The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday August 26th, 2022 – Women’s Equality Day
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was first celebrated in 1971, designated by Congress in 1973, and is proclaimed each year by the United States President.
Sanna Marin, Jaatteenmaki 2.0 by Thanos Kalamidas
History repeats itself in Finland and that inside two decades time. A woman prime minister falls from grace for …ethical reasons and the Finnish political establishment makes sure that this time there is a lesson to remember, despite all the very carefully kept equality-champion front.
The last ten days, Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister has lived the absolute humiliation for any politician being forced into a …drugs test because some found her dancing ….provocative. The most insulting part was the fact that her own party, the Social Democrats (SDP), didn’t do much for her defence leaving a young woman to defend her dignity and her right to ….dance, alone. Actually some (a lot?) from her own party were among the ones who indirectly forced her into the …drug test.
To understand the magnitude and the humiliation she dealt with it, it was like asking Boris Johnson to take an IQ test, Joe Biden a dementia test or Vladimir Putin a psychiatric evaluation, doesn’t matter what you think about any of them. All three would have said goodbye to their positions the very next day because that would have been the end of their political credibility as it has been now for Sanna Marin.
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Last Chance #poem & #painting by Virginia Maria Romero
“Behold the fading beauty
of an unfurled rose
frail petals fall from touch
one by one”
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Berserk Alert! #216 #cartoon by Tony Zuvela
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