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NQR Announcement! + WOMEN PUSH FOR INCREASED REPRESENTATION IN TURKEY

By Dr. Lynette Long on November 8, 2008 at 7:55 PM in Misogyny, NoQuarter Radio, Obama's Thugs, Sexism, Women, Women and Children, Women's Suffrage

Ed. Note: We are so very, very, very proud to announce that, starting this Monday night at 9:00 p.m. ET, Dr. Lynette Long will be hosting a weekly radio show that takes callers — like you! Dr. Long chose the name, Sins of Omission, and wrote this description of her plans for this NoQuarter Radio show that, as with all of our other radio shows, you can listen to at any time, starting right after the show is over at 10:00 p.m. ET:

Join Dr. Lynette Long for her weekly call-in show, SINS OF OMISSION, where she unapologetically discusses sexism in our society. Dr. Long will use your examples to highlight both Sins of Commission (blatant sexist attacks) and Sins of Omission (the under-representation of women). In her direct no-holds-barred style, Dr. Long will offer listeners strategies to combat sexism in their lives and will solicit the help of the listening audience to eradicate sexism in our society. Get ready to role up your sleeves and do some heavy lifting — something has got to give.


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WOMEN PUSH FOR
INCREASED REPRESENTATION IN TURKEY
Reprinted from Dr. Long’s blog.

PARITY IN TURKEY

"Engin says the days of women having only five percent of the seats in parliament have to end.

"Once we are going to have more and more women in parliament, I believe the rights of the women have to be much more discussed in the parliament," siad Engin.

Kader, a non-partisan group, wants to put more women in parliament. Nuket Sirman is one of the founders of Kader. She says the members of the organization came up with what they think is a winning slogan to promote their cause.

"We took out mustaches and stuck them on our faces, and the slogan was, is a mustache necessary, in other words do you have to be a man to go into parliament," said Sirman.

Kader took the idea a step further. The group persuaded many of Turkey’s most powerful women, including pop stars and business leaders, to don mustaches, to highlight the male domination of parliament. The media ran with the story. Soon Turks were seeing famous women wearing mustaches on television and in newspapers and magazines. Sirman says the publicity campaign has struck a chord."

They succeeded!!

http://www.esiweb.org/index.php?lang=en&id=245

"With the elections on 22 July in Turkey, the percentage of women in parliament sprung from 4.2 % to 9.1%, from 24 women to 50. Of these 30 are from AKP, 10 from CHP, 2 from MHP and 8 are independents supported by the (pro-Kurdish) Democratic Turkey Party.

Two of these women are now deputy parliamentary speakers: Istanbul Deputy Meral Akşener (MHP) and İzmir deputy Güldal Mumcu (CHP). The only other time a woman served as deputy parliamentary speaker was 38 years ago. Being deputy parliamentary speaker involves chairing the sessions of the General Assembly that the speaker does not attend (and the speaker usually only attends the historically significant sessions) and serving as Acting President of the Republic when both the President of the Republic and the Speaker of Parliament are abroad.

  • Typewriterstreaming

    That is most excellent! What a great idea. How generous of Dr. Lynette. Very exciting – very motivating. Thank you NQ!

  • AM

    Fantastic!

    I hope Dr. Lynette will invite Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and other women – beyond their party affiliations – to her show, even 10 or 15 minutes.

  • Betty Lou

    I have a friend, an Iranian, who runs a site for women, and others, persecuted by the current Iranian regime — I’ll forward her the link.

  • seanceintheWestwing

    Wow! Thanks guys.

    BTW Everyone is invited to the seance in the West Wing tonight at midnight, where we will be able to directly ask FDR for advice on our current political situation. Eckhardt Tolle will be channeling for us as Oprah has graciously consented to unchain him for the event.

  • Maria3

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    The official website of President-Elect Barack Obama, Change.gov, originally announced that Obama would “require” all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs; but after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama’s proposed youth corps, the website’s wording was softened.

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  • Betty Lou

    BTW Everyone is invited to the seance in the West Wing tonight at midnight, where we will be able to directly ask FDR for advice on our current political situation

    Actually, we already opened a worm hole about twenty years ago, we already know how it turns out — we’re just gaming it.

