I have to confess to a guilty secret: I love Mitch Benn’s “Doctor Who Girl”. It makes me feel all warm and gooey. But before I hand in my “good feminist” card, I will say, I rather suspect that this whole song is tongue-in-cheek —
activism/charity
making a difference
Signal Boost: International Nestlé-Free Week 2010
Today marks the beginning of International Nestle-Free Week 2010. If you are not yet aware of the reasons why people boycott and protest Nestle, here is a summary:
How to time a holiday in France
Petty personal considerations aside, the strikes in France illustrate a conflict that will be repeated across many nations who have had a raft of strong social safety net policies over many decades who are now struggling to finance those policies.
Rally for Abortion Rights
On October the 9th this year, there is a National Day of Action being held in support of the Cairns couple who face legal action over sourcing RU486 from overseas, and in solidarity with Queensland women more generally. It’s also… Read More ›
Friday Hoydens: That’s a pretty big teaspoon
Some Israeli women wield the teaspoon of civil disobedience and smuggle Palestinian women out of the West Bank for a day at the beach.
Quicklink: Derailing for Dummies has been updated
The author of D4D has let me know that Derailing For Dummies has five new entries (I’ve also updated the mirror of D4D over at FF101 to reflect these changes).
Cutting through the 24/7 news cycle / soundbite culture
to recast election campaign news coverage away from the horse-race and inside-baseball paradigms that currently masquerade as informing the public
You want soundbites, Australia? Here, we gotcher soundbites right here.
The Australian Election 2010 Infographic
Some inconvenient facts to dispel right wing misinformation
Elections and volunteering
what I’m particularly interested in is GetUp!’s call for volunteer activists to be part of GetTogethers aiming to coordinate local action within their electorates, focussing on 3 main issues for the 2010 Federal election
Asylum Seeker Fact Sheet and Myth Buster
Helen posted a link to a fact sheet from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in one of the LP comment threads. The fact sheet is in PDF format, making it un-indexable by search engines and inaccessible to some readers with disabilities, so I have transcribed it below.
Hoyden About Town 