Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: the greatest commandment

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Love your neighbor...

Welcome sign at 14th Street & Pine St., Santa Monica

Thank you to Ana Greenberg for pointing out to me the Welcome Your Neighbor sign that had been placed in someone's front yard a block from her house.

I loved it, posted it on Facebook, and ordered a sign for my yard.

Here's the website where you can order a sign:

https://www.welcomeyourneighbors.org/order-signs

Here's an article about it on the Huffington Post website:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yard-sign-three-languages-welcomes-neighbors_us_586bdefbe4b0de3a08f9a09a

A simple, friendly way to follow the greatest commandment in both Judaism and Christianity: "Love your neighbor as your self."

Leviticus 19:18 and Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Luke 10:27

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.