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I am thrilled that a major motion picture with big-name stars has finally been made about women’s fight for The Vote. The story of the struggle for suffrage is powerful, dramatic and bloody, and the trailer for “Suffragette” looks really promising.
“Suffragette” Movie Trailer –
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/...
But I Have Questions:
Why did Meryl Streep have to go to England to make a film about suffrage there, instead of making a film in America about the equally powerful and dramatic story of the fight for suffrage in her own country?
Why aren't there any major motion pictures with big name stars about the battles for women’s suffrage in the United States?
If “Suffragette” does big box office and wins Oscars, will Hollywood sit up and take notice?
Or will Hollywood continue its focus on the lust of 13-year-old boys for more invincible superheroes, more action, and as many explosions, car crashes and violent deaths as you can shoehorn into a 159 minute “franchise” movie?
Lest you think this is a frivolous topic…..
In 2014, movie ticket revenue was down more than 5 percent, to an estimated $10.35 billion, compared with $10.92 billion in 2013. Much of the 2014 drop can be pinned on what can only be described as a dismal summer, when box office revenue dropped 15 percent to its lowest total since 2006.
Even in a “bad” year, Hollywood generates over $10 billion just at the box office. Add to that revenue from sales of movies and TV shows for home viewing and pay-per-view, which adds over a billion more. And then there's merchandising licensing and tie-ins, and so on and so forth.
If fewer people are paying to see the summer blockbusters, wouldn’t you think Hollywood would start looking for stories that appeal to untapped markets? Like 51% of the human population – WOMEN AND GIRLS?
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
WOMEN’S RIGHTS BY COUNTRY – THE GUARDIAN’S WHEEL
http://www.theguardian.com/...
AFGHANISTAN – High Risk Gender Training for Imams
http://womensenews.org/...
ANGOLA – So Deadly for Kids
http://www.nytimes.com/...
AUSTRALIA – Official Inquiry Into Domestic Violence
http://www.theguardian.com/...
http://www.theguardian.com/...
CHINA – First the Beijing Five, Now Other Activists Under Attack
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.nytimes.com/...
http://www.theguardian.com/...
EUROPE – Backlash Against Reproductive Rights
http://womensenews.org/...
GAZA – Families in Makeshift Shelters – Broken Hearts & Homes
http://www.nytimes.com/...
GERMANY – Chancellor Angela Merkel Makes Refugee Girl Cry
http://thinkprogress.org/...
GUATEMALA – Uphill Battle Against Femicide
http://womensenews.org/...
IRELAND – Pro-Choice Activists Protest in Northern Ireland
http://www.theguardian.com/...
http://www.theguardian.com/...
KOREA – President Park Geun-Hye
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://english1.president.go.kr/...
MALAYSIA – Birth Pants – Modesty or Hazard?
http://www.reuters.com/...
SUDAN – 40 Lashes for Women Wearing Pants
http://www.theguardian.com/...
TURKEY – Domestic Violence and Politics
Promising New Tool: Getting Help for Abused Women
http://fortune.com/...
What Does Her Smile Mean? Woman Kills Abusive Husband
http://www.news.com.au/...
Turkish Women Turning Backs on Country’s Leader
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/...
UNITED KINGDOM – Military Women Harrassed Not Just U.S. Issue
http://www.theguardian.com/...
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DOMESTIC NEWS
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING - Rape Prevention
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
CAMPUS RAPE - Study Shows Serial Rapists Only Part of Problem
http://www.reuters.com/...
FAUX NEWS WRONG AGAIN – Men’s “Rights” VS Sexual Consent Law
http://www.independent.co.uk/...
FEMINISTS OF COLOR – Teens Finding Their Way
http://womensenews.org/...
HARD TO LISTEN? – Are We All “Tone Deaf” When Women Speak?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
MEDICINE – Where Are the Women in the Clinical Trials?
http://www.refinery29.com/...
MOM-SHAMING – Posting Videos Online
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN – Rape Without Justice
http://womensenews.org/...
NOT A GIRL SCOUT SUMMER CAMP EXPERIENCE – NO to Choice
http://www.theguardian.com/...
SILICON VALLEY STILL A BOY’S CLUB
http://www.theguardian.com/...
US WOMEN”S SOCCER TEAM HONORED IN NYC
http://www.theguardian.com/...
WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICES? – Google, Hulu, Ad Blade Reject Ads
http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
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STATE NEWS
LOUISIANA – Governor Jindal and Big Lie About Planned Parenthood
http://rhrealitycheck.org/...
