Herizons articles from June 2002

Herizons archives from June 2002

The letters.
June 22, 2002... Dear Herizons, If other readers are as frustrated as I am about 'Restorative Justice' (spring 2002 edition of Herizons) I pass this message to them. Restorative Justice is a non-native phrase for the native concept of healing...

Lucy Lu steps out of sanctuary. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (KINGSTON) Lucy Lu is back at work at a Kingston shoe store after a three-year stay was granted on her deportation order by Immigration Minister Denis Coderre in April. Lu spent 16 months in a Kingston church basement sanctuary while the...

Nepal legalizes abortion. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (Kathmandu) Nepal has amended its Civil Code to legalize abortion under certain conditions. Abortion will be available upon request during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, when a woman's life or health is in danger, and in cases of rape,...

Just say 'non' to yick chic. (Nellie Grams).(women protest over advertisement)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (PARIS) Women demonstrated in front of a top Paris department store to protest over an advertisement showing super model Laetitia Casta with a black eye. Fifty members of La Meute (The Pack), a group that monitors ads derogatory to women,...

Stop child prostitution. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Eighty-nine countries signed a U.N. Children's Fund agreement to ban child prostitution, pornography and slavery this spring. The accord calls for quick global ratification and becomes binding on signatories once their legislatures ratify it....

Activist gives Reebok the boot. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Indonesian labour activist Dita Indah Sari rejected a $50,000 human rights award from sporting apparel giant Reebok to protest the meagre salaries the company pays its Indonesian factory workers. "The factories do not pay a living wage....

Aung San Suu Kyi freed. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Authorities in Myanmar lifted Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest in April, ending the 56-year old political leader's 19-month imprisonment. Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is the leader of the country's pro-democracy movement and...

Cervical cancer reduced with circumcised partner. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... According to a study published in the April 11, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, circumcised men appear to have a lower incidence of human papilloma virus (HPV) compared to uncircumcised men. Among men who had multiple...

Pay equity the next generation. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Nitya lyer's one-woman B.C. task force on pay equity in the private sector released its report in March. The 164-page report concludes that the gender wage gap won't go away by itself. The report recommends that all industries be required to...

Nauseatingly good news. (Nellie Grams).(health aspects of morning sickness)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Morning sickness is a good thing. So says University of Winnipeg biology professor Scott Forbes, who published his theory in a recent edition of Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Healthy fetuses produce chorionic gonadtrophin. Forbes believes...

It's about bleedin' time. (Nellie Grams).(retail sales tax on menstruation hygiene aids in Manitoba, Canada)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The NDP government in Manitoba has removed retail sales tax on menstrual products in its April 2002 Budget. The move is worth an estimated $800,000 to women in the province. Diane McGifford, minister responsible for the status of women,...

Did you know? (Nellie Grams).(Charles Boycott)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The term 'boycott' is named after Irish landowner Charles Boycott, who in 1880 evicted tenant farmers and refused to lower rents. He and his family were ostracized by servants, form-hands, store clerks, even the mail carrier refused him...

Black cohosh gets red light. (Nellie Grams).(use of medicinal herbs for treating symptoms of menopause)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... According to the January/February 2002 issue of the menopause newsletter A Friend Indeed, Black cohosh is the single most important herb for symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, night sweats, headaches, insomnia and mood swings. In...

Organic food nutrients superior. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... How good? A recent review at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found that organically grown produce was higher in all minerals and most vitamins and lower in nitrates and toxic heavy metals. Magnesium, for example was 29 percent higher,...

Pregnant? Go fish. (Nellie Grams).(fish in the diet)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Pregnant and nursing women can reduce their risk of postpartum depression and improve the neurological development of their babies by increasing their fish consumption. The common thread is omega-3 fatty acids, the polyunsaturated fat found...

