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Author Archive
Joel Bleifuss
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Defund the Police? Why Not?
We should not confuse public safety with investments in systems of punishment. MORE
Views · July 21, 2020
Former Leaders of SDS, Meet the Current Members of DSA
The authors of "An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left" failed to grasp several things about the Democratic Socialists of America. MORE
Views · May 27, 2020
Perry Rosenstein: Building a Foundation for Art and Social Justice
As president and founder of the Puffin Foundation, Rosenstein nourished independent journalism. MORE
Features · May 18, 2020
This Is a Health Crisis—Stop Treating It Like a War
Even by his standards, Trump is a terrible wartime president MORE
Views · April 14, 2020
The Future Socialists Want, And Centrists Fear
Are reds and red-scarers even talking about the same thing? MORE
Views · March 23, 2020
Young People Don't Support Biden. Why Does the Establishment Still Think He's the Most "Electable"?
Don't believe arguments about "electability" coming from the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. MORE
Views · January 27, 2020
James Thindwa, a Man Who Did What Needed to Be Done—And Said What Needed to Be Said
In These Times lost a friend. But his words live on. MORE
Views · January 24, 2020
Fox News, Trump's Ministry of Propaganda
For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear. MORE
Views · December 20, 2019
Trolls Are Sowing Discord Between Sanders and Warren Supporters
Is someone yanking your chain? MORE
Views · October 4, 2019
The "Democratic" in DSA
The Democratic Socialists of America recommitted itself to using "elections, public offices and legislation" to build support for democratic socialist ideas. MORE
Views · September 24, 2019
A Worker's Place Is in the Museum
A new exhibit in New York honors the state's labor history. MORE
Culture · August 28, 2019
We Can't Settle for Less Than Single Payer
25 years ago, ITT's staff was divided about Clinton's healthcare plan. This time around there's no question. MORE
Culture · June 18, 2019
Trump's EPA Has a Monsanto Problem
The EPA is meant to protect us. Instead, it's been captured by industry. MORE
Views · June 13, 2019
Donald Trump's Path to Victory
This is how the GOP plans to re-elect Trump in 2020. MORE
Views · May 28, 2019
This Isn't The First Time William Barr Has Sought to Hide Information From the Public
We've been on to Barr since 1992. MORE
Culture · April 19, 2019
Trump Wants To Make the 2020 Election All About Socialism. Yes, Let's.
The Right is trying to redbait—but it will backfire. MORE
Views · March 25, 2019
How Third Way Democrats Could Get Trump Re-elected
The New Democracy PAC and other centrist groups want you to learn all the wrong lessons from 2016. MORE
Views · February 25, 2019
We Got a Blue Wave, But We Can Win So Much More—If We Mobilize Now
This fight is for civilization's survival—one that will require the mobilization not seen since the civil rights movement. MORE
Views · December 17, 2018
Yes, Voter Suppression Is Real. But Young Voters May Bridge the Gap.
The midterms are rigged against people of color and the poor. MORE
Views · October 29, 2018
We Believed Anita Hill
In 1991, an alleged sexual harasser was appointed to the Supreme Court. Let's not repeat history. MORE
Views · October 3, 2018
From Italy to Hungary, the Trumps of Europe Are Rising to Power
The leader of Italy's far right, an admirer of Trump, has suggested a "mass cleansing" of Roma. MORE
Views · July 23, 2018
Oliver North Is Still Running Arms
North, the NRA's new president, seems to always turn up when dictatorship looms. MORE
Views · June 20, 2018
The GOP Wants To Open the American Dream to the Poor, By Taking Away Their Food
By cutting food stamps and instituting work-for-food requirements, Republicans say they are creating a land of opportunity. MORE
Views · June 11, 2018
It's Time to Put Israel on Trial
The court of public opinion isn't enough. Israel's leaders should face charges in The Hague. MORE
Views · June 4, 2018
Say It Ain't Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea
When will the Democrats learn that Americans don't want centrism? MORE
Views · May 7, 2018
And the Oscar for Best Protest Goes To…
Awards show activism, then and now. MORE
Culture · February 28, 2018
The Arc of History Doesn't Bend Toward Justice On Its Own.
It's been 50 years since the Kerner Commission report was released, and institutional racism still pervades our society. MORE
Views · February 20, 2018
The Specter of Reagan Haunts the GOP's New Tax Plan
A brief history of how the GOP taxes the poor to reward the rich. MORE
Features · January 10, 2018
Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It's Time for an Alternative.
