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7 SISTERS, SEVEN STRUGGLES, 7 STORIES
The Seven Sisters Campaign is Ella’s Daughters’ effort to hold up 7 vitally important organizations and areas of work and to highlight the ways in which they mirror, intersect and overlap with one another. We also think the women, particularly young women and women of color, who are actively giving leadership, energy and vision to these struggles are sisters we want to strengthen and nurture in any way we can.
Response to Skip Gates’ Call for Slavery Absolution By Barbara Ransby
In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” (April 23) Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates calls on the United States’ first Black president to end the nation’s sense of responsibility for the legacy of slavery. It is a pernicious argument, well suited to the so-called “postracial” moment we are in. Like the erroneous claims of “post-racialism,” in general, Gates’ editorial compromises rather than advances the prospects for racial justice; and clouds rather than clarifies the history, and persistent realities, of racism in America.
Read more: Response to Skip Gates’ Call for Slavery Absolution By Barbara Ransby
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.
Read more: Kentucky Foundation for Women seeking Arts Activity Leaders
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