Global Candlelight Vigil set for Sunday, March 16th
In case you haven’t received the e-mail from MoveOn.org you can find your
community's vigil location by visiting their site.
All vigils are scheduled for 7:00pm, starting in New Zealand and sweeping around the globe. As of the last time I checked, 2,482 candlelight vigils have been scheduled in 89 countries!
That’s an impressive delivery!
Yesterday, MoveOn delivered the results to the United Nations Security Council members of the web petition they conducted last week. It totaled over one million petitioners and filled 180 boxes! That’s an incredible number of ‘signatures’ to
collect in just five days.
For Buffy fans
Barry at Amptoons
has posted links to several round table Buffy discussions and well as his own
rant
on Riley’s ‘misogyny and general creepiness’. A good read for Buffy fans–check it out!
I also didn’t like Riley. He was too much of a straight-and-narrow military yes-man for Buffy. She needs someone dark, potentially dangerous, and sexual. Riley could have been her older brother–it always seemed a stretch (and a big yawn!) during their sex scenes.
And you think you’ve been through hell...
Ten year old Fouzia Hassan created quite a stir earlier this year at Sundance when she appeared at the showing of The Day I Will Never Forget, a documentary on female genital mutilation in Kenya. The film’s title comes from a poem that Fouzia wrote of her own experience at the age of eight.
After reading her daughter’s poem, Fatuma was so moved she promised not to have the procedure performed on Fouzia's two year old sister. Said Fouzia at Sundance, “I want to be a doctor...I want to help girls who are running away from their homes to avoid circumcision. I want to be a doctor and talk to their parents and save them."
ABC News reports further on the story of Fouzia, as well as reasons the practice of female genital mutilation is so hard to eradicate. But for me, the definitive writing will always be Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy.
Thanks Chris of Uffish Thoughts
for pointing me to this.
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