[Sosfbay-discuss] Feminist Issues Group - FIG (was Re: Global warming is human rights issue: Nobel nominee)
JamBoi
jamboi at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 8 09:34:25 PST 2007
Andie that's an AWESOME IDEA!!! I'll totally back that. Let's
schedule it. When do you think? Merriam will be interested too I
think. AND REMEMBER we're trying to get AT LEAST two more women on the
County Council.
Impeach for Peace!
Drew
PS. Here's the info I mentioned to you re: FIG the SF Greens' Feminist
Issues Group:
http://www.sfgreenparty.org/workinggroups/indivworkgroup.gem?wgidx=4&action=homepage
Feminist Issues Working Group Home Page
Last Modified: 02/20/07 By: FIG
FEMINISM IS ONE OF THE 10 KEY VALUES OF THE GREEN PARTY.
The Feminist Issues Group (FIG) of the San Francisco Green Party
strives to define why feminism is important to Greens and to promote
Green feminism in all realms of Green Party activities and in our
lives.
FIG usually meets on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at
Wild Awakenings Café, 142 McAllister near Hyde, in San Francisco. For
information about the MARCH meeting date, time and location, please
contact Vicki Leidner, Chairperson at vleidner at rcn.com for details and
exact location. Newcomers and non-Greens are welcome to drop in.
-----
THE GOALS OF FIG ARE TO:
Create linkages with other Green women and progressive women;
Build progressive coalitions;
Promote the need for, and develop, female leadership and candidates;
Educate Party members and the community about feminist values
Expand the notion of women's rights/women's issues to include social
justice, economic justice and environmental justice issues;
Work to broaden the debate and understanding of the wholesale attack
taking place against women's rights and sexual politics in the world
today, including attacks on women's health and reproductive rights, gay
and lesbian rights, Title IX, public assistance and other issues.
FIG advocates for stronger local, state and national policy initiatives
affecting women's rights; increasing the visibility and leadership of
progressive women; and helping to secure electoral victories and
political appointments for progressive women.
FIG also endorses and actively participates in local organizing
efforts, public mobilizations and coalition-building efforts to improve
the status of women.
And finally, FIG produces educational and awareness raising events
designed to build bridges among political women and encourage their
active participation in local politics.
For more information, please contact:
Vicki Leidner, Co-Chair, vleidner at rcn.com
--- Andrea Dorey <andid at cagreens.org> wrote:
> Drew,
> Thanks for including this material.
>
> Did you hear actor Geena Davis this AM on Democracy Now talking about
>
> the lack of female characters in the media, especially for very young
>
> children? She has taken an interest in this due to her having had a
>
> daughter and two twin sons in recent years.
>
> Her talk really blew me away. It needs to be heard by GP women, as
> her statements carried a lot of healing for those of us who diet,
> surgically alter ourselves, and secretly hate our bodies (some kids
> today are CUTTING themselves!). What she has acknowledged is the
> POWER of the media and, although in the business, really had not
> realized just how powerful they are! She demonstrates it by using
> personal anecdotes in this talk.
>
> You were discussing the possibility of getting GP women together in a
>
> group--I think it is a worthy cause. I'd like to get a copy of this
>
> material (above) and perhaps Fred would be interested in sponsoring a
>
> showing? I think men should be interested, too, because they are not
>
> unaffected by media images. If women are unconscious of the damage
> done to themselves, how could men know of it--or of that done to
> themselves as well?
>
> This would be a great kickoff in getting women together and getting
>
> women to see the GP in a new light (as advocate).
>
> What do you think?
> Andrea
>
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:15 PM, JamBoi wrote:
>
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070304/ts_nm/globalwarming_rights_dc
> >
> > [So in addition to being an impeachable offense...]
> >
> > Global warming is human rights issue: Nobel nominee
> > By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent Sun Mar 4, 9:03 AM
> ET
> > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It sounds like a sick joke about global
> > warming,
> > with a series of horrible punch lines:
> >
> > How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle
> are
> > using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the
> > hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through
> > melting
> > ice when they hunt.