To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party. MORE
Views · December 4, 2017
Trump Must Go
We can't have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button. MORE
Views · November 2, 2017
Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right
We have our differences, but we also have the numbers. MORE
Views · September 18, 2017
Not My First Democratic Socialist Convention
In DSA's resurgence, a flashback to 1979. MORE
Features · August 31, 2017
Introducing the New In These Times
A new magazine for new times. MORE
Features · August 9, 2017
We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels
The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration. MORE
Views · July 11, 2017
The Political Revolution Is Alive and Well in Nebraska
Climate campaigner and Democratic Party activist Jane Kleeb is lighting a fire on the prairie. MORE
Features · June 14, 2017
Where's the Alternative to Trump's Austerity Budget? Look to Bernie Sanders' Progressive Caucus.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has proposed a radical People's Budget—but to pass it, we need to take over the Democratic Party. MORE
Views · June 13, 2017
Single Payer in the Golden State
The fight for Medicare for all goes to California. MORE
Views · April 19, 2017
Voting Doesn't Have To Be Winner-Take-All
To get people engaged in politics, we need an electoral system based on proportional representation. MORE
Views · January 30, 2017
"There's Not Very Much Time": Robert Reich's Plan to Fix the Democratic Party
The progressive economist outlines his vision for reviving the economy, reinventing the party and resisting Donald Trump. MORE
Features · January 3, 2017
Democratic Elites Are Uneasy With Keith Ellison. That Is Exactly Why He Should Be Head of the DNC.
The Democratic Party must be rebuilt—from the bottom up. MORE
Views · December 28, 2016
Pushing the Democratic Party Left: 40 Years of In These Times
Since 1976, In These Times has pressured Democrats for a more progressive agenda. MORE
Features · November 23, 2016
This Moment Demands We Fight Harder Than Ever Before
A message from our editor & publisher. MORE
Features · November 10, 2016
On the Clinton Foundation, Why Are Journalists Telling Us to Look the Other Way?
Hillary Clinton's media sycophants appear to have forgotten how political corruption works. MORE
Views · September 14, 2016
An Inside-Outside Strategy For the Political Revolution
Raucous protests and down-ballot Democrats can beat the Bernie-or-bust blues. MORE
Views · August 3, 2016
Bernie Has Every Right To Raise Hell at the Democratic Convention
As wise man once said, "Democracy is not always nice and quiet and gentle." MORE
Views · June 8, 2016
When Two Choices for President Aren't Enough
To address voter apathy, we need a new system MORE
Views · May 30, 2016
The Corporate-Backed Democratic Party Needs a Political Revolution
Bernie Sanders should use the momentum of his campaign to make demands at the Democratic National Convention MORE
Views · April 20, 2016
The Morning After the Nomination: Will Clinton and Sanders Supporters Come Together?
On July 28, either Sanders or Clinton will accept the Democratic Party nomination. It will be up to their supporters to unite in November. MORE
Views · March 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton Won Super Tuesday, But Bernie Sanders Won the Future
The millennials have spoken, and they overwhelmingly chose Sanders' radical change over Clinton's incremental reform. MORE
Views · March 2, 2016
Rewriting the Progressive Playbook
To counter the resurgent Right, Wisconsin progressives are thinking big MORE
Views · February 8, 2016
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We were all cloth diaper newbies at one time or another although cloth diapering a newborn comes as natural to me these days as brushing my teeth; I've been at it that often and that long. Sigh...many loads of laundry have passed since I took a crash course in cloth diapering 101. In fact, when I had my first baby I had quite a few boxes of disposables in my stash since I was still working full time and had read that using cloth diapers were not going to solve the planet's environmental problems.
Yes, I was all ready to wrap my baby girl's bottom in a disposable diaper until her sensitive skin that was already broken out in (what we believed to be at the time) eczema added diaper rash to the mix. At my wit's end, research convinced me that it would be wiser (and CHEAPER) to diaper with organic cotton.
As a cloth diapering newbie, I had SO MANY questions about cloth diapers. Here's the short list stuff I wanted and needed to know:
- What kind of cloth diaper should I buy?
- What was the best brand of diaper
- Where could I find deals on cloth diapers to ease the initial investment
- How do you wash baby poop out of cloth diapers? Would I have to swish them in the (GAG) toilet bowl?
- What kind of detergent is best to use when washing cloth diapers?
