After 19 Years, Anita Hill Gets Bombshell Backup From Clarence Thomas Ex
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Lillian McEwen didn’t decide to write a book about her relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas because Virginia Thomas left a phone message on Anita Hill’s voice mail, asking her to consider apologizing to Thomas for her sexual harassment allegations against him during his confirmation hearings.
Lillian McEwen, the girlfriend and confidante to Justice Thomas, has been writing her memoirs. It does seem that the Virginia Thomas phone call to Anita Hill struck a sour note, given McEwen’s own experiences with Clarence Thomas, which she has now detailed in the Washington Post.
Her words are a bombshell and basically support Anita Hill’s claims and those of several other women, whose complaints about Thomas were passed off by the Judiciary committee. Lillian McEwen was not asked to testify in the hearings, which were confined to the candidate’s professional, not personal, relationships with women.
Activist Photograffeur JR Wins $100,000 TED 2011 Prize
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ArtTracker| The 2011 $100,000 TED prize will go to global activist artist JR, a ‘photograffeur’ who lives in cognito, travelling the world shining a huge light onto the faces and lives of people living primarily in slums. His dramatic installations grab our attention, almost dragging us into an intimate relationship with the world’s poor.
We’re followed JR’s projects, with special attention to his ‘Women Are Heroes’ project.
"Women of the Wall" Protest Exclusion from Praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall
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Supporters of a group of religious activists called Women of the Wall gathered at the holy site in Jerusalem for prayers on Friday. Conservative Jew Nofrat Frenkel, 28 and a fifth year medical student, was the first woman to be arrested last month on Nov. 18th, during prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Her crime was wrapping herself in a tallit or fringed prayer shawl, a ritual garment traditionally worn only by men.
The group prayed in large numbers last Friday, the first day of the Hebrew month of Tevet. “We are pushing the envelope. History is made of moments like this,” said Nat Hoffman, chairwoman of Women of the Wall, which was founded in 1988.
UNESCO's Director Irina Bokova Says 'No' to Burqas
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Irina Bokova will be installed as UNESCO’s new director today, as the first woman director.
Bulgaria’s Bokova lost no time outlining her positions on women’s issues, telling Radio Netherlands worldwide that she wants to encourage dialogue among Jews, Muslims and Christians in an effort to increase tolerance and respect.
Next she aligned herself with last week’s announcement by Eyptian Grand Imam Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, saying: “Personally I’m against the burqa. Some women can’t even see properly. It denigrates women, causes problems and gives women the feeling that they are not equal to men.”
APROSAF Midwives in Congo Fuel Lifesaving Rescues with Briquettes
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APROSAF midwives in Congo demonstrate unbelievable courage in trying to save women’s lives.Huffington Post has published a followup to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Congo.
Secretary Clinton wrote about the Mugunga Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Goma. The American press had little interest in covering the horrors Mrs. Clinton saw on her trip, preferring to focus on the infamous question directed to her in the equally-infamous Congo press conference.
Georgianne Nienaber shares details about a project between Virunga National Park and Association pour la Promotion de la Sage Femme, a group of 118 midwives who also act as community leaders.
The respect they garner results from selfless dedication as they transport pregnant women and rape victims, sometimes by carrying them on their backs, to get help. They do this without pay and subject themselves to rape and shootings along the way.
These unbelievably courageous women will receive $20 a month to establish a brisquette business, converting refuse into fuel and then selling it for $.50 a sack. If the women repackage refuse, the trees won’t be cut down in Virunga Park, home to the last remaining mountain gorillas, but also a source of fuel.
Will Queen Rania Carry a Sarah's Bag to Today's 'The Big Read' Speech at the National Press Club?
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QUEEN RANIA'S SPEECH AT THE LAUNCH OF GLOBAL ACTION WEEK 2009 - WASHINGTON DC, USA
Will Queen Rania Carry a Sarah's Bag to Today's 'The Big Read' Speech at the National Press Club?
Queen Rania is in Washington D.C. with her husband King Abdullah, presently meeting with Vice President Joe Biden, and preparing to meet with President Obama at 10am.
No word on whether Michelle and Queen Rania will meet. A Google search is nada. I am crushed if these two women don’t at least share a cup of coffee.
I want these two Smart Sensuality women to ‘hook up’ now. Putting Queen Rania and First Lady Michelle Obama together is total Smart Sensuality combustion.
The Big Read
Queen Rania is speaking this morning at the National Press Club, as part of a global action week calling for quality basic education for all children.
The press conference will launch ‘The Big Read’, a collection of short stories written by education advocates around the world including Queen Rania, Nelson Mandela, Natalie Portman, Alice Walker, Ishmael Baeh and many more. ‘The Big Read’ is part of GCE’s global action week with the goal of bringing attention to literacy and the millions of children around the world not able to go to school.
To learn more, go to The Big Read at Global Campaign for Education.
One of the goals in writing about Smart Sensuality women is not only to get the concept of the sensual, intelligent, socially committed women front and center in our minds, but to help business, advertisers and media understand the Smart Sensuality woman as a consumer.
This BBC News story Lebanon’prison chic’ goes global is an excellent example of the relationship between the Cultural Creative women and shopping.
O'Keeffe To Chicago | Women's Liberty Not Won
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O’Keeffe To Chicago | Women’s Liberty Not Won
It’s March, and the natural eroticism of the Carversville landscape is simmering gently out of Winter.
Like a woman seeing her husband speaking with a gorgeous stranger at a party, the land shivers with a renewed, thawing sensual excitement.
At moments like this, I think of Georgia O’Keeffe; she is my muse, too. I wonder how Judy Chicago is doing; it’s time to see her Dinner Party.
