Eric Stoller has published the 19th Erase Racism Carnival full of great posts. Go check it out!
The Erase Racism Carnival is a roaming carnival that is published on the 20th of each month. Next month’s carnival will be hosted by Present Progressive Mood. You should submit your posts here. If you are interested in hosting a future edition of the carnival, check the Erase Racism Carnival page for available dates and contact information.
I know its getting a little late in the day for this, but I’ve been busy. Today is World Vegan Day, so why not go vegan (at least for the rest of the day). Give is try.
I also just published the 7th Carnival of Empty Cages over at the Deep Roots blog.
from Black Looks:
The 16 days will run from November 25th to December 10th and will incorporate the following:
November 25th: The International Day Against Violence Against Women
November 29th: International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
December 1st: World Aids Day
December 10th: International Human Rights Day
To participate please fill in the Carnival form or email me at info at blacklooks dot org with the link to your post before December 6th. The post can be anything from a personal story, images, thoughts, a link anything that highlights and informs violence against women.
This year’s theme is “Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Against Women”
Challenges and obstacles have been identified by activists in all regions of the world, and we have chosen to highlight a few of those here. These can be addressed both as demands to be made on the state or other institutions and as actions that we must take in our own work in order to achieve better results. A few suggestions for focusing advocacy in this year’s campaign include:
* Demanding and securing adequate funding for work against VAW;
* Calling for greater accountability and political commitment from states to prevent and punish all forms of violence against
women in practice not just words
* Increasing awareness of the impact of violence against women, including engaging in measures to end it by men and boys;
* Evaluating the impact and effectiveness of work to prevent violence against women;
