Blog posts by zohra moosa: 2009
It’s 16 Days - get active
By zohra moosa | 27 November 2009, 10:30
There’s a number of live call outs for support if you want to help end violence against women. Here’s three from the Association for Women’s Rights in Development. Click on the links to take action. Please add any more you…
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Govt’s VAW strategy is good news
By zohra moosa | 25 November 2009, 22:09
Following Jess’ post on today - the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - just a quick note to let readers know I’ve written a response to the Government’s new violence against strategy on Comment is Free….
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Let’s get real
By zohra moosa | 22 September 2009, 22:54
Just came across this useful call to action piece by Katherine Marshall in The Washington Post. As the author points out, it is the season of Big Important Global Political Meetings. Internationally, there is the upcoming G20 Summit in…
Gist or Gette: how effective is direct action?
By zohra moosa | 16 April 2009, 13:08
I’ve been ruminating on ‘direct action’ more than usual over the last few weeks. It was promted during my participation in Awaaz’s G20 march, and then hung out at the G20 protests. I had quite opposite experiences at each…
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Who you callin’ what? Radio 4 explores
By zohra moosa | 16 March 2009, 20:41
Just 12 hours left to listen again to the first episode in Radio 4’s Call Yourself a Feminist series. Historian Bettany Hughes presents the first in a series of three discussions tracing the development of feminist ideas from the…
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Yes Means Yes: with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
By zohra moosa | 3 February 2009, 19:48
The Virtual Tour of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape has begun! It kicked off yesterday at feministing with a live chat with the co-editors and some of the contributors, and today…
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‘Women and children’s’ Gaza action tomorrow
By zohra moosa | 16 January 2009, 23:29
Supported by Stop the War Coalition Trafalgar Square, 2pm, Saturday 17th Rally followed by march from Trafalgar Square to Downing St The march is calling for Gordon Brown to demand an immediate end to Israel’s bombing and an opening of…
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MS declares Obama feminist super hero
By zohra moosa | 14 January 2009, 14:51
It was sort of inevitable, no? Get your own copy from Ms magazine. Or join in the debate about what it all means: Is the cover a giddy celebration of the feminist potential in the Obama administration or a…
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Women in 2009
By zohra moosa | 11 January 2009, 21:42
So what’s in store for us this year? What with the situation in Gaza and Shireen Ebadi’s trials which we’ve already blogged about here, it’s not a good start. There has been some good news though, including Joyce Bamford…
Emergency demos + news re Gaza
By zohra moosa | 8 January 2009, 22:14
For those who missed the massive demonstrations that took place across the country last Saturday which Jess blogged about, there are more emergency demonstrations happening this coming Saturday. For Londoners: assemble 12.30 at Speaker’s Corner, Hyde Park, for a march…
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Shirin Ebadi in trouble
By zohra moosa | 6 January 2009, 21:32
Following, Roja’s two posts on the raid and closure of Shirin Ebadi’s organization - Defenders of Human Rights Center - in late December on Feministing’s community site (here and here), just a quick note to update via the Women’s Learning…
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Drugs, race, gender - and ‘family honour’
By zohra moosa | 6 January 2009, 10:23
The BBC reports that ‘A growing number of Asian women are using Class A drugs’ based on information reported from Nafas, a drugs resource project that primarily targets the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, London. According to the news report,…
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