#leymah gbowee

[femmesandhoney]

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Price Winner and Leader of the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace Movement, Speaks About Women's Roles in Political and Peace Activism

"Today Liberia is still far from achieving gender equality. Fewer than 12 percent of cabinet ministers are women, and only one woman ran in the 2017 presidential elections. There is still resistance to female leadership and participation at the community and national levels. But there is also an intergenerational movement of women who are building on the work of the women’s peace movement and determined to have their voices heard...

For politics to be centered on the needs of the common people, we must ensure that more women around the world have a seat at the table. And if the table is not worth sitting at, women have the power to reshape and create their own decision-making mechanisms through political activism and mobilization."

[lilsleepybear]

Sometimes we are tempted to doubt ourselves.

Are my hips too wide? Are my wrinkles too deep? We either cheat, or measure ourselves against other women. But we must remember: There is something unique in me that no one else possesses. That if they cannot see that...let them be.

- Leymah Gbowee

[haverwood]

Leymah Gbowee: The Dream Errol Morris USA, 2014

[messenger-of-stupidity]

Sex Strikes

Did you know something like the 4B movement has been going on since as early as Ancient Greece?

Greece: Lysistrata, in which women team up to bring about the end of the Peloponnesian War.

In 1600, Iroquois women refused to engage in sex as a way to stop unregulated warfare. The tactic worked: They gained veto power concerning all future wars and paved the way for future feminist rebellions.

In 2003, Leymah Gbowee organized a well-publicized sex strike to end Liberia’s brutal civil war. Not only did warlords agree to end the violence, Gbowee was later awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts.

In 2006, female partners of gang members in the Colombian city of Pereira withheld sex to demand civilian disarmament and a reduction in violence. According to the Global Nonviolent Action Database, the strike’s results were clear: Pereira’s murder rate fell by 26.5% by 2010, a huge accomplishment for a city that had a homicide rate twice the national average when the sex strike began.

In 2009, Kenyan women enforced a sex ban until political infighting ceased. Within one week, there was a stable government. And in the Philippines, a sex strike led to peace in a violence-plagued Mindanao Island village.

The reason these were effective were because there were clear goals in mind, and enough people enforced it. So... I'm just saying... this 4B movement has historical proof of effective results.

(Also you can fact-check me if you want.)

[successquotes]

You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.

Leymah Gbowee

[susieporta]

Ci siamo ammazzati con le spade, con le lance, e con le frecce.

Poi coi fucili, e coi cannoni.

Ora coi missili.

Tutti strumenti a forma di pene, solo che invece di penetrare con amore per fecondare e dare la vita, questi Peni sparano fuoco per dare la morte.

Ho sempre pensato che il nostro Maschile Egoico-bellico, che purtroppo abita anche molte donne, abbia in fondo un problema erotico irrisolto, una sorta di blocco, un'impotenza a utilizzare l'energia gloriosa del Fuoco a scopi pro-creativi.

Chi non crea, infatti, decrea, e distrugge, o si distrugge, ingolfando il fuoco in malo modo dentro di sé.

Sì, siamo un disastro, direbbe Henepola Gunaratana, grande maestro buddhista; siamo un disastro, siamo abitati da un mostro di insoddisfazione, e non vogliamo prendercene cura, per cui ci sfoghiamo ammazzandoci a vicenda.

Io sono convinto che questa fase della storia antropologica stia volgendo al compimento, al suo tragico compimento.

I mostri, dentro e fuori di noi, però non se ne andranno facilmente, e la lotta è e sarà molto dura.

Ma alla fine questa Era della Guerra finirà, perché è già finita.

Resta uno spettacolo osceno, i cui protagonisti sono semplicemente mostri, mostri di ignoranza innanzi tutto, e mostri di stupidità.

