For your use. May I say, it was quite good tonight and it was wonderful to view it on free TV on PBS. Thank you, KVIE!
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160211 – PBS Democratic Debate
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151114 – Democratic Debate
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Here find the transcript for the Iowa Democratic debate: Democratic debate transcript
151014 – Oct 13, The Las Vegas Democratic Debate
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Below find the transcript for the first 2015 Democratic debate:
The Democratic presidential candidates met in Las Vegas for a primetime debate on CNN.
Wendy Davis-WOW!
Posted in 51 Percent, Congress, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Great American Women, Health and Food, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanism, Politics, women, Women's Rights, tagged SB5, Texas, Wendy Davis on June 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Update: Amazing, but it looks like SB5 DID NOT PASS!! they are agreeing that the vote was completed art 12:02 AM. What a great job the Texas Democrats and the Gallery did tonight! (more…)
SOS Clinton Says Goodbye.
Posted in Environment, ERA, Feminism, Great American Women, Health and Food, Humanism, Indigenous, LGBT, Nature, Politics, Women's Rights, tagged Clean Cookstoves, Global Partnerships, Global Women's Issues, Kerry, Kris Balderston, Melanne Verveer, SOS Clinton on February 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted her last meeting for over 200 world representatives summarizing her/the State Dept’s achievements in prioritizing global partnerships with governmental and non governmental groups.
It’s worth watching the video in the link above. It really says something about her focus since 2009. It will be interesting to see how these new partnerships are nurtured under Kerry.
Then They Fight You
Posted in 51 Percent, Congress, Economy, Election, ERA, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Great American Women, Human Rights, Politics, Women's Rights, tagged Ghandi, Obama, Politics, Romney, senate committee on foreign relations, STEM on October 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Let’s be clear, women in the US are still not equal citizens.
Regarding health care, the very fact that women were mentioned by line item in the Affordable Care Act so often shows that without these inclusions women would continue to receive a standard of care unequal to that of men. Because the Equal Rights Amendment is yet to be passed, there is no single standard of equality by which to judge and assure fair treatment.
Without the ERA, we chose instead to present the same face of discrimination to the world, as Iran, Somalia, and Afghanistan. Under Bush, even with Biden as Chair of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and Obama, as a Committee member, CEDAW languished, as it has, since 1979.
Even under a Democratic presidency CEDAW still slumbers.
These two failures are that of Congress, because they have never made it to presidential signature. Nor have they ever come under judicial review.
Though it is hard to imagine any Democrat elected president would have vetoed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and many of us were upset that it was Obama, amid much fanfare, rather than Clinton, who was able to sign it, the fact is that the Bill was enacted.
The others, the Fair Pay Act, and Fairness Paycheck Act did not pass Congress. Again, since women are not equal citizens under a single standard, a multitude of bits of bills, each striving for a little slice of fairness, is currently the only way to achieve eventual parity.
As such, these are also failures of Congress. There is only one way to improve this condition. It entails an active defense and offence; but it first it requires an ownership of who we are.
Many of us are uneasy about the idea of defining ourselves. We may think it is too constricting or outdated. Some of us remember a time when using the term seemed a little too “whitebread” and did not correctly articulate the needs of women of color. I believe that Michelle Obama may have partly felt this way when asked if she was part of our group and she demurred. Some of us are still learning and believe that if we just try hard enough, wear the right clothes or behave, things will turn out all right.
Gaining equality is messy, sometimes dirty and smelly, often loud, frightening and even violent. Above all it is a process, rather than a one-time goal. It is a matter of choices. In the politics of women it is usually a matter of choosing the better of two, not so good choices. Pulling historical context forward to the present helps the process.
In the debate conducted on Oct. 16th President Obama said this:
“In my health care bill, I said insurance companies need to provide contraceptive coverage to everybody who is insured, because this is not just a — a health issue; it’s an economic issue for women. It makes a difference. This is money out of that family’s pocket.
Governor Romney not only opposed it; he suggested that, in fact, employers should be able to make the decision as to whether or not a woman gets contraception through her insurance coverage. That’s not the kind of advocacy that women need. When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care. They rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. That’s a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country.
And it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work. When we talk about child care and the credits that we’re providing, that makes a difference in terms of whether they can go out there and earn a living for their family. These are not just women’s issues. These are family issues. These are economic issues. And one of the things that makes us grow as an economy is when everybody participates and women are getting the same fair deal as men are.”
Now I don’t like the Affordable Care Act because I think it should have been a single payer system, rather than one based on the profits of insurance companies. Additionally, it has vulnerabilities for women because they are incorporated by line items that can be modified by a conservative Congress.
However, that does not take away from President Obama’s comments. The apparent groking of his SOS Clinton, (Women’s rights are human rights!) indicates the theme of Obama’s presidency toward women’s issues.
This is feminism.
Where the presidency has made successful inroads, to date, is outside of Congressional gridlock and misogyny. The Executive Branch has made a series of proclamations and Orders that advance the cause of women and girls, and therefore, humanity. For example, in 2009 he signed an Executive Order establishing the Council on Women and Girls.
A look the website for the Council shows that from that beginning has flowed a series of ideas, forums and actions that are enlarging the concept of women in government, including “The Equal Futures Partnership and United States Commitments to Expand Women’s Political and Economic Participation” (STEM) that was created this month.
This concerted Executive Branch effort has been seen elsewhere in our dealings internationally through the UN and the State Department.
These efforts unfortunately, are ephemeral. They could change with new players in the Executive Branch of a second Obama administration, or they could be actually snuffed by one of Romney’s construction.
What are WE going to do?
WH Reps To Attend Canonization Mass
Posted in Great American Women, tagged Algonquin, Hawaii, Indigenous, Kateri Tekakwitha, Leprosy, Marianne Cope, Mohawk, Moloka'i, Mortification of the Flesh, Sainthood on October 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Well, this is interesting.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 18, 2012
President Obama Announces Presidential Delegation to the Holy See to Attend the Canonization Mass of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope
President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Holy See to attend the Canonization Mass of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha and Blessed Marianne Cope on October 21, 2012.
The Honorable Miguel Humberto Diaz, United States Ambassador to the Holy See, will lead the delegation.
Members of the Presidential Delegation:
Sister Agnelle Ching, Assistant General Minister, Sisters of Saint Francis of the Neumann Communities; Chief Sponsorship Officer, Saint Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii
Sister Kateri Mitchell, Sister of Saint Ann (Mohawk Nation), Tekakwitha Conference National Officer, Executive Director, Great Falls, Montana
U.S. Strategy To Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally | U.S. Department of State Blog
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Great American Women, Politics, Women's Rights on August 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Some one asked me the other day why I wasn’t more actively supporting SOS Hillary Rodham Clinton for POTUS 2012. She doesn’t have lot of time left to complete her tasks as SOS. This is a remarkable new strategy, if no other reason than as an attempt to codify a viewpoint.
Imagine trying to pass similar legislation for the the US. WE can’t even pass CEDAW.
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