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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)26. Here's an OP that I posted. To make it faster for you, here it is:
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.
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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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
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
we are already on an unlevel economic playing field. we cannot start equality on an unlevel field.
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#8
Interesting, and very well written--thank you (I like long posts when they are good)
ismnotwasm
Apr 2015
#10
Because the highly touted economics first crowd of old, were about protecting white males.
freshwest
Apr 2015
#21
I have edited it a lot, so kindly take a look at the finished work to reply. TIA. n/t
freshwest
Apr 2015
#23
yes. sanders needs to be an advocate to black, women and gays. obama was good with our issues,
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#14
i know he absolutely supports us all, and his vote is there. no.... i have not heard him the
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#16
his vote is absolutely there. i want more. clinton promises more. our women, blacks and gays
seabeyond
Apr 2015
#18