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Change the World

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Change the World is still getting dressed. It will be a forum for sustainable, life-affirming development, a clearing house of ideas to help people help others and help themselves.

Fully interactive so that visitors and experts can add their own solutions, ideas and questions, Change the World will give all wowOwow women the tools to improve their lives and those of others.

On the macro level: Change the world.

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Change the World: An exchange of ideas for the good of all.

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I checked it out Shellee. But, as a woman in today’s world and today’s problems, —I’m trying to find more substance than lipstick and how to care for pets. I can get that from Oprah and Martha and Ellen if I want. But heyyy, you should do well, because it seems there are alotta gals afraid to think and speak bravely.

By The Ole Crone The Ole Crone on 04/10/2008 6:23 am

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I am looking for a job. I have well over 10 years in Customer Service in the transportation industry. I was “let go” at the end of November because “this just wasn’t working” for my former employer. Never mind that I had tripled his revenue in the 3 months that I was there. If there is any help out there, please let me know. I have worked my up from the bottom in this industry and there is just nothing going on jobwise. Why are men so threatened by a woman who knows what she is doing?

By DJ Karanick on 03/17/2008 5:39 pm

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DJ - What per of the States are you living in? What type of Transportation? Moving/Storage? Pam / Oldmar FL

By Pam D on 03/21/2008 10:04 pm

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I agree with that statement that is why I am trying to start my own company in the online gameing industry. Know anyone who sponsors? My past is kinda like yours and I would agree why are men so threatened by smart women. Maybe they are afraid we will take over the world. hum what are we doing today pinky lol

By Kathrine Cardona-Andrade on 02/27/2009 11:36 am

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By Ginger Pape on 03/18/2008 9:16 am

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One of America’s foremost treasures, The Mount, home of Pulitzer Prize winning author Edith Wharton, is facing imminent foreclosure. Fewer than 5% of National Historic Landmarks are dedicated to women. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, the first woman to receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale, and recipient of the French Medal of Honor for her humanitarian work during WW I. Anyone wishing to help can find more information at www.edithwharton.org. Thank you.

By Debbie S on 03/18/2008 12:46 pm

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In Eureka Spring, Ark the Carrie Nation home has suffered this tragic demise for lack of volunteers, and interest, since “everyone’s going to Branson now, it’s all country, Christians, and crafts” a local merchant told me when I enquired why the home was closed—few people really know about Carrie, and I felt I was abandoning her. In years passed, I once vowed in my retirement I would start a volunteer program for our nation’s historic sites, like the National Park Services, for which I was a volunteer, and loved every minute of that experience. I knew that volunteers could “lodge” in these sites, and in Eureka Springs, I was told I’d be welcome to stay in the Nation home, and “the restaurants in town till feed you, too ..” A traveling companion and I vowed we’d return there one day, for just that reason, and spend a week exposing people to the real Carrie Nation. We didn’t get back there - yet. Imagine the retirement group that travels to our parks, going from park to park as volunteers, they could do the same for our nation’s historic homes, too. With the NPS, they would leave a message for me, with information as to which park needed my help for the upcoming weekend, and paid me a pittance cents/mile to travel, fed us, but we had to provide our own ‘housing,’ or tent. I loved the thrill of hearing a plea for help after an exhausting week of work. Those pleas carried me into the weekends with a new fervor, and great anticipation about meeting the “regulars,” who traveled the nation as park volunteers — a great bunch of people. I’d often just toss ‘used’ holiday trees in a lake with a Ranger, from a boat, or teach a class in the nature center (again, I wouldn’t touch anything that didn’t talk); or tell stories to children, and sometimes, adult groups, too…that’s when Nikki Giovanni, and a Dallas poet came in very handy - everyone loved it when I did readings from their books. This could still be done. Wouldn’t it be fun!

