These self-named Badass Grandmas for Democracy (as they say, Grandchildren not required!) took on the establishment in North Dakota to fight corruption – and won! Their mission: To engage you in restoring trustworthy govt. for generations to come. They mobilized citizens, they marshalled their expertise and moxie, and with humour, determination, principles and a deep …
Grandmothers on the Move Episode 47 — In a Time of Crisis: Women we need to Hear. Today, Florence Butegwa, Ugandan feminist lawyer, long time women's human rights activist, U.N. leader – she is one of the women to whom I look for guidance when there are tough situations to navigate. Florence shares her thoughts …
Reprieve and Refuelling – ideas from the frontline of activisms to fuel our spirits in troubled times! Ana Falú, an Argentinian architect, professor, activist and long-time women’s rights leader/agitator/visionary is riveting in her reflections on life in exile, building bridges to strengthen women’s movements, and grandmotherhood reinforcing ‘the private is political’! Support the show
From LinkedIn Post by Anne Marie Goetz: A group of feminist activists who have worked at UNIFEM, UN Women and elsewhere in the UN have drafted this Open Letter to the new Executive Director of UN Women. UN Women is embarking on its second decade in the context of rising misogynist authoritarianism and a pandemic …
The heartbreaking reality is that this single-minded focus on delivering drugs has come at the expense of support for the human dimensions of the AIDS crisis. By ILANA LANDSBERG-LEWIS Wed., Nov. 30, 2016 (reprinted from thestar.com) We all know if a member of our family had a life-threatening illness, it would be a tremendous relief to know that drugs …
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis has devoted her career to bettering the lives of women. Ilana is a passionate advocate for human rights. She has worked alongside her father, Stephen Lewis, to found the Stephen Lewis Foundation and has been its Executive Director since its inception in 2003. Ilana recently Executive Produced a moving documentary from the Stephen Lewis Foundation titled …
Grandparenthood. It’s probably the most cherished of all the categories of relationship that the people we experience in our lives can fall under. Mother, father? Fine, but for every several good cops in the archetype, there’s a bad lieutenant, turning home into a living autopsy of family dysfunction. Grandmothers, by contrast it seems, can do …
What started as a conversation around a kitchen table has grown to become a movement to empower women, especially grandmothers, in Africa. The Grandmothers Campaign, an initiative of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, is known as Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers in Regina, which was among the very first places in Canada where women took on projects to …