*Wednesday appointments in HN515
Monday, November 2nd (after class)
Gina C. (right before class/break)
Brendan
Sean
Franklin
Whitney (10:30 out)
Malikia 10:30
Wednesday, November 4th (afternoon)
Meet me ON TIME in HN515
Heather 12:30 pm
Vanessa A. 12:40
Caitlin 12:50
Karina 1:00
James 1:10
Liz 1:20
Jayquan 1:30
Matt V 1:40
Angel 2:00
Gina R 2:10
Leila 2:20
Lori 2:30
Allison 2:40
Astrid 2:50 Megan
Hannah Grace 3:00
Wednesday, November 4th (evening)
Meet me ON TIME in HN515
Kerlean 8:00pm
Matt G 8:10
Sasha 8:20
Sunina 9pm
Monday, November 9th
Jurate (after class)
Monday, November 2, 2009
Women News Network
Womens News Network-- Global Breaking News Portal:
The WNN, Women News Network, shares news about international women that is not found in public main stream. It is a non-profit media news network that won awards for bringing women stories forward to share with the world. One award the WNN was honored for was the Every Human Has Rights media award. This media network for women is a global outreach for people all over the world to try and gain equality for all women, and to help share their stories. Its hard to believe that this news network started from a writing assignment in 2006 for the UN of the Status of Women to cover global women’s news, because today it is a growing and vast women’s news network. The WNN has not only articles to read, but films and videos, news feeds, blogs for people to post, a twitter account, it gives attention to various other women’s advocate sites, and more. This news network is a great portal for women of all ages and races to connect with people globally and share their story to hopefully one day gain equality and not be so overshadowed and empowered by this male dominated world.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Women’s Net is a South African feminist nongovernmental organization that advocates gender equality and promotes the use of information Communication technologies. The website is by women, for women, and has a focus in South African content. The Women’s Net was launched in March 1998, as a result of work done in 1997 by women and gender activist set out to create a website where gender issues could be brought to light. Women’s Net was officially launched in CapeTown, Johannesburg, and Durban. From 1998 until October 2002, Women’s Net was operated as a project of SANGONE T. Women’s Net was granted approval by SANGONE T as an independent organization.
Women’s Net has successfully implemented projects to support the Internet Communication Technologies to help women unite and empower them to use their voices. The website is recognized for creating the first online space for South African women. It launched A Girl’s Net programme to encourage girl’s involvement with technology. Women’s Net has participated in the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women and have participated in research for the participation of women in information technologies in South Africa as researchers and writers. The organization has collaborated with Agenda Feminist Media. The organization is growing and working on encouraging individuals to participate globally on making advancement for women in South Africa. The experiences of women endured in the workforce, rural areas, and underdeveloped countries deserve its importance. Organizations such as Women’s Net endorse women’s rights and encourage gender activist, women, and online readers to join in the global approach and vision of Women’s Net.
The Website presents information on important social issues such as HIV Awareness, violence against women, Sex and education. The Website contains a blog where women share their stories, experiences, and express their opinions. The website is a useful medium to bring women together all over the world to form a collective force that will dedicate to bring awareness to gender inequality.
Women's eNews
Women’s eNews is a nonprofit internet-based daily news source for women and people who care about women.Launched in 2000, Women’s eNews mission statement is that it is “the definitive source of substantive news--unavailable anywhere else--covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women's perspectives on public policy. It enhances women's ability to define their own lives and to participate fully in every sector of human endeavor.”
This online women’s information source was an idea founded in 1996 by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. NOW Legal Defense underwrote in 1999 the creation of Women's eNews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with an emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. In 2002, NOW Legal Defense decided Women's eNews could sustain its success and stand on its own. So, Women's eNews became independent on January 1, 2002.
Women’s eNews writers are some of the most brightness women in the world. Women such as, Kristin Bender a writer for the Oakland Tribune, who has written about health, the sex industry, childbearing issues and alternative fuel for Women's eNews since 2004, and Louise Bernikow a graduate from Columbia and Oxford universities, a Fulbright scholar, and author of many feminists books, are amongst the brightness authors that contribute to Women’s eNews.
Women’s eNews has been successful for the past nine years mostly because of it’s writers and it’s Editor in chief Rita Henley’s ability to rely on the best practices of journalism and seek out the best stories every day. Also its commentaries, which are distributed each Wednesday, are written by prominent advocates and its monthly column in the media, uncovering Gender, and update of its page each week with an editorial cartoon by Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes, has all been a contributing factor in its success, and hopefully for many years to come.