Women's policy units wiped out: minister responsible refers to feminists as 'feminazis'. (Nellie Grams).(Canadian western provinences)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Saskatchewan and the Yukon are the latest governments to sack their provincial women's policy units in a trend that is slowly sweeping the country. On April Fool's Day, the Yukon dismantled its directorate as part of a "government...

Taking a bite out of global capitalism: who let the dogs out? (Nellie Grams).(Group of 8 Summit in Alberta, Canada, July 2002)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (CALGARY) Here to kick off an intensive weekend in preparation for protests at the June G8 Summit in Kananaskis, ecofeminist Starhawk told an audience of 400 that there is widespread support for the values at the heart of the global justice...

ABC theory gets failing grade: booby-trap backfires. (Nellie Grams).(abortion brest cancer link)(anti-abortionist propaganda)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Pro-choice activists won a victory recently when charges of 'false advertising' against a North Dakota abortion clinic and Planned Parenthood Federation of Americas were recently dismissed. Anti-abortionists failed in their bid to stop...

Abreast of current ad trends. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (VANCOUVER) Media Watch selected three Canadian ad campaigns for their bold portrayals of women. The 'Health in Your Own Hands' award went to Zig Advertising (the same women who delivered the hilarious Special K campaign a few years ago)....

Sri Lanka war widows cultivate land rights.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (COLOMBO) Nearly two decades of conflict have left women in rural Sri Lanka impoverished by a deepening crisis in agriculture. Many women widowed in their youth suddenly have sole responsibility for the survival of families as a result of...

Be Good at Michigan Women's Music Fest. (Nellie Grams).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Canada's hip-hop troubadour Kinnie Starr and The Be Goad Tanyas are among the CanCon at this year's Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Michigan Fest bills the Be Goods as "the Canadian feminist answer to 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou.'" The...

Here's to you, Mary Robinson. (International).(United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (GENEVA) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has overseen her last session of the Commission. According to human rights groups, officials in Washington pressed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan not to ask her...

Afghanistan: women under threat. (International).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (NEW YORK) Afghan women continue to fear physical violence and insecurity even though the Taliban regime has officially ended its rule. LaShawn R. Jefferson, executive director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch said,...

Global campaign seeks to end bishops' ban on condoms. (Campaigns).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... (NEW YORK) A global campaign to end Catholic bishops' ban on condoms has been launched by Catholics for a Free Choice and international health agencies. Billboards and ads in subways and newspapers carrying the message "Banning Condoms...

Hall, a passageway to bigger things. (Cole's Notes).(Marc Hall, gay Canadian teenager)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 22, 2002... I used to hate high school proms and everything about them. As a high school student in the 60s, I found them regressive exercises in heterosexual coupledom, though, okay, I wouldn't have said it that way -- I didn't even know I was a...

Behind the scenes at Lilith on Top.
June 22, 2002... In June 1999, Lynne Stopkewich was preparing to shoot her second feature film, Suspicious River, when she got a call from her partners, Dean English and Jessica Fraser. Boneyard Film Productions had just negotiated with Sarah McLachlan and...

Civil & disobedient: no clear cut justice.
June 22, 2002... May 19, 2000. Suzanne has just been escorted out of the courtroom by three sheriff's deputies-to thunderous applause from our supporters. She told the judge she didn't want to be tried by him, she wanted to be tried by the Squamish people....

Staking it to the man.
June 22, 2002... Into each generation a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The short of it? The Slayer kicks...

Did Bridget Jones really liberate us?(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2002... British writer Imelda Whelehan writes in her book Overloaded: Pop Culture and the Future of Feminism, that contemporary men's movements are taking part in a process of reassessment, reflecting upon what 'being a man' means. Unfortunately,...

A cute website of one's own. (On the Edge).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... I hate people who sport their own cutesy websites. You know the ones I'm talking about: I'm Mike and Here's My Dull as Doornails Life. Or how about Betsy's Granny Squares in Colour Designed by Betsy. On that last one, don't get me wrong,...

