Kirk steps into row over women elders

Evening News - Scotland;  March 29, 2002 ;     559 words ......authorities over failing to appoint any women elders. Officials are to hold talks with representatives...Edinburgh presbytery to look at the issue of women elders. But despite the appeals, in 1991 and...both refused to comment on the issue of women elders. But the Rev Ewan Aitken of ...

Kirk under pressure to appoint women elders

The Scotsman;  March 30, 2002 ;     418 words ......congregations has still failed to appoint any women elders - 36 years after ladies of the cloth...Edinburgh presbytery to look at the issue of women elders. However, despite the appeals in 1991...congregation in Edinburgh without any women elders. The Rev Peter Graham, a presbytery...

Grannies with Gravitas

Pittsburgh City Paper;  October 30, 2002 ;     351 words ......Pittsburgh chapter of the Raging Grannies: self-described "women elders" who gather to sing protest songs against, for instance...I think our age brings something to our group. These are women elders speaking our minds with concern for the future -- the future...

SA: Women elders join nuclear protest

AAP General News (Australia);  September 14, 1999 ;     156 words ...00-00-0000 SA: Women elders join nuclear protest A group of Aboriginal women elders has joined a protest against the Olympic Dam uranium mine, saying their people and land have already been poisoned enough by nuclear radiation. Seven women from...

MANITOBA GOVERNMENT: Aboriginal Women's Forum receives funding -- Newman.

M2 Presswire;  May 13, 1999 ;     301 words ......provincial grant to assist in hosting the Spirit of Aboriginal Women Elders Forum and Gathering this summer in Winnipeg, Northern Affairs...strengthening traditional spiritual ties between Aboriginal women and women elders; b.. supporting and giving voice to Aboriginal women in areas...

Get with the Pension Program

Herizons;  April 1, 2006 ;     529 words ......poverty in old age at the feet of government. According to Women Elders in Action, funding cuts by governments to social programs...marketplace ahead of the well-being of its people are to blame. Women elders are largely dependent on public pensions for their income...

RIGHTS: SIX AUSTRALIANS AMONG 1,000 NOBEL PRIZE CANDIDATES

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 30, 2005 ;     700+ words ......international lobbying; and Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, a group of women elders from Coober Pedy in South Australia that looks after culture...kids, the country and keeping the culture alive," say the women elders of the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta group, who survived atomic...

Powwow Trail, Episode 8: Women.(Movie review)(Brief article)

Whispering Wind;  March 1, 2007 ;     168 words ......focuses on contributions by women. It employs informative narration and general discussions by notable First Nations men and women elders (plus Johnny White Cloud and Eddie Benton Benai from the United States) superimposed on historical reenactments and contemporary...

RP women entrepreneurs touted

Filipino Express, The;  January 23, 2005 ;     376 words ......of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the President had congratulated the women for their heroic role since it is from the mothers, women elders to the women's hero Tandang Sora up to the present, where women martyrdom clearly shines through. She had called also to...

Viewpoint: Church must address women's role

Belfast Telegraph;  December 29, 2007 ;     375 words ......Presbyterian Church - and is likely to be raised at next year's General Assembly.Although the Presbyterian Church first appointed women elders in the 1920s, and the General Assembly voted in 1973 in favour of the ordination of women, it seems that there are elements...

QLD: Female elders seek police presence to stop drunken violence

AAP General News (Australia);  May 20, 2004 ;     506 words ......QLD: Female elders seek police presence to stop drunken violence By Lloyd Jones WUJAL WUJAL, North Queensland, May 20 AAP - Women elders of a Cape York Aboriginal settlement today set up a roadblock to check cars for liquor and make a point about unpoliced drinking...

Fed: Call for women. elders role in solving indigenous abuse

AAP General News (Australia);  May 23, 2006 ;     175 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 05-23-2006 Fed: Call for women. elders role in solving indigenous abuse Coalition MP's want Aboriginal women and elders to play a key role in tackling violence in their...

Fed: Call for women, elders role in solving indigenous abuse

AAP General News (Australia);  May 23, 2006 ;     292 words ...AAP General News (Australia) 05-23-2006 Fed: Call for women, elders role in solving indigenous abuse By Paul Osborne CANBERRA, May 23 AAP - Aboriginal women and elders should play a key role in tackling...

"The Mobilization of Older Feminists: Women Elders in Action (WE*ACT)...

Resources for Feminist Research;  September 22, 2007 ;     45 words ...Older women demanding pension equality for women are the focus of this article. This group concentrates on retirement income by alerting women to how the government worsens the pension issue for women in Canada (SM). Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 25, nos. 3,4 (Summer/Fall 2006), pp. 149-153.

Black New Yorkers: Our women elders at the Million Youth March

New York Amsterdam News;  September 17, 2003 ;     495 words ...Boyd, Herb New York Amsterdam News 09-17-2003 Just because it was the Million Youth March didn't mean seniors had to stay away - and they didn't, especially the women. In fact, there were quite a few of these notable ladies at last Saturday's annual march and rally in Brooklyn, several of them