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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
 The colliery band that inspired the hit film Brassed Off is to field a female musician in competition for the first time in its 93-year history – 14 years after the same thing happened in the movie.
The Grimethorpe Colliery Band has recruited Sheona White, an internationally acclaimed horn player, for the British Open competition in Birmingham in September.
Miss White, a former BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year who performed on the chart-topping 1997 BBC charity single Perfect Day, is the first woman to play for the South Yorkshire band in a musical competition.
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Rachel Maddow On FOX News Is OMG & ROFL |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 |
Susan notes: best take down of Fox News I've ever seen. I'm still laughing...
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It’s Not Rape. It’s Sexual Terrorism. |
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Monday, 19 July 2010 |
Susan notes: this video is from a documentary series called Women on the Frontline presented by Annie
Lennox and produced by UNIFEM; it shines a light on violence against women and girls. Read more about the series below.
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Women Priests & Pedophilia On Par Says Pope |
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Saturday, 17 July 2010 |
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 Making a woman a priest is as sinful as abusing a child, the Roman
Catholic Church declared yesterday.
New religious rules published
by the Vatican set both sins at the same level of gravity and
recommended the same punishment for guilty priests.
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officials in Rome insisted that the new version of Canon Law showed it
was 'very, very serious in its commitment to promote safe environments'
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it had the appearance of an own goal by Pope Benedict XVI in his
attempt to cool the scandal over Catholic cover-ups of child abuse by
paedophile priests.
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Children Sold Online In Cyber Slave Market |
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 |
Susan notes: According to the Rebecca Project, more than 100,000 American girls are sexually trafficked in the United States. Their first sexual encounter, on average, is between the ages of 11 and 14.
Related links:
The Rebecca Project
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Haitian Women Drive Country Out Of Debris |
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Tuesday, 06 July 2010 |
 Cendra Guillaume walks into the dusty depot of manly machines, passes fellow female workers, and steps into the front office with a familiar look of determination.
Not one to sit around and wait, the wife, mother and heavy equipment operator gets right to the point: ``Where to today?''
In the months since the Haiti earthquake claimed an estimated 300,000 lives, women like Guillaume have been on the front lines of paving the way for this broken nation's reconstruction.
Theirs are the anonymous hands that steered the dead and dying to unmarked graves in black and white government dump trucks, tunneled through the rubble for foreign rescue teams and cleared debris from hundreds of blocked roads.
In the process, they are challenging the notion of a woman's traditional role in this machismo society, and restoring what many thought they had lost in the rubble: faith in the future.
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Saudi Mother Of Eight Flees With Kids To Desert |
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
 A Saudi mother with five daughters and three sons has not been able to find place to stay except the mountains near Al-Fayha land plot close to the Makkah entrance from Jeddah.
She was escaping from her own brother who threatened to kill her and her children.
Human Rights Commission member Muhammad Al-Suhaili told Arab News that he spotted the woman and her children in an open and deserted area near a mountain close to the entrance of Makkah.
Al-Suhaili, who is a staff member of Umm Al-Qura University and the imam of Princess Sheikha Mosque, said he went to them and asked the woman why she was in this deserted place that is unsafe for women.
He said the woman told him that the general court in Jeddah divorced her from her husband, who is the father of her eight children, after the court received sufficient evidence of his constant abuse. She said after the divorce, she stayed in a shelter home in Jeddah but after some time moved out to stay with her mother.
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