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Wajeha Al-Huwaider with Phellicia Dell, Rebecca Lolosoli, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Tina Brown (PRNewsFoto/The Daily Beast)
Terrible news from Saudi Arabia: After proceedings that stretched out over nearly a year and violated many legal norms, Wajeha Al-Huwaider, the prominent Saudi Human rights activist and co-organizer of protests against the ban on women drivers, has been sentenced to ten months in prison, along with her colleague Fawzia Al-Oyouni. (I interviewed Al-Huwaider here.)
Their crime? It's a little complicated. They were accused of kidnapping and trying to help Nathalie Morin, a Canadian woman married to a Saudi, flee the country in June 2011. Morin, who has said her husband locks her in the house and is abusive, has been trying for eight years to leave Saudi Arabia with her three children. (There's a so-far-unsuccessful campaign, spearheaded by her mother, to get the Canadian government to intervene.) Al-Huwaider says they were responding to a frantic text message from Morin, who said her husband had gone away for a week and left her locked in the house without enough food or drinkable water. When they arrived at the house with groceries, they were arrested.
The two activists were found not guilty of kidnapping, but the judge convicted them of "Takhbib"—inciting a woman against her husband. Apparently helping an abused wife feed her children is a crime in Saudi Arabia. Can't have that in a country where women need their male "guardians's" okay to travel, work, study or even undergo surgery, where fathers have automatic legal custody of children and the Koran, interpreted at the whim of judges, is the only legal code.
Al-Huwaider writes in an e-mail:
We will be banned from traveling for two years following our release. We will be trapped in this women's prison—that is, Saudi Arabia—for 3 years.
This is the first time in Saudi legal history that a travel ban has been imposed in a social case. This proves that the decision has really come from the Minister of Internal Affairs, and that they planned to prevent us from engaging in any human rights activities.
From the first session I knew that it was going to be very bad and I was always expecting the worst, but I didn't think that the judge would be this aggressive.
As I see it now, it was a 'good catch' for the Wahabi court to convict two liberal women who have been campaigning for years to promote equality and women's rights.
Al-Huwaider and Al-Oyouni have a month to appeal. Muslims for Progressive Values, a Canadian group, is appealing to leaders in Canada and Saudi Arabia.
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Americans can help them too:
Contact the Saudi ambassador and protest this absurd miscarriage of justice.
Contact President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry and urge them to speak out about Saudi human rights abuses and make a public statement about this case. Obama can be contacted here or here.
Contact your congressional representative and senators and urge them to push the president and State Department.
Human Rights Watch has more details.
Michelle Bachmann protested against immigration reform in DC today. Read George Zornick's report here.
Protesters rally outside the Supreme Court in San Salvador in support of Beatriz and her family. (Reuters/Ulises Rodriguez)
Yesterday, after a long delay, El Salvador's Supreme Court voted 4-1 to deny a young woman the abortion she needs to save her life. Beatriz, who is 22 and the mother of an infant son, is terribly sick with lupus, hypertension and kidney disease. Her doctors have said she is likely to die if forced to continue the pregnancy. The final touch: Beatriz's fetus is anencephalic (missing most of its brain) and will not be able to survive outside the womb. If ever "right to life" was a contradiction in terms, this is that case.
Jodi Jacobson has details here.
Ten weeks ago, when Beatriz was in the first trimester, the minister of health said she should be allowed to have an abortion. The country's powerful Catholic Church and far right erupted. Despite stern calls from the office of the UN Commission for Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes has dithered as Beatriz's condition deteriorates and an abortion becomes more dangerous: she is now 24 weeks pregnant.
Since 1998, El Salvador has had a complete no-exceptions ban on abortion, promoted by the country's powerful Catholic Church and passed with the votes of legislators from the former left-wing movement FMLN—because if there's one thing right and left agree on, it's that women's lives are less important than achieving political power. (Daniel Ortega made the same move in Nicaragua in a successful bid for church support.)
Since the ban, the Central American Women's network reports that over 600 Salvadoran women have been imprisoned for having abortions, including miscarriages and stillbirths suspected of being the result of abortion. A word to the wise: when US abortion opponents insist they would never put women on trial for terminating a pregnancy, be skeptical.
Beatriz's case has captured international attention. We need to keep the pressure on so that her life can be saved. Soon it may be too late.
What you can do:
Sign the petition to Pope Francis urging him to step in and save Beatriz. (I know, I know: things are pretty bad when we have to ask the pope to save a woman from abortion opponents!)
Donate to the fund to help Beatriz pay for her medical care. Any funds left over will go to Salvadoran organization Agrupación Ciudadana por la Despenalización del Aborto Ético, Terapéutico y Eugenésico, which is leading the legal fight to save Beatriz.
Tweet to the President of El Salvador @mauriciofunesSV.
Sample tweets:
Listen to the UN! Save Beatriz! The whole world is watching @mauriciofunesSV #savebeatriz
What about Beatriz's right to life? Her human rights? @mauriciofunesSV #savebeatriz
Why is the US military more intent on protecting its command structure than victims of sexual assault? Read Katrina vanden Heuvel's column.
Was it really five years ago that some brave Saudi women dared to drive their own cars to protest the blanket denial of basic human rights to women in the Kingdom? Not much has changed since, despite a few cosmetic measures. Women are still minors for life, under the legal control of father, husband, uncle or even son. Shocking abuses of power are routine. Theocracy still reigns. And women are still banned from getting behind the wheel.
Here's a dispatch from Wajeha al-Huwaider, one of the organizers of the driving protest:
Five Years Since I Drove My Car on Women's Day
We were five women who launched a campaign for women's driving in KSA. We were able to collect around 3,000 signatures for a petition which was sent to King Abdullah Bin Abulaziz. Around 80 percent of those who signed the petition were women.
On Women's Day, March 8, 2008, I drove my car and made a video clip to support the driving campaign which was released on YouTube. That video clip ensured that the driving campaign became known around the world. I thought at the time that it would be a matter of a few months before the KSA authorities let women drive cars.
Five years later, there are no indications that this right will be granted to women. So, the fact is women might have to wait for years to gain the right to drive cars. Moreover, the situation is getting worse for women now. The Saudi authorities have limited the number of countries whose citizens can work as private drivers for Saudi families. This has raised the cost of hiring drivers.
Women suffer every day in order to get basic things done, like going to work or buying groceries. Also, many can't work because they can't find a driver at an affordable price.
Under these circumstances, we are demanding a transportation allowance from the Saudi government until they provide reliable public transportation in every Saudi city. The Saudi government has plenty of money and they can easily afford it. The government is preventing women from driving, so they should pay us so that we can survive.
In the US, Katrina vanden Heuvel says, women bear the brunt of federal budget cuts.
