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There’s an atrocious story in The Economist about how the worldwide gendercide rate is rising at an alarming rate.

I’ll give you one guess which gender suffers from mass-extermination.

In some areas there are 130 baby boys to 100 baby girls being born. The culprit? Utrasounds and abortions have given parents the technology to choose whether they have a valuable boy or an expensive girl. Culture and tradition still hold that boys are better. Some laws, as in China, prohibit large families (you can’t waste your one allotted child on a girl). Economic suppression of women around the world hold that men are more valuable as bread-winners (because women are restricted from the earning of bread) and as retirement security for their parents. Boys are valuable, girls are costly.

Why should you care?

China alone stands to have as many unmarried young men—“bare branches”, as they are known—as the entire population of young men in America. In any country rootless young males spell trouble; in Asian societies, where marriage and children are the recognized routes into society, single men are almost like outlaws. Crime rates, bride trafficking, sexual violence, even female suicide rates are all rising and will rise further as the lopsided generations reach their maturity,” the article states.

In 1990 it was estimated that over 100 million girls are dead. The toll is millions higher now.

Only one country has managed to change this pattern. In the 1990s South Korea had a sex ratio almost as skewed as China’s. Now, it is heading towards normality. It has achieved this not deliberately, but because the culture changed. Female education, anti-discrimination suits and equal-rights rulings made son preference seem old-fashioned and unnecessary. The forces of modernity first exacerbated prejudice—then overwhelmed it, states the article.

Think about the 100 million dead baby girls next time you hear Glenn Beck promise that equality and the pursuit of equal and economic justice will cost you your “freedom.”

Equality is a matter of International Security. Make no mistake about it. A world ruled by single men will self-destruct in a violent ball of testosterone-fueled fury, led by the same power-crazed idiots that were deluded enough to call discrimination “freedom.”

Go read the full story in The Economist.

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We stood alone on Bob Sandlin Bridge for International Women’s Day, but we stood. We stood steady and strong in the wind and rain.

We stood for Bora Tabu M’Kabonge, born in 1981, divorced mother of 3 in the Democratic Republic of The Congo. We sponsor her through Women for Women International, her life is made infinitely better for $27 a month.

Check out the wonderful and moving Flickr site for photos of over 100 Bridge events around the world!

If you couldn’t make it to meet us at the bridge yesterday, consider sponsoring a woman and her family through Women for Women International.

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Today is International Women’s Day.

The Girl Revolution stands in solidarity with all thinking humans around the world for all females’ inherent and innate rights of social, economic, spiritual and political power, autonomy and equity.

The Girl Revolution stands in solidarity with all thinking humans against sex trafficking, virgin worship and honor killings, violence against women and girls, rape in all its many forms, medical neglect, maternal death, lack of reproductive medical care, all forms of slavery, and all economic and political forms of oppression, suppression and control of women and girls, including spiritual exploitation and domination, including coverture.

Meet Me on the Bridge to Bob Sandlin Lake, FM 21 off HWY 11, at 4:30 pm today, March 8, 2010.

We’ll stand in solidarity for these good, righteous and holy birthrights together. We stand up for the worldwide respect of Authentic Femininity.

Sign up for Women for Women International and for $27 a month you can give a woman her economic independence.

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The Girl Revolution is inviting anyone and everyone to come to the bridge that crosses Lake Bob Sandlin in Pittsburg, Texas on FM 21 (off HWY 11) at 4:30 PM on Monday, March 8, International Women’s Day.

On Monday, March 8, 2010 Women for Women International is hosting a global campaign called Join me on the Bridge.Women from all over the world will be meeting on a bridge in solidarity for human rights of women and girls.

A new film, Half the Sky, a take-off of the exceptional book Half the Sky will be screened at select theaters, today, March 4 in honor of International Women’s Day (March 8). Find a theater near you by clicking this link and entering your zip code.

Half the Sky is inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof’s and Sheryl WuDunn’s New York Times bestseller, “Half The Sky,” which follows the stories of extraordinary women around the world as they struggle to overcome oppression. Kristof and WuDunn focus on three major problems facing women – sex trafficking, maternal mortality and violence against women. They argue that empowering women is the key to alleviating poverty and uplifting communities in developing countries.

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The International Museum of Women has a wonderful online presence at Economica: Women and the Global Economy/.

The world is shifting, shrugging, adjusting its briefs . . . can you feel it?

There is movement. Women’s economic independence is key to any and every human rights and economic issue on the planet. Let’s help it gather some momentum.

Pop over to the site and look, take some action, donate some dough, submit your own story or photography.

The topics include: New vision, human rights, marriage, fertility, microenterprise, business, grassroots solutions, property and wealth, and giving.

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