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WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY,
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE DAY, 19th Amendment, AUGUST 26 [1920], 2015 GENDER
JUSTICE NEWSLETTER #5
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
What’s at stake? “Percentage of U.S. U.S.
Why do women seek the
equity they deserve in the US, a central goal of women’s liberation, by pushing
for military combat equality? They gain
so little via the killing code and profession, and lose so much for our entire
society and the world as caretakers.
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#1-4 2011-14 AT END (19th
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OMNI’S Women’s Equality DAY #5, August
26, 2015
INTERNATIONAL
Women and the
UN Google Search
USA
Women’s
Equality Day 2015 Google Search
League of Women
Voters, Celebrate the 19th Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment Campaign
Pilisuk and
Rountree, The Hidden Structure of
Violence
Credo, Heidi
Hess: Women, Affordable Care Act, and Insurance Companies
Military Combat
for Women
Dick,
Ranger School and Front Line Combat for Women
Heidi Hess, Military Justice Improvement
Act v. Rape and Assault
PBS, “Independent Lens”: The Invisible War Documentary on Rape in
the
Military
Military
Culver, Women Vets Return from War: PTSD,
Recovering, Adjusting
WOMEN
AND THE UN Google Search, August 23, 2015
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WOMEN’S EQUALITY USA
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY USA AUGUST 26, 2015, Google
Search, August 23, 2015
1. Wednesday, August 26
Women's Equality Day 2015
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CELEBRATE THE 19TH
AMENDMENT WITH THE LWV
Celebrate Women's Equality Day
with our Fun Quiz
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Dick,
Ninety-five
years ago today,
after decades of tireless advocacy, women finally won the right to vote with
the certification of the 19th
Amendment!
It took just over a year after Congress approved the 19th Amendment for the required two-thirds of states to ratify the amendment and enshrine women’s right to vote in our Constitution. During this final push, Carrie Chapman Catt, leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, founded the League of Women Voters to “finish the fight,” and educate millions of women about the power of their votes.  Test your knowledge of the 19th Amendment and learn more about the fight for women's suffrage in the U.S. with our interactive quiz!
The trajectory of American history has
always been to greater, not less, freedom. But Making Democracy Work® has
never been easy, nor is it ever finished. And as such, the fight Catt charged
us with in 1920 continues today: ensuring that every eligible voter has free
and fair access to the polls.
The 19th Amendment opened the democratic process to 23 million women in 1920 – do you know how many of them turned out later that year? Find out and learn more about the fight for the 19th Amendment through our fun quiz! In 1920, the League was founded as an outgrowth of this vital movement. From the beginning, the League has sought to strengthen our democracy by empowering voters to engage with their government and to tackle the most important issues in our communities, states and nation. Today, we are building on this legacy by working to keep the power of our democracy in the hands of the people. The fight for universal voting rights continues today, so as we mark this historic anniversary, we are reminded how valuable our right to vote remains. Thank you for Making Democracy Work®.
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Pilisuk
and Rountree, The Hidden Structure of
Violence
Thesis:
“Although individual acts of violence are readily noticed, there is often a
pattern underlying them that is less obvious.
Violence is not adequately understood by the examination of occurrences
of specific violent behavior. Rather. .
.beneath these phenotypic events there lies a genotypic pattern, often hidden,
that is a fundamental factor in its occurrence.” (80).
“Systemic
Violence against Women and Children” (92-).
“The incidence
of sexual slavery and human trafficking among poor women and children
represents yet another form of structural violence enhanced by the global
economy” (i.e., the dominant economic system).
“The United Nations estimates that there are currently 57 million female
and child prostitutes.” P & R give
as an example the sexual exploitation by the US military occupation of the
Philippines. Also see 36 sexual
assaults, 74 sexual abuse during wars, 93-4 human trafficking, 94 Violence
against Women Act, 96-6 AIDS and HIV.
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COMBAT ROLES
FOR WOMEN IN THE US MILITARY
Why
do women seek the equity they deserve in the US, a central goal of women’s
liberation, by pushing for military combat equality? They gain so little via the killing code and
profession, and lose so much for our entire society and the world by rejecting
that much of the responsibility to nurture the world, help the weak and victims,
care for the sick and powerless. -- Dick
US
WOMEN AND US NATION ENHANCED BY WOMEN’S SUCCESS IN ARMY RANGER SCHOOL?
