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Dear Leader: If you’re receiving this email you are either an acknowledged leader in women’s movement or a woman in whom I see emerging leadership, goedkope chantix apotheek. Buy chantix online, I am increasingly impressed and depressed at the same time: impressed with the work happening everywhere, with the talent abounding wherever I look, buy chantix pills, Tennessee TN Tenn. , and yet depressed by no sense of movement that reflects real pushback. I know–because I’ve made it my business to know–how vast women’s movement is, and yet we are not unified enough that we can leverage our collective power visibly, buy chantix online legally, Chantix cheap, audibly, and in a magnificent display of pushback. Yes, buy chantix no prescription, Kansas KS Kans. , so much work is happening on the ground, and as First Lady Michelle Obama often said about President Obama’s work before he came into the limelight, New Jersey NJ N.J. , Mississippi MS Miss. , we are doing our work "in the shadows." I am not content for our work to continue in the shadows. So, I’m writing to ask who, For chantix online, Buy chantix overnight delivery, in your opinion, has the moral authority, South Carolina SC S.C. , Acheter chantix, the connections and the moxie to call a meeting of womanist and feminist leaders..I’m talking about a kitchen table meeting among activist womanist leaders/thinkers/spielers and activist feminist leaders/thinkers/spielers to talk frankly to one another about a collective vision. Perhaps it’s because I have a background in psychotherapy, perhaps it’s because I survived a crazy childhood, or maybe I was just born this way, but I know how to drill down with empathy, synthesizing, reframing, inclusion and thinking out loud so that the elephant in the room becomes breaking a silence that needs to be broken. I’m hearing a gigantic, deafening silence right now in women’s movement. I’d like women leaders to come together to discuss where we’ve been, where we are, where we’re going. What I’m not calling for is a single purpose led by a single woman. I am calling for making common cause visible, audible and undeniable: a magnificent display of pushback.
Who will call this meeting? I don’t have the connections to call such a meeting, but I can facilitate the discussion once we get in the same room, or on the same conference call, or other way that supports in-depth discussion and confronting ourselves. I will post this to Fem2pt0’s blog and it’s wiki, as well as to my own blogs, and then I will Tweet and Facebook this letter so that anyone who wants to give input can have access to this conversation. I suggest that comments be posted to Fem2pt0’s blog and/or wiki. Please feel free to cross-post this to your own blogs and direct comments to Fem2pt0.
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I also am concerned about the vacuum of leadership in the feminist movement. For too long the same voices have led the movement here in the states. I am a 27 year long member of NOW and have wittnessed the ebb and flow of activism. The Clinton years were great but made many of us way to comfortable. We were not prepared for the Bush years or his and Cheeny’s ‘rabid grab for power post 9/11.
much energy and time was spent running just to stay in the same place.
Now we have a new Presdident in Mr Obama. to be honest I have seriousa doubts on his ability to make real and progressive change. Just in the news is the Interent security act giving the president power to shut down the interent.
Plus the obama administration is going into court in support of the Bush policies on spying on regular citizens phone calls and e-,mails. And the Obama administratoin is citing “state secrets” as to be above the possiblity of a lawsuit. Excuse me Mr Obama, but that was not on the brouchure. So now as feminists we have to decide to take on a popular democratic president that almost all progressvie groups endorsed, including NOW.
NOW is electing new leaders this summer and only 1 slate of 4 has announced there candidacy. Vacuum part 2.
I am hopefull that a new and young group of women-feminists will emerge and demand real change and forward looking thinking from the progressive movement and if needed become the leadership of those groups.
thanks for listening
in unity
david s
hi Sabine! thanks much for posting to your blog…it’s going to take time to build a consciousness that what I’m talking about is necessary as well as something we can pull off…
David–I appreciate your thoughts on this, too. I just wanted to say that the future of the movement is in the young women and men who get involved, but I’m not young. I’m 55. I don’t think there’s a vacuum of leadership–I think there are many, many leaders, in fact. But how we work together to further our common cause is what I’m asking people to address.
MadamaAmbi, I’ve been thinking a lot about your open letter since you wrote it, and what kind of organizing Confabulous could do here in Canada to bring together people in the way that you’re describing. I’m actually going to write a separate post about this, because I feel like my thoughts would spill out past the parameters of what suits the comments section. Regardless, thank you for getting this conversation going.
