In March 2019, I posted this blog as part of a longer blog, my first detailed public statement supporting impeachment hearings. “Who’s your Clan Mother?” Impeachment as Women’s Public Authority Why it took me so long to come out for impeachment is a topic for another day. Since then, I have been promoting impeachment non-stop […]
Women’s Public Authority
Ever since the leadership of the women’s march organizations had some meltdowns (late 2018), I’ve been hoping that some new U.S. organization would arise to fill the vacuum — to build on the women’s marches of 2017, on the elections of 2018, and the on-going women’s conversations on social media. Perhaps Supermajority might be that […]
UPDATED on March 28, 2019 Official webpage of House Resolution 257 Inquiring whether the House of Representatives should impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America UPDATED on March 26, 2019 to reflect Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (MN) request for co-sponsors on her “Resolution to Begin the Investigation of Impeachable Actions by […]
Questions from an impatient and concerned observer in Evanston, IL Posted December 20, 2018 Update February 3, 2019: See response from Executive Director of CWHL To: Center for Women’s History & Leadership Evanston, IL Attn: Glen Madeja, Exec. Director Dear Mr. Madeja: I think I speak for many when I say that I have […]
Posted Sept. 26, 2018 Per Gillian Flynn: “They don’t care about us enough to hate us. We are simply a form of livestock.”’ Tweeted by Sarah Kendzior re “endless wave of revelations about sexual assault” In Time magazine, December 2017: Gillian Flynn: A Howl Sarah Kendzior is an expert on Central Asian autocracies and has […]
Updated resources: Dec. 9, 2018, March 21, 2019 Posted September 6, 2018 I agree with those who say that Americans are in a constitutional crisis in 2018. I believe that the most unifying, sanity-inducing, and relief-giving activity that we can do right now is to learn the details of the Great Law of Peace and […]
Inspiration from FARM WOMEN UNITED — Reclaiming the U.S. Constitution: The 2018 Dairy Farm Crisis Posted July 22, 2018 As a 67-year old lifelong activist, in 2018 I am finding more and more need to refer to the U.S. Constitution, only to find that the Constitution itself is outdated and unclear on many things—including public […]
FOOD-and-FARM POLICY: MANIFESTING FEMINISM IN ILLINOIS Posted May 9, 2018 A working definition of feminism: Feminism is the act of remembering that no humans exist or thrive without the wisdom, agency, and authority of women — as indigenous individuals, as an intergenerational culture (women-to-women), and as the center of a wild species living on this Earth. […]