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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:09:56 -0500
To: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: Robert Felty <robfelty &AElig umich.edu>
Subject: feminism action - cold hard cash
Status: RO

I don't know why this has not been mentioned yet, and why it didn't  
occur to me earlier either, but one of the best ways to support a  
cause is to do so financially.  In the case of feminism, this would  
be supporting efforts to get women elected to public office.  I read  
an article about this in the Detroit News this morning -
http://www.detnews.com/2005/politics/0511/21/A01-388657.htm

There is a group called Emily's List  (http://www.emilyslist.org),  
which has been very influential in helping women get elected to  
public office.  They primarily endorse female, pro-choice, democratic  
candidates. They ask that members give $100 a year, plus $100 to at  
least two candidates they endorse. For many people this is not a  
great amount, but for grad students like many of the people on this  
list, it is a significant sum.  I am proposing two ideas

1. Those who can afford it, become a member of Emily's List

2. For those of us who can not afford $300, but would like to help,  
someone on this list should come up with some way to pool our money,  
ideally with some sort of anonymous option.  I don't know if paypal  
could do something like this or not, but it would be nice.

Rob
-- 
Robert Felty http://www-personal.umich.edu/~robfelty

"The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed
  themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.  In
  reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world
  and all life that comes within his reach.  A man is ethical only  
when life,
  as such, as sacrd to him, that of plants and animals as that of his  
fellow
  men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need
  of help.
-- Albert Schweitzer  
(replace man with person in above quote)