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International Women’s Day Tribute

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“Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.”
~ Rosemary Brown, 1930-2003

Rosemary Brown

Rosemary Wedderburn Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1930. She came to Canada in 1951 to attend McGill University in Montréal.

As a student at McGill, and later as a masters student at the University of British Columbia, she faced pervasive discrimination both because she was a woman and also because she was black.

It was through this adversity that she found her purpose as a leader against racism and sexism. She helped to found the British Columbia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (BCAACP) in 1956 to help advocate for housing, employment and human rights legislation.

In 1972, she became the first black woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada, a post she occupied until 1986.

Because of women like Rosemary Brown, both women and men of all backgrounds walk an easier path today.

24 thoughts on “International Women’s Day Tribute”

  3. An admirable choice for this day. When will the time come when we can stop labelling people other than with their names? Happy International Women’s Day Lynette. Allan

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    1. Thank you very much. I agree, Allan. I think you and I won’t live to see it and in fact right now our southern neighbours are going backwards, along with other right-wing knobhead parties in other countries, too. So frustrating.

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      1. I see a lot of Gilead down South right now, especially as Trump appointed white women judges are labelled DEI hires by white men and other white women, when their judicial rulings do not mesh with the MAGA Mantra. To coin a phrase…SAD. The simple answer is elect your judges and have your President sit in the people’s house when it is in session rather than hide out in the Whitehouse.

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        1. I was married to a judge for a long time (my dad was a crown prosecutor and a bother is a lawyer, so I’ve been exposed to this issue most of my life) and I see arguments both for and against electing them. We want judges who are good at interpreting the law, not people who are simply good campaigners and not necessarily good judges. I’ve often thought that judges should be hired by government but in a hands off way by a council comprised of ordinary citizens, law professors, former judges, prosecutors. But of course government can try to influence that, too.

          I agree that Atwood’s Gilead is coming home to roost. Not surprising since I’m convinced that DT is not only a narcissistic sociopath but also completely mad, as well. This is an older piece about this but you might find it interesting: https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/basics/president-donald-trump

          I’ve read that Nancy Pelosi during Trump’s second impeachment wanted him barred from holding further office but Mitch McConnell was sure that it was unnecessary since DT was politically finished. Here’s the piece: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/01/nancy-pelosi-trump-book

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          1. You have a good basis in law, for sure. I think a committee of citizens and legal experts should select, not the leader of the party in power. The rules governing the judges should be free of partisanism. I know, good luck.

            I agree with the piece on Trump. He is nutzoid bonkers and does not give a crap about the results of any of his shenanigans. If you have not read Mary Trumps book Too Much and Never Enough, I highly recommend it. It is a reason for his actions, not an excuse.

            I had heard the piece on barring him from running for office again before. Too bad it took McConnell until the end of his career to develop a spine. No wonder he keeps falling down. As to Pence, he too is culpable, as is Mark Meadows and a whole cast of criminals who have used this manic President to keep their power., as well as every lawyer or judge who delayed criminal case after criminal case, until it was too late and he was in the bully pulpit on his grand retribution tour.

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          2. If this wasn’t so serious I would be thinking we’re living in the middle of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors or maybe a Marx Brothers movie.

            Yes, completely nutzoid. I haven’t read Mary Trump’s book but I intend to. The fact is that Americans knew what he was and went back for seconds, so I’m interested in reading about the group madness of his followers. They’re like Charles Manson’s “family.“

            Agreed that most of them are culpable. They all facilitated someone whom they knew was completely incompetent and incapable of running a car wash let alone a country. And yes, all those court delays. I felt right from the beginning that there was collusion among these people trying to retard the system so that he wouldn’t wind up in prison ahead of the campaign. And that’s where he should be: in prison.

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