26 August 2012 American
women should emulate Togo women
Togo
opposition vows sex strike amid anti-government protests
From Erick Kaglan, For
CNN
August 26, 2012 -- Updated 0825
GMT (1625 HKT)
“”Lome, Togo
(CNN) -- A
Togolese opposition leader is calling on women to go on a weeklong sex strike
to demand the freedom of protesters detained ahead of elections in the West
African nation.
Police arrested about 120 opposition supporters last week during
clashes between protesters and security forces, according to Togolese human
rights groups.”
Cassi
Creek:
There is a population of American
voters who have the power to swing this Presidential election in the direction
it should go. The women of this nation,
who comprise a large percentage of the proponents for affordable health care,
who are finding it more difficult to feed, house, clothe, and educate their
children, can effectively grasp the situation and begin to implement change
once more.
Too many women are sitting by while
nearly every aspect of their personal lives is being decided by white males of
one Christian cult or another. Unless
American women act effectively and act now, there is too great a chance that
the 2012 election will see women’s rights rolled backward to the social and
cultural equivalent of the 1920s.
Granted, men who plan to vote for
Obama and who support the preservation of our social safety nets, need not be targeted. Conversely, all members of the GOP and the
various teavangelist groups should be made aware that until their political consciousness
is raised to the proper point; that they can and will be replaced by any number
of small battery-powered devices.
If the women who worked in alliance to
gain their right to vote in the 1920’s could force change; if women in Togo can
change the course of their nation’s history, there exists no reason that today’s
American women can’t seize and wield political power in sufficient amount to defeat
the imminent risk of losing their personal freedom to control their own
bodies.
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