Three hours is a long time for a TV program, but Makers, the much-heralded PBS documentary about the last fifty years of American feminism, could have been twice as long and it still would have felt short to me, given the immense, dramatic and complex story it tells. The Feminine Mystique, NOW, consciousness raising, the ERA, Roe v. Wade, Gloria Steinem, the movement of women out of the home and into the workforce, the overturning of one legal and social barriers after another (sex-segregated job ads, quotas in medical school, police indifference to violence against women), the lavender menace, Anita Hill, Gloria Steinem, the Pill, the (alas, ongoing) fight for birth control and abortion and look, there's Gloria Steinem again. Even if you are familiar with most of the material presented here, most of which can be found in other popular histories like Gail Collins's delightful When Everything Changed, it's thrilling to see it on screen: the director of the all-male Boston Marathon trying to shove Katherine Switzer out of the race in 1967 (she had sneaked in by registering under her initial); Billie Jean King borne aloft to "the match of the century" by costumed boy toys on some sort of Egyptian palanquin; Shirley Chisolm delivering a fiery speech with utter calmness and assurance, feminists sitting in at the Ladies Home Journal; best of all, the everyday women who made history by standing up for their rights, as workers, as battered women, as wives who had just had it up to here. There are plenty of ads and articles and talk show clips to remind us of how trivialized women were, and how exhilarating were what seem today like very modest steps—could it be that That Girl was the first TV show centered on a woman who was not an appendage to a man? That 1992, the much-celebrated Year of the Woman, brought the number of female senators up to five?
Makers is resolutely centered on pop culture—Erica Jong and wonderful Judy Blume are there, but no mention of Adrienne Rich, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Ellen Willis, Audre Lorde, Andrea Dworkin, bell hooks, among the many writers the have given the movement artistic and intellectual heft. It also hews to a particular mainstream narrative that makes Steinem central and scants other strains—black feminism and womanism, the zine movement, Riot Grrl. Still, Makers captures the excitement of the Second Wave—the huge marches, the demonstrations, the meetings, the heady joy of victories coming thick and fast. Everyone was so young! They had such fun! And so much sex! (Betty Dodson, who made masturbation respectable, although the film doesn't actually mention that, says after she left her sexless marriage and fell in love at 35, "We stayed in bed for a year"). Is nostalgia just an inevitable part of historical documentaries? Even Phyllis Schlafly, who gets quite a bit of airtime as the slayer of the ERA, looks fresh-faced and trim and cheerful as she marshals her reactionary troops, if hardly the ordinary housewife she pretended to be. ("I used to tell her, I think I cook dinner more often than you do, says former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder.)
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The last hour, bringing us up to date, is much less satisfying. The filmmakers are committed to their optimistic storyline but have to deal with the various ways women's progress has been stymied and the movement has splintered. We enter the land of "choice feminism," where Abigail Pogrebin's leaving her high-powered TV job for a quieter life as a part-time working mother is somehow both perfectly fine (no judging!) and the fault of her feminist mother Letty Cottin Pogrebin, who did not fix the world fast enough. Responding to the familiar charge that young women are apathetic, we hear briefly from younger feminists Amy Richards and Shelby Knox (both Steinem protégées), who argue that young women are activists even if they don't identify as feminists. We get no sense of the intense, vibrant, combative nature of online feminism. Where are Jessica Valenti, Amanda Marcotte, Latoya Peterson, the Crunk Feminist Collective? Where's Med Students for Choice and the National Network of Abortion Funds? There are plenty of contemporary counterparts to the coal miners and "stewardesses" and battered wives whose fight for justice ignites the earlier sections—think of the brave women soldiers coming out about rape in the military. Instead, Makers claims that young feminists are focusing on the even greater oppression of women in the developing world, which implies that global feminism is America's gift to the world, and gives the impression that feminism in the US has reached a natural stopping point. As right-wing commentator Monica Crowley puts it, feminism today means whatever you want, including choosing not to be a feminist.
From the problem that has no name to the movement that, according to Makers, has no identity. What will the next half-century bring?
We're all women workers now! Bryce Covert explains why.
Brooklyn College will host a panel on BDS on February 7. (Courtesy of Wikimedia.)
I don't know what I think about the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel. On the one hand, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and its treatment of Gaza are clearly wrong. On the other hand, I don't like to see citizens, who have little power, held to account for the doings of their governments, all of which are fairly reprehensible, including our own. Does a campaign to ban Israeli-made hummus from the Park Slope Food Coop really forward any cause except self-righteousness? I was even more turned off by incidents like the picketing of the Jerusalem Quartet in Toronto and London and the collapse of a projected anthology of writing by Middle Eastern women because the publisher, University of Texas Press, refused to accede to demands by some contributors that the two Israeli invitees be excluded.
Still, whatever one thinks of BDS, there is surely nothing wrong with Brooklyn College's political science department hosting a panel about it consisting of two BDS supporters, philosopher Judith Butler and BDS organizer Omar Barghouti. Attacked by Alan Dershowitz and many others, Brooklyn College President Karen Gould has stood admirably firm in her defense of academic freedom, but now a wide array of New York politicians are up in arms. I was sorry to see that my own City Council representative Gale Brewer has signed a letter from Lew Fidler, assistant majority leader of the New York City Council, threatening to withhold funds to the College and to CUNY if it went on as scheduled.
Really, council members, you would impoverish these already threadbare city institutions because you disapprove of a panel? Haven't we been here before, with Mayor Giuliani, who threatened to unleash hellfire on the Brooklyn Museum for showing a picture he felt disrespected the Virgin Mary?
Another letter, this one from local "progressive elected officials and leaders," calls for the political science department to "withdraw its endorsement of this event rather than send the message to its students and to the world that the divisive perspective offered by the organizing groups is Brooklyn College's official view. In addition, we ask that you remain vigilant in ensuring that events bearing the official imprimatur of the College provide adequate opportunity for diverse perspectives to be heard. We believe that this is the very hallmark of academic freedom." It's signed by a long list of Democrats, including members of Congress Jerrold Nadler, Nydia Velasquez, Yvette Clark and Hakeem Jeffries, as well as all four Dems considering a run for mayor: Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, John Liu and Bill Thompson.
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Why do I think their position has more to do with election math than about their fears for the lofty mission of Brooklyn College?
Dear "progressive elected officials and leaders," I have spoken on dozens of panels at assorted campuses round the land. Sometimes these were politically mixed events and sometimes all the speakers shared a common perspective. Sometimes it was even just me up there! What is wrong with that? Surely you don't think the school should arrange for someone from the Eagle Forum to share the platform with me when I speak about feminism, or bring on a priest and a rabbi to put in a word for God when I speak about atheism? On every campus, dozens of panels and lectures take place every week, hosted by student groups, academic departments and programs, endowed lecture series and so on. If over the course of a year every side gets its turn, why isn't that good enough? I'm busy on Thursday, as it happens, but I would like to hear what Butler and Barghouti have to say about BDS, just as I would like to hear what its opponents have to say. President Gould has issued a letter saying that in the next two months the college will host events featuring opposing views. That's the right way to handle this controversy.
The wrong way is for politicians, progressive or not, to set themselves up as micro-managers of campus programming, backed up by threats of financial punishment to an institution that can ill afford the loss. Isn't that a kind of mirror of BDS itself?
Brooklyn College President Karen Gould writes that her institution does not endorse the views of the BDS panel or any other speakers, but does "uphold their right to speak, and the rights of our students and faculty to attend, listen, and fully debate."
