Nicole,
I really appreciate your insight and intelligence on the ecofem list. You are a
breath of fresh air, and I hope you will reconsider signing off. I have learned a
lot from you.
Just curious...what is your business with the UN? You seem to be involved in all
sorts of international activism--how exciting!
cheers,
beth
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> " If our stance, our position, is arrogant because we stick up for what we
> believe in, because we have a strong M�ori mandate which says that's what we
> want you to do, if that's thuggish, then so be it. I'll wear that label, not
> kindly, but at least we're advocating what we were put there to do. - Hon Tau
> Henare Minister of M�ori Affairs"
>
> For this year, I have travels to Africa, South America, the Gulf States and
> the Caribbean planned - the Pacific was a thought, but not a surety - but when
> I read these two statements from the family in Australia and in New Zealand!
> The pacific is an area I had never been, but always wanted to go, and these
> words demanded to me that this year was the time to go.
>
> I have friends there, whom I have met through work and study in other places,
> indigenous friends of course, and I even have a standing offer to travel
> around papua new guinea to visit the various villages, as well as those in
> Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Yet I kept putting it off, just my own
> foolishness! The best (and perhaps the only good thing) about Nike is that
> slogan "Just do it".
>
> These speeches said to me "Just do it" - so I will.
>
> I do so much appreciate the variety of people who in private mail pointed me
> towards resources to learn more about "ecofeminism" and I even appreciate Joe
> Dees for reminding me to temper my interest with an awareness that another
> name simply means the same people.
>
> So this experience simply pointed me back to women like Dr. Maathai and
> Vandana Shiva. I even asked a friend of mine who knows Dr. Maathai personally,
> to introduce me to her when I visit Kenya this year, and of course I will tell
> her a bit - won't waste our time much - about this list, and sit at her knee
> to learn rather continuing my life long tradition of not heeding the pretend
> black woman call of Joe Dees. I know well the people of an organization on
> which Shiva is on the board, so I will arrange to meet her too, and learn at
> her knee.
>
> Women like this are the reason, men like that are the reason, the blessings,
> that I have the awareness and strength to not fall prey to people like Dees.
>
> I have decided in this situation that here is the boundary line between
> responding to his arrogant ignorance and tolerating the repeated publicizing
> of his super sensitive man costume "with an impotent S". I have drawn that
> line in the sand.
>
> A list on which he would thrive, is not a list on which I belong
>
> My next email to this list will be to sign off, though the moderator would be
> greatly appreciated if I was signed off now.
>
> Those with whom I have had positive conversation, we can continue via private
> email.
>
> Nicole