Fa bene riascoltare perciò Yael Deckelbaum, questa cantante di origini israeliane, che insieme a tante donne ebree e palestinesi, canta questa dolce Preghiera delle Madri, in sintonia con la grande marcia delle Madri, che unì migliaia di donne ebree e palestinesi, in una invocazione comune verso la Pace.

Era il 2016, e intervenne anche il premio Nobel liberiano Leymah Gbowee.

Questo canto di madri è il nostro canto.

E' il canto della Nuova Umanità.

E' il canto che supera il rumore degli scoppi e delle bombe.

E' il canto che rimarrà.

Marco Guzzi

[ivory--raven]

What does Lord Voldemort want?

Well, immortality. And not just immortality - if living forever was the only point he would've done as Harry suggested and make his horcrux a pebble and tossed it into the Channel - but immortality in the flashiest, most dramatic way he can think of. Seven horcruxes, in the most historically significant vessels Hogwarts has to offer. Voldemort doesn't actually seem to care much for world domination - he's focused on Britain - and within Britain he cares most about Hogwarts. The only place he felt at home, according to Dumbledore. On a personal level, by choosing the vessels he did, he's connecting himself with the Founders, with the school. It's also very much a statement, though not one necessarily intended to be understood - "I am more powerful than anyone else who would lay claim to these, threatening me is threatening Hogwarts and the lagacies of its Founders." If anyone does get close enough to destroying Voldemort to know what his horcruxes are, this is the message they receive. In order to kill Voldemort, the artifacts had to be destroyed.

The "threatening me is threatening Hogwarts" undertones feel significant. That's the attitude of an autocrat. When Charles Taylor (ex-President of Liberia who is currently in prison for war crimes) was faced with the prospect of losing power, he threatened that the country would suffer "murder, mayhem, and rape" (source: documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell) without him. During the 2nd Liberian civil war during which Taylor was fighting with LURD, there was murder, mayhem, and rape of civilians by both sides. This was the war Leymah Gbowee famously started her movement for peace in.

So when Voldemort makes his flashy choice, his dramatic method of securing immortality... he's trying to secure his power at the same time.

[im4uworld]

Transforming Trauma to Action

🌍✨ Leymah Gbowee’s journey from a war-torn childhood to Nobel laureate shows the power of personal stories in driving change. Her activism united women to end Liberia’s civil war. 📚✊ #Peace #Resilience

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[meiageddes]

"If you empower a young woman, you empower a whole community." -Leymah Gbowee

[booksandwords]

She Persisted Around the World by Chelsea Clinton. Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger

Age Recommendation: Early Primary Topic/ Theme: Persistence, Equality Setting: Global Series: She Persisted

Rating: 5/5

I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there was a problem, and I have got to do something about it. — Wangari Maathai

This book has has so much power in it and some many Nobel Prize laureate. Clinton has included the right amount of detail for the age group in most cases and her quote choice are just the right mix.. Boiger's art is beautiful and well-thought-out. Each one suits the subject and the style pulls them together. I have included the countries each of the 13 women hail from. Each woman is from a different country and broadly there are countries from most regions of the globe. If I have one wish for inclusion it would have been for a map with little icons showing where each woman is from. Especially important for Libarain Leymah Gbowee. Liberia is not a country easily found on a map, depending on the level of education Kenya and Pakistan may face similar issues. Though I guess that makes it a potential learning experience for adults and children alike.

What I forgot to comment on in the review for She Persisted was the intelligent framing illustrations created by Boiger. She has created a museum of world-changing women for young girls to browse. What we are seeing is one display in that museum at a time. It looks like a lovely and comfortable space to be in, which is exactly what you want in an inspirational space.

I've written up a little on each of the thirteen entries on my goodreas.

I want to include the dedications here because I really like them. "In memory of my Grandmother, whose persistence, curiosity and love inspire me every day. — C.C. To my daughter, Vanessa, and to children everywhere around this precious globe. — A.B." I'm not at all surprised that Chelsea dedicates a book to her grandmother. This is Hillary's mother, Dorothy Rodham, for more on that relationship see Grandma's Gardens. These dedications feel more personal than those of the previous book, while it's not a complaint I think the dedications of She Persisted would have suited this better with the reference to Sophie Scholl.

