[Peace-discuss] [Prairiegreens] Women's March

Fri Jan 20 12:56:04 UTC 2017

Cindy, I was involved in organizing the Counter Inaugural in DC in 1973, but I won’t be anywhere today. I have however, been doing exactly as you suggest on a regular basis, monthly, weekly, daily, with AWARE, and others.

Todays program locally according to information I received is focusing as a #1 priority, support and protection for ACA, I support Single Payer, or Medicare for All. ACA helps many, but it hurts many as well,

You are correct, what we need is leadership and unification, as well as information which is lacking.

Keep up, what you’re doing, talking with others, that is the way to go. Sanders did a lot during the primaries to raise awareness of domestic issues, unfortunately, he did nothing in respect to foreign policy which is something that needs to be addressed.  Many are afraid to do so. Survival of humanity depends upon current US foreign policy and global warming being halted, before it’s too late. Many like Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, etc. fear it may already be too late. So time is of the essence.

On Jan 19, 2017, at 20:58, CindyMann <cindymann at gmail.com<mailto:cindymann at gmail.com>> wrote:

Thanks, I hope you do too. Maybe coming out to one of the marches and passing out information that you have would help tell people about the specifics that you want them to be more aware of.

I certainly discuss such things with other people often, and I know many people who are concerned about them. I am not, however a great speaker, and most of my discussions are limited to friends, who often already know more than I do.

Maybe it's the kind of friends I have, but I don't find many of them need to be convinced to care. A lot of people care, and perhaps what we are still in need of is focus and leadership. We endorse and send support to various organizations, which I think do good, but we are still in need of leadership on a national level if national policy is going to change. Certainly some of us had hope for that in Senator Sanders, and maybe he is still going to be leading people in that.

C.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
I hope you, given your concern for others, take the opportunity to communicate with women who are there, to the crisis that many women are facing, whether the Water Protectors, or those we are bombing, and starving throughout the Middle East, and Africa, we need more women like you, to be concerned for others welfare. Thank you for your efforts.

On Jan 19, 2017, at 17:56, CindyMann <cindymann at gmail.com<mailto:cindymann at gmail.com>> wrote:

As someone going to a march, my concern is for everyone. That callous rhetoric is dehumanizing, for everyone. It does matter. So is the sexual abuse and defense of predation he has displayed. Many people are going for that.

C.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:
The President is unlikely to have an impact on Roe vs. Wade, however those he has appointed may.  Of course this has been an ongoing project for some time, with the closing down of Planned Parenthood Clinics, under the Obama Presidency

While the march is focusing on several issues, some of which I support, there is almost no concern being shown for the thousands, millions of women killed as a result of US wars. What seems to be bringing on the crowds is concern over the “glass ceiling” and “callous rhetoric”.

One can hope that those women going to DC, who are concerned with the lives of non American women being slaughtered along with their children by the USG, will have an opportunity to speak or engage, in the enlightenment of others.

> On Jan 19, 2017, at 16:53, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag<mailto:ewj at pigs.ag>> wrote:
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> It is feared that Donald Trump will turn back Roe v. Wade.  Abortion is instituted as a national eugenics program but it is popularized successfully as a women's rights issue.
>
> Those is power who were not interested in the esoteric points of genetics were swayed by the prospect of having their peccadillos managed medically at the expense of the state.
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> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone
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> ---- Karen Aram wrote ----
>
>> Nice, but what is the issue, and why women, yes I know men can go to if they support women.
>> What is meant by support?
>> Any mention of the deaths of women occurring in Somalia? They are women, women and children being starved, two million already dead due to air strikes for which our government, current government, meaning Obama presidency, is responsible for supporting. Supporting with weapons, training, logistics, all of that which the Saudi’s lack.
>> Ten thousand in dire circumstances now.
>>
>> Human Rights Watch NYC.
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2017, at 08:34, C. G. Estabrook <cge at shout.net<mailto:cge at shout.net>> wrote:
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>>> A close friend who's going to the Women's March in DC (about which I'd expressed hesitation) says of the following,
>>>
>>> "One CW thinking about women's march. As close as I've seen to how I think about it and other ways I've been spending my time these days. And more Marian than I'd realized til I read this."
>>>
>>> https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/standing-mary-foot-cross
>>>
>>> --CGE
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