http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress How it Looks from The Back 40: Progressive and feminist rural women in the United States online since 1995. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:50:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received that heavily forwarded email message warning me about Barack Obama. It was racist. It was full of lies and innuendo. It told me to forward it to everyone I knew. You know the one. You know how those forwarded messages usually contain lists of all of the ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2008/01/12/the-swiftboating-of-barack-obama-not-welcome-here From Rural Womyn Zone Central to friends in Towanda: Searching for new book titles this morning, I got lost in an online bookstore reading lists of favorite books from 2007. I like reading staff picks for best of the year. I had so much fun that I decided to ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2008/01/12/hanging-out-in-feminist-bookstores-rural-womans-saturday-morning-virtual-life Week of Nov. 18, 2007 book list sent to the Ruralwomyn List by Arnica Montana. I was asked to put it online for the Towandans whose sticky notes are falling off their clothing! If you purchase any of these books, use this link http://astore.amazon.com/ruralwomynzone01 to benefit the Zone. ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/11/22/sounds-like-a-good-book A Community-Based Workbook for Helping Rural Cancer Patients Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Cancer Center Final Report (1999) When women are newly diagnosed with breast cancer, they are faced with extremely difficult decisions about their treatment while trying to cope with the fact that they have a life-threatening illness. They deserve ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/05/17/70 Well, I have gone to the city and they have real doctors there. I am happy to report that I was wrong, and that my breast cancer team does care about more about me than just my left breast. They all listened, answered questions, reassured me, and brought on ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/05/16/breast-cancer William is the grandson of one of Rural Womyn Zone’s long time members and it appears he is a “chip of the old block” in his choice to help make the world a better place. We have often marveled at the many selfless hours his grandmother has given to help ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/05/09/yes-william-shes-our-hero-too “Dancing Healer” was the name of a book about a medical doctor that went to practice on an Indian reservation where he was introduced to the concept of healing, which included an individual’s ability to listen to and understand body processes and be in control of them, and participate with ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/05/06/no-cooks-in-the-kitchen “Domestic terrorist are at it again, flying under the radar as they renew their campaign of intimidation at women’s clinics that offer abortions. While violence against such clinics has declined since the madness of the 1980s, this marks the first use of an explosive device, an IED no less, since ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/04/29/domestic-terrorists-still-flying-under-the-radar “An explosive device was found Wednesday in the parking lot of an Austin, Texas, women’s clinic that provides abortions. After inspecting the device, the Austin Police Department said in a statement: ‘It was determined that the package … would have caused serious bodily injury and/or death had it functioned.’ Luckily, ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/04/29/domestic-terrorism Clara Barton said, “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. ” This is quite a challenging statement to reflect on today when some people think that “support the troops” means slapping ... http://www.ruralwomyn.net/WordPress/2007/02/24/no-clara-bartons-needed-just-bumper-stickers-and-children