What should we call the position that the woman who is pregnant should decide whether she keeps the pregnancy or ends it? My column on Planned Parenthood's semi-retirement of the word "pro-choice" got a lot of responses. Pro-rights, pro-woman, pro-freedom, pro-liberty, plus some thumbs-up for pro-choice—after all, we already know what it means.
Here's a selection of e-mail responses and comments I received when I sent my column out to my usual list, but forgot to use bcc, sparking a lively discussion (and a few irate demands to be left in peace).
Lindsay Beyerstein, lead writer, Sidney Hillman Foundation
I'm a pragmatist. I think we need to use whatever rhetoric works best. If focus groups are telling us that "choice" isn't working, then we've got to think of something else.
Rhetorically, "pro-choice" has a lot to recommend it, though. First off, "choice" is one syllable. Second, it's part of a neat binary: "pro-choice" vs. "pro-life." The media love a good binary.
It's fashionable to pine for nuance in abortion discourse, but our movement should be happy that we're easily identifiable in rhetorical space as the sworn enemies of the "pro-life" crowd. It saves a lot of explaining.
None of the various alternatives to "pro-choice" are as clear or informative or as easy to use as the existing term. For example, does the average person know that "reproductive justice" means pro-choice rather than pro-life? The pro-lifers are arguing for their own vision of reproductive justice, after all. "Reproductive rights" is a little clearer, but it's an unwieldy noun that can't easily be made into a punchy adjective, or a noun to describe someone who holds those views. "Repro rightser" doesn't roll off the tongue the way "pro-choicer" and "pro-lifer" do.
Whatever the PR folks say, I'm always going to think of myself as "pro-choice" because it's the most accurate term for my attitude towards abortion. I'm not pro-abortion, or anti-abortion. As long as every woman has access, I don't care if the abortion rate goes up or down. (Except insofar as it declines because of a reduction in unintended pregnancy.)
Frances Kissling, scholar, writer, former director, Catholics for Choice
I think too much of the emphasis on what Planned Parenthood said has been placed on the word "pro-choice." To an extent they made a mistake in leading with what they won't do—use a certain word—and did not get enough traction on what they have learned and about the extent to which people are of two or five minds about abortion. There are many grays.
"Choice" abstracted from abortion is a very popular word. Think of school choice, or the ability to choose your own doctor. Those concepts imply deep commitments to what is best for our children and to the right to control our bodies in healthcare. It may well be that it is less popular on abortion because of the one-on-one trade-off against life—or because we have so pushed choice to the limit so that it is seen the only thing we value in a weighing of a decision about procreating.
Changing a word alone will do nothing. And if PP really wants to win over those who have mixed views or think abortion is mostly immoral, but support it, or just the pro-choice people who have been bored or unmotivated by the movement up to now, it will require a very changed way of talking about abortion. There are some good signs and some same-old about the rest of the PP presentation. It's the first time a group has read polls and done focus groups where they have not immediately retreated from ambiguity and the fact that there is not majority support for abortion without limit or regulation. That shows a refreshing lack of defensiveness. There was an acknowledgement that for many people something very complex is going on, and the very layered way in which people think about the issue.
However, the personal decision, "no one can walk in an other's shoes," is too shallow and still too close to "leave women alone and just stay out of it."
Helen Benedict, writer
"Personal decision"? How is that even a label? It's not even an adjective. How about Leave Women the Fuck Alone? Or the old Get Your Government Off My Body? Too wordy I guess.
Wyndi Anderson, senior director of programs, Provide
Katha, I think you hit the nail on the head with this one line: "The trouble is, the stigma is not about the word but about the concept behind it, and eventually the negative connotations migrate to the new term."
As someone who has worked with stigmatized folks who struggle to access services (people with addiction, mental illness, HIV etc.) I believe you are correct. We can change the language all we want, but when the person who needs access to abortion shows up for the medication or the procedure, they will face the stigma of the service and the decision and all the hurdles that come with it, no matter what frame we are using. I grew up in South Carolina, where there are lots of ways not to say "abortion" or "pro-choice"; there are all kinds of code words used. But the folks always knew exactly what we were talking about. We have to connect to and deal with the stigma of abortion if we are going to see change.
So we can change words and framing, which can be very powerful indeed and can have an impact on conversation. It is a start. But the real issue for me lies in the stigma related to the action/decision/choice. It is where the rubber hits the road with all the language we play with—does it, in fact, open up and maintain access?
I believe it is in our ability to connect with and talk about this issue with compassion, understanding and vision that will make the difference.
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
I say, whatever works.
If polling shows that there are lots of people (men and women) who support Roe v. Wade, but call themselves "pro-life," it means that abortion opponents have done a good job of confusing people and branding themselves in a positive way. And, I admit, "pro-life" sounds positive and upbeat. But I do think that our side needs a slogan, a bumper sticker, to express what we are for. If "pro-choice" isn't it, then what about "reproductive freedom"? Everyone likes "freedom," right? I'm not sure what the right words are, but I don't think we have to be wedded to "pro-choice," just as we've moved from "Negro" to "black" to "African-American," or from "homosexual" to "gay" to "gay and lesbian" to "LGBT," and so on.
Few of the women or men in my college classes think of themselves as "feminists," but almost all of them agree with pay equity, reproductive freedom and many other once-radical ideas of the feminist movement. Social Security was initially called "old age insurance" when Socialist Congressman Victor Berger first introduced it in 1911. Even after FDR proposed it as "Social Security," many Americans considered it a "socialist" idea. But now even most conservatives believe that Social Security is sacrosanct, according to polls. Most NRA members say that support the Second Amendment, and oppose "gun control," but pollster Frank Luntz found that most gun owners, and even most NRA members, favor tough background checks and other restrictive measures.
So, language matters, and it changes over time. If people support a women's right to decide to have an abortion, but they don't think of themselves as "pro-choice," let's find another way for them to say who they are and what they believe.
Daniel Zitin, book editor
"Choice" is a bankrupt and corrupt word now, precisely because of its use in such terms as "school choice," which means "destroy public education," health insurance plans of which you have a "choice" but all of the options bad and widespread other uses in various markets where you are offered "choices" that do not include what you really want or need but are merely intended to give you the illusion that you are nurturing your "individuality," defined as the products you choose to buy. Even on its own terms, as a marketing tactic, the idea of choice is something most people are wising up to. I think today the best idea is to speak of "women's rights," to be for women's rights, one of which is every woman's right to control what happens to her body.
Fahima Vorgetts, Afghan Women's Fund
I often had difficulty with the word "pro-choice" for the reason that the other side is using "pro-life," which is very attractive and in a way put me on the spot. "Liberty of choice," "freedom of choice," "in control of my body," "privacy" are high on my list.
Meredith Tax, US director, Centre for Secular Space
I never liked the term "pro-choice." I prefer to talk about "reproductive rights," because women have a right to bodily integrity, and also that enables one to bring in issues of healthcare, sexual choice and what kind of social support one actually needs to have children. The abortion rights movement went for "pro-choice" as a marketing strategy, but I don't think it really helped us much. Evading the real issue seldom does. The real issue is and always has been female autonomy: do women have the right to decide when and if to have children, or has this issue already been decided for all time by God, destiny, tradition, the need to reproduce the nation or whatever other cause is invoked to keep women subordinate?