The Kappa Child. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY HIROMI GOTO RED DEER PRESS 2001 With The Kappa Child, Hiromi Goto brings her readers a magnetic tale of love, romance and dream amidst the unholy tides of violence that oppressed peoples all too often face. Structurally,...

The Good Seconds of Silence. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY ELIZABETH RUTH DUNDURN PRESS 2001 In the beginning, Ten Good Seconds of Silence, the first novel by Elizabeth Ruth, seems a little bit like one of those optical illusion illustrations -- is it an old woman or a young woman, a pair...

Half Known Lives. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... HALF KNOWN LIVES BY JOAN GIVNER NEW STAR BOOKS Lucy spins a stream-of-consciousness story of a group of friends who gather like acolytes before her garrulous wisdom as professor of English Literature and Women's Studies in the...

The Game. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY TERESA TOTEN RED DEER PRESS, 2001 In her second young adult novel, Teresa Toten portrays a teenage girl in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. Danielle Webster has been committed to Riverwood Youth Center by her mother. As the...

Midnight Robber. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY NALO HOPKINSON WARNER ASPECT Nalo Hopkinson has made a big splash in the science fiction scene. Since 1998 she has published two novels, a collection of short stories and edited an anthology of Caribbean fabulist fiction. For...

All the Seas of the World. (Arts & Lit).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BY GAYLA REID STODDARD, 2001 Australians habitually call each other "mate," but in the case of Deirdre and Bernadette (Bernie), the women who are at centre of All the Seas of the World, the term is appropriate. They are mated...

Grey. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY JUDY MACDONALD ARSENAL PULP PRESS, 2001 Grey is a shopping list. It is riding the bus and missing your stop. It is a relationship starting to grow or slowly going sour. Grey is for those of us who delight in sifting through a...

When Alice Lay Down with Peter. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY MARGARET SWEATMAN ALFRED A. KNOFF, 2001 Spanning four generations during the mid-1800s to the 1970s, When Alice Lay Down With Peter captures the Canadian prairie landscape as beautifully as it does the novel's real-to-life...

Burning Ground. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY PEARL LUKE HARPERCOLLINS 2000 Percy Turner, turning 30, is spending yet another five months alone, perched at her fire tower in the vast thickets of the northern Alberta forest. It is her seventh season, and as Percy knows only...

Swift as Desire. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY LAURA ESQUIVEL CROWN PUBLISHERS, 2001 Laura Esquivel's debut novel, Like Water for Chocolate, established her signature blend of culture, history, romance and magic realism. Her latest novel, Swift as Desire, contains the same...

The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY UMA PARAMESWARAN BROKEN JAW PRESS 2001 This new novella by award-winning Uma Parameswaran belongs to the genres of engage literature, roman a these and feminist fiction. It is activist literature, woman-empowering fiction and it...

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY BELL HOOKS SOUTH END PRESS 2000 bell hooks, African-American cultural critic and feminist, says that she wrote this book because she had always wanted "a straightforward, clear book, easy to read without being simplistic" that...

Direct Action: Memoris of an Urban Guerrilla. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY ANN HANSEN BETWEEN THE LINES/AK PRESS, 2001-2002 In the early 80s, members of Direct Action (a.k.a. the Squamish Five) blew up BC Hydro's Cheekeye-Dunsmuir substation which was being built to supply a planned wave of industrial...

Nerves Out Loud: Critical Moments in the Lives of Seven Teen Girls. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... EDITED BY SUSAN MUSGRAVE ANNICK PRESS, 2001. After finishing Nerves Out Loud, I can't decide whether I should be depressed or emboldened; mournful or ecstatic. Each story in Nerves Out Loud focuses on a critical (and often...

Imprints and Casualties: Poets on Women and Language, Reinventing Memory. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BROKEN JAW PRESS 2000 Imprints and Casualties documents some of the debates, obsessions, and urgent questions of feminist poets between 1985 and 1993. As such, these selections from the Living Archives of the League of Canadian Poets'...