[gazeta24br]

Está chegando a oportunidade de participar de um dos eventos mais impactantes do pensamento contemporâneo! Nos dias 30 e 31 de outubro, o Fronteiras do Pensamento desembarca em Salvador para apresentar a temporada de 2023 no Teatro Sesc da Casa do Comércio. Este ano, o evento traz o provocativo tema “Manifestos para o século XXI”, convidando os espectadores a refletirem sobre grandes pensadores que incentivam a tomada das próprias decisões. A jornada começa em 30 de outubro, às 20 horas, com Lydia Cacho, aclamada como a jornalista mais corajosa da América Latina pela Time Magazine e pelo jornal The Guardian. Lydia e a mediadora Malu Fontes, doutora em Comunicação e Cultura Contemporâneas, conduzirão uma discussão fascinante sobre "Instruções para mudar o mundo". Elas abordarão como o trabalho investigativo de Lydia sobre o Crime Organizado Transnacional se entrelaça com sua advocacia pelos direitos humanos. No dia seguinte, 31 de outubro, às 20 horas, James Martins, poeta e criador do Pós-Lida (recital de poesia e alguma prosa), mediará as palestras incríveis deste dia, com Sidarta Ribeiro, o neurocientista e autor best-seller, que apresentará sua palestra provocativa "Sonhar futuro". Sidarta mergulhará nos temas do uso xamânico de medicamentos sagrados e do potencial psicoterapêutico de substâncias psicodélicas, examinando como essas práticas podem catalisar curas individuais e coletivas tão urgentemente necessárias. E a renomada psicanalista Vera Iaconelli, que subirá ao palco com a discussão envolvente sobre "A psicanálise e a ideologia materialista", discutindo as condições do nosso futuro enquanto sociedade pensado a partir da questão do cuidado. Os ingressos para essa experiência já estão à venda! Mergulhe nas ideias e reflexões e amplie seus horizontes no Fronteiras do Pensamento! Fronteiras do Pensamento é um projeto realizado pela Caderno 2 Produções, Delos Bureau, uma empresa DC Set Group, e conta com o patrocínio da Acelen, através da lei de incentivo da Fazcultura do Governo da Bahia. SOBRE O FRONTEIRAS DO PENSAMENTO O Fronteiras do Pensamento reúne pensadores influentes em ciclos de conferências anuais para debater os temas mais intrigantes da atualidade. Aposta na liberdade de expressão intelectual e na educação de qualidade como ferramentas para o desenvolvimento. Siga o conhecimento em fronteiras.com ou nas redes sociais @fronteirasweb. O Fronteiras do Pensamento nos convida a fazer perguntas e se comprometer em desafiar suas perspectivas pré-estabelecidas, nos guiando no caminho para um pensamento mais crítico e uma compreensão mais profunda dos temas importantes que moldam o mundo ao nosso redor. O Fronteiras do Pensamento realiza anualmente edições em Porto Alegre e São Paulo, e na edição especial em Salvador abre espaço para o debate e a análise da contemporaneidade e das perspectivas para o futuro, apresentando pensadores, artistas, cientistas e l��deres que são vanguardistas em suas áreas de pesquisa e pensamento. Os valores básicos do projeto são o pluralismo das abordagens, o rigor acadêmico e intelectual de seus convidados e a interdisciplinaridade de ideias. Por isso o Fronteiras do Pensamento já trouxe a Bahia importantes nomes como Enrique Peñalosa, Leymah Gbowee, Wim Wenders, Edgar Morin, Manuel Castells, Contardo Calligaris, Luc Ferry, Salman Rushdie, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Valter Hugo Mãe, Mia Couto, Camille Paglia, Graça Machel, entre outros. SERVIÇO: Fronteiras do Pensamento: Local: Teatro Sesc Casa do Comércio Data: 30 e 31 de outubro de 2023 Ingressos: https://www.sympla.com.br/

[cattarattat]

A MUST, MUST, MUST READ!!!