Further, I think we have to move away from sloganeering and find more complex ways to talk about reproductive rights. What we say does not always have to fit on a sign. But if it comes to signs, "Not the church, not the state, woman must decide her fate" still works for me.
Elizabeth Benedict, writer
Myself, I still like "choice," but perhaps we could take the word "liberty" out of mothballs and promote "reproductive liberty." It's not used as often as freedom (no "liberty fries") and has some nice historical echoes.
Phyllis Rosenzweig, poet
I hate to say this, but the "pro-life" people really win the best-name contest (although was it you who said they should really call themselves "pro-birth" since they don't seem to care overly much about the life the person might have after it is born?). I have always been turned off by the label "pro-choice," even if I approve the message. The label always sounded boring and somewhat stodgy to me, and an obvious attempt to play it safe and to try not to offend anyone. Isn't the issue really one of being pro-abortion, the right to a legal and safe one, for any woman? Why not just say "pro-abortion" or perhaps, even better, "pro-abortion rights" when that is what "pro-choice" really, if secretly, means? It would still fit on a bumper sticker, but would using the A-word scare too many people away? I honestly don't know. It is an issue of that creepy word—"branding"—and many people know more about how to manipulate that than I do. Perhaps thinking of it in terms of branding sounds like trivializing the issue, but we all do know the power of language. I would back whatever terminology PP decides is most effective.
David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law
Emphasizing "choice" was always playing with the master's tools. "Choice" is market talk and equates the market with freedom. Like "choice," the discourse of a "woman's body is her own" is property talk and market talk. We live in a capitalist world where choice does seem to most folks the ultimate expression of their freedom. And given the significant libertarian streak in the American left, a more social discourse was, apparently, a less appealing prospect.
Robert Boyers, editor, Salmagundi
I have always liked "pro-choice" because I knew what the term referred to and didn't regard it as at all problematic. But if it offends or alienates people who are otherwise sympathetic to the idea of women's reproductive rights, then by all means let us drop the term. The term "women's rights," like the term "reproductive rights," seems to me at least somewhat problematic, in that it raises questions about what is encompassed by a word like "rights," which may seem to some people to refer only to rights officially accredited in law. For the moment I prefer the term "reproductive freedom," which is specific and avoids at least some of the issues associated with the words "choice" and "rights."
Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College
"Choice" may or may not be corrupt or bankrupt for all the reasons you have given, but so is the word "feminism." I have been teaching Introduction to Women's Studies courses at various universities and colleges (and speaking at middle and high schools) for over forty years, and I get the same push back at the word "feminism"—it's a word fraught with all sorts of class and race baggage. At the end of my class most students understand the complexities of the word "feminism" and write to me that they consider themselves feminists. As for the term "pro-choice," the problems are obvious: class, race and gender determines choice. But historically "pro-choice"—at least for left feminists—has also meant no coercive sterilization, access to birth control, the right of women to bear children without state interference.
Judy Norsigian, executive director, Our Bodies, Ourselves
I have a similar experience to Barbara's. Students enter these dialogues with different conceptions of all the various terms we use. It's important to define how we use the terms we do, to explore our varying understandings of these terms and then see where we agree and disagree, as we examine position statements, policy proposals, etc. I usually explain why I use the term "anti-abortion" rather than "pro-life"—I don't like to suggest that someone who supports a woman's right to abortion has any less concern for human life than someone who is opposed to abortion. And obviously, there is a continuum here in terms of the circumstances under which one might support access to abortion. More recently, I have heard more students express negative judgments of peers who are "careless" and don't, by clear choice, use contraception to prevent pregnancy; some students say that they don't want public funds to be used for those who are "irresponsible."
My impression is that there is more "victim-blaming" emerging in these conversations. We have witnessed a similar attitude amongst those who don't want to cover medical expenses for implant removal as part of the ACA-created health exchanges, if the woman originally got the implant for cosmetic reasons (not reconstruction after BRCA surgery). It would be interesting for someone to do a study of how often this problem/attitude emerges for men, i.e., "he made his bed, now he should lie in it."
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, GORUCK Events [Editor's Note: And, full disclosure, daughter of Katha Pollitt!]
Specifically with regards to the word "feminist," I couldn't agree more. By shying away from the word, you validate the stereotype. I could go on and on about that with the word and my click moment when I had to say no I am a feminist and I also love my hair and wearing enormous heels and "This is what a feminist looks like!" That being said, I also do think sometimes you achieve more by working with the system and picking your battle.
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Susan Douglas, University of Michigan
I too have wrestled with what we do with the word "feminism." Right wing pundits and so many media representations have marginalized and demonized feminists and feminism such that many women simply don't want to take on a stereotype that has nothing to do with who they are. So maybe we should trade it in for something else. On the other hand, feminism has a long, profoundly important history, and if we dump the word we jettison that history and capitulate to those who seek to take our history, politics and language away from us. I do find that when I teach or give talks about the representation of women and feminism in the media, that young women (and yes, even some men) will come up to me afterwards and say "Well, I guess I am a feminist."
Sara Murphy, NYU-Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Really interesting column, Katha. I think you hit on a central dimension of this language shift, but I might twist it a little differently. You point, quite rightly, to the way any piece of language can mutate and become stigmatized, no matter how what its origins or the intentions that accompanied its introduction. But it strikes me that what Planned Parenthood is really fleeing here is the conquest of the rhetorical field around abortion by the right: the real problem, in other words, is not "pro-choice" but "pro-life." After all, who is anti-life? The anti-abortion forces knew their business when they chose that language.
So I wonder what is going on when we see survey results that evince a discomfort with the term "pro-choice." Is it that it has been so resolutely opposed to "pro-life," which seems to represent a position that no one could possibly contest unless they were, in fact, part of some kind of "culture of death?" For some sectors of the population, has "pro-choice" been successfully recoded as thanatophilia? People in their twenties have really grown up with this opposition shaping the discursive field around abortion, implicitly and explicitly, after all.
And then there is perhaps a deeper set of questions that have their roots in the Roe decision itself: as so many people have pointed out over time, arguing the case around privacy has in the end proved problematic, since it did in essence posit abortion as a personal choice, as something engaged in a hypothetical isolated individualist space, a space that in so far as it exists is one of extreme privilege: if a wealthy woman wants an abortion, by and large, she has the "choice" to make her "private decision." Since most of the rampant undermining of Roe affects poor and young women most deeply, one might say that this is really the revenge of the terms on which the decision was made back in '73. But what it also shows, I think, is how constricted our language and conceptual horizons are with regard to women's political and personal status.
Don't miss Katha's initial column on Planned Parenthood's move past the label "pro-choice."
