To Arthur Clark
November 18, 2006 at 6:42 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Indigo Girls – Ghost Lyrics
there's a letter on the desktop that i dug out of a drawer the last truce we ever came to in our adolescent war and i start to feel the fever from the warm air through the screen you come regular like seasons shadowing my dreams and the mississippi's mighty but it starts in minnesota at a place that you could walk across with five steps down and i guess that's how you started like a pinprick to my heart but at this point you rush right through me and i start to drown and there's not enough room in this world for my pain signals cross and love gets lost and time passed makes it plain of all my demon spirits i need you the most i'm in love with your ghost i'm in love with your ghost dark and dangerous like a secret that gets whispered in a hush (don't tell a soul) when i wake the things i dreamt about you last night make me blush (don't tell a soul) and you kiss me like a lover then you sting me like a viper i go follow to the river play your memory like a piper and i feel it like a sickness how this love is killing me i'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly and dance the edge of sanity i've never been this close i'm in love with your ghost unknowing captor you never know how much you pierce my spirit but i can't touch you can you hear it a cry to be free oh i'm forever under lock and key as you pass through me now i see your face before me i would launch a thousand ships to bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips as i burn up in your presence and i know now how it feels to be weakened like achilles with you always at my heels this bitter pill i swallow is the silence that i keep it poisons me i can't swim free the river is too deep though i'm baptized by your touch i am no worse than most in love with your ghost you are shadowing my dreams (in love with your ghost) (in love with your ghost) (in love with your ghost)
Lives in the Balance
November 18, 2006 at 6:29 pm | In Feminism, Music, Politics, Spirit | Leave a CommentBush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized – washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2006 at 6:28 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as “demeaning to women.”
Source: Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized – washingtonpost.com
Lives in the Balance
November 18, 2006 at 10:53 am | In Politics | Leave a CommentLives in the Balance From Jackson Browne
Methods of Nonviolent Action
November 15, 2006 at 7:31 pm | In Domestic Violence, Feminism, Law, Politics, Reference and tools, Spirit, birth | Leave a Comment
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION
(from Gene Sharp, The Methods of Nonviolent Action, Boston 1973)
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION
FORMAL STATEMENTS
1. Public speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public declarations
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions
COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earthwriting
GROUP REPRESENTATIONS
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections
SYMBOLIC PUBLIC ACTS
18. Displays of flags and symbolic colours
19. Wearing of symbols
20. Prayer and worship
21. Delivering symbolic objects
22. Protest disrobings
23. Destruction of own property
24. Symbolic lights
25. Displays of portraits
26. Paint as protest
27. New signs and names
28. Symbolic sounds
29. Symbolic reclamations
30. Rude gestures
PRESSURES ON INDIVIDUALS
31. “Haunting” officials
32. Taunting officials
33. Fraternization
34. Vigils
DRAMA AND MUSIC
35. Humourous skits and pranks
36. Performances of plays and music
37. Singing
PROCESSIONS
38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades
HONOURING THE DEAD
43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places
PUBLIC ASSEMBLIES
47. Assemblies of protest or support
48. Protest meetings
49. Camouflaged meetings of protest
50. Teach-ins
WITHDRAWAL AND RENUNCIATION
51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honours
54. Turning one’s back
THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION
OSTRACISM OF PERSONS
55. Social boycott
56. Selective social boycott
57. Lysistratic nonaction
58. Excommunication
59. Interdict
NONCOOPERATION WITH SOCIAL EVENTS, CUSTOMS, AND INSTITUTIONS
60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions
WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SOCIAL SYSTEM
65. Stay-at-home
66. Total personal noncooperation
67. “Flight” of workers
68. Sanctuary
69. Collective disappearance
70. Protest emigration (hijrat)
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS
ACTION BY CONSUMERS
71. Consumers’ boycott
72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
73. Policy of austerity
74. Rent withholding
75. Refusal to rent
76. National consumers’ boycott
77. International consumers’ boycott
ACTION BY WORKERS AND PRODUCERS
78. Workers’ boycott
79. Producers’ boycott
ACTION BY MIDDLEMEN
80. Suppliers’ and handlers’ boycott
ACTION BY OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
81. Traders’ boycott
82. Refusal to let or sell property
83. Lockout
84. Refusal of industrial assistance
85. Merchants’ “general strike”
ACTION BY HOLDERS OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES
86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government’s money
ACTION BY GOVERNMENTS
92. Domestic embargo
93. Blacklisting of traders
94. International sellers’ embargo
95. International buyers’ embargo
96. International trade embargo
THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOOPERATION: THE STRIKE
SYMBOLIC STRIKES
97. Protest strike
98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)
