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Feminist VALUES; yes! This is what my 87 yr old feminism has always been about--ever since 1970's

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Excellent essay! As an anarchist I regard Feminism as the most powerful and universal movement on our planet. A movement I embrace with enthusiasm. As mentioned Feminism transcends borders and social class. The world needs true democracy. It embodies the only approach that can create real consensus and have the sensitivity to cope with the environmental and social challenges facing humanity. A Feminist approach is essential to building that consensus. Feminism and Justice stand side by side.

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The people who are labeled mentally ill do not have the same rights, in the same way as people who are not labeled mentally ill (very often political dissidents are falsely labeled mentally ill), no matter what lawmakers claim that they do! Those who are considered to be legally competent are supposedly given the full panoply (as they call it), of rights the same as other citizens, but the covert gaslighting operations conducted against them diminishes and is intended to negate every single right they supposedly have! I am sick of rehashing the same things over and over again through comments and year after year not one person replies. So, I will not continue here because Cambridge, Mass., is supposedly a leader for feminist rights, but the Federally funded women's group here actually moves their offices, and the resource center here is exclusionary and will not even tell certain people where this office is that they brag about themselves, such as Caroline and Kerry Kennedy in the halls of the State House about all they are doing for women non-discriminatinatorily, what a joke!!! And they deny the labeled mentally ill to choose faith healing by their own God, while forcing them to accept treatment methods that have been (unofficially) declared to be tortured by the United Nations Council on torture! So, do not judge me on my level of participation or non-participation on the issues your group is working on or any issues anyone is working on because I only accept the judgement of my God over you, in any matter! And any group who claim to be advocates or even Anti-Psychiatry groups are exclusionary, selling the majority of them down the river for their own selfish interests and actually can cause them more harm than good, and many of grass roots groups of any type have been infiltrated by Zionism, Fascism etc......... Jesus Christ did say (Matthew 7:2), don't judge or you will be judged. He did not say you might be; no, the Scripture says you will be!!!! When he was prophesying of the destruction of the Jewish Temple 2,000yrs ago, he had told them many times and in many ways that they were already missing the date of their inspection!!!!

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