With fewer volunteers and fewer donations, our food banks are going to need to hire paid staff AND purchase more food items. Our national network of food banks needs all the help it can get.
Category: Human Rights
#writtenonthebathroomwall (a poem)
remember for a good time call written on the bathroom wall? 1981 for me when was it you? inside our heads patriachy whispers you are property livestock and land exchanged for a wife 1870 in the UK 1922 Alberta 2012 Botswana last gasp patriarchy shouting online #writtenonthebathroomwall
Commemorating #IWD
I'd say celebrating, but there is much still to be done in the area of women's rights. I've not prepared a full blog, I thought instead I would share some past #InspiringWordsInspiringWomen memes. And, I'd like to invite everyone to do a bit of exploration today and find your feminist hero(s). I'm going to finish …
October 24 is United Nations Day — Today I Celebrate Eleanor Roosevelt’s Work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On October 24, 1945, the United Nations was established by the UN Charter. Eleanor Roosevelt was the first American delegate to the UN, the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and she presided over the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the garden of the UN Headquarters in New York, there …
Doc MacLeod's Musings 