Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: July 2021

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Fourth of July: pledge

"We pledge allegiance to the flag of the USA... with liberty for all except enslaved persons..."

Panya and Stormy listening to the pledge

[Panya and Stormy growl and howl...]

Oh well, humans, let's keep trying on justice:

for all the innocent ones killed by guns
for all the innocent killed by the police
for all those killed in our wars
for all pets who are abandoned and euthanized...

and stiff justice for all who invaded the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

Arff! Arff!

[with much jumping and tail wagging]

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.

Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Rest In peace, Rebecca Ward

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Fourth of July: pledge