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HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT 2012 -- THIS NOMINATION NEEDS OUR SUPPORT

 

Friends:

The 2012 Campaign is upon us! Soon the Secretary of State will have to make her decision about her resignation from the State Department and the announcement of her candidacy for the 2012 Democratic Nomination.

As difficult as the decision will be to challenge a sitting President in her own party, especially at a time when she has a lot on her plate in Egypt and Haiti, we must show Secretary Clinton that she has the support of her loyal following.

I implore you to get as many signatures as you possibly can on The Petition to Draft Hillary in 2012. Post this link http://bit.ly/9T0024 on every political blogging site and social networking site you are a part of: Facebook, Twitter, yahoo groups, google groups, etc.

For those of you who have friends who are not internet savvy, please help them log into the site from your computer. Talk to all your family members, co-workers, and friends. Organize Draft Hillary 2012 get-togethers in your home town. Call everyone you know.

We need to get enough momentum going so that Madam Secretary feels that it is incumbent upon her to run and knows we are calling upon her to fulfill her destiny.This is a Draft! No other Democrat can win the White House in 2012. It's either Hillary or President Romney.

So go to it. Each of you is charged with being a soldier in Hillary's Army. There is not much time left, given the considerable cost and months needed to campaign.

Together we WILL all be a part of HER-STORY

Thanks!

Steve Rosinski

 

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Why Women Who Pick and Process Your Food Face Daily Threats of Rape, Harassment and Wage Theft | | AlterNet

Why Women Who Pick and Process Your Food Face Daily Threats of Rape, Harassment and Wage Theft | | AlterNet.

AlterNet / By Jill Richardson

Why Women Who Pick and Process Your Food Face Daily Threats of Rape, Harassment and Wage Theft

We all benefit from a hugely exploitative system, in which our dinner is now directly linked to violence against women.

January 26, 2011  |  

 

 Chances are, you've never connected your dinner to violence against women. And yet, a new report published by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) makes that link.

The report, "Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry," compiles the experiences of 150 immigrant women who came from Mexico or other Latin American countries to work in the food industry, both in fields and in factories, across the United States. The picture it paints is grim. Women, who make up nearly a quarter of U.S. farmworkers, face the same indignities that immigrant men face -- and then some.

Demand Fair Reporting on Health and Supplements

Demand Unbiased Reporting on Health and Supplements » Dear Stephanie, When it comes to studies that affect our health, we need objective research and trustworthy results. But a recent Institute of Medicine report says few people are vitamin D deficient, despite concerns from dozens of studies from respected experts in the field. What should we believe? Tell Congress to appoint a new -- and unbiased -- scientific panel to review vitamin D » Doctors have advised taking vitamin D for everything from heart disease and cancer to autoimmune disease. Now we're hearing a different story from the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition board, which included a panelist who works as an adviser in the pharmaceutical industry. We want an honest answer on whether or not we need more vitamin D. Tell Congress to appoint a new scientific panel to review vitamin D and investigate the IOM's report » Thanks for taking action, Natasha Care2 Campaign Team

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AWID Resource-Net Jobs: Monday 31 January 2011

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AWID is currently seeking an experienced events professional to play a leadership role in our Forum & Events team. Read more Director, Strategic Partnerships, Advocacy, Civil Society, Communications and Resource Mobilization Division / UN Women / New York, NY, USA / Closing date: February 15, 2011. The Director is responsible for developing the vision, strategy, managing the implementation of strategic plans, monitoring and overseeing progress and measuring and evaluating results. Read more Director, Policy Division / UN Women / New York, NY, USA / Closing date: February 15, 2011. The Director of Policy is responsible for providing direction and leadership in the Policy Division in the formulation of all policies. Read more Programme Specialist / UN Women / Chisinau, Moldova / Closing date: February 11, 2011. Programme Specialist will support timely and synergetic implementation of the UN Women WEE (Women's Economic Empowerment) programme. 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NPQ's Nonprofit Newswire: Stories, Trends, Insights, 01.31.11

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Brave Palestinian-American Woman v.s. Coward Israeli Soldiers

Changes

by William Herbert on Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:44am

The troubles that result from change can never touch the true self at all. All the changes around you in your life are for that illusionary world of body and mind.

As changes and flaws in earth and water, fire and air, do not affect the element ether which pervades and transcends them all.

Similarly all the worldly affairs will have no bearing on you, when you divert your mind and place that in that power of true self.

– Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

William Herbert The boat moves in the river, but water should never enter it.

Though one lives in the world, the world should not occupy one’s mind. ----Sri Ramana Maharshi.

 

Rather profound thoughts that sometimes seem all but impossible to embrace in the midst of storms raging around us . . but, nonetheless, bear serious consideration./sd

Egyptian Opposition’s Old Guard Falls In Behind Young Leaders - NYTimes.com

Egyptian Opposition’s Old Guard Falls In Behind Young Leaders - NYTimes.com.

Protest’s Old Guard Falls In Behind the Young

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MONA EL-NAGGAR

Published: January 30, 2011

CAIRO — Last Thursday, a small group of Internet-savvy young political organizers gathered in the Cairo home of an associate of Mohamed ElBaradei, the diplomat and Nobel laureate.

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They had come to plot a day of street protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, but within days, their informal clique would become the effective leaders of a decades-old opposition movement previously dominated by figures more than twice their age.

“Most of us are under 30,” said Amr Ezz, a 27-year-old lawyer who was one of the group as part of the April 6 Youth Movement, which organized an earlier day of protests last week via Facebook. They were surprised and delighted to see that more than 90,000 people signed up online to participate, emboldening others to turn out and bringing tens of thousands of mostly young people into the streets.

Surprised by the turnout, older opposition leaders from across the spectrum — including the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood; the liberal protest group the Egyptian Movement for Change, known by its slogan, “Enough”; and the umbrella group organized by Dr. ElBaradei — joined in, vowing to turn out their supporters for another day of protest on Friday. But the same handful of young online organizers were still calling the shots.

They decided to follow a blueprint similar to their previous protest, urging demonstrators to converge on the central Liberation Square. So they drew up a list of selected mosques around Cairo where they asked people to gather at Friday Prayer before marching together toward the square. Then they distributed the list through e-mail and text messages, which spread virally. They even told Dr. ElBaradei which mosque he should attend, people involved said.

Egypt's opposition calls for 1 million on streets - Yahoo! News

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CAIRO – A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was emerging for Egypt's powerful but disparate protest movement.

In an apparent attempt to show change, Mubarak named a new government Monday. But the lineup dominated by regime stalwarts was greeted with scorn by protesters camped out for the fourth day in the capital's central Tahrir, of Liberation, Square.

"We don't want life to go back to normal until Mubarak leaves," Israa Abdel-Fattah, a founder of the April 6 Group, a movement of young people pushing for democratic reform.

Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions - NYTimes.com

Wikipedia Ponders Its Gender-Skewed Contributions - NYTimes.com.

Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List

By NOAM COHEN

Published: January 30, 2011

In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure.

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Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, with an assistant, James Owen.

But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.

About a year ago, the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, collaborated on a study of Wikipedia’s contributor base and discovered that it was barely 13 percent women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s, according to the study by a joint center of the United Nations University and Maastricht University.