Yakima, Washington Yakama woman creates a 'call to action' video on crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women
A small forest near Toppenish was created to heal and nourish the land and those who planted it. The healing forest also inspired Christina Kaltsukis in sharing important messages.
She features the healing forest in her video, "Voices and Visions Against the Violence," centered on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and people. In educating viewers about the centuries-long epidemic, her video emphasizes the spiritual and environmental connections Indigenous communities uphold with their lands….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qQ1YwNCFts
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TheConversation Afghanistan shows what investing in women’s education – or divesting – can do to an economy
...When the Taliban fell from power in ... 2001, women were once again allowed [in] school after being banned since 1996 … Educational, opportunities expanded at all levels... infant mortality rate decline by half, and the gross national income per capital nearly tripled (in real terms in purchasing power, from US$810 in 2001 to $2,590 in 2020.
[Much of the]. progress in this period can be attributed to women. While overall average return on investment in education remains low in Afghanistan, it is high for women. [E.g.] for every additional year of schooling [a woman’s] earnings increased 13%. [Compare] the global average of 9% for return on investment in education.
Twenty years after the first ban on women’s education ended, the Taliban resumed power in 2021 and ... again banned girls and women from ... school after sixth grade. [Now the] economic cost could potentially reach over a billion dollars – and this doesn’t include the wider social costs associated with lower levels of education for women. For context, Afghanistan’s entire gross domestic product was just $17 billion in 2023….
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A civil rights activist who fought for equal representation for Black citizens and women from her home state of Mississippi and whose work laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Hamer died in 1977. A relative accepted the medal on her behalf.
Other honored women this year were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dr. Jane Goodall, and Anna Wintour.
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CFR Sudanese Women Suicide Following Gang Rape
According to [regional director Hala Al-Karib] of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), at least ten women in Sudan’s East Al Jazirah region have committed suicide after being [gang-]raped by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). With very few resources available for women who experience sexual violence, suicide has become common in areas [attacked] by the RSF…. SIHA has documented over two hundred missing women since the war broke out in April 2023, with many allegedly being abducted after trying to flee RSF attacks. Even before the war began, Sudan had been engulfed in a massive humanitarian and displacement crisis. While human rights groups have been arguing that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were taking part in ethnic cleansing, the U.S. government only recently recognized the atrocities as a genocide and ordered sanctions that target the group’s leader.
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In Utah, 217 women have now filed civil lawsuits against Utah County OB-GYN David Broadbent for sexual abuse in appointments.
One says he assaulted her after he agreed to stop practicing. (The Salt Lake Tribune, January 6) 19th News Network Partner
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Hateful politics never lets up.
Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government.
An American pediatrician and psychiatrist serving as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health since 26 March 2021, Levine is also an admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Her tenure at HHs ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.
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Medical debt is the largest source of debt in collection in the US, and more likely to burden women, people with disabilities, and Black Americans.
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Research Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes
...This research shows how state policies tied to immigration can affect immigrant families’ health and well-being, even when those policies have nothing to do with health.
Over the past two decades, state governments have passed increasing numbers of immigration laws. While some of these policies aim to drive out immigrants, others seek to give them more protections. Such laws can apply to immigrants of many legal statuses, including undocumented and legal permanent residents. And they can affect U.S. citizens, too.
Nineteen states have passed laws letting undocumented people get driver’s licenses, most recently Minnesota in 2023. Lawmakers in several other states, including Indiana and Michigan, have introduced similar measures….
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Stateline Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar.
New Jersey joins at least 5 other states — California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington — to pass legislation in the past two years to sustain access to reading materials that deal with racial and sexual themes, including those about the LGBTQ+ community.
...The New Jersey measure not only sets minimum standards for localities when they adopt a policy on how books are curated or can be challenged but also prevents school districts from removing material based on “the origin, background, or views of the library material or those contributing to its creation.”