Remember when Joe Walsh, the Republican congressman from Illinois, claimed a ban on abortion needs no exception to save the life of the woman? "With modern science and technology, you can't find one instance," he said, in which a woman's life could have been saved by abortion. Well, how about this instance: In Ireland, where abortion is strictly forbidden, doctors allowed 32-year-old Savita Halapannavar to die of septicemia after days of horrendous suffering, because her 17-week-old fetus, which she was in the process of miscarrying, still had a heartbeat. Never mind that there was no way this fetus could have survived. Never mind that technically, Ireland's abortion ban permits an exception when there is a "real and substantial risk to the life of the mother." The doctors let Savita die, as she and her husband pleaded for them to end the pregnancy. "This is a Catholic country," one doctor explained. The always cogent and knowledgeable Jodi Jacobson explains it all here and here.
If you think it couldn't happen in the United States, you haven't been paying attention. After all, in 2010, Sister Margaret McBride, an administrator in a Catholic Hospital in Phoenix, was fired and excommunicated after she approved a first-trimester abortion for a woman with life-threatening pulmonary hypertension. What happens in Catholic hospitals when there's no Sister Margaret willing to risk the bishops' wrath? With conscience clauses expanding to cover not just individual doctors but whole hospitals, a pregnant woman may find her care is being dictated not by standard health protocols but by a religion she doesn't even follow. Savita was a Hindu, after all. What about her conscience?
Who is more valuable, a living woman or a dying fetus? The Catholic Church has given its answer, and Savita Halapannavar is dead. If this was Islam, we'd never hear the end of it.
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Help Irish women now: Every year thousands of Irish women travel to the UK for abortion care. Between travel, accommodations, lost wages and childcare, the expense can be prohibitive. The Abortion Support Network offers help with funding, information, and a place to stay. Honor Savita's memory by donating what you can.
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Wanting to do something to help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, I went down to Gotham Hall in midtown Manhattan on Friday and, along with a motley crowd of other New Yorkers, donated blood. (I had never done this before, due to a phobia I apparently shared with lots of people, including, it turns out, several of my friends. Did you know only 2 percent of the population has ever donated blood? If you belong to the other 98 percent, I can testify that it's not painful or scary, everyone there will be very nice to you, and afterwards you will feel brave and useful. You may even get a reward. This particular drive happened to be cosponsored by the Yankees, and I was given a voucher for two tickets to a Yankees game. In my case this was like giving a cat a box of chocolates, but still).
Guess who else was there giving blood? Mayor Bloomberg! Afterwards, he joined the table where I was sitting having juice and cookies with an actor, a police auxiliary, a student and a young woman who works for Common Ground, a group which houses homeless people. The mayor had only one cookie, I noticed, which he broke into pieces first. (This is how high-profile politicians maintain their iconic appearance. Have you noticed that, unlike regular people, they actually look just like their photographs? Not taking that second cookie is part of how they do that.) Despite everything the city is currently going through, the mayor was in an affable mood. I ended up chatting with him, and he said some interesting things.
On the cancellation of the marathon: No, it cannot be rescheduled, and calling it off was really too bad because "it would have brought in a lot of money—a lot of money." Why the cancelation? "A few people were going to go after the sponsors." I asked him who the "few people" were, but he just repeated what he'd said.
On Sandy: Electricity coming back in lower Manhattan by tonight or tomorrow! Subways getting back to normal. (Both predictions were accurate. Still, I thought it was notable that he put such a calm and low-key spin on what so many New Yorkers see as a huge ongoing humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands without food or safe housing).
On NYC politics: "New York is a one-party state. The same thing is true in New York City." Only a Democrat can win the mayoralty. True, Bloomberg himself won as a Republican but "I spent my own money, which no one else has. And even then it was tough!"
On his Obama endorsement: He endorsed Obama "not because I'm thrilled with him, but to me, choice, gay rights, the environment are the real issues, more important than economics. I spoke to him last night, and I told him, 'Don't make any mistake, my criticism of your economic policies still stands.'"
On the election: It's very close. "I would bet twenty-five cents that Obama would win. I wouldn't bet fifty." (The mayor is clearly not getting his gambling tips from Nate Silver, who has had Obama as the favorite since June, and currently gives him four chances in five of victory.) He thinks Hurricane Sandy benefited the president, because he was on TV all the time—and for free! He said he thinks Obama will win the Electoral College, but not the popular vote. He pooh-poohed the possibility that such a split would lead to a 2000-like crisis. Anyway, that's the Constitution, and you certainly wouldn't want to call a constitutional convention to change it, because "all your freedoms could be blown."
On the NYC Board of Elections: Those people are completely incompetent! They "disenfranchise thousands of people."
What's next for the mayor: He'll spend his time "working on influencing the things I care about—guns, choice, gay rights." Not NYC politics. Ex-mayors don't get involved in the next administration, he noted, which is something he appreciates about Rudy Giuliani, who he thought was a very good mayor (and a Republican, see above, but never mind).
Looking on the bright side: Staten Island and the Rockaways are in ruins, but the city is on track to have the lowest murder rate ever. This year it should be only around 400. Basically, you're safe "except for drug dealers and domestic violence." I dunno, something a little off there.
On The Nation: He asked how subscriptions were holding up, and although I actually have no idea, I told him we were doing fine, especially with our fine expanded website that has brought us so many new readers. If Romney won, I said, our subscriptions would go through the roof, but even so, we didn't support him, which was very self-sacrificing of us. He laughed. I think sincerely.
You can watch part of my chat with Mayor Bloomberg in this video shot by CUNY Graduate School of Journalism student and multimedia journalist Matt Surrusco.
And here is old-school British comedian Tony Hancock in his hilarious 1961 sketch "the Blood Donor":
For more on Bloomberg's Obama endorsement, check out John Nichols on the New York City mayor's climate concerns.
Do we really need a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times to tell us that a woman with a college degree and a good solid marriage is better off than a college dropout raising three kids alone? In "Two Classes, Divided by 'I Do'," Jason DeParle profiled Jessica Schairer and Chris Faulkner, two white women from conventional church-going Midwestern middle-class families whose life trajectory looked much the same when they graduated high school and set out for college. Jessica, though, got pregnant by her freshman-year boyfriend and was persuaded by him to drop out and start a family. Now she's raising their children in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by herself, on one income (just under $25,000 for a full time job as assistant director of a daycare center) and food stamps.
Meanwhile, Chris, her boss at the daycare center, did everything "by the book" and in the right order: college, marriage, kids. Now Chris has a combined household income of $95,000 a year, with plenty of money to spend on her sons' sports and extracurricular activities, to say nothing of a loving, involved dad to share the parenting, while Jessica is exhausted, lonely, and can barely afford generic breakfast cereal, let alone Boy Scout Camp for her troubled son. Yes, yes, is the takeaway: inequality is increasing and good jobs are hard to find, but "what most separates" the two women "is not the impact of globalization on their wages but a 6-foot-8-inch man named Kevin."