OKLAHOMA – Dubious Distinction: Most Women in Prison
Oklahoma NAACP chapter president Anthony Douglas is ecstatic that President Obama is visiting his state in conjunction with his criminal justice reform push. “I think he’s going to look at the reason why people are in here, and he’s not just going to look and see this is a good, secure facility. I hope he looks at the inmates who are incarcerated in this prison and says ‘why are they here?’” Douglas also hopes the visit might highlight the fact that Oklahoma incarcerates more women than any other state in the nation.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/...
TEXAS – Anti-Abortion Efforts and a Suspicious Death in Police Custody
Anti-Abortion Twenty Year History and Present Restriction Efforts
http://womensenews.org/...
Woman Makes “Improper Lane Change Signal,” Dies in Jail
http://thinkprogress.org/...
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HARD TO CATAGORIZE
ABORTION REGRET MYTH – Examined and Exposed
http://www.theguardian.com/...
ADVERTISING – Brut Force and the Nipple Tease
Is This BRUT Ad “Too 1962” for 21st Century?
http://www.ispot.tv/...
Just WHAT Are They Selling – And Who is the Target Market?
http://fashionista.com/...
HIBAB – The Woman Wearing It
http://www.theguardian.com/...
LEADERSHIP BIAS AT WORK – Thinking "Man" When Hearing “Boss”
http://www.theguardian.com/...
SEXISM IN U.K AND U.S PUBLISHING INDUSTRY – “50 Shades” Bias
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...
SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION IN SPORTS – A Costly Business
http://www.theguardian.com/...
TOO FAT TO LOVE? – The Best Response!
http://i100.independent.co.uk/...
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JULY WOMEN TRAILBLAZERS & EVENTS IN OUR HISTORY
• July 1, 1895 – Lucy Howorth born, US magistrate, appointed by FDR and JFK to federal boards and commissions
• July 1, 1904 – Mary Steichen Calderone born, physician, sex educator, Planned Parenthood Medical Director (53-64), Sex Information and Education Council
• July 1, 1915 – Jean Stafford born, writer, won 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
• July 1, 1916 – Olivia de Havilland born, actor, two-time Academy Award winner
• July 1, 1941 – Twyla Tharp born, dancer and choreographer
• July 2, 1922 – Eleanor Leacock, cultural anthropologist, “Myths of Male Dominance”
• July 2, 1937 – Amelia Earhart’s plane is lost in the Pacific Ocean
• July 2, 1964 – LBJ signs Civil Rights Act; Title VII prohibits sex discrimination in hiring
• July 3, 1908 – M.F.K. Fisher born, author, “How to Cook a Wolf’ and “The Art of Eating”
• July 4, 1876 – Suffragists crash Centennial Celebration to present Matilda Joselyn Gage’s “Declaration of the Rights of Women.”
• July 4, 1898 – Dr. Pilar Barbosa de Rosario born, official historian of Puerto Rico
• July 4, 1918 – Pauline Esther Friedman born, AKA Abigail Van Buren, “Dear Abby”
• July 5, 1899 – Anna Hedgeman born, 1st African American woman in NYC mayor’s cabinet, helped plan 1963 March on Washington
• July 6, 1957 – Althea Gibson born, 1st black Wimbledon women's singles champ.
