Women are a resource for changing the world. Sheryl WuDunn’s book, Half the Sky, (now a documentary film) “investigates the oppression of women globally. Her stories shock. Only when women […]
Ai-Jen Poo | Domestic Workers & Finding Balance Through the Lens of Love
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), has been organizing immigrant women workers since 1996. In 2000 she co-founded Domestic Workers United, the New York based organization […]
Childbirth as a Human Rights Issue.
Expressed in an important film. This post, and the films included within it, exposes the general outlawing of home births in the Western world. Even here in the States, midwives who […]
Welcome | march 2012
There used to be an ad for Virginia Slims cigarettes when I was growing up. Its tag line was, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” And there was always an […]