Archive for February 2018

Supporting What Women Want

Feb 26th, 2018 | By
One of the many signs at the Oakland Women's March, 01/20/18 [photo: Suzanne York]

By Suzanne York. Given the chance, would you support something that many women say they want? Something that is not costly in the scheme of things? That “something” would be contraceptives and family planning services, and yet it is under threat in the U.S. and around the world (mainly because of the U.S. government). The
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‘Day Zero’ and the Water Wake Up Call from Cape Town

Feb 5th, 2018 | By
[photo credit: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)]

By Suzanne York. The allegory couldn’t be more fitting – humanity burying our collective heads in the sand, as the planet heats up and water scarcity becomes more of a reality in many places around the globe. For the past week or so, there have been numerous headlines on the water tap running dry in
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