Earth Day events…get OUT and join the fun!

Today is Green Grove Thursday….

For Earth Day (which is technically on Monday 22nd), many cities will host fun events for the whole family. Here’s a link to check some out in your area: http://content.sierraclub.org/earthday/

31 Days of Notable Women- Dolores Huerta, advocate for farm workers

Meet an advocate for farm workers who isn’t a man! For more than 50 years, activist Dolores Huerta has worked tirelessly to advance the cause of marginalized communities. She is internationally recognized as a feminist, a farm worker advocate, a gay rights activist, and a labor leader among other things.

Source cited: http://doloreshuerta.org/

31 Days of Notable Women- Joan Samuelson, gold medal winning athlete

Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She is one of Maine’s most recognizable athlete continues to serve as an inspiration for runners and athletes of all ages around the world. Joan founded the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race in 1998 to benefit children’s charities in Maine.

Source: http://www.joanbenoitsamuelson.com/

31 Days of Notable Women- Dove Pressnall, women in leadership positions

Dove Pressnall, Founder and Executive Director of Survivors’ Truths; was honored at the  50/50 Leadership & UNA’s 4^th Annual Women of the World Awards and World Leadership Day. A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Dove also brings a degree in Business Administration and extensive program coordination and management expertise to the organization. She is a member of a number of professional organizations and has been a presenter on social justice-related topics at conferences around the world.

Source: http://survivorstruths.org/our-team/directors

31 Days of Notable Women- Mae Bertha Carter fought for equal rights

Mae Bertha Carter was a sharecropper who dreamed of a better life for her 13 children. In 1964 the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 called for the desegregation of all public schools which enabled the Carters to be the first to integrate the Drew County Schools.

Source: http://www.sisters-shoulders.org/heroines.html

31 Days of Notable Women-Carmel Jud, Helps the World’s Poorest Women

The 50/50 Leadership & UNA’s 4^th Annual Women of the World Awards and World Leadership Day Celebration was held at the La Canada Flintridge Country Club on 3/11/12.

Carmel Jud, Founder and Executive Director, Rising International, was honored at the 50/50 Leadership & UNA’s 4^th Annual Women of the World Awards and World Leadership Day. In 2002, Carmel gave up the successful business she’d founded and built for 20 years and launched Rising International, the first non-profit to use the home party business model to contribute to solving poverty. Rising International sells crafts made by the world’s poorest people – women.

Source: http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/events/tedxsantacruzchange-2012/

Help Uplift Poor Women on International Women’s Day

If you’d like to, and are able to, help the poorest women in the world, go to: https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/internationalWomensDay

31 Days of Notable Women-Unita Blackwell, Women’s Freedom Fighter

“STANDING ON MY SISTERS’ SHOULDERS”  is a powerful documentary that reveals a missing chapter in our nation’s record of the Civil Rights movement. It depicts the movement in Mississippi during the 1950 and 60s from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it and emerged as its grassroots leaders. Their living testimony offers a window into a unique moment when the founders’ promise of freedom and justice passed from rhetoric to reality for all Americans. A film every American should see and never forget.

In the film you will meet Unita Blackwell, a sharecropper who rose to become Mississippi’s first black woman Mayor. During the Civil Rights movement, she worked for voting rights, and was arrested over 75 times, facing firebombs and burning crosses.

Source: http://www.sisters-shoulders.org/heroines.html

Put a little love in your heart….(video)

Enjoy “An Extraordinary Act Of Kindness That Will Make Your Day” which can be viewed at: http://front.moveon.org/caught-on-tape-an-extraordinary-act-of-kindness-that-will-make-your-day/#.USKlV6wG5uU.email

 

Get the Frack Out of the Arctic!

Green Grove Thursday….Action day!

Sign a petition to keep Big Oil companies from drilling in the Arctic! The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) points out that “After announcing plans to drill in the Arctic last summer, Shell has proven — through a series of accidents and mishaps — just how impossible it is to function safely in the severe conditions of this remote region. Just this month, a Shell drilling rig ran aground, again demonstrating that Big Oil cannot be trusted to drill in one of the last pristine wild places left on the planet. “

Sign the petition here: https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2955&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=587ioyees2.app305a