Archive | July, 2013

Women in Congress

You can’t work in the social justice field like I do without celebrating small victories - most of the time, small may be the only kind of victory available! If you don’t make the most of little reasons to be happy, you just get burned out and depleted. There’s so much to accomplish you have [...]

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Mothers of Dead Children

Mothers are driven to protect their children. It’s innate. When the very laws we live by allow our children to die, with bullets buried in the bodies we birthed and love, our hearts explode in rage and pain that transforms us and makes of us something distinctly other than that which we were before. This is [...]

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So Much More Than the “Right Thing” To Do

My colleague and great friend Sarah Bibler wrote this week’s post. She’s an expert in how gender issues fit into a nation’s economic growth, and how U.S. foreign policy can do both good and ill for women around the world. She turns her focus towards the U.S. in this piece, and explains how we could [...]

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How the Abortion Debate Is Used to Divide Women

“Women have the great power and honor of growing our future humans, giving life and birth to them. That kind of power must be wielded with dignity, self respect, and the knowledge that we have had the ultimate power all along. Oppression and inequality is only temporary. The day we realize our collective strength, is [...]

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