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The Rural
Womyn Zone is an online community by and for rural women. It was started
in 1995 by women who were advocates for rural battered women and rape victims.
The
Rural
Womyn Zone produced the first online resource directory of Spanish
language resources for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
We worked in coordination with activists in California and Guatemala. The
Zone published the first online newsletter for Women's
Justice Center/ Centro de Justicia Para Mujeres, which later developed
its own bi-lingual
web site (Spanish
and English.)
The Rural
Womyn Zone developed the concept of combining World Rural Women's
Day with Domestic Violence Awareness Month each October, and
promotes activities in rural communities that draw attention to the intersection
of the those issues through Take
Action in October. Some of the annual events resulting from
this promotion include World Rural Women's Day in South
Dakota and Nova
Scotia. More.
Ride
in the car across South Dakota. Ride
in the car with a rural advocate on her way to work in South Dakota.
We
have provided online training for advocates of rural sexual assault victims
through our Train Station list.
Wrong then .
. .
Still wrong.
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Stop the war
in Iraq
U.S. Rural Soldiers Account
for a Disproportionately High Share of Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan
The
Carsey Institute report by William O'Hare and Bill Bishop (.pdf file)
According to the Carsey Institute
study, the death rate "for rural soldiers (24 per million adults aged 18
to 59) is 60% higher than the death rate for those soldiers from
cities and suburbs (15 deaths per million)." Of rural areas, Vermont has
the highest rate of casualties, followed by Delaware, South Dakota, and
Arizona. Only 8 of our states have higher urban than rural death rates.
ANTI-WAR
LINKS
Military
Families Speak Out
Eyes
Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's exhibition on the
human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S.
military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance.
American
Friends Service Committee Wage Peace Campaign
Not one more death. Not
one more dollar.
What is “rural”?
A new report by the Carsey
Institute called Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities
in Four Rural Americas, makes clear that it is no longer possible
to broadly characterize rural parts of the country. “Rural” now encompasses
both wealthy areas with upwardly mobile newcomers in search of a pastoral
lifestyle and impoverished places with few jobs and a steadily declining
population. Not to mention everything in between.
The outlines four distinct
rural Americas with unique challenges that will require different policies
than their neighboring rural places. The report is based on a survey
of 7,800 people in 19 counties.
HEALTH
Post-War
Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says
By Avram Goldstein
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- The
number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed
the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S.
government's top psychiatric researcher said.
Community mental health centers,
hobbled by financial limits, haven't provided enough scientifically sound
care, especially in rural areas, said Thomas Insel, director of the National
Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He briefed reporters
today at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in Washington.
Insel echoed a Rand Corporation
study published last month that found about 20 percent of returning U.S.
soldiers have post- traumatic stress disorder or depression, and only half
of them receive treatment. Complete
story
Related
story
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Join
this new group:
Rural
women for Obama
Rural women working together
to elect Barack Obama.
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What's
the difference between George Bush and Sarah Palin?
Lipstick.
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McCain's lack
of judgment
The
Hatter continues to have tea as though the clock had truly stopped.
The
Palin-Whatshisname Ticket
by
Frank Rich
WITH
all due deference to lipstick, let’s advance the story. A week ago the
question was: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be a heartbeat away from the
presidency? The question today: What kind of president would Sarah Palin
be?
It’s
an urgent matter, because if we’ve learned anything from the G.O.P. convention
and its aftermath, it’s that the 2008 edition of John McCain is too weak
to serve as America’s chief executive. This unmentionable truth, more than
race, is now the real elephant in the room of this election. Read
the whole column
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Women's Rights
Groups Endorse Barack Obama
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Women's rights groups endorsed Barack Obama for president Tuesday,
asserting the historic selection of a female Republican vice presidential
candidate does not make up for John McCain's lack of support on issues
important to women.
"We
don't think it's much to break a glass ceiling for one woman and leave
millions of women behind," said Eleanor Smeal, chairman of the Feminist
Majority Political Action Committee.
