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women [2018/01/14 07:58] Richard Greeman |
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| Recognizing these communities as refugees of environmental disaster, the peoples of the First Nations opened their lands and conferred "citizenship" on these "immigrants." With the influx of human, political, and economic power (many of those affected by the California wildfires were rich) the First Nations waged a successful campaign for recognition by the United Nations. | Recognizing these communities as refugees of environmental disaster, the peoples of the First Nations opened their lands and conferred "citizenship" on these "immigrants." With the influx of human, political, and economic power (many of those affected by the California wildfires were rich) the First Nations waged a successful campaign for recognition by the United Nations. | ||
| - | Similarly, groups of refugees won the right to compete in the Olympic games under the Olympic banner, bringing international attention to the Trump Administration's - and capitalism - inability to protect human life. | + | Similarly, groups of refugees won the right to compete in the Olympic games under the Olympic banner, bringing international attention to the Trump Administration's - and capitalism's - inability to protect human life. |
| More to come... https://www.onebillionrising.org/ | More to come... https://www.onebillionrising.org/ | ||
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| For those reasons and some others, collective action in the name of women’s rights was not only seen as unnecessary, but even as a threat. This rendered progress difficult. | For those reasons and some others, collective action in the name of women’s rights was not only seen as unnecessary, but even as a threat. This rendered progress difficult. | ||
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| + | Lola: obviously, equality of wages, division of labor/roles, representation. Indirect equalities: human relationships. How we think of "men" and "women" and their qualities. We now see them as human qualities that anyone can have. | ||
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| + | Jenny: at basis, we just want to be treated like human beings, to walk through the world as individuals and not representatives of a "class" (people of color experience this in the extreme). In the western world, the definition of normal has been heterosexual white male and anything that deviates from that is seen as abnormal and in need of "fixing." But NOW, women are simply seen as individual humans. Judged on behavior and talent, not in relation to a standard, but as individuals. | ||
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| + | Fred: denormalizing and normalizing | ||
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| + | Sam: Response to Richard's request of summary of Marge Percy, Margaret Atwood, etc. | ||
| + | Atwood really gives a dystopian view with a utopia inserted inside as God's Gardeners. Combo of community garden movement and Anglican Church. Men have lactation as well and can feed their children. | ||
| + | Percy-"Women on the Edge of Time" | ||
| + | Burgoyne-Corbett (spelling?), 1889-"The New Amazonia". A dream utopia of Vegetarian, belief in a positive after-life, women led. | ||
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| + | Dave: Kim Stanley-Robinson-"2312" Diversity of sexuality. | ||
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