity leaders for a special project partnering with Louisville Metro Department of Corrections to work with children and adults in the visitors lobby at the LMDC facility on 6th Street. Selected leaders will join an artist/activist team assembled in mid 2008, as part of this special project providing arts in the entrance lobby and exit lobby as well as the visitors lobby.
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Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, leaders of the activist organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) have been granted bail
Posted November 6, 2008
Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, leaders of the activist
organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), were granted bail this
afternoon after being arrested on October 16, 2008 and unlawfully detained
at the Bulawayo Remand Prison. They were arrested after participating in
a peaceful protest in Bulawayo in which they demanded immediate access to
much needed food in Zimbabwe. WOZA members were ill-treated while in
custody.
WOZA declares a national disaster and demands food for all Zimbabweans in Bulawayo today - 9 arrested
Press statement - Women of Zimbabwe Arise
16th October 2008 1pm
Hundreds of members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (MOZA) took to the streets of Bulawayo this morning, marching for several blocks to Mhlahlandlela Government Complex to declare a national disaster and demand immediate food aid for all Zimbabweans. Nine members have been arrested at the time of this release.
On arrival at the Government Complex, the group of approximately 200 sat down outside the gates whilst a delegation of four elderly women went in to request that the Regional Department Heads of all the service departments come out and address the crowd on what is being done to alleviate the humanitarian crisis facing the country.
Wall Street Takes Welfare It Begrudges to Ordinary Americans
By Mimi Abramowitz (posted on Alternet)
Why is it that the rich and reckless accept "welfare" for themselves while rejecting it for those who need it most, particularly woman?
Today we sit and watch as the high-rolling gamblers and critics of "big government" take welfare. These are many of the same people who thought it was just fine to deprive millions of women of critical resources and let them fend for themselves.
Even before the catastrophic news out of Wall Street in recent days, women have been worried about their economic security. Read More
The Ella's Daughters' Social Justice Quilt Project
In collaboration with individual activists and organizations dedicated to social justice and social change.
A quilted patch is vestige of wholeness that stands as a sign of loss and challenge to creative design. As a reminder or remnant, the patch may symbolize rupture and impoverishment; it may be defined by the faded glory of the already gone. It constitutes survival strategy and a response to chaos.
Read more: The Ella's Daughters' Social Justice Quilt Project