Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 2nd, is: (more…)
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Betty Murungi
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Bill Richardson
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I guess everyone knows this by now:
Politico.com Breaking News:
President-elect Barack Obama will nominate New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as Commerce secretary tomorrow at an 11:40 a.m. EST news conference in Chicago, according to a transition source.
Have you seen the Bureaus under the Department of Commerce? (more…)
Maria Martinez
Posted in Children, Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Black Pottery, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Maria Martinez, National Endowment of Arts, National Native American Heritage, puma, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Tewa, The Denver Group on December 1, 2008| 2 Comments »
Maria Martinez (Maria Antonia Montoya)
Potter
Born: 1887 died 1980
Birthplace: San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico
Renowned rescuer of an ancient pottery technique, Maria Martinez was interested in pottery from childhood. She was born of the Native American Tewa tribe. In general, pottery making was in decline during this period in her area, due to the gain of mass produced dishes. However, she was able to learn pottery from her grandmother. She gained early respect for her work. (more…)
Monday Ketchup – 081201
Posted in Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Agriprocessors, Australia, CGI, Clinton, Economy, I Own My Vote, Iceland, Japan, Joern Utzon, just say no deal, Kosher, Mindanao, Pakistan, puma, The Denver Group, Whales on December 1, 2008| 2 Comments »
While it’s official that Hillary Clinton is nominated as Secretary of State, Bill Clinton is off working on his own lifetime project; the Clinton Global Intiative.
So, in the next two days we are going to get an immediate test of how well this articulation of POTUS Obama, SOS Clinton and EXPOTUS will work. (more…)
Lohana Berkins
Posted in Children, Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Argentina, CWGL, Human Rights, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, puma, The Denver Group, Transgender on December 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
160206 – Update: Lohana Berkins died this week. ILGA has this to say:
We mourn the loss of Lohana Berkins
Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing December 1st, is:
Argentina
Travesti* Activist
Lohana is an Argentine activist and the founder of ALITT (Asociación Lucha por la Identidad Travesti y Transexual/Association Fighting for Travesti / Transexual Identity). In addition to having run for legislative seats for left wing parties in Argentina, Lohana has organized prisoners, prostitutes, travestis, feminists, gay men, lesbians and poor youth to combat abuses. (more…)
Obama’s National Security Team
Posted in Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Clinton, Gates, I Own My Vote, Jones, just say no deal, Kerry, Napolitano, puma, Rice, Senate Foreign Relations, The Denver Group, UN on December 1, 2008| Leave a Comment »
So Politico says it’s official!
[It’s official: President-elect Barack Obama has rolled out his national security team: Senator Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain, Eric Holder for Attorney General, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice for Ambassador to the UN and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) for National Security Adviser.]
Katalusis has all the good links HERE.
Susan Rice’s position, as Ambassador to the UN is to be re-elevated to Cabinet Level, as it was under Clinton. This is a great thing in terms of our message to the world. Now, if we can just send our dues to help it function? We have used dues payment as political leverage; threatening to “keep our marbles”. We still owe the UN a big chunk of money, and we better do something about it soon. The UN needs money to send it’s blueberries around the world and feed the kids.
Guess the new Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is the one to talk to about that!
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
Posted in Children, Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Artist, Cradleboard Project, Cree, Educator, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Native American Heritage Month, puma, The Denver Group, Vietnam War on November 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Singer, songwriter and producer, activist, artist, educator
Birthplace: Piapot Reservation, Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada
Born: February 20, 1941
The daughter of a Cree mother, Buffy Sainte-Marie was born in Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, orphaned and adopted by relatives in Maine, USA. She was educated at the University of Massachusetts, where she graduated in the top ten of her class in degrees of teaching and Oriental Philosophy. She later earned a PHD in Fine Arts.
She is a self taught piano and guitar player, who went on to become one of the most known message singers of the sixties. In 1963 Sainte-Marie witnessed wounded soldiers returning from Vietnam. During this period the U.S. government was denying involvement. From this she was inspired to write the protest song “Universal Soldier”. This was part of her debut album “It’s My Way” in 1964. A gifted songwriter, many of her songs have been introduced by well known singers. Most anyone alive during the Vietnanam War knows her distinctive voice.
It is possible that many of her records, were “disappeared” by the Johnson Administration in attempt to control the antiwar movement. It also appears that efforts were made to keep her off the radio stations. The impact of this type of collective memory may be another reason why the media during the War on Terror(ism) has been closely managed. To this day the public does not see coffins of returning veterans.
Sainte-Marie is active in American Indian causes, especially American Indian education. She appeared on Sesame Street from 1976 to 1981. She is an art teacher and internationally exhibited artist. She has also promoted the Bhá’í Faith. She founded the “Cradleboard Teaching Project” that runs across eleven states, and the indigenous communities of Mohawk, Cree, Ojibwe, Menominee, Coeur D’Alene, Navajo, Quinault, Hawaiian, and Apache.
Though she stated in 1999 that she had been put out of business in the United States during the Vietnam War, she has continued to receive awards in Canada and around the world for her artistic merits and her work with indigenous peoples. Still an active artist, this year marks another CD release.
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Prudence Mabele
Posted in Children, Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged 16 days, CWGL, HIV/AIDS, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Mabele, puma, PWN, South Africa, The Denver Group on November 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Each year the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers highlights sixteen women, men and organizations that standout in the fight against gender violence. Representing November 30th, is: (more…)
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Posted in Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Chisholm, Congressional Black Caucus, Great American Heros, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Presidential Race, puma, Shirley, The Denver Group on November 30, 2008| 2 Comments »
Shirley Chisholm
November 30, 1924 – Died January 3, 2005
“Of my two “handicaps” being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.”
The first AA woman elected to Congress and the first to run for President on a major party. She had my vote! (more…)
Paula Gunn Allen
Posted in Feminism, Politics, PUMA PAC, tagged Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Native American Heritage Month, Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo, puma, Sioux, The Denver Group on November 29, 2008| 1 Comment »
Poet, novelist, critic
Born: 1939 died May 29th, 2008
Birthplace: Cubero, New Mexico
“Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living.”
InfoPlease says this:
Paula Gunn Allen was the daughter of a Lebanese-American father and a Pueblo-Sioux-Scots mother. She was raised near Laguna and Acoma Pueblo reservations and was influenced by the matriarchal Pueblo culture. She received both her BA in English and her MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon, and a doctorate in American studies, with a concentration in Native American literature, from the University of New Mexico.
In 1978 she received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and in 1980, a fellowship to study Indian women’s writings. Her 1983 novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, reflected her own upbringing. Her collections of poetry include Coyote’s Daylight Trip (1978), Shadow Country (1982), and Life is a Fatal Disease (1996). Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs (1983) is considered a landmark text in Native American literary criticism. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986) explores the importance of women in traditional Indian culture.
Along with Patricia Clark Smith, Allen wrote As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans (1996) for younger readers. Her latest work is Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat (2003), a new look at Pocahontas through the eyes of a Native American woman.
She taught at Fort Lewis College, San Diego State University, San Francisco State University, the University of New Mexico, and retired in 1999 from the University of California at Los Angeles.
” The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions” is considered essential feminist reading, along with “Hwame, Koshkalak, and the Rest”. Her work presented an argument of Essentialism, as opposed to Simone de Beauvior’s Feminist Existentalism, or Constructionism, and Monique Wittig’s Universalism,requiring the abolition of gender catagories.
Allen’s work on Pocahontas made her a Pulizter Prize nominee.
The end of her life was difficult as she lost her home and possessions in January of this year, due to a fire, and was hospitalized for several weeks.
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