4 million homeless. 8 million in need of urgent humanitarian care. 20 million total people affected. Pakistan has become a seemingly endless list of numbers that can only begin to describe the devastation following severe flooding of the Indus river. This crisis has affected more people than the… Read more
![Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette en dochter van Emmeline Pankhurst, protesteert op Trafalgar Square tegen de Engelse politiek in India. Engeland, 18 januari 1932.
Suffragette (women's rights movement) Emmeline Pankhurst protesting the English policy in India. Trafalger Square, Londen, Engeland, [1907-1914].](http://www.ellabakercenter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/womans-150x150.jpg)
Did you know the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote and yeah, today is the anniversary. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Several generations of women’s suffrage activists lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and… Read more
I was at the movie theater the other day and witnessed something we’ve all seen at some point in our lives: a group of kids trying to get into a rated R movie. I overheard the theater employee lecture them on the appropriateness of following rules and why the movie… Read more
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
We water seeds already planted,
knowing that they hold future promise.
We lay foundations that will need further development.
We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation
Part of me is really heart-broken to be boycotting Target. It almost feels like breaking up with an old friend. The garden center. The sweet finds in the fashion department. And my sense that with the budget Target offers, somehow I also could depend on some level of… Read more
I’m looking forward to spending a day outside, hopefully in the sun (if this funny weather lets-up) at tomorrow’s Fresh Fest, organized by Grind for the Green.
The “green” movement has really taken off in the United States over the past few years, but… Read more
Today marks the anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. These days of unrest were symptomatic of deep problems: the high jobless rate in the inner city, poor housing, and bad schools. At the time, the Watts riots were one of the greatest examples of racial tension and… Read more
A month ago I had no idea who Shirley Sherrod was. Now she is all I can think about. On July 19, 2010, Ms. Sherrod was forced to resign from her position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture after conservative… Read more
This post originally appeared as a Letter to the Editor in the Sacramento Bee.
I am very grateful to the brave and honest men and women who work as police officers, sheriff’s deputies and prison guards. But as a taxpaying citizen, I feel that I am culpable in… Read more
This morning I learned that the American Family Association is calling for the impeachment of Judge Vaughn Walker for his decision that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. Their reasoning is that Walker’s decision was made entirely based on the fact that he, himself, is gay and therefore demonstrates a failure to… Read more