    For theory, you know…

  • Madelyn Dunham.

    Not to change the subject but has any heard anything more about Obama’s grandmother Madelyn Payne Dunham. You’d think that Obama would be off to Hawaii by now for a service of some sort. I actually thought Obama would have left the day after the election for a break(many president elects have done that)to mourn his grandmother with his wife, sister, close friends and family.
    Madelyn Payne Dunham died 7 days ago, late Sunday night in her apartment. Her death blared in every type of medium late Monday evening, almost 24 hours later brought tears to many, even those who did not support Obama.
    Yet now 7 days later not one mention of a service or ??? has been made. If nothing else I thought that some type of announcement for those who wanted to honor his grandmother someway. You know donate to a charity or something in her name.
    I cant tell you that there are many many different stories/theories that I have been reading in the blogs. So far I have not seen any new media or service announcement since Monday evening.

    To me it was and is strange that there are no recent pictures of this lady, with or without Obama. By recent, Im talking in the last 2 or 3 years even. The most recent pics seem to be 10 to 20 years old, the ones with Obama seem to be from his early College or High School years.

  • http://rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Thank you so much for this, Dr. Long. Isn’t it stunning that women have been more successful in political positions in countries we tend to think of as less advanced than we are? Really amazing.

    And after what happened this year, I see why…

  • AnneinPA

    As seen by the responses here, not many care.

    That’s why we’re in this position of not being represented today in politics equal to our numbers.

    What will motivate women to support each other?

    Young women are not being taught their history.

  • pumatiza

    Thanks for a great post. This highlights exactly what the problem is: partisanship. Womens groups like NOW are irrelevant and of the past because of this very reason.

    Womens groups like the New Agenda are definately taking steps in the right direction to address the issues which affect ALL women of different political views and for that I salute them.

  • pumatiza

    I also like the “gimmick” aspect of wearing fake moustaches I do think that this sort of thing gains publicity and is one of the things that is needed. Humor can go a long way towards swaying opinions that would otherwise not be persuaded. Well done women of Turkey of the Kader movement which seems to be the established Turkish equivalent of The New Agenda

  • http://home.comcast.net/~vincep312 VinceP1974

    What is going on in Turkey is of vital importance to the entire world.

    Right now the secularism of Turkey is under great strain. The govt is currently controlled by Islamists who working incrementally through the system to arrive at the point where they could count on the people’s approval to impose Sharia law.

    As is occurring everywhere else in the Islamic world. Radicalism is increasing steadily.

    Equality of gender is a vital check against Sharia law. Sharia by its very nature is discriminatory against women. thus gender equality and Sharia are mutually exclusive.

    Turkey is trying to improve its prestige in the Muslim world by appearing as a stable, strong, confident and Islam-embracing nation. As it makes these gains, the Islamists in Turkey use this new prestige to say “See.. when we act Islamicly , our welfare increases… when we act Anti-Islamicly to appease the devils in the West, our situation worsens”

    Turkey holds onto an office that is missing to the Islamic World right now.. that this office is empty is a sore to the Islamic world, and is a sign that Muslims are not living according to Allah’s will.

    If Turkey turns more Islamist there is a danger this office could be restored a it be filled by someone.

    This office is Caliph of Islam.

    Because Islam is a fusion of Church and State, it’s pinnacle leader is the leader of both realms. Allah commands a governmental order led by the Caliph , who is the leader of the Caliphate (Khalifa)

    The Caliphate started at the death of Mohemmed and lasted throughout history in various thrones and dynasties until appx 1922 after WW-I.

    This is seen as the absolute low point in all of Islamic history.

    EVERY SINGLE ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUP is working to bring about the restoration of the Caliphate (each in its own way.. and there is no consensus how to do it, thus the seemingly contradictory methods of the groups)

    Only the Caliph is vested with the power to call for a military Offensive against non-Muslims.. aggressive non-defensive Jihad.

    This is why Al Qaeda gets mixed support from Muslims.. legally , it’s beyond AQ’s authority to call for Jihad against the West.

    Anyway… Turkey was the seat of the last Caliphate and it holds the rights to that office and could once again in the future bring it back to life from its abolition.

    Once that happens. The Global Jihad will really begin.

    Equal rights for women is a defense against this