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FROM The Nation

 

First Large Protest Kicks Off Week of Expected Anti-GOP Rallies

NEW YORK -- Kat McIver was so disgusted with the Democratic and Republican parties that she walked 258 miles from Boston to New York to protest at both of their conventions

 

inspiration

Coming Home to the Mother of All Buddhas
by Joanna Macy

"A fiercely free people" For sheer grit and determination, there's no one like Granny D Haddock, the woman who, at 93 years of age, walked across America to insist on campaign finance reform. Now she's running for Senate. Here's her latest speech.

CODEPINK: SPEAKING OUT IN NYC

WOMEN: Vote!
An Essay on Women's Equality Day
by Rita Henley Jensen

TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW?
Public Power in the Age of Empire

talk by Arundhati Roy

STARHAWS REPORTS FROM THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

DAY NINE: AN INCREDIBLE DAY

DAY FOUR: ACTION BARDO

DAY FIVE: DEMOCRACY DAUNTED

STARHAWK'S Previous reports -- see "MORE COMMENTARY" below

 

AND WHO IS THIS WOMAN?

Madame Cheney's cultural revolution

How the vice president's powerful wife makes sure that historians and other scholars follow the right path. By Mary Jacoby, salon.com/

 

women's spirituality

Feature article:
Sardinia: Land of Dea Madre
by Leslene Della Madre

 

issues

Gulf War Illness -- At Home and Abroad
Depleted uranium is a health issue
by Janette Sherman, M.D

Nuclear power still a deadly proposition
By Helen Caldicott

Fetal Pain' Bill New Item on Anti-Choice Agenda
by Cynthia L. Cooper, Wenews correspondent

Madame Butterfly Flies Off with Ballots
Florida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go Absent
by Greg Palast

"American" Afghanistan's Three Major Crops: Opium, Human Organs and Children
a horror story
by Jane Stillwater
The Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel August 27 2004

Palestinian Mother Dies in Solidarity With Jailed Son By Atef Daghlas, IOL Correspondent

NABLUS, August 30 (IslamOnline.net) ˆ A Palestinian mother of a prisoner at an Israeli jail has starved to death after staging a hunger strike in solidarity with her son whose protest at the deplorable prison conditions along with thousands of inmates has entered its 15 th day running

Two Afghan Blasts Kill at Least 15; Taliban Claims 1  Nine children dead. By Sayed Salahuddin

 The Body of a Woman
Beauty still has its price
by Elaine Charkowski

A People Behind Walls
International Court of Justice opinion on the Israeli Fence

AFGHAN ATHLETES AT THE OLYMPICS INCLUDE WOMEN - For the first time!

WATER CRISIS
There are no surplus or deficit rivers: Shiva
Of all the social and natural crises we face, water crisis lies at the heart of our survival

Seeking Justice for Canada's 500 Missing Native Women By Deidre d'Entremont

 

women for a better world

 Code Pink to Protest at RNC

Grassroots Organizer Brings Hope to Women in El Salvador By Shoshaunna Parks

Miami Latinas Creating Haven from Abuse
by Belisa Vranich

Women March at the Social Forum:
Massive, diverse, colorful
from Radio Feminista (FIRE)

 

commentary

Where I'm Sitting
More than hope, we need peace
the editor's blog
by Stephanie Hiller

One Woman, One Vote
Single women could swing the presidential election - but, as get-out-the-vote activists are finding, a one-size-fits-all message won't work.

Why Do We Vote?
A short history lesson on women's voting

Countering fear with action
An excerpt from You Have the Power
by Frances Moore Lappe & Jeffrey Perkins

 

poetry

Summer poems
by Josephine Piccolo

 

 Molly's Astrology for August
by Molly Cliborne

 

MORE COMMENTARY

REMEMBER HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI
A Toast to Michiko Yamaoka
by Evelyn Varady

Development at Stake
by Anuradha Mittal

PREVIOUS STARHAWK COMMENTARIES

At the Crossroads
Why we should protest the Republican National Convention By Starhawk

A Call to Action at the RNC

August 18, Day One: On the March

Day Two: Power and Anarchy

Day Three: War, Fear and Life after Capitalism

 

On the dangers of playing "Follow the Leader"
by Leigh Barret  

 

 

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