And I'm sure there were many, many more including a real dumb one; How do you secure the diaper on the baby? Do you still use those old-fashioned safety pins?
Yes, I was perhaps worse than a cloth diapering newbie; I was a cloth diapering IDIOT! You may be curious as to why I knew absolutely nothing about cloth diapering a newbown but you see, I never held a baby until I held my own. There were no babies in my family when I was a kid. The only babies I saw getting their diapers changed were on TV and the cameras tend to not do closeups of the business end of a diaper change so my early education in Cloth Diapering 101 was sketchy at best.
As you might imagine, making the jump from using disposable diapers to a full-on campaign of diapering with cloth was kind of scary. And then came the opinionated in-laws to throw a guilt trip on me.
Their rants covered everything from "Do you know how much all those cloth diapers are going to cost?" and "Who's going to wash all those diapers?" to "Are you turning into some kind of a fanatic?".
Their generation apparently believes that disposables are the best invention since sliced bread but what do they know? They are the geniuses that over-dosed us all on antibiotics which is most likely the reason my husband and daughter have MRSA!
So that YOU will not have to go through the torment that I did, I'm going to post a complete series of instructions to show you how to cloth diaper a newborn and share the answers to all of the questions that I had in very beginning. I was thinking of calling the series Cloth Diapering for Dummies but that's kind of insulting. My moms are NOT dummies so I'm calling it Claire's Cloth Diapering a Newborn 101 so stay tuned!

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Nov. 26 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma woman shopping at a Walmart in Tulsa, Okla., last week saw something a lot more shocking than the store's rolled back prices.
During a trip to the women's restroom, Beth Davis says she discovered a naked man standing in the mirror masturbating with his pants at his ankles.
"There's a naked man in the bathroom masturbating," she shouted, leaving the restroom. She continued yelling for help, but the man emerged before anyone heard.
After he came out of the bathroom, Davis began filming him with her cell phone. He told her that he didn't know it was the women's bathroom, but that answer didn't fly with Davis.
She followed the man, identified as 37-year-old Brian Hounslow, yelling, "Someone stop him!" and "Do not let him go out that door. Stop this man!"
Hounslow ran out of the store and escaped in his car, but not before someone was able to take down his license plate number. He was arrested at his home two hours later.
"Who gets up at 8:30 in the morning and decides they're going to go to Walmart, take off all their clothes and masturbate in the women's bathroom?" Davis said. "It's pretty sick ... How could you think you weren't going to get caught?"
Hounslow was given a $5,000 bond and is facing a charge of indecent exposure.


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Fremont Unified School District officials appear to be reversing course on a textbook that parents say contains inappropriate references to masturbation, sex toys and bondage.
In a statement released Friday, Superintendent Jim Morris recommended that the Board of Education shelve the implementation of the book, "Your Health Today," until parents' concerns could be further examined.
More than 600 people signed a petition calling for the district to rescind its decision to use the 392-page book in ninth-grade health classes. The disgruntled parents included Asfia Ahmed, who thought the material was geared toward older students.
"I feel that it's not age appropriate for these kids," she said. "I have read the book from first page to last, and most pages talk about college kids. It doesn't relate to these kids at all."
The district said it had been in contact with the book's publisher, McGraw Hill, and was exploring the possibility of modifying the text to both meet students' needs and address parents' concerns.
"Administration and staff believes the textbook will be an asset to our health curriculum in that it provides the current, accurate, factual and relevant information our students need to make responsible decisions about their health," Morris said in a statement.
"I also recognize and respect the concerns of some of our families and believe this recommendation is a great compromise that will address those opinions while still working toward ultimately providing the best curriculum possible in our schools," he said.
In the interim, the district will go back to the textbook it used last year, pending approval from the board.
Chronicle staff writer Jill Tucker contributed to this report.
Kale Williams is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @sfkale


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Throwback Freestyle Of The Week: J Cole As A Kid Freestyles Over "Victory" In His Crib!
Back when he called himself "Therapist". s/o to mahad
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i don't know how true this is but just sharing.