And David, thanks for your comments. Something I’ve been thinking about for a while is that the Canadian counterpart to NOW (or what could be considered its counterpart) was called the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. In the 1990s, they were an important force for political organizing, and had quite a vocal presence on the national political stage. Now they don’t even have a website. This is one particular problem we’re facing here.
hi Sabine–thanks for thinking more on this. Here in the U.S. Congress, Jackie Spier has introduced legislation to create a Presidential Commission on Women, and womencount.org is heading this up. They are collecting comments on their site, and this is what I wrote:
I want to echo Judy & Penelope re speaking out for women in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, Congo…etc. We must pressure the Obama administration to make the human rights of women central to their negotiations with key countries. We Who Are Freer Must Speak Out. If you read the comments posted thus far, you can see that even as far as women in this country have come we are not equal and we are not protected by the laws of our own country. There is much work to do here in the United States. However, the lives of women in the countries I’ve mentioned are horrific and they are suffering severe deprivation of their human rights. We must not let the U.S. government throw the rights of women under the bus in order to establish a fragile, possibly even illusive peace with Afghanistan or Pakistan.
I’ve spent the better part of today writing to feminists, asking who will join me in a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Very few women have even bothered to answer my emails. I’m a grassroots activist feminist and I must tell you that I am not waiting for this Commission or for the Council on Women and Girls to solve problems of economic or political parity, or even to settle the issue of a woman’s right to control her own sexuality. In order for government to be responsive to our needs, our vision of what we’re entitled to, we must keep the pressure on and continue to enlarge the conversation so that there cannot be any privileging of one group of women over another. My feminism is global; I feel as connected to the suffering of women in Iran who are stoned to death for adultery as I do to pregnant teenagers in the Bronx or single mothers in Georgia. There are many ways to suffer in this world and I wouldn’t presume to tell any woman that my suffering is more deserving of attention than hers. BUT, I am losing sleep over women who are slaves to their husbands, who suffer severe violence for leaving their home unattended by a male relative, who are forbidden all of the freedoms we in America take for granted. The women’s movement here in the U.S. could use some juice, in my opinion. I’ve written about this recently on Fem2.0’s blog and my own blogs. I still think there’s plenty to be OUTRAGED about! I see that Gloria Steinem and Ms. Foundation are asking women to “do something outrageous and have fun doing it…”
Say what? That’s what women’s movement is now? Have fun doing it? Look, I’m not gonna bash Gloria Steinem or Ms., but that is not where I’m coming from! Do I have to throw a party for women to get outraged about their unequal protection under the laws? Really? If you’re not outraged, you have lived a lucky, lucky life, sisters. Or maybe you’re in denial. It’s time to get outraged and push back against institutions that define us as less than fully human with complete parity and the power to self-determination. Where is the outrage?
I’m suggesting that you Google images of women being stoned to death. You can also view the recent video of a girl being flogged in public, and if her screams don’t turn you inside out, then go get a pedicure…and don’t forget your latte! Come on, people! And there is so much more violence systematically directed at women all around the world! Why isn’t this front and center every night on the news? There was more coverage on mainstream media about the captain held hostage by Somali pirates than you will ever see about violence against women on primetime news! And the story that was touted about Captain Phillips wasn’t even true! He did not volunteer to be a hostage! It’s just the same old same old, sisters! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up and get mad!!!!!!!!!!!
You can leave your comments on any of my blogs. I invite you to read where I come from. http://patriarchaldisorder.blogspot.com http://madamaambi.blogspot.com http://feministadvisoryboard.blogspot.com http://needia.blogspot.com
yours in outrage and sisterhood,
MadamaAmbi
MadamaAmbi, I’m starting to check out all your online work. Thank you so much for your comment. I’m totally with you on the importance of recognizing women’s oppression globally, and as a Canadian I’m especially concerned about what’s going on in Afghanistan because of Canada’s military involvement there for the past several years.
I could speculate about where the anger has gone from the feminist movement (there are lots of theories, right). And you’re right that there is so much to be outraged about, for people to be taking to the streets…and we’re not.
But I do have to say that the problem with outrage is that it doesn’t sustain you. Outrage leads to exhaustion and withdrawal. So for me, I think that there is actually a necessity in committing outrageous acts (as Gloria Steinem calls them) that are fun (and in many instances, it *is* fun to flout gender conventions) as a way of feeding the soul, so that one can go back to getting educated and, well, being outraged. Know what I mean?
Thanks again for getting this conversation started!
Sabine–yes, I totally understand what you’re saying about outrage itself not being enough to sustain a movement. But I think we can differentiate between the shock of recognition that compels one to act, and the ability to commit to the work. I don’t want to sound preachy and like I’ve got it all figured out, but I have been going around these issues myself and so have had to deal with it. This would make a really good discussion topic: how to stoke the fires without burning out. Fem2pt0 just had it’s Sunday night Tweetchat on domestic violence and we broke Tweetchat!!! I’m suggesting we try blogtalkradio or maybe TalkShoe, or other…would be great to get more and more women in on the conversation…
MadamaAmbi, I think Tweetchat and these other technologies you’re talking about is going to be the next frontier for political organizing. It’s certainly something I’ve heard about but don’t know about, and so I definitely want to be talking about it here at Confabulous so that other who aren’t in the loop yet can get in on it!
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