
JASS JASS Movements Newsletter December issue released! Topics include building women's rights agendas in Southern Africa and Southeast Asia; ongoing debate on men's roles in women's human rights movements, latest on Honduras, and does age matter in women's movements?
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What a year for the world and for JASS! Like all of you – our allies and supporters – JASS faced some crazy challenges with important action in 2009, captured on this rocking 4-minute video: from the Wall ...

How can we truly engage all generations in our movements? We all have something valuable to offer, no matter what our age, and yet the ageism that often blocks us has not been explicitly addressed...

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Dream of a world where rights of women, men, and children will be respected and there are equal opportunities for all.
JASS-Southern Africa facilitated a movement-building strategy meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, in mid-November 2009.
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JASS Dr Sylvia Tamale of Uganda spoke on National Public Radio in the USA this morning on the Anti-Gay Bill in her country.
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In Uganda, a bill designed to eradicate homosexuality has strong support in government and in evangelical circles. Proponents of the bill link homosexuality to the West. But despite condemnation elsewhere, few in the country are willing to speak against it because those who do are labeled gay.

JASS "It takes a village to build a campaign, and good tactics." Here's a short, thought-provoking piece on cross-regional dynamics - conservative Christians in the US driving a homophobic agenda in Africa - and on the organizing involved in countering that agenda. Progressive faith-based organizing has big potential for ou...r movements. (Thanks to Martha Tholanah for this link.)
To the Editor: It Took a Village to Change Rick Warren’s Mind | RD Blog: The Devil's Advocate | Reli
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Abby Scher, former editor of Public Eye, has written on civil liberties, labor organizing and other topics for a range of progressive publications.

JASS Fourteen women activists and community leaders living with HIV came together for a four-day national workshop as part of a JASS Southern Africa movement building initiative in Malawi.
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Recently, I attended the Beijing+15 Asia Pacific NGO Forum held at the Miriam College here in the Philippines...

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Please support Honduran women's rights activists and the broad-based pro-democracy movement in that country. Sign on to the Open Letter
to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – urging her to address
women’s human rights violations in Honduras since the June 28 coup and
reconsider US policy – by sending your organizatio...n’s name and your
name to info@justassociates.org
www.justassociates.org
JASS Action Monitor: Coup in Honduras. Feminist resistsance to the coup in Honduras.
































