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Hurricane Katrina did not only reveal economic and race disparities, it also revealed gender disparities, as once again, due to a disaster, women and their children were the ones who suffer the most.
November 2005
It is almost too difficult to write these thoughts at this moment without a kind of distance on the incredible sadness and destruction and without more information. Yet...
Hurricanes are now named for men and women in the superficial attempt at gender neutrality-as though this actually could make a difference in men and women's lives in terms of equal treatment. This alteration in nomenclature conceals the real inequitiesin women's lives. This was truer than ever when Katrina hit with all "her" powerful...
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In Minnesota, Welfare Rights Committee is working through Welfare Rights Organization of New Orleans with victims of Hurricane Katrina.
This is not old news. People--especially women and children--are still suffering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Background: On September 15, Welfare Rights Committee in Minneapolis organized a protest a the Federal Building in Minneapolis. This is what they said about their sister organization in New Orleans and their work with them. The Welfare Rights Organization in New Orleans lost their office and homes to the flood...
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No Thanksgiving Dinner
November 2004
The annual 'No Thanksgiving Dinner,' sponsored by the Welfare Rights Committee, took place November 23 outside the gates of the governor's mansion...
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