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/
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“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.
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“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.”-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Short bio:
Widely credited as one of the founding geniuses of the women’s rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used her brilliance, insightfulness, and eloquence to advocate for many important issues. In addition to being one of the first women’s rights activists, she was also a dedicated abolitionist, and advocated in favor of temperance.
Check out the whole story at: http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/search-the-hall/details/2/148-Stanton
Energetically, Diane Tegarden
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Did you know that there are 133 Green officeholders as of Thursday, May 10, 2012?
For more information on truly alternative choices for political office visit The Green Party at: http://www.gp.org/index.php
There are two women and a Native American man running for President in 2012, so if you want to support the environment and help break the two party system, consider voting GREEN!
Energetically, Diane Tegarden
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Tawakel Abdel-Salam Karman (born 7 February 1979) became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that is part of the Arab Spring uprisings. She has been called by Yemenis the “Iron Woman” and “Mother of the Revolution.”. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date.
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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day”. – Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Edith Lovejoy Pierce (1904-1983) was a twentieth-century poet and pacifist.
Pierce was born in 1904 in Oxford,England. She married an American in 1929 and moved to theU.S.the same year. She and her husband lived in Evanston, Illinois.
Pierce was a poet and pacifist whose Christianity informed these two careers. In her writing she drew inspiration from the Bible, Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance, music, history, and religious mysticism, among other sources.
Source: http://www.bu.edu/dbin/mlkjr/collection/detail.php?id=56360&height=400&width=600