In March 1981 Goodman had obtained his pilot's license and had bought his own airplane, a Cessna 172. On March 10, 1981, Goodman took a flight around Chesapeake Bay and the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula. Without any warning, the plane's engine lost power. Goodman attempted to maneuver the aircraft back toward the airstrip in Cape Charles, Virginia to make an emergency landing. As he approached the runway, the plane flew through a low-hung set of power lines, crashed to the ground, and flipped over. Goodman broke his C-1 (Atlas) and C-2 (Axis) Cervical vertebrae, and was left fully paralyzed. He was unable to breathe, talk, or swallow on his own,[4] and could only communicate by blinking his eyes.[5]
After initial treatment at a local hospital in nearby Nassawadox, Virginia Goodman was moved to Norfolk General in Norfolk, Virginia, where surgery was performed. Goodman's sister, Pat Waldo, realized that Goodman was conscious by noticing his limited eye movement. Waldo constructed a series of charts which contained the alphabet and other important subjects, each item correlating to a particular number. Goodman was able to blink his eyes for the number of times to relate to a particular object on each chart, which allowed Goodman to communicate in a limited capacity.[1]
On April 6, 1981, Goodman was transferred to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. After weeks of intense practice, voluntarily using other abdominal muscles, Goodman was able to take his first breath without the use of a machine.[4] Doctors slowly reduced the settings on Goodman's ventilator until he was finally able to breathe on his own. Soon Goodman began working with speech therapists until he was able to utter a single word - "Mama." On June 1, 1981 Goodman was moved to "The Towers" - a former rehabilitation center at UVA Medical Center where he began to eat, and began working on learning to walk again.[1]
On July 6, 1981, Goodman was admitted to the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville, Virginia. With physical therapy and occupational therapy, Goodman continued to work to improve his leg muscle strength and stamina until he could stand on his own. After several weeks, Goodman was able to walk unassisted, and was released on November 13, 1981.[1]


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LeUyen Pham
About the Author
LeUyen Pham is the prolific and bestselling illustrator of many books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Freckleface Strawberry series by Julianne Moore and Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio. Pham has also written and illustrated her own works, including The Twelve Days of Christmas, All the Things I Love About You, and Big Sister, Little Sister. She lives with her husband and two sons in San Francisco.


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Abs armor is the best armor.
Seems like things will get big really fast, curious how everything will turn out to be.
Abs armor is the best armor.
Seems like things will get big really fast, curious how everything will turn out to be.
Ban's personality seems like it'd lend itself to easily accruing some 'Greed is best sin' declarations down the road.
...is this the sort of thing I'd like or run and hide at?
IT SOUNDS SO INTERESTING yet that beatdown made me go 'oh. does it get more violent? I hope not...'
So this is not the succesor of magico anymore? great! because im really enjoing this manga.
Just read the ch15 raw man the series is pretty great.
Spoiler:We get to see some friendly ban vs meliodas action. Seriously the group dynamic between the deadly sins is pretty fun, can't wait to see how it evolves as more members show up.
Nakaba really doesn't shy away from character development this early on. Elizabeth stole the chapter for herself and so far does extremely well to break away from the fantasy princess archetype.
Meliodas and Ban are great as well. I think it's safe to bet Baste Dungeon won't be standing by the end of this arc.
New chapter is out.
If the author has a really good plan for where he wants to take the story(unlike with kongou banchou which got somewhat messy towards the end) this could become pretty exceptional in my opinion. I don't know though if it's popularity could be limited due the magazin it's published in or whatnot other factors.
But yeah again it has the foundations for something really good.
RAW Chap 16-17
If someone has the translation TELL ME NOW!
Sorry for the double post, but...well it has been 8 hours.
Chapter 16.
Why nobody came in 7 days?
This manga is so great.
Just clean uncomplicated fun every chapter.
Just caught up, this series has a lot of potential.
Sixten chapters into it and we already got more than enough hints for several subplots, great character development, nice armour designs and powerlevels that - despite the initial premise - don't seem to fluctuate as much as I expected.
This actually reminded me to finally complete Kongou Banchou as well.
I more or less think this series will stand or fall with the execution of its subplots, though. We have tons of hints already and I could see the scope of this series getting very big. The way he handles the fact that Melodias never ages, for example.
I am also thinking about the potential role of magic in this story and Elizabeth's role as she can't stay completely defenseless forever.
Just read chapter 19 and the new info sets up some potential (past)character arcs pretty nicely.
Spoiler: What it sets up
Spoiler:It seems that the 7 sins basically have some of their powers from committing some kind of sin. So we may get some emotional character's past arcs.
