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Winter 2010
FROM THE PUBLISHER: The Courage of No
Justice for Aung San Suu Kyi: End Male Power Structures
Convictions to Action: Lessons from Margaret Sanger
MAHIN HASSIBI: Visionary Ideas, Thinking Out Loud
In The Act Alone: German Resistance to the Nazi Movement
Film Review: Liberian Women Forge a Real-Life Lysistrata
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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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