AGRICULTURAL STRIKES
99. Peasant strike
100. Farm workers’ strike
STRIKES BY SPECIAL GROUPS
101. Refusal of impressed labour
102. Prisoners’ strike
103. Craft strike
104. Professional strike
ORDINARY INDUSTRIAL STRIKES
105. Establishment strike
106. Industry strike
107. Sympathy strike
RESTRICTED STRIKES
108. Detailed strike
109. Bumper strike
110. Slowdown strike
111. Working-to-rule strike
112. Reporting “sick” (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
115. Selective strike
MULTI-INDUSTRY STRIKES
116. Generalised strike
117. General strike
COMBINATION OF STRIKES AND ECONOMIC CLOSURES
118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown
THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION
REJECTION OF AUTHORITY
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
121. Refusal of public support
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance
CITIZENS’ NONCOOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government departments, agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from governmental educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported institutions
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions
CITIZENS’ ALTERNATIVES TO OBEDIENCE
133. Reluctant and slow compliance
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
135. Popular nonobedience
136. Disguised disobedience
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of “illegitimate” laws
ACTION BY GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
143. Blocking of lines of command and information
144. Stalling and obstruction
145. General administrative noncooperation
146. Judicial noncooperation
147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
148. Mutiny
DOMESTIC GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ACTION
151. Changes in diplomatic and other representation
152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
154. Severance of diplomatic relations
155. Withdrawal from international organisations
156. Refusal of membership in international bodies
157. Expulsion from international organisations
THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION
PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION
158. Self-exposure to the elements
159. The fast
a) Fast of moral pressure
b) Hunger strike
c) Satyagrahic fast
160. Reverse trial
161. Nonviolent harassment
PHYSICAL INTERVENTION
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
169. Nonviolent air raids
170. Nonviolent invasion
171. Nonviolent interjection
172. Nonviolent obstruction
173. Nonviolent occupation
SOCIAL INTERVENTION
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
177. Speak-in
178. Guerrilla theatre
179. Alternative social institutions
180. Alternative communication system
ECONOMIC INTERVENTION
181. Reverse strike
182. Stay-in strike
183. Nonviolent land seizure
184. Defiance of blockades
185. Politically motivated counterfeiting
186. Preclusive purchasing
187. Seizure of assets
188. Dumping
189. Selective patronage
190. Alternative markets
191. Alternative transportation systems
192. Alternative economic institutions
POLITICAL INTERVENTION
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of “neutral” laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
198. Dual sovereignty and parallel governmentLink to the Albert Einstein Institution for more of Gene Sharp’s work
Source: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
The Hidden Face of Eve
November 15, 2006 at 7:20 pm | In Domestic Violence, Feminism | Leave a Comment
The look we exchanged seemed to say: ‘Now we know what it is. Now we know where lies our tragedy. We were born of a special sex, the female sex. We are destined in advance to taste of misery, and to have a part of our body torn away by cold, unfeeling cruel hands.’
Source: The Hidden Face of Eve
Menopause: "Hotter Than a Red-Assed Bee"
November 15, 2006 at 7:02 pm | In Feminism, Reference and tools, Science, Spirit, birth | Leave a Comment
The following is a couple of years worth of (blatantly biased) research on menopause in a nutshell:
lemons as birth control
November 15, 2006 at 5:36 pm | In Domestic Violence, Feminism, Food, Law, Politics, Spirit, birth | Leave a CommentWhen life give you lemons, you….
a. Make lemonade
b. Make lemon bars
c. Use them to prevent pregnancy
(did you know that in ancient times women used half a lemon to prevent pregnancy?)
The government has no right to control my reproduction—my body belongs to me.
puckalish at Feministing
November 14, 2006 at 2:35 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentI thought this part of her comment was brilliant.
It was in regards to the article on “quiverful” at http://feministing.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/4306
You know the old joke about the two old Jewish men sitting on a park bench? They’re both reading the paper, and one looks over his friend’s shoulder and sees that, to his shock, his old buddy is reading a neo-nazi propaganda rag! “Morty,” he says, “how can you read that crap?”
“Sammy,” Morty says, “What’s in your paper?”
“Well,” says Sammy, “There’re murders and bombings, vandalism, wars, women can’t leave their homes without being attacked, fires, you know. The news.”
“Right,” says Morty. “Well, in here, I’m reading about the Jews are secretly in charge of the world, how we run Hollywood, the banking system, all major governments, and the army and police.”
“So?” says Sam.
“Well,” says Morty, “I prefer good news.”
If only we feminists really did have the power the Christian right likes to fantasize we do.
Source: Feministing
Our bodies….their battleground
November 14, 2006 at 1:09 pm | In Domestic Violence, Feminism | Leave a Comment
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