Well, if only we could clone Kevin—or maybe put great big Good Guy and Bad Guy signs on young men so that naïve college girls could tell which slacker boys are exploitive louts and which ones just need a nudge to become prime husband material. (Kevin went through a layabout stage but reformed because he wanted to marry Chris. "Marriage, in other words, can help make men marriageable.") DeParle seems to think getting married transforms people, and maybe sometimes it does—but the lightbulb has to want to change. If marriage turned men into Kevins, there wouldn't be so much divorce. Let's say Jessica had gotten her boyfriend to marry her as they originally discussed—and she stayed with him for seven years and three kids, so she clearly tried to make it happen ("I wanted him to love me," she says—what a world of sadness in those words!)—he would still have been a nogoodnik who rarely worked, lived off Jessica and his mother, and had little to do with the kids even when they all lived together. She would be long divorced by now. Her only other serious boyfriend, whom she dated for a year before letting him move in to her kids' great delight, had to be removed after six months by the police. I don't mean to be discouraging here, but maybe there was never going to be a Kevin for Jessica. Maybe there aren't enough Kevins to go around, because of a whole range of developments over several decades, from the decline of good union jobs to our penchant for putting staggering numbers of men in prison.
DeParle mentions positively Charles Murray's contention that single motherhood is a "values" issue, not an economic one. Murray means working-class and lower-middle-class white people have abandoned traditional family values (they're becoming like—oh no!—black people) but you can just as well see Jessica as having too many of those values: she rejected abortion, she stuck by her man, she tried too hard to make a family. If we really want women like Jessica to avoid early childbearing and single motherhood, we have to stop promoting outmoded ideas about sex and gender: abstinence-only sex ed, shame that leads to inconsistent use of birth control, stigmatizing abortion, woman's worth depending on keeping a man, "fixing" the relationship as woman's responsibility, motherhood as women's primary purpose in life. "I'm in this position because of decisions I made," Jessica says. That's a very American value right there: if you screw up in your early 20s, you—and your children—are on your own for life.
What would we do if we wanted to help Jessica and her kids, the millions like them, and the millions at risk of becoming them? I was struck by how completely she was thrown back on her own resources: she went to William Penn University, which costs $20,000 a year and has a freshman retention rate of only 55 percent—maybe she and her boyfriend fell through cracks that shouldn't have been there. She gets no child support, not even a token amount—which is really outrageous, because even if her kids' father makes very little, I'll bet he has beer and cigarettes and girlfriends. She has church, but seemingly no help from her parents, and no helpful network of friends.
Her son has Asperger's—where are the programs for him? Kids' extracurriculars and camps cost too much for her, although we know they help learning and development—why aren't they free? If she leaves her too-expensive neighborhood, her kids will be in a worse school—why? Believe it or not, most Western industrialized countries do a far better job than we do of giving kids a decent childhood and of sustaining their mother too. It does not have to be that if you can't afford to live in the right neighborhood, your children get a bad education. That is a social and political decision that we have made.
And then there is Jessica's job. Although she earned a degree from community college and is a highly regarded employee, she is still on an hourly wage of only $12.35. She punches in and out, and she gets no paid days off—even when she was recovering from an operation for cervical cancer. When she took a day off to chaperon a school field day, she lost a day's pay. Message to Anne-Marie Slaughter: this is how we treat "family balance" in the regular world of work, and this is how we treat skilled, experienced management-level employees in the childcare field. Taking care of children is women's work, after all, and women are supposed to have Kevins, not family-size paychecks. Why does it seem like a reasonable policy suggestion to tell Jessica she needs a husband, and pie in the sky to say she needs a union? Or a national day care system like the one in France, where teachers are well-paid, with benefits?
Jessica Schairer is doing the best she can. In fact, she is pretty heroic. It's the rest of us that are falling short.
Nora Ephron poses for a photo at her home in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Nora Ephron died on Tuesday. It sounds silly to say so, but I had no idea she was anything like 71 (not old, as she told Charlie Rose—old is 80. But still). She wrote two bestselling books about aging, but to me she was ageless—a brilliant, elegant, hilarious woman at the top of her creative powers since forever—since before I used to proofread her Esquire column, back in the early '70s, which was definitely the high point of that job.
As a writer and a filmmaker, she was charming, acerbic, shrewd and hilarious. She was honest about things women often keep quiet about. She wrote about having small breasts and wishing she didn't. She gave the last word on fake orgasms in the immortal scene of Meg Ryan in the deli in When Harry Met Sally. In a triumphant example of making literary lemonade out of a big fat extra-bitter lemon, she wrote Heartburn, a deliciously vengeful roman à clef about the breakup of her marriage to Carl Bernstein (the husband "was capable of having sex with a Venetian blind" and left the heroine for a woman who looked "like a giraffe, with big feet"), sprinkled it with recipes (she might have been the first writer to do this) and saw herself played in the movies by Meryl Streep. In the New York Times, where her obit was front-page news, you can see a photo of the real-life pain that produced the barbed wit: Nora at a party at Tavern on the Green, looking sad and pensive, as behind her Carl lifts a wineglass while an unidentified woman perches on his lap.
Nora Ephron wrote about her own life and women's lives in a way that was passionate and brave and also very, very funny. Her success, indeed her very existence disproved so many canards—women not funny? Movies about women can't succeed? Rom-coms must humiliate the female lead? I love it that Julie and Julia used cooking as a way to talk about finding one's passion for meaningful work, for mastery and challenge and expertise. When is that quest for the work one is meant to do in the world presented as something for women? When is the accommodating spouse the man? When do we see the work and life of one woman nourishing the work and life of another, as Julia Child inspires the young blogger Julie Powell? Some criticize Ephron's movies as fantasies for the comfy classes, but there was more to them that that: they were clever, urbane, worldly-wise and put women at the center—which in today's Hollywood is practically a revolutionary act. And what's wrong, anyway, with the fantasy of running a sweet independent bookstore like Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail? That happens to be my own personal daydream. Besides, movies are all about fantasies, and when the fantasy is in men's heads (I am a pudgy layabout, but beautiful women adore me! Ooh look, it's Batman!), that's supposed to be what America is all about. As Ephron pithily said, for the men who run Hollywood, "A movie about a woman's cure for cancer is less interesting than a movie about a man with a hangnail."
Nora wrote that as a girl she wanted to be the only woman at the table of wits, like Dorothy Parker, but she was no queen bee: her life was full of women friends and colleagues. "Nora was as interested in other people as she was herself interesting," the novelist Meg Wolitzer wrote me in an e-mail. "She was a real force in the world, and a great friend." Still, professionally she was a feminist in a man's world—two men's worlds, actually, journalism and Hollywood. Maybe that was what produced her way of getting right to the point: neither world has a big attention span for ladybiz. In a roundup of responses to the question "Who Gets to Be a Feminist?" that kicked off Slate's DoubleX blog, she wrote, "I know that I'm supposed to write 500 words on this subject, but it seems much simpler: You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion." Bada-bing! (How prolix my own answer, by comparison.) In a 1996 speech she told the graduates of her own alma mater, Wellesley, to be "not the victim of your life but the heroine."
In every way, Nora Ephron was the heroine of her life. That's feminism.


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OneEye589 wrote:I don't know if you've ever played the collectible game Pirates of the Spanish Main (or one of its many expansions), but you might get some ideas from that: http://www.wk-pirates.be/index.php?opti ... Itemid=100
stubby wrote:You were inb4beluga.
MicVash wrote:Many years ago WizKids Games created a miniature constructable pirate ship game. Here is a link to PDFs of the rules. The game is no longer in production. The basic rules set is the link to "Pirates of the Spanish Main." The more interesting re-vamp of the game is the "Quest for Davy Jones Gold" set. It includes concepts such as random encounters (storms, monsters, etc).