• July 7, 1861 – Nettie Stevens born, biologist, discovered X and Y sex chromosomes
• July 7, 1908 – Harriette Simpson Arnow born,“The Dollmaker,” WPA Writer’s Project
• July 7, 1915 – Margaret Walker born, author poem “For My People” and novel “Jubilee”
• July 7, 1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor nominated as first woman Supreme Court Justice
Gwendolyn Bennett
• July 8, 1902 – Gwendolyn Bennett born, Harlem Renaissance writer
• July 8, 1926 – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross born, psychiatrist, “On Death and Dying,” 5 stages of grief theory
• July 10, 1875 – Mary McLeod Bethune born, founder National Council of Negro Women
• July 10, 1882 – Ima Hogg born, arts patron, philanthropist, Mental Health Foundation
• July 10, 1891 – Edith Quimby born, biophysicist, medical radiation/safety pioneer
• July 10, 1933 – Jan DeGaetani born, mezzo-soprano, and teacher at Eastman School
• July 12, 1984 – Geraldine Ferraro becomes first female to run for U.S. Vice President
• July 13, 1910 – Josefina Niggli born, scripts “Twilight Zone,” “Have Gun, Will Travel”
• July 14, 1911– Gertrude Goldhaber born, physicist, nuclear structure, National Academy of Sciences
• July 14, 1916 – Muriel Snowden born, civil rights worker, Freedom House in Boston
• July 14, 1917 – 16 National Women’s Party members arrested picketing White House demanding universal women’s suffrage; charged with obstructing traffic
• July 15, 1899 – Estelle Ishigo born, artist, “Lone Heart Mountain” re WWII internment
• July 15, 1923 – Connie Boucher born, merchandise licensing pioneer, “Peanuts”
• July 16, 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy born, founder Church of Christ, Scientist
• July 16, 1862 – Ida Wells-Barnett born, journalist, civil rights leader
• July 16, 1907 – Barbara Stanwyck born, actress, highest paid woman in U.S. in 1944
• July 16, 1911 – Ginger Rogers born, actor and dancer, Academy Award winner
• July 17, 1898 – Berenice Abbott born, photographer, 1930s NYC architecture studies
Carmelita Maracci
• July 17, 1908 – Carmelita Maracci born, choreographer, blended ballet,Spanish dance
• July 18, 1892 – Doris Fleischman Bernays born, first married woman to get a U.S. passport in maiden name (1925), NY Tribune writer-editor
• July 18, 1908 – Mildred Ryder born, AKA “Peace Pilgrim.” 1st woman to walk Appalachian Trail in one season, walked more than 25,000 miles promoting peace
• July 19-20, 1848 – The Seneca Falls Convention, first US women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York
• July 19, 1902 – – Anna Marie Rosenberg born, awarded Medal of Freedom in 1945, assistant Secretary of Defense (1950-53) in spite of Joe McCarthy opposition
• July 20, 1942 – Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) first class at Fort Des Moines
• July 21, 1856 – Louise Bethune born, first American woman working architect, 1881
• July 21, 1905 – Diana Trilling born, literary critic, essay “We Must March My Darlings”
• July 21, 1938 – Janet Reno born, first woman U. S. Attorney General
• July 22, 1849 – Emma Lazarus born, poet, “The New Colossus,” (1883), on Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses”
• July 22, 1898 – Miriam Underhill born, mountaineer, 1st all-women Matterhorn assent
• July 23, 1844 – Harriet Strong born, inventor, patented water storage dams
• July 23, 1892 – Icie Hoobler born, biochemist, president American Chemical Society
• July 23, 1917– Barbara Deming born, writer, peace/civil rights/lesbian/gay rights
• July 23, 1928 – Ruth Whitney born, “Glamour” magazine editor (1967–98)
• July 24, 1920 – Bella Abzug born, activist, NY U.S. Congressional Representative
• July 24, 1897 – Amelia Earhart born, author, 1st woman solo pilot across the Atlantic
• July 27, 1891 – Myrtle Lawrence born, sharecropper, labor organizer, biracial Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (1936-43)
• July 27, 1906 – Helen Wolff born, editor, publisher translations under imprint “A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book” at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, co-founder Pantheon Books
• July 28, 1879 – Lucy Burns born, suffragist, National Woman’s Party, picketed White House, arrested 6 times
• July 28, 1929 – Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis born, First Lady (1961-63), book editor, established White House Historical Association
• July 29, 1896 – Maria L. de Hernandez born, Mexican-American activist, first Mexican female radio announcer, helped Mexican, Mexican-American community organizations
• July 29, 1903 – Diana Vreeland born, “Harper’s Bazaar,” editor-in-chief at “Vogue”
• July 29, 1905 – Mary Roebling born, 1st woman president of major bank, 1st woman governor American Stock Exchange (1958-62)
• July 29, 1932 – Nancy Kassebaum Baker born, first woman Kansas U.S. senator
• July 29, 1936 – Elizabeth H. Dole born, NC U.S. Senator, 1st woman U.S. Secretary of Transportation, also U.S. Secretary of Labor, American Red Cross president
• July 30, 1939 – Eleanor Smeal born, NOW president, co-founder Feminist Majority Foundation, Ms Magazine publisher
Pat Schroeder
• July 30, 1940 – Patricia Schroeder born, 1st woman Colorado U.S. Representative (1973-97), 1st woman on House Armed Services Committee
• July 31, 1879 – Margarete Bieber born, art history/archaeology professor,
The History of the Greek and Roman Theater
http://www.nwhp.org/...
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