Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Talk the Talk; Walk the Walk The "Saving Our Democracy" conference in NYC this Saturday sponsored by The Nation Institute and The New Democracy Project  is hardly offering a democratic-looking profile of speakers. Just two of 25 are women. And we're not into gender ratios just for show. Being inclusive of gender, racial and ethnic citizens is what creates democratic ideas, values and goals. Senior Editor at The American Prospect Online, Garance Franke-Ruta,  outlines why the speaker list is so disappointing and unacceptable from a progressive organization and offers a blogroll of articulate and politically-minded women who agree including Nation columnist Katha Pollitt who observes "even Congress--even the Supreme Court! -- has a better male-female ratio than that." -RH 8:41:35 PM    comment []

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