Our myspace page is finally up and we’d love to have you, dear reader, as a friend, to help you let your network know how cool CNW is (and so we can show how cool we are with you in our network)! Here’s the link:
http://www.myspace.com/centerfornewwords
We also have a separate page for WAM!2007, and we’d love to have you as a friend there, too:
http://www.myspace.com/womenactionmedia
According to a new poll, the majority of American voters put restricting access to abortion and gay marriage at the bottom of their lists of important issues, if they list them at all. Additionally, the “God Gap” is much smaller than previously thought, meaning that plenty of religious voters vote Democrat. So much for “Values Voters.”
From the study:
An overwhelming majority of Americans, including at least three-quarters of every major religious tradition, say issues like poverty and health care are more important than hot-button social issues.When people think about “voting their values,” more people think of the honesty, integrity, and responsibility of the candidate than any other values.
Americans overwhelmingly agree that too many religious leaders focus on abortion and gay rights without addressing more important issues such as loving our neighbors and caring for the poor.
Via Peek.
Why? Because Christine Cupaiuolo, of the late, great and much-missed Ms. Musings and the most excellent (and still very much with us) PopPolitics is back blogging on a daily basis! Her new gig is at the helm of Our Bodies, Ourselves’ new blog, the appropriately named Our Bodies, Our Blog. She’s blogging on everything and anything related to women’s health, and in her few weeks on the beat has already covered, among other things, suicide in response to racism, the long, twisty journey to getting the HPV vaccine approved, and what is now being fondly (or should I say fondlingly) referred to as Boobgate.
We’ve already added her to our blogroll and our bookmarks, and we hope you will, too!
Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas and righteous feminist trailblazer, died last night of esophageal cancer. We remember her as she wanted to be remembered:
I did not want my tombstone to read, ‘She kept a really clean house.’ I think I’d like them to remember me by saying, ‘She opened government to everyone,’
Pandagon, AlterNet, Echidne of the Snakes, and Our Bodies, Our Blog have in-depth remembrances.
Anyone who though Rosie O’Donell agreed to be a “good girl” before joining The View, or that her casting was just a shallow publicity stunt with no impact on American discourse, should check out this clip in which she has the nerve (THE NERVE!) to equate Radical Christianity and Radical Islam…
The CNW staff is discussing our current and future programs and goals, and we want to hear from you!
Take our anonymous 15 minute survey to help shape our programming and community outreach efforts.
As a thank you for your time and input, we’ll be giving away $100 in CNW Cash to one lucky respondent, selected at random from all of the respondents we receive before midnight this Thursday (9/14). You can spend CNW Cash (or give it to someone else to spend) on books at our events, WAM!2007 Registration, bidding on our upcoming celebrity auction, or any other CNW programs.
