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BREAKING: Cease fire reports coming in
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More as I get it but here are two reports of it:
1. Jameel says it’s a two-week that should start within 72 hours.
2. Fox News says it’s a year-long, agreed to by Hamas in Egypt:
Hamas has told Egypt that the Islamic militant group agrees to a year-long ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.
Hamas says its agreement to a ceasefire is conditional on Israel withdrawing all of its forces withing five to seven days, according to Reuters.
The proposal calls for the immediate opening of all Gaza crossings with international assurances that they will stay open.
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Instead, Israeli forces would remain in place during a 10-day truce until details on border security are worked out, Egyptian and Palestinian officials close to the talks told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of the closed-door negotiations.
Under the Egyptian proposal, Hamas would back off its demand that Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza and borders be opened immediately as part of any halt in fighting.
Those international forces are critical but remember, UNIFIL has not been well-respected much of the time. I know that was the case in Lebanon for many years.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:33 pm January 15th, 2009 in Gaza, Israel | 8 Comments
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Obama the Feminist, Women’s Issues & the 111th Congress
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The Ms. Special Winter 2009 Inaugural Issue is now out with a cover image of President-elect Barack Obama wearing a t-shirt that says, “This is what a feminist looks like.”
From a media advisory prepared by Ms.:
When the publisher of Ms., Eleanor Smeal, and the chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation board, Peg Yorkin, met Barack Obama,
he immediately offered “I am a feminist.” Obama ran on the strongest platform for women’s rights of any major party in American history. Feminist Karen Kornbluh, the platform’s principle author, ensured women’s rights, opportunities, advancement, and issues were addressed throughout the historic document.
As Smeal says in her introduction to the Inaugural feature, “Never has it been easy fighting for equality and social justice. We have spent far too many years fighting to hold the ground we had already gained. Now is the time to move forward.
“But we are not giving President-Elect Obama a blank check. For our hopes to be achieved, we must speak out and organize, organize, organize to enable our new president’s team to achieve our common goals. Ultimately, we must hold our leaders’ feet to the fire or, to put it more positively, uplift them when they are caught in the crosscurrents of competing interests.”
To that end of not giving Obama a blank check, the American Association of University Women and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D, CT-3), held a conference call this morning to discuss pay equity, education, and paid sick days for workers. You can read an entire live-blog of the call here, including questions and answers from DeLauro and AAUW director of public policy and government relations, Lisa Maatz.
Highlights from comments made during the call:
-there’s excitement that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (HR 11) is advancing in the Senate and is expected to go up for a vote next week;
-there’s great disappointment that the Senate is not taking up the twin bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act (HR 12); that act is seen as providing the tools with which employees can demonstrate the cause of action they get to pursue under Ledbetter;
-AAUW and DeLauro stated more than once that they expect to hold the Senate’s “feet to the fire” regarding promises which they say were made to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act to the floor in the next few months. Obviously this feet to the fire activism will need to apply to Obama as needed, also.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:49 pm January 15th, 2009 in activism, Barack Obama, Blogging, Business, Civil Rights, Economy, Education, employment, Government, Illness, Law, leadership, Parenting, Politics, Sexism, Social Issues, Women | Comments Off
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Live-blog: Women’s Issues a Priority in 111th Congress: Pay Equity, Education, Paid Sick Days for Workers
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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:42 am January 15th, 2009 in Announcements, Blogging, Congress, Economy, Education, employment, Gender, Parenting, Politics, Women | Comments Off
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