"Abigail Disney talks to Rolling Stone about her family company’s CEO Bob Iger and his anti-strike comments, protesting private jet usage, and more…

'I WOKE UP one day and realized that, just by virtue of being born lucky, I had so much more than everyone else,' says Abigail Disney. 'And I don’t think I’ve slept well since I figured that out.'

Disney, the granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney, has used her considerable means to make the world a better place since the ‘90s, backing a string of non-profits and producing documentaries that shine a light on societal injustices. These have included Pray the Devil Back to Hell, about the work of famed Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee; The Invisible War, which tackled the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S. military; and On the Record, exploring the rape allegations against hip-hop legend Russell Simmons. She’s also served as executive producer on a number of women-directed features, such as Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Jennifer Fox’s The Tale, and Kitty Green’s The Assistant.

In 2019, she set her sights on Disney and its CEO, Bob Iger, criticizing the exec’s $65 million salary over a series of tweets and speaking with Disneyland park employees, discovering that many of them are food insecure and some even live in their cars. This resulted in her directorial debut, the 2022 documentary The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, shining a light on the dire condition of Disney’s amusement park workers. Now, with Iger back controlling Disney amid the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes, and calling the strikers 'not realistic' and 'disturbing' for wanting pay equity and better working conditions — comments that former Disney staffers have called 'evil' and 'inhumane' — Disney is refusing to keep quiet.

'I have a theory that Bob Iger retired on one planet in 2020 and came back on a new planet, and he doesn’t realize he’s on a new planet now,' Disney tells Rolling Stone. 'And on this new planet, all CEOs are magic people who are always right about everything. And sometimes, on this planet, Twitter will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you misspeak. I think he’s been very surprised by the way people reacted to him.'

Indeed, Iger’s comments drew a giant wave of backlash from the media and entertainment industries. It didn’t help that they were made at the Sun Valley Conference, an annual summit for the financial sector that’s earned the nickname the 'summer camp for billionaires.'

'You can only call your partners — and they are your partners, the creatives who make these products with you, as well as the janitors who clean your parks at night — 'unrealistic' in their asks if you can’t think outside of the teeny, tiny little business model that you’ve been working with. But he said it himself that it’s a broken model. And the entire model for the way they’ve been conducting business for the last fifty years is broken,' adds Disney.

The 63-year-old was also arrested at the East Hampton Airport this month protesting the use of private jets and their environmental impact. Rolling Stone spoke with Disney about this, Bob Iger and Disney, the Hollywood strikes, and much more.

To start, I wanted to ask about your recent arrest at the East Hampton Airport protesting private jet use in the name of climate change. What compelled you to take this action? You channeled your inner Jane Fonda. Well, there are definitely far worse people to emulate than Jane Fonda. And actually, I went on a Fire Drill Fridays protest with her right before the pandemic, and one of the things she said was that she started Fire Drill Fridays because she had been watching Greta Thunberg on TV and thought, 'Where are the old people? Why do we always leave it on the young people to get conked on the head when we’re the ones who can handle the criminal record and have less to lose?' That stayed with me. I had been reading things, had had my own experience with private planes, and gave them up years ago because it just felt so wrong. I tweeted something out a bunch of months ago about chaining myself to an airplane — I’m prone to hyperbole, what can I say — and then the folks at the New York Communities for Change reached out and said, 'Are you serious about this? Well, if you’re serious about it, we should do something together. One thing led to another, and there I was last weekend. And I was so happy to be there. I was the oldest person there by a long way. It was thrilling for me because I really feel like I haven’t done enough. We all have to get off the sidelines.

