Happy International Women's Day from a Democrat abroad!
Greetings from Switzerland where International Women's Day is a big deal. Well, at least everyone knows that it rolls around once a year.
I have grown to love International Women's Day as a chance to take stock of where we are in...
0 Comments | Posted November 9, 2009 | g:i A
Democrats Abroad are in Berlin this weekend for our Europe, Middle East, and Africa regional meeting. We are brainstorming Get Out The Vote plans for 2010. While we're here we're honored to make up a small part of the vibrant Berlin street. Germans, Europeans, and the world are gathering this...
0 Comments | Posted October 14, 2009 | g:i A
1964. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King, Jr. wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And, the Beatles cross the Atlantic. Meanwhile, back in Europe, local American communities are struggling for rights of their own.
Back then, a U.S. civilian living overseas has no vote...
0 Comments | Posted September 19, 2009 | g:i A
I won't even get into what the health care debate looks like from here in Switzerland. In Switzerland (and the UK, France, Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, Spain, Italy, you name 'em), even right wing, and the far right wing politician dare not question health care as a basic right. No one...
0 Comments | Posted March 3, 2009 | g:i A
International Women's Day falls on March 8th, this coming Sunday. In order to get a jumpstart on the conversation, how about institutionalizing a fair deal for US women this year?
There are 71 million women in the US workforce.
Equal pay has been the law of our land...
0 Comments | Posted September 22, 2008 | g:i A
Even the Swiss are FREAKING OUT about the global financial crisis. Not only are we in Switzerland wringing our hands, crossing our eyes, and keeping our fingers crossed that there will not be an international meltdown, everyone is asking how come the Democrats aren't coming out swinging about the financial...
0 Comments | Posted September 18, 2008 | g:i A
As an American living in Geneva, Switzerland, I have not yet met a European who would vote for McCain (and that was before his 'mystifying', 'baffling', 'bizarre' choice of Sarah Palin as his
running mate).
We live on the European continent where even visitors have excellent health care, solid...
0 Comments | Posted March 8, 2012 | g:i A