The law also gives librarians immunity from civil and criminal liability for “good faith actions.”…
[unstated whether the laws will also apply protect material that deals with religion, creed, place of origin, disabilities, Holocaust, and other topics for which books in school and public libraries have been banned.]
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<big><big>An Arkansas federal judge ruled unconstitutional the state’s controversial “harmful to minors” law — freedom-to-read advocate and librarian Amanda Jones will finally get her day in court: the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that her defamation suit against must be heard.</big></big>
Jones sued two local men who accused her of pushing pornography to children.
...Acknowledging that Jones’s case contains "some very specific allegations," Justice Jefferson D. Hughes III said that the burden at trial now rests squarely with the defendants. "Defendants have publicly stated that plaintiff, 'promot[ed] pornography and erotic contents [sic] to kids’ and ‘advocat[ed] teaching anal sex to 11 year-olds,' " Hughes wrote. "If plaintiff did not do these acts, she cannot prove a negative. The burden will be on defendants to prove that plaintiff did in fact do the acts they have publicly accused her of. If defendants can prove that plaintiff did the things they claim, then the truth is a defense. If they cannot, they have defamed the plaintiff."
Notably, Jones is not seeking significant damages in the case—just $1 and an apology. "This is not about revenge, or monetary gain, but about standing up for what is right," Jones explained in a July 2024 post on her website. "We teach our children to report and speak out against bullying, and that is what I am doing. I am doing this on behalf of myself, and on behalf of the countless other librarians across the country who have been targeted and harassed simply for standing up for intellectual freedom and standing up for our school and public libraries."...
More recently, in federal court, Jones filed another defamation lawsuit, against a New Jersey man whose “Safe Libraries” blog essentially accused Jones of pushing pornography and sexualizing children.
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AssocPress Standing ovation at the Halifax International Security Forum, as Canada’s top military commander calls out US senator for questioning women’s role in combat
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — The first woman to command Canada’s military...Gen. Jennie Carignan responded to comments made by Idaho Republican Sen. Jim Risch, the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who [had been asked] whether President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, should retract [stating the belief that] men and women should not serve together in combat units.
“I think it’s delusional for anybody to not agree that women in combat creates certain unique situations that have to be dealt with. I think the jury’s still out on how to do that,” Risch said during a panel session at the [Forum last month].
Carignan, the first woman to command the armed forces of any Group of 20 or Group of Seven country, pointed out that women have participating in combat for hundreds of years, merely never recognized for fighting for their country.
“After 39 years of career as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations across the world, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify the contribution of women to the defense and to [the service of their countries]. I wouldn’t want anyone to leave this forum [thinking this] is some kind of social experiment.”
Carignan ...noted the women military personnel in the room. “All the women sitting here in uniform, stepping in, and deciding to get into harm’s way and fight for their country, need to be recognized for doing so,” she said. “So again, this is the distraction, not the women themselves.”...
The forum draws defense and security officials from across the Western democracies. Carignan received a standing ovation.
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no definitive reports yet on where TFG’s snakers are made or by whom.
TheConversation The mindset of sex traffickers and other modern slaveholders.
The author first sketches out ancient roots, such as Aristotle’s view that slavery is a public good in the natural order of things, to make inferior people productive for the rest, an outlook extensive globally, not only in cultures where overt caste systems support combining paternalism with right of disposability but among the Founding Fathers of the U.S. including Jefferson, to this very day, including in the U.S., powered by globalization, the usefulness of the internet — in “recruitment”, purchase, and utilization — and the global population explosion.
The author says research in modern slavery is only about 20 years old and focused on systemic causes, only more recently expanding to the nature of perpetrators, ranging from criminal rings or families and Fortune500 companies such as Apple, Samsung, Nestlé and Nike — charged with or admitted to using slave labor — to high profile celebrities on trial for sex trafficking].
Rachel Lloyd and Holly Austin Gibbs are among survivors who have published testimonies of being trafficked, writing that the slaveholders used manipulation and violence to treat teenage girls as little more than economic commodities for profit. As Aristotle said.