During this time of climate emergency, private planes are an abomination. Ban them now. pic.twitter.com/DpmHOc7KwC

— Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD (@ClimatePsych) July 14, 2023

There were some interesting facts in the op-ed you wrote for The Guardian, such as 'billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person,' and that 'a four-hour flight on a private jet will burn as much carbon as the average person does in a year.'

That should really stop anyone in their tracks before they get on the next private plane. It’s only common sense. One percent of the population accounts for fifty percent of all aviation emissions. What that means is that it’s not just private planes; it’s the top one percent of frequent flyers.

Celebs are obviously quite guilty of frequent private jet use. Kylie Jenner got a lot of flak last year for taking a 17-minute private jet flight.

And she should!

And it’s Taylor Swift who tops the list of celebrities when it comes to private jet use by a wide margin. They did a study last year that concluded her private jet flew 170 times between January and July of last year alone.

Whoa! That’s incredible. I understand why a celebrity would lean toward the private jets: it is hard to get through an airport when everyone wants to talk to you, and you don’t want to be sitting in first class and have everyone ask you for selfies and autographs. But that is a completely solvable problem. Let’s work with the airlines to make some small changes. You have people like Bill Gates who say they don’t have to fly commercial because they give a lot of money to carbon capture technologies, and I’m sorry — yeah, you fly a lot and do a lot of great work, but how about you pay for the carbon capture and don’t pollute?

When you mention Bill Gates and private jets, my mind immediately goes to him and Jeffrey Epstein…

Yeah…

There are also climate activists like Leonardo DiCaprio who will star in movies like Don’t Look Up and preach about how we have to protect the environment against climate change and then fly everywhere on private jets. Exactly who I was going to say. Leonardo. Leo, come on, man! Was he really pulling his electric car up next to a private plane to get somewhere? Surely the irony of that had to have hit him!

And I don’t think celebrities have the airport excuse anymore. I fly Delta and they have a VIP service for celebs where they will take you in a private car right up to the plane.

Exactly. So, it’s a real bullshit excuse.

You’re a movie producer and this is a historic time in Hollywood. Both the actors guild and writers guild are striking simultaneously for the first time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of SAG. I’m in the writers guild. This is a very big moment. We’re now trying to restructure the relationship between the people who pull the revenues in and the people who generate the revenues. First came Spotify and then streaming followed, and they reduced the number of monetization events in the life of a piece of media. So, you don’t have the DVD market, foreign sales, and syndication. At this point, what Netflix does — and I know this — is that they pay you once for worldwide rights, and then they don’t tell you anything about who’s seeing your film or how many people are seeing your film, and they get to take it off the platform when they’re done with it and that’s the end of it. Obviously, for a small, independent filmmaker like myself, it’s disastrous. But it’s also disastrous for Warners, Universal, and everybody else. The corporations are really in trouble. I think they’ve been too slow to react to what was bound to happen, which was that cable networks were going to collapse.

As a documentary filmmaker, I can tell you that we are in such turmoil right now. We were always subject to the whims of the platform, and now the platforms don’t know which way is up — and all they’re buying is true crime. And when I saw 'the model is broken,' I’m not just talking about media but American business in general. Revenues pay for your business concerns, reimburse people, pay your taxes, and whatever’s left from that belongs to management and shareholders. That model is broken. You can’t continue to push downward on employee salaries, and treat people the way we’ve been treating them, and expect any kind of business or society to thrive.

I wanted to discuss Disney CEO Bob Iger’s recent comments. He called the strikers’ asks not 'realistic' and even invoked the Covid pandemic to say that strikers were adding to the industry 'disruption' caused by Covid. And to do it from the Sun Valley Conference, or the 'summer camp for billionaires,' just seemed next-level out of touch.

Oh my god. You know, if you spend too much time at the 'summer camp for billionaires,' you’re going to forget that there are other kinds of people in the world who aren’t necessarily billionaires. And I think he forgot where he was and what the world is really like — which is easy to do, especially when you’re on a private plane.