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The Grayson County Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for their 2012 Fall Business Expo, which is slated for Thursday evening, October 18, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
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While 36 booths were originally up for grabs, they have all been sold out and an extra booth has been added in, according to Elder.
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WINNSBORO — The Herald Independent welcomed local resident Lucas Vance as its newest staff member on Monday. Vance will cover local government, community news and sports.
"I am thrilled to have Lucas join our staff in Winnsboro," said Patricia Edwards, regional editor of The Herald Independent. "He is bringing experience to the table for us and that is something we can use to grow our readership. He is already a member of the community and knows the ins and out of Fairfield County, which will help him hit the ground running. I am looking forward to seeing how he can add to The Herald Independent and grow as a journalist."
For the past year, Vance has worked as a contributing writer for The Independent Voice of Blythewood and Fairfield County covering the same area and issues.
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The Nibelung trail takes in three of the possible locations for Siegfried's murder at the hands of Hagen. Ideal for energetic walkers, the trail crosses the hills of the Odenwald forest.
The Song of the Nibelungs is Germany's famous national epic. This is where the trail derives its name, as the action surrounding its hero, Siegfried, is set in the Odenwald forest. At the start of the route from Zwingenberg to Freudenberg, walkers can enjoy panoramic views from the hills of the 'Bergstrasse' region across the Rhineland Plain all the way to the hills of the Palatinate Forest, Donnersberg hill and the densely-wooded Taunus hills. The sections of the route that pass rock formations and boulder fields are particularly fascinating, especially the stretch crossing the Reichenbach 'Felsenmeer' (block field). The Odenwald's many castles and palaces, along with fortified medieval churches and half-timbered villages, are evidence of the rich and turbulent history of the region. The Nibelung trail is a challenging 124km route for energetic walkers, with an elevation change of more than 4,000 metres.
On the southern slope of Felsberg hill lies one of the most impressive natural monuments of the Odenwald region, the 'Felsenmeer' (block field). It is about one kilometre long and looks like a mass of gigantic pebbles. There are several myths surrounding its origins.
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Starts and ends: Zwingenberg/Bergstrasse – Freudenberg/Main
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text: In 1996, a group of farmers following the enthusiastic drive of Gaspar Tomas, oenologist and director his technical team, decided to plant an organic vineyard in the Alicante region located in Southeastern Spain. The following year they launched the first organically certified wine. It was a young wine, combining Monastrell and Tempranillo grapes, and called "Castillo de Alicante". Over time they have added more producers, new varieties, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Garnacha, Syrah, Petit Verdot and Macabeo, and the king of Spanish grapes, Tempranillo. Their wine production has also evolved, and so, in addition to their young wines, they set out on new paths, such as ageing the wine in barrel and bottle to make wines of great quality.Currently, the operation, of which Conde de Alicante is a part, has a total organic cultivation area of 750 acres, with 20 associated farmers, making it one of the most important wineries in Spain. Gaspar Pedro Tomas Martinez is a native of Villena, a small village in Alicante. At 18 he went to the Vine and Enology School in Madrid and then to Rovira and Virgily where he graduated as an Enologist. Later he obtained his master degree in Vines, Enology and wine Marketing. Throughout his school years he worked as a cellar worker at the family Winery so he could learn how wine was made at the winery, not just what they taught in the University. Following graduation, Gaspar has been working in UNACO, the National Union of Cooperatives. When he was 21, he lost his father and unfortunately at the same time the family winery. At that time, none of his brothers were old enough to keep the winery working and they had to resign themselves to close it down. It was this tragic loss that made him determined to once again produce wine of the caliber he grew up with. And from what we see in this selection, he's succeeded magnificently. A classic match with grilled lamb lathered in garlic and rosemary. August 2012 Limited Series Newsletter (.pdf) |


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Direction de la vie étudiante
The Direction de la vie étudiante (DVE) supports student initiatives and livens up campuses. Located in the "Pôle étudiant" right in the heart of the Tertre Campus, you will also find an information kiosk on each campus, where a student will inform you on the following services:
- University-based services (sports, careers advice, health etc.)
- local services and authorities (swimming pools, libraries, grants.)
- CROUS (housing, grants, culture)
- cultural events in the city
- student associations (more than 100 associations)..
Université de Nantes-Direction de la Vie Étudiante
Pôle étudiant- Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
BP 41214 - 44312 Nantes Cedex 1
Tel. : 02 40 99 84 12
"Autour du monde" - Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
The association Autour du Monde-ESN Nantes helps you get settled in on your campus and in the city. Autour du Monde-ESN offers activities throughout your stay, putting you in contact with local businesses interested in your profile and getting you involved in community life :
- conversation groups (English/French, Spanish/French, German/French) which take place in bars in Nantes
- outings and visits in Nantes and the surrounding area
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Maison des Echanges Internationaux et de la Francophonie,15 chaussée de la Madeleine (Tram 2/3 stop Hôtel Dieu)
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There are many other associations for students. Joining is an excellent way to improve your knowledge of the French language and make friends ! Contact the Direction de la vie étudiante.
Student Center - Pôle Etudiant
Opened in 2005, the venue has become the hub of student life. It is located at the centre of the Tertre Campus, the main university campus in terms of number of students. This space dedicated to campus and community life is a cultural venue. Concerts, exhibits, debates, film screenings and theatre are featured throughout the year. It is a resource for your projects with spaces dedicated to associations : shared office space, a meeting room and a workshop.
At the Pôle étudiant you will also find all the information about student life in Nantes and services to facilitate your studies : computer workstations, copiers, WI-Fi zone, Monéo ATM and more. The Pôle étudiant also has a cafeteria that is open all day and evening.
How to go ?
Tram, line 2, stop Facultés
Bus lines 25 and 83, stop Fac de Droit
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
One Year Ago Today: GUIDING LIGHT Canceled
One year ago today, We Love Soaps broke the news that 72 year institution GUIDING LIGHT had been canceled. Because it was April Fools' Day, a lot of people questioned whether it was a cruel joke or not. Unfortunately it wasn't. The show had turned a corner with the Otalia storyline, the return of Phillip Spaulding, and a sense of community daytime hadn't seen in years.
What were you doing when you got the news? Did you believe it at first? How are you coping with the loss of GUIDING LIGHT?
18 comments:
- Andrea said...
Sitting at my computer with my mouth agape. Still miss it every day, and have enjoyed the actors "So Long" shows. I can say I have never had CBS on at GL's time slot since the show was over.
- April 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM
- Roger Newcomb said...
Andrea, great point about the "So Long" shows. The fact that those have done so well shows that passion that still there for GL at the end. It's nice to see.
Other than watching the first bit of LMAD, which was HORRIBLE, I haven't tuned into CBS in that timeslot either. - April 1, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- T L Smeltzer said...
I was at work and saw a post, I then emailed Ron and asked if it was true. When he said yes, I just sat and stared at the monitor. Two of my students were there and they asked, 'What's wrong?' I said, "We are canceled." They looked at me and knew. My friend from the second floor called to check on me because she saw it come up on CNN. Sadly it is one of those things that I will remember like 911. When you grow up with a soap like I did, you feel a great loss when it is gone.
