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Day 2 (Dec. 6th Action)

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The word childhood evokes thoughts of lullabies, carefree days, playing, friends….

For too many this is not the childhood they know. Too many are dying.

Dying from poverty, disease, war, crime and abuse.

While these problems may seem insurmountable when taken together, when addressed individually the solutions are often simple, easy and affordable.

Case in point Spread the Net

Imagine the difference you could make in the life of a family by buying a sanitation kit, a goat or a chicken. Simple things to us, perhaps the difference between life and death for others.

And don’t forget the children next door. The girl who may need a mentor, the boy who is too ashamed to come right out and ask for help, the children who go to bed hungry.

You are only one person but, one person CAN make a difference.

Murdoch bows to pressure

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The pressure of low ratings and jumping advertisers.

The announcement by the chief executive of News Corporation, the parent company of The Times, comes after a public and media backlash against Fox and one of its publishing houses, HarperCollins, over the publication of If I Did It and a two-hour interview.

Anger from the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was followed quickly by mutiny from several Fox affliliates, who refused to broadcast the interview.

Two of Fox News’s biggest stars also condemned the project as “garbage” and called for the book to be boycotted.

Mr Murdoch said last night that the decision to shelve the project was prompted by widespread viewer outrage. “I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” he said.

Orgasms for Peace

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Here’s a peace rally that encourages people to ah..come together the world over.

THE 1ST ANNUAL
SYNCHRONIZED GLOBAL ORGASM FOR PEACE
Please send this out to your entire mailing list!
WHO? All Men and Women, you and everyone you know.
WHERE? Everywhere in the world, but especially in countries with weapons of mass
destruction.
WHEN? Winter Solstice Day – Friday, December 22nd, at the time of your choosing,
the place of your choosing and with as much privacy as you choose.
WHY? To effect positive change in the energy field of the Earth through input of
the largest possible surge of human energy. There are two more US fleets heading
for the Persian Gulf with anti-submarine equipment that can only be for use against
Iran, so the time to change Earth’s energy is NOW!
Our minds influence Matter and Energy fields, so by concentrating any thoughts
during and after The Big O on peace and partnership, the combination of high
orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention will reduce global levels of
violence, hatred and fear.
This is something just about everyone can do and enjoy. And you can do it by
yourself or with someone else. You don’t even have to tell anyone you’re going to
do it!
THE SCIENCE
The Global Consciousness Project (http://noosphere.princeton.edu), Princeton
University, runs a network of Random Event Generators around the world, which
record changes in randomness during global events. The results show that human
consciousness can be measured to have a global effect on matter and energy during
widely-watched events such as 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami. There have also
been measurable results during mass meditations and prayers.
It’s free! It’s private! It’s easy! It’s fun! It just might be the most important thing you
could do for yourself, your family, the planet and our species.
http://www.GlobalOrgasm.org
Baring Witness, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization for peace and partnership

Condolences to the Broadbent family

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Lucille Broadbent, wife of one-time NDP leader Ed Broadbent, has died of cancer.

Lucille said her husband’s idealism was what attracted her to him.

Before meeting him, she’d worked as a teacher and a nurse, becoming widowed at age 29 with a young son. Broadbent’s first marriage was failing about the same time.

She campaigned for him during his successful first run for Parliament in 1968 in the riding of Oshawa, heartland of Ontario’s unionized auto sector. They started dating married in 1971.

In 1975, Broadbent would become the NDP’s leader, taking the party to 43 seats in the 1988 federal election — still its best showing ever.

“Obviously we share a certain political philosophy. We share certain beliefs about life. We have a concern for our fellow man that we share,” he said.

“I’m concerned about women’s rights and I’d like to see our young people be able to get adequate jobs,” she once said. Lucille also campaigned in the early 1980s for Soviet Jewish dissidents who wanted to emigrate to Israel.

Lucille joked that she really enjoyed election campaigns because she got to see more of Ed.

And unlike Ed, Lucille was fluently bilingual.

Update on Nicaragua’s abortion ban

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The let women die law abortion ban has not even officially passed and yet it is already taking lives.

After 19-year-old Jazmina Bojorge bled to death in early November at a public hospital in the Nicaraguan capital due to complications from pregnancy, her family appeared on local television and tearfully accused doctors of delaying her treatment for fear of being prosecuted under the nation’s abortion ban.
Bojorge, five months pregnant, arrived at the hospital with painful, premature contractions. After staying the night, she was sent to a different medical center for an ultrasound because hospital equipment was inadequate. Doctors tried to stop the contractions, but they were unsuccessful and the fetus died. Efforts to induce labor to expel the fetus failed and Bojorge went into shock. Her placenta had separated from the uterine wall and her uterus filled with blood. She died two days after arriving at the hospital.

It was Bojorge’s second pregnancy. She left a young son behind.

Poor women in particular will suffer from this law as the better off will be able to travel or to attend private clinics.

n a nation where 8 of 10 people struggle to live on less than $2 a day, poor women with limited access to maternal health care will be most vulnerable, say activists and health workers.

“Women who can only go to public health services will die,” said Blandon, of Ipas.

Surely it is preferable to save a woman’s life than to leave her young child/ren motherless.

“The new penal code doesn’t just go against basic human rights: It goes against fundamental principles of humanity,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, the Washington-based director of the Americas for Human Rights Watch, headquartered in New York.

Those involved in the religious effort to deny women their rights are still saddened by the loss of life.

“It is a prosperous business,” said Max Padilla, a Catholic activist who helped organize a lobbying effort and massive public demonstration in favor of the ban. “Now the people involved in that business are defending their livelihoods, presenting false cases.”

For women who still have the choice of birth control and the luck that their method doesn’t fail, not getting pregnant seems to be the answer to this law.

In May, Chevez had an emergency therapeutic abortion two months into her pregnancy when doctors discovered the fetus was forming outside the uterus and had ruptured a fallopian tube, causing severe internal bleeding.

“I would like to try again, but I’m afraid to get pregnant. That operation saved my life,” Chevez, 28, a swimming teacher, said in an interview at her home in Leon, where she lives with her two children, 9 and 11, from a previous marriage, and her second husband. Her husband wants a child, she said. “But he is afraid of losing me.”

Women will still demand control of their bodies. It may be through illegal abortion, it may be through suicide, it may be through methods of birth control, but all women deserve, want and have a right to control their reproduction.

You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. ~Lyn Beth Neylon

Dec. 6th Action

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Recent events and news stories bring very sharply to mind that women still have not achieved equality and that there are factions who wish us to be divested of those rights and freedoms we have achieved thus far.

Bearing that in mind, and the toll it took on 14 young women as well as women around the world, I would like to propose an action.

Starting on Nov. 23 and culminating on Dec. 6th.

14 days to represent the 14 women whose lives were taken that day.

If you have a blog or a website write one thing each day in recognition of women.

It could be about abuse stats, it could be about the work your local women’s group is doing, it could be about the wonderful woman in your life. Friend, mother, girlfriend,teacher…

It could be the goat you bought for a woman half way round the world.

It could be about other actions people can take to change the world.

One thing a day to recognize women’s lives.

On Dec.6th every participant will create an entry called Dec. 6th Memorial with only a picture of a candle as the post.

For anyone who would like to participate but who doesn’t have a blog, you can sign up at Rose’s Place and I will set you up to be an author and you can post there or you can sign up at Bread and Roses and take part in the thread there.

If you take part please send me the name and url of your blog and I will put your link on my blog under Dec.6th Action.

(debrascot@gmail.com)