Millburn Patch article about our Red Mango Fundraiser!
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Our Red Mango Fundraiser was a lot of fun! Visit our facebook page for the complete album
-Saachi Gupta, president
The Millburn Item features MHS Girl Up Club!
Support Millburn Girl Up at our Red Mango Fundraiseron Tuesday April 24th from 5-10 pm at Red Mango millburn. Proceeds go towards Millburn Girl Up, a UN initiative to provide girls with security/healthcare/education. The official flyer, which you MUST present in order to have the proceeds benefit us, is available on the event page. Thanks!
Domestic Violence in Millburn. That's our town. These things are happening to women near us.
Girl Up thus far has spread awareness about the abuses that women and girls face abroad. Unfortunately, the same is true in the United States. According to the National Organization of Women, three women in the US are murdered every day by an intimate partner. Please support Millburn Girl Up in our effort to spread awareness about the issues that face women and girls, and playing a role in trying to combat them.
This kind of faux concern about teenage girls and sexual activity has nothing to do with keeping girls safe. It’s about legislating morality and ensuring that someone—whether it be a parent, husband, or the state—is making decisions for young women. Because god forbid we make them ourselves.
Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via angrywomenoftumblr)
The latest issue of TIME, featuring “The Richer Sex,” will be on newsstands Friday.
Artwork and Photograph by Andrew B. Myers for Time. Coin digitally added.
Why There Are Fewer Women Than Men on the TIME 100
This year, TIME’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world celebrates the female CEO of IBM, the female head of the IMF, and the female president of Germany, among other powerful women. And yet, 220 years after Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women and 92 years since women […]
Support Millburn Girl Up at our Red Mango Fundraiser on Tuesday April 24th from 5-10 pm at Red Mango millburn. Proceeds go towardsGirl Up, a UN initiative to provide girls with security/healthcare/education.
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Wangari Maathai: Before her death last year, she worked with women in Kenya’s rural villages to plant trees. 47 million seedlings later, she won a Nobel Prize.
—By Julia Whitty
Kolkata, India: Supporters of the All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan (AIMSS) protest violence and political attacks against women and girls. April 16, 2012
Photos by Ajanta Sinha Ghosh