> >
> > These circumstances are the current results of global climate
> change,
> > according to Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an
> Inuit
> > born inside the Canadian Arctic, who maintains this constitutes a
> > violation of human rights for indigenous people in low-lying areas
> > throughout the world.
> >
> > Watt-Cloutier and Martin Wagner, an attorney with the environmental
>
> > law
> > firm Earthjustice, argued this case on Thursday before the
> > Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of
> > American States in Washington.
> >
> > "We weren't going to go to court," Watt-Cloutier said in a
> telephone
> > interview after her testimony to the commission. "It wasn't about
> > lawsuits and suing for damage or compensation.
> >
> > "It was more about really trying to get the world to pay attention
> and
> > see this as a human rights issue."
> >
> > Their best hope is that the commission will write a report on this
> > issue, though even getting a hearing in Washington is a victory of
> > sorts. The commission earlier rejected a petition to hear about
> > alleged
> > rights violations based solely on U.S. emissions of greenhouse
> gases.
> >
> > The human rights commission has scant powers and can do little more
> > than publicize its findings and propose a resolution to the
> 35-member
> > organization.
> >
> > In her address to the panel, Watt-Cloutier acknowledged the
> challenge
> > of connecting climate change and human rights, but noted a
> practical
> > purpose for protecting the people she called "the sentinels of
> climate
> > change."
> >
> > ENVIRONMENTAL EARLY-WARNING SYSTEM
> >
> > "By protecting the rights of those living sustainably in the Amazon
> > Basin or the rights of the Inuit hunter on the snow and ice, this
> > commission will also be preserving the world's environmental
> > early-warning system."
> >
> > Watt-Cloutier reckons there are millions of such environmental
> > sentinels at risk, ranging from the Inuit to residents of low-lying
> > islands that are subject to sea level rise caused by melting ice
> > sheets.
> >
> > They chose the Organization of American States as a forum because
> two
> > of the countries where Inuit communities live -- the United States
> and
> > Canada -- are members. Inuit also live in Russia and Greenland.
> >
> > For Inuit communities, ice and snow are intrinsic to physical and
> > cultural survival, Watt-Cloutier said after the hearing. Even the
> > building of igloos is under threat.
> >
> > "You can just imagine the brilliance and the genius and the
> ingenuity
> > of building a home out of snow, warm enough to have your baby sleep
> > in," she said. "And now all of that is starting to leave because
> snow
> > conditions are so changed."
> >
> > Many Inuit live in more conventional buildings, which are
> constructed
> > mainly to keep the cold out. Unfortunately, with longer and warmer
> > summers with 24-hour-a-day sunlight, this has turned many into
> ovens,
> > Watt-Cloutier said. For the first time, air conditioners are in use
> in
> > the Arctic.
> >
> > Seasoned Inuit hunters used to be able to tell where the ice was
> safe,
> > but because warmer seas have started to melt sea ice from its
> > underside, even the most experienced hunters find it hard to gauge,
>
> > and
> > some fall through, she said.
> >
> > "The glaciers are melting so quickly that where our hunters used to
> be
> > able to cross safely, now it's so unsafe that it's become torrent
> > rivers ... and we've had a drowning as a result of that as well,"
> she
> > said.
> >
> > Watt-Cloutier quoted a hunter in Barrow, Alaska, to sum up the
> impact
> > climate change has had on Inuit life: "There's lots of anxieties
> and
> > angers that are being felt by some of the hunters that no longer
> > can go
> > and hunt. We see the change, but we can't stop it, we can't explain
>
> > why
> > it's changing. ... Our way of life is changing up here, our ocean
> > is changing."
> >
> > ___________________
> >
> > JamBoi
> > Jammy The Sacred Cow Slayer
> >
> > "Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon)
> > http://dailyJam.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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