“Army
Ranger School Sees First Two Women to Pass.”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (August
19, 2015).
“…becoming the first women to complete the
grueling combat training program and earn the right to wear Ranger tabs on
their uniforms.” However, wearing the
tab “does not let them become members of the Ranger regiment.” Completing the “leadership course” is “part
of the U.S. military’s push to open more combat jobs to women. But the toughest jobs remain closed to female
soldier….” “Today about 220,000 positions
are open only to men.” But former Army
officer Sue Fulton, “who in 1980 was among the first women to graduate from
West Point, celebrated the news as another milestone toward ending gender
barriers in the military.” “Women have
for years played increasingly significant roles in combat.”
But does the goal of achieving gender
equality in all areas of US society trump that of seeking a humane, caring,
nonviolent, non-militaristic society?
Both men and women can choose nonviolent, conscientious objection to
war, particularly to the indefensible because unnecessary, illegal, and immoral
US wars since 1945. And women have
traditionally provided our society the values of caring and nurturing. That the Pentagon would suppress those values
under the guise of expanding equality offers more loss than gain. --Dick
STOP
SEXUAL ASSAULT
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This is
horrifying, Dick –
A Department of Defense report shows that as many as eight
in 10 victims of military sexual assault don’t trust the chain of command
enough to report the atrocious crimes committed against them.
I cringe
when I hear statistics like this, but these are the facts: The current system
doesn’t work.
We need
to take immediate action to secure justice for our troops. The
Military
Justice Improvement Act would put independent military prosecutors in charge of sexual
assault cases, ensuring that victims can speak freely without fear of
retribution. Help us pass this important bill now: Add your name to
support justice for our military.
As North
Dakota’s attorney general, I saw the damage done to victims of sexual
assault up close. But few cases in the military even reach
prosecution, because the victims can’t trust that the current system will bring
them justice or protect them from retribution.
With so
many assaults and such little justice for victims, this couldn’t be more urgent.
We need to pass legislation showing the men and women of the military that we
stand with them.
Thank
you, Heidi
The Invisible War | Documentary about Rape in
the US Military - PBS,
INDEPENDENT LENS, Monday, January 6, 2014.
Nominated
for an Oscar.
www.pbs.org/independentlens/invisible-war/
Mon May 27, 2013
7:56 am (PDT) . Posted by:
> “Service: When Women Come Marching Home,” a new documentary,
chronicles the stories of eight military women, including their struggles with
sexual assaults and serious wounds and the challenges of returning from war to
family life.
> Film shows challenges of female veterans
> Military Sexual Assaults Spike Despite Efforts To Combat Epidemic
> Hal Bernton, Seattle (WA) Times
> Film shows challenges of female veterans
> Military Sexual Assaults Spike Despite Efforts To Combat Epidemic
> Hal Bernton, Seattle (WA) Times
CONTENTS of #1
2011
Republican War
on Women
Gender Justice
USA
Equal Rights
Amendment
ERA in Arkansas
Books, Films,
Plays
UN Support of
Women
Great Women:
Wangari Maathai
Terry O’Neill
US Aid to Yemen
19th
Amendment
Title VII
Title IX
Contents of #2 2012
19th
Amendment
President Obama
Huffington Post
Women and the
UN
Feminist Films
Global Victims
Violence
Against Women Act
Feminist
Heroines
Lily Ledbetter
The Hunger Games
Margaret Fuller
US Action Plan
March 2012
Contents #3 2013
President
Obama’s 2013 Proclamation
Library of
Articles
WAND: US
National Action Plan
National
Women’s History Museum
WORD: Women
Organized to Resist and Defend
League of Women
Voters
Burns, Women in
Combat
Bourgeois,
Support for Ordination of Women
Film, “Alice
Walker: Beauty in Truth”
Contents of Women’s Equality Day
Newsletter #4 2014
WAND Webinar
August 26, Using Law to Empower Women
NOW Celebrates
the DAY
Women’s
Equality Day, Google Search
United Nations
Tomgram, Susan
Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me
END WOMEN’S
EQUALITY DAY AUGUST 26, 2015