- April 1, 2010 at 9:17 AM
- Nathan said...
I was so angry that morning thinking how could such reputable sites say GL was cancelled (I was just in denial). Later, I knew it was absolutely true, and I was beyond sad. I had watched the show since around 1989 or so. Me and my mom and sister still miss the Light terribly. I would rather chew nails than watch LMAD.
- April 1, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Columbus said...
Can't believe that it has been a year - the characters still seem so "alive" in my mind.
Haven't watched a soap opera since. - April 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM
- Nelson said...
The cruelest April Fool's Day ever! It's nice to see so many of the GL greats popping up in other places, and of course on the WLS Lists of "Greatest."
Fingers crossed, we'll continue to see them on and off the air in the years ahead :) - April 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- junebuggnc said...
I was sitting right here at my computer. CBS was so stupid for doing this. I immediately jumped to DAYS to prepare for the return of Crystal Chappell. My only coping mechanism is DAYS, Venice and the love Crystal Chappell is showing her fans.
- April 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM
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- April 1, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Craig said...
Friend of mine who works in a TV station said that LMAD is being replaced in some markets and being shoved to the late night grave yard. SWEET! Here is a treat some examples of The Guiding Light radio show.
http://comicweb.com/osCommerce1/catalog/guiding-light-time-radio-program-p-2714.html - April 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- Damon L. Jacobs said...
I was working at a clinic, having a very very busy Wednesday. I didn't have access to FaceBook, but my e-mail told me if someone left a post on my wall. Will Clark left me a message: "OMG, Guiding Light canceled, is this for real?" I didn't believe it either until a friend who works on another soap confirmed it.
How does one get through the rest of the day? I always think of the old motto, "The show must go on." Except GL wasn't going to go on, and that made that day exceptionally difficult. - April 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM
- DJ Shiva. said...
I was posting April Fool's Day jokes on the Big Purple Dreams Otalia fansite, thinking how awesomely funny I was.
The post about the cancellation popped up on the forum, and suddenly, nothing was really very funny anymore.
I have been rewatching show clips (mostly Otalia, but various old clips) and reminiscing.
Also, FUCBS. - April 1, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- Kate said...
I'm pretty sure I was home in my room at my computer. I believe I heard about it on Daytime Confidential's site and was like, "Are you kidding me?" How could cancellation news come on April Fools? So cruel! I was sad, but I can't say I was shocked.
- April 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Destini said...
I was sitting at my computer and moderating BPD. The first thing I did was message you, Roger! After that I called a couple of friends in NYC to confirm before breaking the news on the board. Then I took a step back and had time alone to deal.
- April 1, 2010 at 4:22 PM
- Guiding_Light said...
I was at work when I heard. I instantly went to Facebook and Twitter and opened accounts to try and do something about it! Before that day, I did not have accounts on either!
It has really changed my life to lose the show, I have a message board with over 2000 people whom I discuss the show on a daily basis. (www.guidinglightcentral.com) These people were all affected. Now we discuss what the actors are up to, and less about the show. It is sad!
On the positive side, it is fun to see the web series like Steamboat and Venice and Empire (with Orlagh and Tina "the B!tch is Back" Sloan) come out with our beloved GL family in it. I have been working hard writing to help Steamboat get picked up by a network like Comedy network!
By the way, the http://www.twitter.com/Guiding_Light twitter is posting everyone's favorite GL memories today, please go join in the fun! We are trying to make #GL a trending topic! - April 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- h2onimf said...
In Crystal Chappell's chatroom..SAD day indeed..ignorant, foolish bastards...NO insight or creativity into the future...just easier to cancel than adapt and change with the times
- April 1, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- Jay said...
Logged into Big Purple Dreams, read the posts about the cancellation and then sat in silence for a good half hour. I think after that I spent the next 5+ months in a chat room raging about the injustice of it all.
- April 1, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- soap said...
Where was I? Huh, since it was in the morning, I think I had just watched Guiding Light and then went to the CBS GL board when the news and all hell broke loose.
I still miss Guiding Light daily at 10 am when it used to air here.
Even though many have found fault with the location shoots in Peapak, once the camera stopped shaking...I really enjoyed the look and the feel of the show...and some times the settings like the gazebo (especially for Olivia and Natalia) and Bill and Lizzie getting married among the trees added so much to the story.
Going to a couple of the fan events...when I have never gone to any soap fan events ever before...have been priceless...not only to meet some of the cast...but to meet so many other fans who have had such great stories about how Guiding Light intertwined with their lives. - April 1, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Angel said...
I was waiting to go home to watch the days GL episode. It was must see TV for me. I believe it was one of the engagement episodes. (Otalia fans know what I am talking about.) I logged on to CNN.com and saw a little news story. I ran home and confirmed the news on the BPD.
My heart sank at the news. Mostly heartbroken because that would mean the end of the Otalia story but I was invested in the show as a whole. I still believe it was a mistake.
I am so grateful for how GL stars have continued to reach out to their fans. People like Crystal Chappell and Michael O'Leary have been proactive in exploring new media. I love that there have been events for the fans. GL passion has not died down in the least. I always knew the diehard GL fans were loya. - April 2, 2010 at 1:57 AM


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From portable music-players to smartphones to tablets, Apple (AAPL) has always looked far and wide for that new device that would expand and deepen its digital eco-system.
Now the Cupertino tech giant may be looking no further than its users' wrists.
Quoting unnamed sources, two published reports on Sunday said Apple is working on a prototype for a wearable watch-type gadget that might extend some of the powers of the iPhone onto an accessory strapped to the end of your arm.
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"You never know what Apple's working on, and there've been rumors about everything under the sun, from TV sets to watches to flying cars," said analyst Avi Greengart with Current Analysis. "I've tested a bunch of watches that talk to my phone, and most tend to be clunky and somewhat limited in their functions. So I'm sure, given their track record, that Apple could certainly bring a better design to this type of gadget and offer a seamless experience as it does all kinds of tasks beyond just telling you the time or using it as a phone."
Neither Apple nor Foxconn could be immediately reached Sunday for comment on the story.
The wrist, it seems, is a potentially lucrative piece of human real estate, as many tech companies continue to innovate and bring new tech products that can be strapped on to the arm. While many gadgets already for sale are designed mainly to gauge physical activity, such as running or breathing, Apple could be looking at a far more sophisticated device that could incorporate many of the same apps users now enjoy on their smartphones and tablets.
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"We believe technology could progress to a point where consumers have a tablet plus wearable computers, like watches or glasses, that enable simple things like voice calls, texting, quick searches, navigation," analyst Gene Munster wrote last month in a report for Piper Jaffray. "These devices are likely to be cheaper than an iPhone and could ultimately be Apple's best answer to addressing emerging markets."
For now, it's still anyone's guess what Apple may or may not have up its sleeve.
"The most credible rumors," said Greengart, "tend to follow Apple's pattern of building out their iOS platform and Apps Store content and then creating new products that capitalize on that system. In that context, a wearable device would make a lot of sense."
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