womenworld1.0
Along with another 100 timeless blogs for and by humanity, womenworld1.0 was part of the infamous google meltdown of 9 Dec 2005
Most stuff after this date will be transferred to Project30000
Here's a sample of womenworld1.0 (some links may be broken)
... Do you have a favourite network-women story?
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... Do you have a favourite network-women story?
Monday, February 28, 2005
Women Stories
eg 1 From roving reporter for Columbia : Kavindra Mathi- contributed 14 March 2005Antanas Mockus, burst onto the Colombian political scene in 1993 when, faced with a rowdy auditorium of the school of arts' students, he dropped his pants and mooned them to gain quiet. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge, "a 6.5 million person classroom." He resigned as rector, the top job of Colombian National University, and ran for mayor of Bogotá with no political experience.The former mayor had to address many fronts simultaneously. Once the mother of a 3-year-old girl called his office to say that meeting Mockus was her daughter's only birthday wish. But the meeting also revealed, said Mockus, that Colombian society has a long way to go. During the visit, the mother told him: "When I am going to hit her, she runs to the telephone and says that she is going to call Mockus. She doesn't even know how to dial a number, but obviously she thinks that you would protect her." Mockus, who has two daughters himself, was shocked at the woman's nonchalance about striking her daughter. There is almost always a civics lesson behind Mockus' antics. Florence Thomas, a feminist and a professor at Colombian National University, pointed out to Mockus that in Bogotá women were afraid to go out at night. "At that time, we were also looking for what would be the best image of a safe city, and I realized that if you see streets with many women you feel safer," Mockus explained. So he asked men to stay home and suggested that both sexes should take advantage of the "Night for Women" to reflect on women's role in society. He launched a "Night for Women" and asked the city's men to stay home in the evening and care for the children; 700,000 women went out on the first of three nights that Mockus dedicated to them, flocking to free, open-air concerts. They flooded into bars that offered women-only drink specials and strolled down a central boulevard that had been converted into a pedestrian zoneTo avoid legal challenges, the mayor stated that the men's curfew was strictly voluntary. Men who simply couldn't bear to stay indoors during the six-hour restriction were asked to carry self-styled "safe conduct" passes.Most men graciously embraced Mockus' campaign. That night the police commander was a woman, and 1,500 women police were in charge of Bogotá's security. (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html)A quote from him in an article in the Harvard Gazette, "The distribution of knowledge is the key contemporary task. Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change."
posted by macrae.nets @ 1:56 AM
Women's nets nominated by Londoners' favourite humanitarian nets
Women's Environment Network -S
Kind Nigerian women and mothers -B
Ghana Women for clean water -W
CAMFED - DIANA continues
womankind worldwide - M
zambia women - who's Africa?
How history treated women
500 cases viewed from America
Most stuff after this date will be transferred to Project30000
Here's a sample of womenworld1.0 (some links may be broken)
... Do you have a favourite network-women story?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
... Do you have a favourite network-women story?
Monday, February 28, 2005
Women Stories
eg 1 From roving reporter for Columbia : Kavindra Mathi- contributed 14 March 2005Antanas Mockus, burst onto the Colombian political scene in 1993 when, faced with a rowdy auditorium of the school of arts' students, he dropped his pants and mooned them to gain quiet. A mathematician and philosopher, Mockus looked around for another big challenge, "a 6.5 million person classroom." He resigned as rector, the top job of Colombian National University, and ran for mayor of Bogotá with no political experience.The former mayor had to address many fronts simultaneously. Once the mother of a 3-year-old girl called his office to say that meeting Mockus was her daughter's only birthday wish. But the meeting also revealed, said Mockus, that Colombian society has a long way to go. During the visit, the mother told him: "When I am going to hit her, she runs to the telephone and says that she is going to call Mockus. She doesn't even know how to dial a number, but obviously she thinks that you would protect her." Mockus, who has two daughters himself, was shocked at the woman's nonchalance about striking her daughter. There is almost always a civics lesson behind Mockus' antics. Florence Thomas, a feminist and a professor at Colombian National University, pointed out to Mockus that in Bogotá women were afraid to go out at night. "At that time, we were also looking for what would be the best image of a safe city, and I realized that if you see streets with many women you feel safer," Mockus explained. So he asked men to stay home and suggested that both sexes should take advantage of the "Night for Women" to reflect on women's role in society. He launched a "Night for Women" and asked the city's men to stay home in the evening and care for the children; 700,000 women went out on the first of three nights that Mockus dedicated to them, flocking to free, open-air concerts. They flooded into bars that offered women-only drink specials and strolled down a central boulevard that had been converted into a pedestrian zoneTo avoid legal challenges, the mayor stated that the men's curfew was strictly voluntary. Men who simply couldn't bear to stay indoors during the six-hour restriction were asked to carry self-styled "safe conduct" passes.Most men graciously embraced Mockus' campaign. That night the police commander was a woman, and 1,500 women police were in charge of Bogotá's security. (http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/03.11/01-mockus.html)A quote from him in an article in the Harvard Gazette, "The distribution of knowledge is the key contemporary task. Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change."
posted by macrae.nets @ 1:56 AM
Women's nets nominated by Londoners' favourite humanitarian nets
Women's Environment Network -S
Kind Nigerian women and mothers -B
Ghana Women for clean water -W
CAMFED - DIANA continues
womankind worldwide - M
zambia women - who's Africa?
How history treated women
500 cases viewed from America
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