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SF Gate: Multimedia (image): May 2, 2007 8:11pm 1 review
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When Deborah Rodriguez, a Michigan mother of two, visited Afghanistan in 2001 as a part of a disaster-relief tour arranged by a Christian humanitarian group, she wondered what she had to offer the citizens of a country who had weathered five long years of Taliban control.

She soon found out.

ShelSilverstein.com: the Official Site for Kids: May 2, 2007 8:32am 7 reviews for-kids
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html; homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.dukes3/shel.htm [homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.dukes3/shel.htm]
salon.com/people/feature/1999/05/27/shel/ [salon.com/people/feature/1999/05/27/shel/]
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YouTube - Otters holding hands: Apr 28, 2007 1:21pm 67 reviews animals, video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno; This is how it should always be.

Unvarnished Texas beckons at a new park near Austin | Dallas Morning News | New…: Apr 28, 2007 10:21am 1 review nature, texas
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/thisweek/stories/DN-au...; be sure to watch the video, beautiful.

017ps: Apr 27, 2007 7:42pm 1 review activism
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/180.htm; ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an independent woman with dreams of bringing equal rights to all people, but especially to woman. Stanton very easily could have lived a joyous life without a man, but she did marry, and from the day that the word "obey" was omitted from her wedding vows, Stanton was on mission.
While attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London with her husband, Stanton met Lucretia Mott. At the convention the two discussed a need for a woman's rights convention. Stanton was named the leader of the woman's rights movement in the United States by her friends.(Huntington org) They began their movement at the Seneca Falls Convention for anti-slavery in 1851. In that same year, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony, and recognizing their common passion for equal rights, became friends and colleagues. (nps.gov)
In 1868, along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony, she founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA), of which Stanton was president. In that same year, she began publishing the Revolution, a newspaper dedicated to woman's rights. However, the paper did not focus on suffrage alone, it also called for reforms in the social, economic and political status of woman. She wanted to change society's view of the role of woman and also to change the legal status of woman. Stanton believed that woman and men should be educated together to ensure equal education opportunities for woman and believed adamantly in husbands and wives sharing the role of caring for children.(Huntington org)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with Matilda Joslyn Gage, wrote the Declaration of Rights of the Woman of the United States. Anthony then presented them to Congress during the Centennial Celebration in Washington D.C. in 1876. Note that this was done without an invitation. The three women were laughed at, but refused to give up on their cause. All of them signed the Celebration of the NWSA.(nps.gov)
In 1890 Stanton and Anthony United the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the American Woman's Suffrage Association, creating the National American Woman's Suffrage Association. This action was ultimately to help them in their struggle to get woman's suffrage.

Though many other organizations were around in support of woman's rights, they didn't focus solely on woman's suffrage, but instead on moral reforms. That was the reason why Stanton and Anthony chose to merge with the American Woman's Suffrage Association.(womenshistory)Being the anti-chauvinist that she was, Stanton was even disgusted by the Bible. She attacked the pulpits and the dogma that was preached from them. When preachers tried to tell her that the New Testament was better than the Old, She would reply, " All men of then Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example." In 1895, she published The Woman's Bible, which only contained two volumes of the original text. The book caused much controversy, which resulted in it's being published multiple times. In 1896, the National Woman's Suffrage Association condemned The Woman's Bible. (Murphy, 1999)

Though Stanton never lived to see the day of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, her accomplishments in her pursuit for woman's suffrage will not soon be forgotten. Stanton's message is probably best defined by her epitaph, which reads:

I live...

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton]
nps.gov/archive/wori/ecs.htm [nps.gov/archive/wori/ecs.htm]

StumbleUpon - christinemms web site reviews and blog: Apr 27, 2007 7:38pm 47 reviews stumblers
http://christinemm.stumbleupon.com/; A woman of my own heart and great interest in all things.
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Apr 27, 2007 7:30pm: TEXAS, A MICROCOSM OF WASHINGTON

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Voter ID again on Monday

As you know, only one of the two pernicious voter ID bills that were brought to the floor of the House made it through. The other got sent back to committee on a point of order. That bill, HB626, is expected to be back on the floor this coming Monday. The True Courage Action Network has a call to action:

If they pass HB 626:

* You'll be required to produce a certified copy of your birth certificate or passport or naturalization papers to register to vote.
* You'll be required to produce your birth certificate or one of those other hard-to-find and expensive documents to re-register (20% of Texans move between election cycles).
* Voter registration drives will be a thing of the past because we don't carry around our birth certificate (if we even have one) when we shop.
* The voter turnout rate in Texas, already the lowest in the nation at 26%, will drop even lower.

We expect a floor vote on Monday. This time, in addition to calling your own rep (contact info here), we're asking you to call the following House members who are believed to be undecided, and ask them to stand up with courage and vote NO on HB 626:

Kirk England (512) 463-0694
Mike Krusee (512) 463-0670
Pat Haggerty (512) 463-0728
Mike Hamilton (512) 463-0412
Harvey Hilderbran (512) 463-0536
Delwin Jones (512) 463-0542
Tommy Merritt (512) 463-0750
Todd Smith (512) 463-0522

A lot of American citizens in this state don't have birth certificates - basically, anyone born at home, which is a common thing in rural areas, may not have one. They'll be pretty much out of luck if they need to register or re-register. You'll need a certified copy of your birth certificate if you ever move to another county, which will require a re-registration. And you'd better hope it doesn't get lost in the mail, if you like your identity as it is.

SEE ANY ROVE OR ABU GONZLES HERE? IF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS GET OFF YOUR BUTT AND CALL OR WRITE A LETTER. IF YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE, WELL, YOU ARE NEXT, JUST WAIT AND SEE.

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This morning I attended a Town Hall meeting hosted by my State Representative Todd Smith, R-Bedford.

Let me plug the fact that Town Hall meetings, should your representatives have them, are excellent opportunities to directly question your elected officials on votes, authored legislation, or legislation that concerns you that they voted for. Get in their face! As BOR has been documenting all week, my personal concern and sole mission for today's Town Hall was to question Representative Smith about his vote in favor of House Bill 218. Otherwise know as the Voter Suppression Act of 2007.

I asked:

"Representative Smith you voted this week in favor of House Bill 218, which passed with a 76-68 vote. The bill is inappropriately named the Voter Identification Bill; it should be entitled the Voter Suppression Bill. If it becomes law this bill will disenfranchise elder seniors, minorities, and young people from exercising their constitutional right to vote, and you supported that. Why?"

Representative Todd Smith said directly:

"I did it because I'm Republican."

With a puzzled look, my fellow Democratic constituents and I essentially dropped our jaws to the floor. And he not only said it once, twice, but three times! The final time he basically insinuated that the Republican Party

PBS: Apr 25, 2007 7:04pm 65 reviews tv
http://www.pbs.org/; Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the Iraq War
Explore the role the press played in the lead up to the war.