Jon Bon Jovi is voting for Hillary!
A quick morning read & action to share W/friends over your morning beverage of choice!
“Gloria Steinem: why the
White House needs Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton has faced
all manner of hate since entering frontline politics – often from
women just like her. Why? In an extract from her new book, the
activist-writer looks at the hopes held for the 2016 presidential
frontrunner...
I know Hillary
Clinton mostly in the way we all do, as a public figure in good
times and bad, one who became part of our lives and even our dreams.
I once introduced her to a thousand women in a hotel ballroom.
Standing behind her as she spoke, I could see the binder on the
lectern with her speech carefully laid out – and also that she
wasn’t reading from it. Instead, she was responding to people who
had spoken before her, addressing activists and leaders she saw in
the audience, and putting their work in a national and global context
– all in such clear and graceful sentences that no one would have
guessed she hadn’t written them in advance. It was an on-the-spot
tour de force, perhaps the best I’ve ever heard.
But what clinched it for
me was listening to her speak after a performance of Eve
Ensler’s play Necessary Targets, based on interviews with
women in one of the camps set up to treat women who had endured
unspeakable suffering, humiliation, and torture in the ethnic wars
within the former Yugoslavia. To speak to an audience that had just
heard these heartbreaking horrors seemed impossible for anyone, and
Hillary had the added burden of representing the Clinton
administration, which had been criticised for slowness in stopping
this genocide. Nonetheless, she rose in the silence, with no
possibility of preparing, and began to speak quietly – about
suffering, about the importance of serving as witnesses to suffering.
Most crucial of all, she admitted this country’s slowness in
intervening. By the time she sat down, she had brought the audience
together and given us all a shared meeting place: the simple truth.
Gloria Steinem: 'If men
could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament'
When she left the White
House and decided to run for the US Senate from her new
home in New York State – something no first lady, not even Eleanor
Roosevelt, had dared to do – I was blindsided by the hostility
toward her from some women. They called her cold, calculating,
ambitious, and even “unfeminist” for using political experience
gained as a wife. These were not the rightwing extremists who had
accused the Clintons of everything from perpetrating real estate
scams in Arkansas to murdering a White House aide with whom Hillary
supposedly had an affair. On the contrary, they mostly agreed with
her on the issues, yet some were so opposed to her that they came to
be called Hillary Haters. It took me weeks of listening on the road
to begin to understand why. … “
You can read this except from "My Life On The Road" here
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