SOCIAL ISSUES
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Reese stands up for women
Reese Witherspoon was in DC yesterday talking about the need to stop violence against women. She represents Avon which came to town to give a $500,000 grant to the State Department’s Fund for Global leadership.
One of her quotes:
I think when you ha...more
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Take the stairs – the piano stairs
It’s great when viral videos do more than just make us laugh.
Recently, we learned about a great video created by the Nike Foundation called the Girl Effect (definitely worth checking out)
We came across another video today from TheFunTheory.com. The...more
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Emma Thompson on The View talking about sexual slavery
Emma went on The View yesterday to talk about Journey which is opening in NY today. Kudos to the View for discussing the topic and really letting her talk about it in lots of details. I was kind of surprised at how little Barbara Walters seemed to kno...more
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Roman Polanski: The silence is deafening
It seems that I am now officially obsessed with the Roman Polanski insanity. As I’ve gone further down this rabbit hole I find my compatriots on the internet to be with me in force but others who I expected to hear from are just silent.
The silence i...more
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See Alanis Run; See Alanis Run for NEDA
On October 11th, in Susanville, CA, award-winning singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette (Flavors Of Entanglement) is going to run the Biz Johnson Trail Marathon to raise money for the National Eating Disorders Association.
If you haven’t seen Alanis late...more
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What's the deal with Women Drinking and Driving?
Is binge drinking for women out of control? How much is too much and when do you know if you have a problem? In light of last month's tragedy about Long Island mom Diane Schuler, whose wrong-way drunk driving on a New York highway took the lives of eig...more
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Army Wives deals with girls and body image issues
I’ve always been a fan of Army Wives. I know, it’s a bit sappy. But I like it. One reason why is because on ocassion they handle an issue really well.
That happened this past Sunday with a subplot about a young girl and body issues. The overv...more
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Human Rights Film Festival opens tomorrow
Pamela Yates
The 20th annual Human Rights Film Festival opens in NY tomorrow with director Pamela Yates’ The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. The festival last from June 12-June 25.
There are some great women directed an...more
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Designing an accessible garage
When I came home from the hospital after my spinal cord injury 10
years ago, my husband parked the car in our three-car garage, helped me
out into the wheelchair, then pushed me outside and around to the
temporary wooden ramp at the front door and up in...more
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Bike to Work Day: On the Right Track
It’s not a revolution, not yet anyway, but clearly more people are commuting by bicycle. Friday is national Bike-to-Work Day, drawing even more attention to the trend.
There are more bicycles on the road than there were a year ago, more than even a cou...more
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Star Trek’s Gender Problem
I went to see Star Trek last night here in LA on a big screen in Culver City. Personally, I prefer to see the big blockbusters during the week cause I hate the crowds. Everywhere I was yesterday in LA people were talking about the movie. It really is ...more
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