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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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An International Violence Against Women Act has been introduced in Congress.

Any country that allows acts of violence and terrorism against its own girls and women is a country that would also commit an act of violence and terrorism against The United States and any other country it deems unacceptable.

Countries that educate girls, economically empower their women and acknowledge a woman’s physical and spiritual autonomy are economically prosperous and more likely to be Internationally peaceful and cooperative.

They are also less likely to be breeding grounds for religious and political extremists, including terrorists. It’s a fact.

Because this is so, the International Violence Against Women Act is not a “women’s issue” it is an International Security Issue.

Whatever we spend to educate girls and women, economically assist women in business development, strongly encourage legal autonomy for women even sanctioning countries that allow acts of violence against females will come back to us a hundred-fold in Peace, International trade, and third-world development and financial independence. Violence against women in much of the world includes: mass rape, throwing acid in girls faces, starving, medically neglecting, sex trafficking, manslaughter by AIDS and other STDs, infanticide, honor killings and forced and coerced abortion.

This must stop now. No more excuses.

Read Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
if you require further evidence that the International Violence Against Women Act is not only a moral imperative, but also the single most effective strategy to beat terrorism around the world.

Read Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times Columns for more information about just how dangerous the world is if you’re born a girl. The fact that violence against females translates to terrorism around the world is a central narrative in his work.

Photo from Vital Voices Blog.

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