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Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable

Yes, this is the time of the Goddess, the emerging feminine.

Two women have made it to closer to candicacy for the leadership of America than ever before, THIS YEAR, and  it's stirring up the feminine soul-

Though both of these women are polar opposites by platform . . . what it means to be a woman and a leader and a mother and a tranformer of power . . . all this is being stirred up right now.

I pose food for thought . . . "Woman leaders . . .    a beautiful matriarchal representation and influence at our political modern day round table"

 Why are they strong and amazing - ?

 I offer names-

Oprah, modern day- I'd vote for her. She's a peaceful warrier with powerful influence and a spiritual heart.

Emma Goldman of equal rights and suffragist movement, thrown in jail countless times and Hoover referred to her as the most dangerous woman on earth . . . fighting for freedoms. FREEDOMS. She was anti war and worked for birth control rights in the early 1900's.

ROSA PARKS

Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Activist

http://www.who2.com/maryharrisjones.html

Mary Harris Jones, known as "Mother" Jones, was a social reformer and leader in the labor movement in the United States from the 1870s until her death in 1930. A native of Ireland, she grew up in Toronto, Canada and Michigan and Illinois, and married an iron worker in Tennessee in 1861. Her husband and four children died of yellow fever in 1867 and she made her way to Chicago, where she worked as a dressmaker until the famous fire of 1871 destroyed her property. After that she spent five decades as an itinerant organizer, agitator and advocate for the rights of workers and their families. A fiery orator with a flair for publicity, "Mother" Jones was nationally famous for bringing to the public's attention issues such as forced child labor and worker safety. She has since been called "the grandmother of all agitators" -- the story goes she was called that in the U.S. Senate (and not in a nice way). As a labor leader she was strongly associated with the United Mine Workers (she spent nearly three months in a West Virginia prison in 1913 for her role in violent demonstrations), the International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party of America.

 

 
 
Peace activist Rachel Corrie, 23, is a student at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while trying to stop an Israeli bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. Israeli military spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal called her death an accident. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said the U.S. government had asked Israeli officials for a full investigation.

 

 
 
Emmeline Pankhurst


 

Emmeline Pankhurst in prison clothes, 1908
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Emmeline Pankhurst in prison clothes, 1908 (credit: BBC Hulton Picture Library)
(born July 14, 1858, Manchester, Eng. — died June 14, 1928, London) British feminist. In 1879 she married Richard Pankhurst (1834 – 98), author of Britain's first women's-suffrage bill and the Married Women's Property Acts (1870, 1882). In 1889 she founded the Women's Franchise League, which in 1894 secured for married women the right to vote in local elections. In 1903, after holding municipal offices in Manchester, she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). From 1912 she advocated extreme militancy, mainly in the form of arson, and was arrested 12 times in one year. Weeks before her death in 1928, Britain passed a bill to give voting rights to all women. Her daughter Christabel H. Pankhurst (1880 – 1958) — later Dame Christabel — organized the militant tactics of the WSPU and directed actions that included hunger strikes and huge outdoor rallies. She later became a religious evangelist and moved to the U.S.

Candice Pert, author of Molecules of Emotion- She bucked the good old boy system and nearly found a cure for AIDS.

 

My personal hero, Irena Sendler!!!!

Wikapedia (source)

 

During the World War II German occupation of Poland, Sendler lived in Warsaw (prior to that, she lived in Otwock and Tarczyn) while working for urban Social Welfare Departments. As early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, she began helping Jews by offering them food and shelter. Irena and her helpers created over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families, prior to joining the organized resistance of Żegota and the children's division. Helping Jews was very risky—in German-occupied Poland, all household members risked a death sentence if they were found to be hiding any Jews. This punishment was more severe than those applied in other occupied European countries.

In December 1942, the newly created Children's Section of the Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews), nominated her (under her cover name Jolanta[3]) to head its children's department. As an employee of the Social Welfare Department, she had a special permit to enter the Warsaw Ghetto, to check for signs of typhus, something the Nazis feared would spread beyond the ghetto.[4] During the visits, she wore a Star of David as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish people and so as not to call attention to herself.

She cooperated with the Children's Section of the Municipal Administration, linked with the RGO (Central Welfare Council), a Polish Relief Organization tolerated under German supervision. She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out in boxes, suitcases and trolleys.[2] Under the pretext of conducting inspections of sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, Sendler visited the ghetto and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and trams, sometimes disguising them as packages.[5] She also used the old courthouse of the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto (still standing) as one of the main routes of smuggling children out. The children were placed with Polish families, the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary or Roman Catholic convents such as the Sisters Little Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary at Turkowice and Chotomów. Some were smuggled to priests in parish rectories where they could be further hidden. She hid lists of their names in jars, in order to keep track of their original and new identities. Żegota assured the children that, when the war was over, they must be returned to Jewish relatives.[1]

In 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo, severely tortured, and sentenced to death. Żegota saved her by bribing German guards on the way to her execution. She was left in the woods, unconscious and with broken arms and legs.[2] She was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. For the remainder of the war, she lived in hiding, but continued her work for the Jewish children. After the war, she dug up the jars containing the children's identities and began an attempt to find the children and return them to living parents. However, almost all the children's parents had died at the Treblinka extermination camp.

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MasterPsychicSusan-

Lucille Ball, Eleanor Roosevelt and Queen Elizabeth the 1st.

 

Published Friday, September 05, 2008 11:25 AM by Ms Claritynow
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# re: Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable @ Friday, September 05, 2008 9:03 AM

Dear Fawn:

What a great blog and testimony to some really special women.  One of my personal favorites is of course Eleanor Roosevelt.  I just think she was a lady before her time.  This is a great reminder to us of all the women who have went before us and made the world a better place.  Thanks Fawn

Rosie

Rosalea

# re: Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable @ Friday, September 05, 2008 9:14 AM

There are truly some courageous women out there to remember and honor!

Ms Claritynow

# re: Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable @ Friday, September 05, 2008 10:47 AM

Hi Fawn,

Thank you for the empowering blog.  Eleanor Roosevelt is a favorite of mine, as well, as is Queen Elizabeth I, and -- believe it or not -- Lucille Ball, who was the first female head of a production company, an incredibly astute businesswoman, and brilliant comedienne.




MasterPsychicSusan

# re: Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable @ Friday, September 05, 2008 1:51 PM

I'm going to post your favorites . . . thanks!

Ms Claritynow

# re: Goddess Empowered Women At The Political Roundtable @ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:58 PM

What a great blog!

Let us not forget Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President even before women had the right to vote,,,the constitution mentions that a candidate must be native born and have reached the right age,,,it doesn't mention sex...She was a PSYCHIC to boot,,,A wonderful biography is NOTORIOUS VICTORIA by Mary Gabriel.
She was a true goddess.

MaryAnneT

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