5.07.03 countering male domination and patriarchy

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Make the Road New York is admired for its consensus-based, collective decision-making, an intensive process that builds strong, trusting relationships, leadership, and shared agreement among members.

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The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign was her brainchild.

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The lawyers' demands shook the core of the military establishment.

Summary:The logic of those who want Iraq to fail dictates that anything that might give hope must be destroyed.

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The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) isn't what most experts think of as a site of research on militarization and demilitarization. But that oversight may be due to many militarization experts' narrow views of ''expertise.'' The WCRC is an energetic organization located in downtown Oakland, California, that develops programs for Asian- American, African-American, Native American, and Latina women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Dialogues about the girls' suffering have motivated 131 excisers to quit, and three villages to renounce the practice.

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Rather than a benign intervention, federally funded marriage promotion is ideologically-driven experimentation with the lives of low-income people.

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The concept of the White Ribbon was affirmed; it is a man’s pledge never to commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women.

If there is anything hopeful to come out of the recent murderous attacks on girls in Pennsylvania and Colorado, it will rest in one of the inherent ironies of tragedy.

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We can learn from suffering — if we are truly going to change the world, we probably can’t avoid it — but let’s not venerate it.