The 56th Annual Commission on the Status of Women

Today the Commission on the Status of Women begins at the United Nations!  The theme for this year’s CSW is “The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges”.  Bummed you...

A Grail Tale (of Activism), Judith Blackburn

I went home from the GA fired up to do something about fracking in my home community of Longmont, Colorado, just as our City Council was considering applications from Big Oil for leasing public land east of town for drilling.  Joy Garland and Kate Twohy had already...

Guadalupe in New York, a review by Marian Ronan

In honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast is celebrated today, I share with you below my review of Guadalupe in New York, the splendid book by my friend Alyshia Gálvez. Gálvez is a member of the faculty at Lehman College here in New York and a rising star in...

Why I Fell In Love: Bonnie Hendricks

Why I Fell In Love Now that I have your attention, here’s the rest of the sentence: with the Transition [Town] Movement Those who were at the GA on Thursday afternoon heard my spiel about the Transition (Town) Movement.  (For those who missed it, the PowerPoint and...