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es we have been sold the myth that feminism is no longer relevant that we have gained equality we know this to be false we know that this is false and that it works to stifle our voices and our ability to be organised and fight back a new study on violence against women conducted over four decades in 70 countries reveals the mobilisation of feminist movements is more important for change than the wealth of nations left wing political parties or the number of women politicians so the onus is on us it is up to us to keep coming out on the streets and to create a strong feminist movement feminism is not just about calling out sexism we need a feminism which makes real demands we need to create a feminist movement that aspires for real change which challenges the exploitation and oppression of women and of all people by the wealthy minority and the system which profits from our suffering solutions will come from women coming together educating and organising towards this end for there is nothing more empowering than the act of solidarity and women involved in collective action together unity is strength until we have created a world where we are not attacked abused and discriminated against because of our gender where gender is irrelevant and we are recognised with respect as human beings our struggle continues until there is no wage gap until we have complete control over our bodies until the police and the judicial system takes domestic violence and sexual assault seriously until there are adequate facilities for all women in need until there are compulsory education programs against violence until we create a culture where men are taught to respect women until we do not invade other countries and kill our sisters until no refugee is locked in detention centres until our indigenous sisters have their culture respected and true land rights until we have a safe climate future and our global sisters are no longer the victims of the big polluters who are destroying the earth and its ecosystems and until there is no more violence in the street and in the home until then our struggle continues but i believe that if we fight we can win posted in feminism violence against women tagged feminism julia gillard politics sexism violence against women women leave a comment help us lay this burden down posted on march 8 2011 by elizabeth reply i just can t think of a better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of international women s day than with this posted in music video women tagged glory hallelujah 100years international women s day iwd music odetta song video leave a comment feminism and the f word posted on march 7 2011 by elizabeth reply my response to cbc s documentary the f word who wants to be a feminist is up at rabble ca here s a bit one of the framing questions asked by the film is where did feminism go wrong in getting to the answer the film outlined some of the goals and objectives of second wave feminism but if this means the status quo is represented as the answer to the question of where feminism went wrong the answer will focus only on the shortcomings of the second wave there would be something to be grateful for here too if the documentary makers had focussed on those failures in their socio economic and political context the pressures of neoliberalism over the last two decades have led to the marginalization of many liberation movements feminism is just one of them the critical issue for contemporary movements is to understand how that happened and of course that means critical analysis of the goals and strategies of the movements themselves but the exclusion of this type of context in the documentary rendered it inaccurate unhelpful and defeatist did the doc at least get its history of the canadian second wave right absolutely not check it out here and judy rebick in 1911 the first international women s day marches were held across europe a few days later on march 25 146 immigrant women were killed in the triangle factory fire because the bosses locked the doors from the outside russian socialist alexander kollentai proposed that the next year iwd would honour these women and the theme of iwd became bread and roses and the date march 8 at the time most women workers in canada were domestic or textile workers as soon as they got married or pregnant they were fired they made up to 80 less than men for the same job so the demand for bread was obvious as the song bread and roses which has become an anthem of the women s movement says hearts starve as well as bodies give us bread but give us roses the rose is a powerful symbol of the female and of love that symbol comes not only from its beauty but also from its tenacity the rose bushes in my garden still have leaves on them in early winter and they bloom almost until the frost the rest is here posted in canada feminism women tagged the f word who wants to be a feminist canadian feminism cbc doc zone feminism international women s day iwd judy rebick rabble leave a comment give yourself a slap upside the head canada posted on february 6 2011 by elizabeth 1 updated below in these days of action for democracy in egypt canada once again finds itself on the wrong side of humanity s hope for freedom thanks to his harperness failure to condemn the brutal totalitarian regime of hosni mubarak in that context i hope everyone watches this update and just to clarify that the bone i m picking is with the state of israel and not all of israel s people watch this too posted in canadian politics israel religion tagged al jazeera anti semitism avi lewis canada egypt hosni mubarak israel israel lobby stephen harper 1 comment grieve christina with care posted on january 9 2011 by elizabeth 4 christina taylor greene born at 12 50 p m on september 11 2001 died at 10 10 a m on january 8 2011 dear christina i wanted to talk to you before you become a face on plastic amulets in our convenience stores before the struggle over the meaning of your birth life and death becomes a fight over political territory i know i am appropriating your birth and death for myself i do it with good intentions and in the hope that it would make you happy you were born in a moment of your nation s despair hatred fear and rage you knew none of that but you as all of us have lived in its grip for your whole life it sounds as though your family didn t let it hold you too hard you were life for them when their country people focussed on death you were beauty and innocence and little doubt hope someone even put your face in a book called faces of hope so you became a symbol for a larger circle of people than those who knew you and nurtured you that circle has failed you christina perhaps against our own wills we allowed your birth and the nourishment of your young life to be overtaken by our own selfish wishes for revenge our desire to take back our own innocence by force by our anger and rage and childishness we moved from the terrible day of your birth too quickly forgetting to mourn forgetting what mourning means we stayed in our rage and bitterness too long and polluted your environment so that it could no longer sustain you we are famous for making this kind of mistake in the time since you were born we have killed many children like you we thought we were doing that to protect you so that you could grow up whole and strong and give us those gifts i see in your eyes we forgot how easily and quickly we could destroy those gifts if we