Do you feel Bob Iger is the right person to lead Disney right now?

Oh, that’s such a hard thing to say. And obviously, if I say 'no' to that question, that will haunt me on Google for the rest of my life. It’s really hard to say. I’ll say that what we need now isn’t what we’ve been needing for the last forty years because it’s just a very different climate. We need a lot of creativity, and someone thinking about busting open all the logjams of where we are. But what I want isn’t the kind of stuff you’re going to hear in The Wall Street Journal. I really think it’s time for businesses to reimagine what the point of a corporation is, and why a corporation exists, and if we’re going to think of ourselves as a bunch of businesses creating livelihood for people, we need to rethink how we create those livelihoods. We need to question this notion that capital only belongs to owners when we can’t achieve anything without workers. We’re doing capitalism wrong, and we’re going to kill ourselves in the process unless we rethink it.

One thing that seemed to really get under your skin was CEO pay — specifically, when you discovered that Bob Iger was paid $65 million in 2018, or 1,424 times the median salary of a Disney employee. And if you look at David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, he pulled in nearly $500 million between 2018 and 2022 alone.

My grandfather became a very wealthy man as a result of Disney, but also my grandmother told me stories about how, when she brought my father home from the hospital, they didn’t know where their next meal was going to come from. It was 1930, and Disney was already a pretty successful company, but every success they had they reinvested it into the company. I think that risk should in fact be rewarded, but where was the risk that Bob Iger took, as somebody who rose up the ladder as an employee to management, and then rose to the top of management? I don’t think he knows what it’s like to not know where his next meal is coming from. And I don’t either. But I know what my grandparents’ experience was, and how much they put on the line for that business. A CEO should be like a ship captain. You want that job and the shiny uniform, but you need to agree to the terms. And if you have $65 million in your pocket, and there are people in your company who are struggling to put food on the table, that should not feel good to you. You shouldn’t be able to sleep well at night. I woke up one day and realized that, just by virtue of being born lucky, I had so much more than everyone else. And I don’t think I’ve slept well since I figured that out.

In lieu of the #HauntedMansion stars, who are not in attendance at the world premiere due to the actors strike, Disney has its classic villains walking the red carpet pic.twitter.com/aCc0G30SuK

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 16, 2023

One of the first big movie premieres to be held following the actors’ strike was for Disney’s The Haunted Mansion, and it was a bizarre scene. Since actors couldn’t walk the red carpet, Disney made their non-union park walk the carpet as their amusement park characters. And if people think SAG-AFTRA actors are exploited, these park actors are on a whole other level. It reminded me of your recent documentary on park workers, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.

And I have screened my film for the park workers, who are non-union, and who have been contemplating unionizing. Do you think they were thinking about those thoughts when they were in those outfits? You bet. Disney can keep this up as long as they want, but they’re going to have a lot of labor problems if they don’t change their ways."

[lottagiftbox]

“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.” —Leymah Gbowee

:o) whats your thoughts on emulators? do you have a favorite? i love emulator collections like retrobat for pc and retroarch for mobile. they are great for faming on the go when you dont have your systems with you. pc makes it easier but lately you can also emulate on the new consoles or at least the Xbox.

[thatswhatshedoes]

Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls | TED

“Create that space to unlock the intelligence, unlock the passion, unlock all of the great things that [girls] hold within themselves.”

– Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee, TED 2013

[chiefkingyouth]

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6 razões pelas quais você deve aprender resiliência em 2023

6 razões pelas quais você deve aprender resiliência em 2023

Eleanor Roosevelt, Leymah Gbowee, Malala Yousafzai, Frida Kahlo e Nur Nahar Na vida, todo mundo sente estresse de vez em quando ou tem que lidar com uma crise. O que importa é como você lida com desafios e contratempos. Quem é resiliente supera com mais facilidade as fases difíceis da vida. Descubra exatamente o que está por trás do termo e por que definitivamente deveria aprender resiliência em…