Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: Amy: No, No, No

Monday, July 25, 2011

Amy: No, No, No

The news of Amy Winehouse's death reaches even into this remote valley at 10,000 ft. in the Rocky Mountains and touches my heart.

I think especially of her mother... I came close to getting the same news in 2006.

Ellen is just a year younger than Amy. I can so vividly imagine Amy's birth, the toddler years, the terrific ten-year-old days, the worries... and now this.

Roz sent me this link to Russell Brand's reflections on Amy and the disease of addiction.

http://www.russellbrand.tv/2011/07/for-amy/

KOTO in Telluride has been playing Amy's music all weekend.

I remember listening to her song "Don't wanna go to rehab, no, no no..." in 2007 and smiling.

Now it has additional levels of meaning and sadness.

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.