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OnTheIssuesMagazine.com Fall 2009. Race, Feminism, Our Future

The Cafe at On The Issues Online Magazine is deepening the conversations by continually adding the insights of progressive writers, thinkers and artists on the topics we address. Check back frequently for new commentary. If you wish to contribute to the Cafe, email cafe@ontheissuesmagazine.com.

 

Aung San Suu Kyi Acts on Love, A Poem by Maureen McNeil

Editor’s Note: Janet Benshoof wrote about the Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi in our Winter 2010 edition of On The Issues Magazine, devoted to women around the world who are fighting for freedom. Benshoof described how the military …


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Aung San Suu Kyi Acts on Love, A Poem

Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin by Cindy Cooper

When Loretta J. Ross speaks, people listen. Ross is a big-picture thinker on reproductive justice, national coordinator of SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, headquartered in Atlanta, and a vibrant voice on women’s rights …


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Loretta Ross Unmasks Black Anti-Abortion Message, Media Spin

Anabella: Guatemalan Leader Deploys Stilettos Against Corruption by Gail Kriegel

On Christmas day, 2008, Guatemalan Congresswoman Anabella De Leon, called me. A new president had taken office earlier that year and he decided to eliminate Anabella’s bodyguards. They cost too much money, he had claimed. The new president and his …


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Anabella: Guatemalan Leader Deploys Stilettos Against Corruption

Poem: My heroines by Marge Piercy

When I think of women heroes,
it’s not Joan of Arc or Molly Pitcher
but mothers who quietly say
to their daughters, you can.
Who stand behind attempts
to open doors long bolted shut
to teams or clubs …


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Poem: My heroines

Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti by Mary Lou Greenberg

Editor’s Note: In light of the devastating earthquake in Haiti and in tribute to the courage of the Haitian people, On The Issues Magazine presents an exclusive eyewitness interview with a physician who traveled to Haiti on an emergency basis …


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Courage and Heroism Follow Devastation in Haiti

Grace Paley's True North: Justice in Writing and Action by Judith Arcana

I've been thinking about Grace Paley, the late activist and writer, in relation to this theme of "women fighting for freedom and justice, even when it puts them at risk or imperils their lives."
 
Grace Paley, who

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Grace Paley's True North: Justice in Writing and Action

The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art by Ms. Michael angel Johnson

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a woman of African descent too often overlooked in arts history, was a precursor to the New Negro Movement of the 1920s – also known as the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1877, her sculpture of the early 20th century boldly …


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The African American Woman Who Shaped the Future of Art

 

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