Smeal
was among leaders from six organizations that announced their endorsement
of the Democratic presidential nominee at a news conference.
Obama
also won the support of the National Organization for Women, which said
it has not endorsed a candidate for president 1984.
NOW
backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries. "We join
with her in saying 'no,'" said NOW President Kim Gandy, referring to a
line Clinton used at the Democratic convention last month. "No way, no
how, no McCain."
Obama
was also endorsed by leaders from Business and Professional Women/USA,
the National Association of Social Workers, the National Congress of Black
Women and the Women's Information Network.
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McCain
has lost it: VP pick dangerous for our country
“I
make them (decisions) as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow,
if I can,” Mr. McCain wrote in his 2002 book, “Worth the Fighting For.”
“Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without
complaint.”
That
may be, John, but the entire country doesn't want to have to live with
them. - Jane Lane, Rural Womyn Zone
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" .
. the cannon has come unbelayed and is rolling perilously around the deck."
- Eugene
Robinson, Washington Post
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Joe Klein is right, that
this is the McCain temperament at its absolute worst. This is his shoot
first, ask questions later personality, which even McCain admits gets him
into trouble. The problem, of course, is that this time it could get America
in trouble - very, very deep trouble. For
America's Sake, McCain must dump . . .Sarah
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God
doesn't play dice with the universe, said Einstein. But John McCain is
playing dice with America.
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It's
not that Sarah Palin is inexperienced. It's that this (McCain's decision
on his running mate) is gross political misconduct. . . .
What
this does in the most profound and grandiose way possible is give lie to
John McCain's pompous posturing that he Always Puts America First.
And that undercuts the most prominent campaign issue of his entire career,
that everything he does is for reasons of honor. There is nothing honorable
about making Sarah Palin your vice presidential nominee. Nothing. Unless
you define honor as "blatantly pandering."
But
that's not the reason either that this decision is so terrible. . . .
The
Worst Vice-Presidential Nominee in History by Robert J. Elisberg, Huffington
Post
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MCCAIN/PALIN
'08.... There's a political adage that's been around for a while that says
the first "presidential decision" a candidate makes is picking a running
mate. If that's the case, John McCain would apparently be a very odd president..
. .
Stepping
back, we have the man who would be the oldest president in American history,
who happens to have a record of health problems, picking a virtual unknown
who's been a governor for less than two years. Amazing.
Political
Animal by Steve Benen in the Washington Monthly
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Presidential
scholars say (Palin) appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed
person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.
So
unconventional was McCain’s choice that it left students of the presidency
literally “stunned,” in the words of Joel Goldstein, a St. Louis University
law professor and scholar of the vice presidency. “Being governor of a
small state for less than two years is not consistent with the normal criteria
for determining who’s of presidential caliber,” said Goldstein.
“I
think she is the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern
history,” said presidential historian Matthew Dallek. . . . .
. .
. . “The first thing that hits me,” said Stephen Hess of the Brookings
Institution," is that it suggests that John McCain is a gambler. This is
a high roller decision.”
“The
next thing you have to ask yourself: Is it worrisome to have a gambler
in the Oval Office? That’s an important question," he said, “perhaps more
important than anything else today.” Scholars:
Palin Least Experienced Person On Major-Party Ticket In Modern Era
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She’s
a gun-toting, hang ‘em high conservative. Remember - this is where
her approval ratings come from.
What
is McCain thinking? One Alaskan's perspective
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It
is hard to think of a more cynical and contemptuous political act this
year than John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential
running mate. . . .. . .
Clearly
nobody in the Republican camp is concerned that Palin would be clueless
in a national security crisis, should a 72-year-old or older President
McCain abruptly die or become disabled. Perhaps the GOP will have to mothball
all those "Country First" banners along with the experience theme, because
no
candidate who puts the security of the nation above politics would ever
contemplate this maneuver.
McCain's
Palin pick the epitome of tokenism by Joe Conason, Salon
Alice falls down a rabbit-hole
into a fantasy realm populated by peculiar figures
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