Just Tell Them I Survived! Women in Antarctica. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY ROBIN BURNS, ALLEN & UNWIN PUBLISHERS, 2001 Antarctica is somewhat of an enigma. Its worst season is winter due to the raging blizzards, frigid temperatures and a six-week period of perpetual darkness. Even in summer, the isolation and...

Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... TELLING TALES: ESSAYS IN WESTERN WOMEN'S HISTORY EDITED BY CATHERINE CAVANAUGH AND RANDI WARNE UBC PRESS, 2000 To write history is to write stories. The 11 essays in this collection tell the stories of women in western Canada...

Confessions of a Shopaholic. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY SOPHIE KINSELLA DELL PUBLISHING 2001 Rebecca is a conspicuous consumer, as well as a freeloader living in the trendy part of London, England with her independently wealthy roommate, Suze. Working as a finance writer for...

Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY JOSEPHINE DONOVAN NEW YORK: CONTINUUM, 2000 I was looking forward to this book, hoping it would provide a coherent framework (of 'isms') in which to place Stanton, Greer, Millett, Firestone, et al. I was not disappointed. ...

Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journy to Motherhood. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... HAVING FAITH: AN ECOLOGIST'S JOURNEY TO MOTHERHOOD BY SANDRA STEINGRABER, PHD PERSEUS PUBLISHING This is the story of a 38-year-old biologist, cancer survivor and poet who chronicles the succession of miracles (as well as the...

Silent Cries. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY PAULINE MANTLEY WITH MARJORIE WILLISON COMMUNITY BOOKS Thank-you Pauline, for the request to review your book. Your horrific physically and psychologically abusive childhood, your re-victimization in adulthood, your legal...

Mothers Through the Eyes of Women Writers. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... ED. JUDITH SHAPIRO CONARI PRESS Do you like stories depicting mothers as predators from whom daughters must escape -- mothers who appear as evil sources of resentment and fear? You will find none in Judith Shapiro's book, Mothers...

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women and The Global Factory. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... BY MIRIAM CHING YOON LOUIE SOUTHEND PRESS In the face of corporate globalization, it is easy to get depressed, immobilized by the immensity of the injustice that needs to be fought. If you're feeling dispirited by this, then...

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... HATESHIP, FRIENDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE ALICE MUNRO MCCLELLAND & STEWART, 2001 Reading Alice Munro is like getting a box of truffles. You know you are in for a delicious treat: no matter the filling, the end effect is...

Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics and Culture. (Arts & Lit).
June 22, 2002... SUBJECT TO DEBATE SENSE AND DISSENTS ON WOMEN, POLITICS AND CULTURE BY KATHA POLLITT RANDOM HOUSE, 2001 If you became a fan of feminist essayist Katha Pollitt with Reasonable Creatures, Essays on Women and Feminism(1995), then...

Christine Fellows. (Music).(THE LAST ONE STANDING)
June 22, 2002... THE LAST ONE STANDING SIX SHOOTER RECORDS It's rare that a first CD is so good you're almost afraid to listen to the follow up, but Christine Fellows' premiere effort, 2 Little Birds, definitely fell into that category. It was a...

In a panic over homosexual panic. (The Guest Room).(Poem)
June 22, 2002... Can we talk here? Because I'd like to talk about homosexual panic *. I mean, what exactly is homosexual panic? Is homosexual panic like when you're walking down the street and you realize you're going to be late for work and you just...

How to stop militarized capitalism. (Body Politic).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... The rise of far right parties in Europe is an ominous warning that progressive forces had better heed. A closer look at Jean Marie Le Pen's victory in the first round of the French presidential elections was an ominous indicator of the...

Privatized justice no justice for women. (Last Word).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
June 22, 2002... The case of the more than 50 women missing from Vancouver's downtown Eastside has garnered international attention and embarrassment for the city. Three mayors and the Vancouver Police Department stand accused of ignoring the disappearances...