Hartford Woman Online
Hartford Woman Online is a community for women who live in the Greater Hartford Area. It is made for work-at-home woman who want to share stories and information about their daily lives. They also have fund raisers and post events going on just for women. They have sections from women news stories to news stories. They do not specifically have to be about members of this online group, but they are specifically put on the site to help and promote women. Even though only women in the Hartford area can join the site, others can go on it and view the news stories and fund raisers. The members have more options on the site, but it is still useful to any woman who visits the site. They have a blog as well so all of the members can chat with each other. They also have their own twitter and facebook pages with help connect them with women all around the world.
The success of this online magazine is has to do with its advertisements. There is a section devoted just to ads, under "Ad Directory." Within this directory there are links to areas such as business, home decor, bridal, career coaching, photography, and much more. Within these links there are multiple links to many different organzations. So with promoting all of these organization, which are focused towards women, this online magazine flourishes with members and businesses.
It is edited by Kate LaFrance who also lives in Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford Woman Online is her online magazine, but she also has another website, www.helpvirtual.com. She helps businesses by coaching them and applying her methods to help them grow. She is involved in virtual marketing and has her own blog on blogspot. She has devoted her career in helping flourishing businesses in marketing as well as creating an online magazine for woman in the Hartford area.
-Matt Van Tine-
Joan Blades: A Look at the Woman Behind MoveOn.org
Joan Blades is best known as the co-founder of the popular progressive politics site MoveOn.org, but her contributions as a feminist in the media extend far beyond MoveOn's legacy. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Golden Gate University Law School, Blades wrote two books after finishing her law degree, Mediate Your Divorce and The Divorce Book, and soon after (perhaps ironically) met her future husband, Wes Boyd, while playing recreational soccer in San Francisco.
Blades's adult career began in what she refers to as "high-tech geekdom." Before devoting her life to politics, Blades founded Berkeley Systems, a computer software company, with her husband. At Berkeley Systems, Blades and her husband used their political conscious to do good deeds within their own far-removed-from-politics industry: the company made money early on by making modifications for Mac computers that would allow low-vision and blind individuals be able to use them. One of Blades and Boyd's programs, "Outspoken," enabled Mac computer screens to be read aloud for the blind, and won an award from the Smithsonian in 1990. The company was so successful that Blades and her husband were able to sell it for a cool $13.8 million in 1997. Blades and Boyd then used that money to found MoveOn.org.
MoveOn.org began as a website meant to circulate a petition that Blades and Boyd created. The petition pleaded with Congress to "move on" from the hoopla surrounding that year's Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal, which had become a media circus and which both Blades and Boyd were extremely frustrated with. By the time of the impeachment process, MoveOn had gained over 500,000 members. Today, MoveOn has over 3 million members. The site has also evolved over time: MoveOn.org now includes the MoveOnPAC (Political Action Committee), which works to fundraise for MoveOn-approved politicians. The site also includes an "Action Forum" where members can choose which political issue the site's members should focus on next. The site probably gained the most attention during the 2004 election, when it worked tirelessly to elect John Kerry instead of provide George W. Bush with a second term, and also campaigned diligently against Congress's funding of the Iraq War.
While MoveOn.org does not aim itself towards solely women and has a membership of both genders, Blades has incorporated feminist issues into MoveOn's mission. In 2003, during Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign in California, Blades became so outraged at reports of Schwarzenegger’s treatment of women that she rounded up MoveOn's members and helped raise $500,000 in 24 hours for an ad campaign to let women voters know what kind of man they could be electing.
Blades also runs another political action website, this time directly focused on women. She founded MomsRising.org with her friend Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner as a site focused on grassroots campaigning on behalf of mothers' political rights. In addition to MomsRising, Blades and Rowe-Finkbeiner co-authored The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want - And What To Do About It, and directed The Motherhood Manifesto film documentary, which both further advocate for political policies that will protect America's mothers.
Currently, Blades blogs for another female-founded political website, The Huffington Post. According to her HuffPo bio, she holds positions on various political leadership boards and is an artist in her spare time.
The National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an organization working for the rights of women. Their website, http://www.now.org/ addresses current issues like abortion rights, economic equality, gender discrimination, lesbian rights, and other issues involving sexism, racism, and discrimination. NOW as an alternative new source, is made by and for women, providing hot topics and a blog which members can participate and learn about the issues which surround women today. The organization was founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray and currently is led by four elected national officers. The organization and its members have worked hard for the rights of women, and bring forth national issues to the forefront by providing information and news to everyone interested. The organization has worked hard to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) which had not been ratified in all 50 states. This is strange to myself because the ERA is simply,"was an amendment to the United States Constitution which was intended to guarantee that equal rights under any federal, state, or local law could not be denied on account of sex." Seems like a pretty simple thing to ask for, but has not been ratified this MAP shows the states which have not ratified something which should have been done long ago.
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