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And all this requires is just a little bit of organizing (okay, a lot of organizing). But hell, I've probably got a few good decades left on planet earth to get this done. Buy estrogen, Want to join me.

To that end: Does anyone know if there is an old NAC contact or membership list that is still floating around. And to the RebELLES: I want to join the momentum that you're building and help to build on it. And to our American allies: I think there are enormous opportunities for cross-border cross-pollination of ideas and actions. I want Confabulous to start getting in on your efforts (Tweetchat. Gotta figure that out) and start spreading the word up here. Political bloggers: ideas for strategies on how to join forces.

If you're curious, scared and/or interested in being a part of something that really advances the interests of women and girls (and therefore, you know, humanity), email me at sabine [at] confabulous [dot] ca, or leave a comment below. Let's build on what's already out there (as Karine noted here) and see what we can create.

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Order estrogen without prescription, For about 20 years now, feminists inside and outside of academia have been having a very important conversation, one that has been a reckoning of sorts, an acknowledgment that North American feminist organizing has been dominated by white, middle-class women who too often failed to respect and acknowledge women's different and competing interests. But it wasn't even just a case of failure to respect and acknowledge: sometimes it was a matter of active exclusion or hostile rejection. There was outright racism, homophobia and transphobia. Oregon OR Ore. , Certain issues got onto the feminist agenda while others were ignored and/or actively pushed aside.

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Our American readers might not know this, so permit me a short discursus on a model for organizing that I would like to pull out of recent women's history. Canada actually has--or had--a model of very effective feminist organizing that is premised on alliances: the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (or NAC, for short), För estrogen online. NAC was an organization that started up in 1971. The model that NAC embodied was kinda brilliant--and is more fitting to today's political climate than ever before, order estrogen without prescription. Why.

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Like Amanda Reaume from Antigone Magazine noted in the comments section yesterday, one thing that would really benefit Canadian women's movements would be a new level of support and connectedness among social justice organizations, ordering estrogen online legally. I don't see any reason why we can't harness web 2.0 technologies to do precisely that, order estrogen without prescription. And I don't see why we can't use NAC as a real-world analogue for a virtual umbrella organization. And once we get this in place for Canada, we can harness up to our American sisters and beyond. Order estrogen online, What about NAC's diversity politics. If we used NAC as a model, what kind of diversity politics would we be replicating. Order estrogen without prescription, Part of the answer to this lies in the story of NAC's slow death.

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But I've also read account indicating that NAC had had working committees on Aboriginal women's justice starting in the 1970s, and a women of colour caucus from the early 1980s. I gather that having Aboriginal and women of colour in leadership positions (other than the presidency, prior to Thobani) in NAC was actually not that exceptional. And part of NAC's decline was its decision, under Judy Rebick, to side with Aboriginal women who were against the Charlottetown Accord--even though this would mean threatening NAC's funding from the federal government. Order estrogen without prescription, What intrigues me about NAC--and again, I am not aware of a detailed history of the organization, so I am absolutely open to hearing from people who know more about this than I--is that it was a coalition comprised of individuals and groups who did not agree 100% of the time, AND paid attention to a diverse range of women AND was incredibly effective. Its weak spot, of course, was relying exclusively on government funding.

But it seems to me that there is no reason why Canadian feminists can't establish a kind of "virtual NAC," a broad coalition comprised of a variety of individuals and organizations who just want to get shit done, rather than police each other's feminist chops. If we decide that this is what we want, we can find the funding. And we can do this while still struggling through the conversation about inclusion and exclusion (e.g. the fact that poor, homeless and rural women may not be plugged into web 2.0 technologies is an issue to stay mindful of and a matter to be addressed, but not a reason to not move forward with it), order estrogen without prescription.

Is there a way for us to stay engaged with each other when it would just be easier to say, "Screw you, I'm leaving". For our American readers, are there models where you live that hold out possibilites for organizing. Is there a way to envision coalition-building when the state of politics at the moment is so fractured. I think so. Do you. Please let us know.

(And stayed tuned for tomorrow's post, where I go into more explicit detail about current possibilities for feminist organizing).