Women & Feminism

From the blog of the Twin Cities Starbucks Workers Union, http://tcsbuxunion.com...

Certainly, this world doesn't need more words written by people like me - which is part of why, at the end of this note, I reproduce a more thoughtful, enduring essay than this one.   But here and now, I nonetheless write as a white, male-bodied, self-identified anarchist, understanding to the best of my ability the irony of using this medium to say to my male-bodied comrades who fight, rage, love, cry and struggle for social justice in the Twin Cities:

Please, wake up and shut up.

At the University of the District of Columbia on March 21 & 22, about 500 college-age feminists from around the country clapped and cheered through lecture after lecture-- until Sunday afternoon. Then, when comments and questions were finally taken by the young women who organized the conference within the Feminist Majority Foundation, delegates voiced their concerns at a mic. in the dim auditorium.

Four students from Augsburg College, in the only delegation from Minnesota, commented that the conference's political focus was unbalanced. (I was the fifth person in the delegation.)

The group "God Hates Fags" will be picketing the funeral of Staff Sgt. Jacob Thompson on August 18 at 9:45 AM at the St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 632 S. Broadway St., Mankato, MN. Here is the news release: www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/aug2007/20070811_jacob-thompson-memorial.pdf