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Rihanna Got Help: Why Aren't Women Like Me Heard?
December 7th, 2009
The Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg
Mayor, The City of New York
Office of the Mayor
New York, NY 10007
Dear Mayor Bloomberg,
Nanny Trafficking: A Filipina Woman Fights Back
Nannies around the world get treated pretty badly.
But a Filipino woman recently used the Canadian courts to get justice.
If Girls Facebook All the Time, Why Don't They Want to Dissect it?
by Elena Strange
The Rehabilitation of Ellot Spitzer: The Disgraced Governor does Panels and Punditry
Kids Deserve Better Lunches: Let's Pay Attention to the Child Nutrition Act
By Jerusha Klemperer,
In a variation of this week's thanksgiving, 20,000 people in every state got together to break bread for a greater good. This Labor Day, hundreds of public potlucks were held in support of updating our nation’s school lunch program
Sarah Palin's Values are Black Values: Pro-God, Pro-Life and Pro-Family
by Adrienne Ross photo: Elliott Andrew
Sexual Assault in the Military - Women Seeking Treatment and Justice
By Marcia G. Yerman
Giving Work Not Aid: An Interview With Samasource founder on How Microwork Can Help Eradicate Poverty
Leila Chirayath Janah started the non-profit social enterprise Samasource that brings computer-based work to the world’s poor, making outsourcing a tool for development. Currently working in Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana, and Pakistan, Samasource provides what Janah calls micro-work for
Diet Reform: How Government Can Help Health Care with Better Diets
by Susan Levin, MS, RD photo: Nathalie Maynor cc
The End of Macho: Men and Women in the Changing Finance Culture
Why Women Have to Help Re-Make Health Care
By Jaci Mairs, RN, JD photo cc:&
Economic Abuse: Got her by the Pocketbook
It may just be paper, but money can be used to hurt people--in what's called economic abuse. It can be a way to exert control over another person. Often perpetrators of domestic violence use economics to control their partner's access to money and prevent them from leaving.
Talking to Johns: What Atlanta is doing about Prostitution
The Mayor of Atlanta has run this campaign for nearly a year. Instead of going after the prostitutes who are often young and vulnerable, Shirley Franklin decided to go after their customers. A baby picture, makes for a compelling poster all right.
Reinventing Work: The Freelance Economy Needs a New Social Safety Net
Creativity and independence are fundamental to America’s history and character. Nothing shows thatmore than the rise of independent workers. Freelancers now comprise 30% of the workforce—-with an estimated 42.6 million independent workers in the U.S.
Health Care for Women of Color: Listening to What They Need
by Cheryl D. Edwards, JD photo by Wally g cc
What Not to Wear: Women's Clothing and Women's Rights
This summer Lubna Hossein made world headlines by wearing pants in Sudan. She got into lots of trouble—Hussein was arrested and jailed--along with 12 other women who were given the punishment of 10 lashes and a fine.
A few weeks earlier, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said women should not wear burqas.