By Upanaway on 03/22/2008 5:34 am

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I have read the posts with much interest. Women are the cradles of life, carrying this responsibility to their dying day. In every corner of the globe they bring new life, maintain fields to feed and care for the members of their community, see the elderly through their final moments- prepare them after death. There is no aspect of a life a women is not part of, and it confounds me that in all these corners, society, religion, custom, relegates us to a “less than” position. In the 1960’s women in America had a brief moment in the sun- not only petitioning for other’s rights (like the abolitionists) but for dignity in their own right. At the first UN Women’s Conference in 1975, women from different parts of the world made two discoveries: one was that at different stages of development, women from different countries had very different needs; the second, that despite this, they could network to help each other out. Like so many “other’s” who showed up after the battles, the women of the last 30 years forgot that this was a group effort and mistakenly accepted a victory for one as a victory for all. Men are pack animals and move together behind the Alpha male- this is their strength. Our daughters took the spoils of that battle and accepted sexuality as a viable tool to be noticed- it pained me to see Brittany Spears’ wardrobe figured prominently in the young girls department in most major stores. I spent a lifetime working for women who had assumed rare positions in corporations simply because they were the best. This is no longer the case as appearance and connections move applicants up the ladder. Women can save the world, but they need to do it together.

By georgia g on 03/18/2008 1:31 pm

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I enjoyed reading all the posts. I am retired and really trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up. I worked for 14 yrs in Special Education at a HS in Va. as a para-professional (aide). I raised two sons and have retired to NC by the beach. I have applied to the HS nearest me and was offered a job, then was told that I had to get my CDL (a Commerical License) to drive a school bus. I don’t want to drive a bus, I want to help our young, I can’t believe that they would bypass hiring someone with my experience just because I won’t get a CDL. What if any suggestions do any of you have for me?

By E Fagan on 03/18/2008 2:31 pm

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Help train young people in Sp. Ed at your local library - you can inspire them.

By Kudrat Kaur on 04/14/2008 10:25 am

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Opps, I just added it by mistake to our Valentine’s Day threads. Take a gander at it, and let me know what you think, feel. There’s so many gaps, its shocking. And women, please do not ‘fall’ for the soy marketing, especially to ward off or help breast cancer treatments—it’s a phytoestrogen, and if there’s a cancer cell that is estrogen-receptor negative, diagnosed, or still hiding, that group of foods/supplements only favor the growth of that archaic cell. IOW, “all things in moderation including moderation (Dr. R. L. Bruno, Post-Polio Institute, Englewood NJ—author, research scientist, director).”

By Upanaway on 03/18/2008 6:02 pm

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What a wonderful site - For Women - By Women. We can change the world and I, along with 3 friends - have made a difference in our very own community. You can read about it on our website www.wnykidneyconnection.org. It all started because my son needed his second kidney transplant and I could not find a donor for him. I went to the internet - found a donor - but was refused by the hospital because it was a stranger. My friends and I, we call ourselves “Women On A Mission” fought to have the policy changed and on September 13, 2006 my son received a kidney from William Thomas, an altruistic donor from Kodiak, Alaska who I met on-line. We now have our own website where people in need of a kidney from our hometown can post their profile and people willing to be living donors can contact them. It is awesome - and it is WORKING!! We want to encourage other “Women On A Mission” to start a kidney connection in their hometown and we can wipe out the waiting list for a kidney - one community at a time. If anyone knows what it is like to need a kidney or have a loved one that needs a kidney - then please check out how to be proactive in finding a living donor. Please contact me through the website if you have any suggestions on how to spread the word. It took a Mom trying to save her child’s life that inspired the hospital to change policy - Women can and DO change the world.

By Jeanette Ostrom on 03/19/2008 10:55 am

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I just discovered this website: www.freerice.com . It’s wonderful! All you have to do is go to it and see how many vocabulary words you can get right. For each word you define correctly 20 grains of rice get donated through the UN World Food Program. One click and you too can help end world hunger. So improve your vocabulary and change the world!

By Cassie OMalley on 03/19/2008 2:39 pm

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Love free rice, too. Everyone who is a teacher should suggest it to their students! or their kids in school. What a great idea!

By Pamela Munro on 04/01/2008 4:31 pm

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Cassie, I went to your site that you were talking about. I earned 500 grains of rice. I think that is not to bad for a person who just tried ! Thank -you for sharing the website name.

By CAROLINE MuLVEY on 04/19/2008 3:13 pm