didn t prepare ourselves to accept them we grew scabs over the pain caused us on the day of your birth but they were scabs made of fear and a need for retribution and they allowed poisons to fester beneath them we allowed our wounds to become fuel for violence we have spent years spitting at each other for all that i am against war and for peace people have felt my spit on their faces too i have been in such a rage about the killing i know i am part of what killed you yesterday you went to hear and see congresswoman gabrielle giffords because you were interested in the workings of government and your curiosity caused a neighbour to invite you to meet her your interest your neighbour s interest in you these are such good things but we didn t give you a good or safe place to explore your interests and curiosities we gave you adults shouting inanities back and forth we gave you insulting and hurtful and painful chatter we made fun of people who called the rhetoric hurtful and insulting we gave you words as weapons and vehicles to carry the poison of those festering injuries we sustained back on the day you were born and long before that i m not a romantic or an idealist christina it s become very difficult to say the words all you need is love and be taken seriously perhaps because we have never really understood what we meant when we said those words maybe we thought those words just meant don t worry be happy though even that is hardly a bad thing we seem to have forgotten that wise women and men and children have pondered the meaning of those words for centuries and only understood them fleetingly and through a dark glass we don t think those words are useful in real life which is harsh and hard and technical and practical and scientific and rational and emotionless many people sneer at those words christina and think they are nice enough in a song but of no useful significance others think they can use them in their churches and synagogues and mosques and decide what they mean in those limited places and forget what it means to bring them out into the world the real world that often doesn t look as though it was made for love but was i ve had a bad year myself christina i watched a livestream of some very vengeful men hurting some peace loving gift bearing people on a ship bound for a place called gaza and it affected me profoundly even though i wasn t quite sure how i watched a bunch of vengeful men and probably some women intimidate corral beat and imprison some friends of mine in toronto and it affected me profoundly even though i wasn t quite sure how it has seemed in the past year that everything i ve always worked for and towards was in tatters and that the world was going from bad to worse i wondered if there was anything i could really hope for or in any more i ve been pretty angry and have often felt embittered i use that word embittered because i felt someone made me bitter i didn t take responsibility for choosing bitterness that was dumb of me i take that back i am not bitter i was just being stupid for awhile you have caused me to wake up a bit i want this bad death that has been inflicted upon you by all of us to lead to something better if not something good like a world where kids can admire and respect and actually learn some wisdom from their elders because their elders have taken the trouble to be respectable and wise a world where it s actually sensible to participate in the ways we govern and nurture ourselves and look after others because we do our best at it and respect ourselves and others who try hey christina a world in which we ve taken the trouble to know ourselves and understand what a good life might be and care enough to work for it if we got that for ourselves if we thought enough of ourselves to demand it we wouldn t be able to help being good to each other because that s what being good to each other requires we need to grieve you now child i admit i m trying to get on the grief bandwagon here quickly and take over i know i m going to be angered by the way your death gets exploited and people tread either too hard or too lightly on your life and its meaning i know i m going to get it wrong too i just hope i can stay committed to a gentle path of grieving you one on which i don t cling too hard and fast to anything in particular and don t respond too nastily to others who think they know what you meant and what you mean i do think i know something though i ll try to hold onto it and share it in your honour without wearing my rage you are so beautiful i m glad to know you and so sad you are gone posted in child abuse war tagged 9 11 christina taylor greene culture death gabrielle giffords love politics us america 4 comments what of our stolen sisters a post mortem posted on october 24 2010 by elizabeth 3 i know everybody s tired of it and of him but questions linger and the post mortems are just as or more important than the explosion of media reporting that accompanies the events we all know how bad that was except for this and i m not sure if it counts since it s on the blogs and not in print john cruikshank prolly doesn t even know it s there the post mortems are threatening to be equally bad even when of the more er thoughtful kind take this from the globe and mail in 1941 american psychiatrist hervey cleckley published a seminal book about psychopaths called the mask of sanity in which he described an intelligent and cunning person skilled at manipulating others and indifferent to their pain a man like this dr cleckley explained finds no real meaning in love or horror or humour as if colour blind to human feeling dr cleckley used interviews observation and medical records to learn about his patients but today brain imaging offers scientists a new way to peer behind the mask a growing number of them now see psychopathy as a neurodevelopmental disorder one in which a combination of genetic and environmental factors such as neglect or poor bonding with parents lead to deficits in the brain and if biology is to blame can society hold the psychopath responsible the brain deficits that neuroscientists have documented affect the ability of psychopaths to feel emotions and learn from their mistakes as if they have a learning disability that impairs their emotional development says kent kiehl a neuroscientist at the university of new mexico the differences have been seen in the brain images of children as young as 5 there is much that i find interesting and important in these theories and findings including that it might be quite beside the point to blame and punish psychopaths though it s still important to find humane ways to protect ourselves from them but what they almost always leave out as in this case are questions about gender and race perhaps that comes later for scientists and most media types but i think the issues need to be addressed now why are criminal psychopaths most often male why are their victims most often female and children if we remain obsessed by the neurobiological importantand intriguing as it is we fail to properly address the fact that psychopathology results from a complex process involving not just the biological but also the social and environmental cops miss this too even when they acknowledge the interconnections for instance the fbi produced a monograph on serial murder after a multi disciplinary symposium on the topic held in san antonio in 2005 here s something the monograph says about causality 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