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freshwest

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26. Here's an OP that I posted. To make it faster for you, here it is:
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 09:16 PM
Apr 2015
The First Feminist President, Barack Obama

by Mandy Van Deven

March 23, 2009

On January 20th the first self-identified feminist was named President of the United States of America. Just two days after taking office, Barack Obama performed his first presidential act of solidarity with women around the world by repealing the Global Gag Rule. Established in 1984 by President Reagan, the Global Gag Rule denies aid to international groups "which perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning."

The Global Gag Rule has come to be seen as a litmus test of the current US President's stance on women's rights, though it is just one aspect of the complicated story of the impact of American reproductive rights policy in countries around the globe. [17]



After witnessing the impact of President Bush's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, Michelle Goldberg, journalist, author, and long-time critic of the Bush Administration's policies on sexual and reproductive health, decided that a book about the global battle for reproductive justice was long overdue. So she wrote The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. [17]

The cover art depicting a woman holding the Earth on her shoulders is more than appropriate for this deeply-researched, historically-informed examination: fifty years worth of research about four continents has convinced Goldberg that women's oppression is at the crux of many of the world's most intractable challenges. She illustrates how US policies act as a catalyst for or an impediment to women's rights worldwide, and puts forth a convincing argument that women's liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.

"Underlying diverse conflicts - demography, natural resources, human rights, and religious mores - is the question of who controls the means of reproduction," she writes. "Women's intimate lives have become inextricably tied to global forces."


http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2009/03/23/controlling-means-reproduction-an-interview-with-michelle-goldberg/

The war on women is not just a war on women, but on men, too. Men who don't support women's rights are sealing their own fate.

Not just an American problem. It is about global control and reducing all of mankind to commodities.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801#op

There is more information in the comments there. I will note that Obama has refused to accept even CRs, which are essential to not shut down government and life saving programs, that have tried to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood or Personhood Bills.

These have been attached to every thing that Rand Paul puts in. PBO has done the same with KXL at great political cost. But those DEEDS and not words are never acknowledged here.

His health plan ensured women would get full health care, equal to men, but the push back has been massive and founded by the Koches. Who, I will add, directly threatened Obama that he would pay heavily for opposing KXL in 2010 as GWB promised them.

So the KXL veto came as no surprise to me. Conservative had been calling Obama too involved with environmental activists. And yet the resident bashers who don't even know the facts on that 'PBO had 2 years of majority rule' is so tiresome and been debunked so many times, it's not even worth trying to educate them. They don't acknowledge replies disproving their misinformation.

One the thing encouraging from HRC is her saying she will maintain all that Obama has done, and build upon it. She has been an ardent activist for women for years. She has had the courage to talk about the horrible things being done to women around the globe and never backed down. Obama has not either.

Anyway, just FYI.

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This F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #1
thank you. and to be clear. i used fuck instead of fug, cause a juror said they would hide me, if seabeyond Apr 2015 #2
Bahaha did they really? F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #4
yes i am. screwed either way, that is. fug it. seabeyond Apr 2015 #5
Love the graphic GeoWilliam750 May 2015 #29
lol lol geo. all over the place. ah ha.... seabeyond May 2015 #30
Well. Obama said to the toadys at the WHCD, 'Bucket.' He didn't mean a mop and bucket, either... n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #20
Love this ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #3
You say it has to happen before economic justice... F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #6
We are human first ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #7
we are already on an unlevel economic playing field. we cannot start equality on an unlevel field. seabeyond Apr 2015 #8
I don't disagree with any of that. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #9
Interesting, and very well written--thank you (I like long posts when they are good) ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #10
I was messaging with another member today JustAnotherGen Apr 2015 #12
excellent post. nt seabeyond Apr 2015 #13
Beautiful. n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #25
Our system seems based on divide and conquer GeoWilliam750 May 2015 #31
Because the highly touted economics first crowd of old, were about protecting white males. freshwest Apr 2015 #21
I never answer you? F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #22
I have edited it a lot, so kindly take a look at the finished work to reply. TIA. n/t freshwest Apr 2015 #23
Will do. nt F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #24
I will not be able to get to this until at least tomorrow night F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #27
My advice would be not to let the sideshow on DU BainsBane Apr 2015 #11
yes. sanders needs to be an advocate to black, women and gays. obama was good with our issues, seabeyond Apr 2015 #14
Do you know that he hasn't? BainsBane Apr 2015 #15
i know he absolutely supports us all, and his vote is there. no.... i have not heard him the seabeyond Apr 2015 #16
He seems very pro-woman, as well as--100% rating from NARAL ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #17
his vote is absolutely there. i want more. clinton promises more. our women, blacks and gays seabeyond Apr 2015 #18
Exactly ismnotwasm Apr 2015 #19
Here's an OP that I posted. To make it faster for you, here it is: freshwest Apr 2015 #26
This is very cool ismnotwasm May 2015 #28
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