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From Medscape, four links on battles female doctors face that mirror workplace obstructions for women across the economy,
- We don't hire female doctors with children.
- Women docs: pay rate matters when you’re playing catch-up.
- Survey: few female physicians find a well-supported career ladder.
- Career tracks: how female MDs fight the glass ceiling.
And then this one whose title should be moot:
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HighCountryNews Fire crews do more than fight fires
in September 2020, as crews outside Yosemite National Park worked to contain the oncoming Creek Fire and evacuate those in its path, archaeologist Jennie Leonard was racing to protect something that couldn’t leave: the giant sequoias in the Mariposa Grove.
Leonard and her fellow resource advisors — who protect species, cultural items and other resources from wildfire and fire-suppression activities — covered the bases of the ancient trees with structure wrap, a fire-resistant aluminum fabric. Each tree, Leonard recalled, “looked like a baked potato.”
Resource advisors ... have served on wildfires since the 1970s … and their work has become increasingly critical … With climate change bringing larger, more frequent and more destructive fires, resource advisors are needed to guide firefighters in areas where large wildfires have been uncommon, including California’s Redwood National Park and the western reaches of North Cascades National Park in Washington….
and from The19th Women firefighters with reproductive cancers are now eligible for federal help. “The policy change came nearly three years after cancers typically impacting male counterparts got coverage.”
BTW, regarding the Los Angeles fires, ICT reported that the Klamath Tribes of Oregon sent two crews & firefighting engines, and the Navajo nation sent twenty-three elite Type 2 Initial Attack firefighters.
And despite the soon-to-be first-convicted-felon-President’s public threats against neighbors to the north and south, Canada sent fire crews, aircraft and equipment, with additional commitments for more, in appreciation for US sending 2,000 firefighters and equipment to them in 2023, and Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on Friday coordination with Pres. Biden and Gov. Newsom for firefighters from Mexico’s National Forestry Commission and National Defense department.
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WomensAgenda The women world leaders already standing up to Trump’s threats.
Replying to Trumps proposition to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum, the country’s first female president, made a counter-proposal during a daily press conference, standing before a world map from 1607 showing the Gulf’s existing name — she proposed dryly that all North America should be renamed América Mexicana (Mexican America) since an 1814 founding document referred to it that way. “that sounds nice, no?”
...Commenting on her country’s historically fraught relationship with the US, Sheinbaum said she believes the bilateral partnership between the two regional powers is positive. “I think there will be a good relationship … Pres. Trump has his way of communicating.”
Earlier this week, Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen declared that “Greenland belongs to Greenlanders,” [following Trump saying he would not rule out using military or economic force to take it from Denmark.] Shortly after Mette Frederiksen’s statement … Danish parliament member Aaja Chemnitz reiterated that Greenland “is not for sale” adding, “Greenland will never be for sale.”
World leaders are treating Trump’s threat seriously,...France and Germany have issued statements defending Greenland’s territorial rights and advising against the threat of any military action.
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h/t Bill in Portland Maine
WomensAgenda ‘Nobody deserves it more’: Gisèle Pelicot should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Thousands of people on Thursday signed a UK petition calling for Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of her strength and courage in publicly putting shame for rape and violence against women squarely on the shoulders of abusers for all the world to acknowledge.
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50,000 attendees expected at ‘People’s March On Washington D.C.’ ahead of Inauguration Day as part of a nationwide day of action.
h/t laloalcaraz
WASHINGTON — A massive demonstration is planned for the weekend before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office on Inauguration Day.
The march is organized by leading civil rights, racial justice and reproductive health organizations, including the Women's March, Planned Parenthood and the National Women's Law Center.
Similar marches are planned as part of a day of action across the country.
" ... This is our moment to remind the billionaire boys' club where the power truly lives: with the people. Let's make it count. Let’s make it a weekend of resistance all around this country and the world," organizers wrote on the event's website...
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