Spoiler:Specifically about Ban and King
Spoiler:The example of one such thing is of ban having killed the spring of life's holy maiden(his expression is rather dark by the mention of this so that could mean a lot of things from guilt to just having it that way for dramatic effect.). Seems like that's how he got his immortal body(which also is his other nickname) that can heal from everything. This is stuff coming from king another one of the sins that changed a lot(the fat guy) so ban doesn't recognize him.
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So Hork's name is actually Hawk... pitty, I liked Hork better...
Nice pair of cooldown chapters to recover from 15's manshake between Meliodas and Ban.
Incidentally, I like to believe that the shockwave from that manshake had something to due with the domain name burp we had a month ago.
Finally new chapter out: http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader...en/0/18/page/2
Awesome chapter. So it seems King did indeed revert to a childlike form based on his appearance in the flashback and how Ban didn't even recognize him.
And judging from Ban mistaking that girl for "Elle", and his words of "a real sin can't be erased", followed by King saying "you already know that pretty well", I bet that this "Elle" was someone important to both King and Ban, and Ban somehow is responsible for her death
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As an advocate of 'free love', a pacifist and more controversially a secularist, the Victorian feminist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy did not exactly lead a conventional life. Born in Eccles in 1833 and self-educated, she went on to become a significant pioneer of the British women's emancipation movement. She was at the heart of almost every Victorian feminist campaign ranging from the demand for better education, the right to vote, the rights of prostitutes to the sensitive issue of marital rape.
Unfortunately, her rather forthright nature as well as the scandal surrounding her pregnancy out of wedlock meant that she was marginalised in official histories. In accounts by the Pankhurst family, she is unfairly portrayed as a bad mother, a scandalous 'free love' secularist; her partner Ben Elmy is painted as a cruel and unfaithful man. Maureen Wright, who teaches history at the University of Portsmouth, wanted to challenge that misrepresentation with a more balanced look at Wolstenholme-Elmy's life.
In her book Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement – The biography of an insurgent woman, Wright portrays the complex and also contradictory nature of her subject. The book is broken down into eight chapters which chart Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy's life from her birth to her death at the age of 84 in March 1918 – just days after hearing the good news that women had been granted the right to vote. Arwa Aburawa interviewed Maureen Wright for Manchester Radical History.
Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy was born in Eccles, Salford in December 1833. Can you tell a little about her early experiences and how they help shape her activism around education and universal suffrage?
Maureen Wright: Although born in Eccles, Elizabeth's father Joseph Wolstenholme was an Independent Methodist Minister and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard and Mary Clarke of Roe Green, Salford. By the time Miss Wolstenholme was 12 she had lost both her parents. Her mother had died when she was little more than a week old and her father died in 1845. At that time Elizabeth and her brother, Joseph Jnr., became the wards of their maternal Uncle, George Clarke of Worsley. While Joseph Jnr, aged 17, became a student of mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge, Elizabeth's two years of secondary education drew to a close when she was just 16, her Uncle having declared that by then she had 'learnt everything it was necessary for a woman to know'.
But Elizabeth defied her guardian and studied privately, preparing herself to be a governess and, latterly, headmistress of her own girls' school. She had no desire to remain in the domestic realm. She placed her commitment to feminism from the moment when, acting as a bridesmaid aged 17, she fully realised what marriage meant for women – a "lifelong sentence of pauperism and dependence" with no control over their actions or autonomy over their own bodies.
Elizabeth's political commitment was to liberal ideals. She was brought up in the environment of the 'Manchester Radicals' – namely the group of Quaker-inspired activists gathered around Richard Cobden and John Bright and others who had led the anti-Corn Law movement in the city. She believed wholeheartedly in the rights of the individual. For her, votes for women was a simple matter of women receiving the vote 'on the same terms as it is, or shall be, granted to men' – for it must be remembered that, at this time, it was property, not individuality, that enabled men to claim citizenship. When she placed her signature on the petition for women's suffrage in 1866 Elizabeth was asking not for special treatment for women, but equal treatment or "justice".
Although Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy was part of a quite a small groups of women emancipators working in the nineteenth century, she never really got much recognition for her work. Why do you think that was?
Two of the earliest significant histories of British women's suffragism were written by Ray Strachey and E. Sylvia Pankhurst. Strachey's book, The Cause, (1928) told the story from the point of view of the 'constitutional' suffragists – those women who did not support the militancy of the suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Wolstenholme Elmy's opinion of these activists was not always complimentary as she believed that their commitment to 'the cause' was not total. Many were content, she believed, "to give their name" to the movement without engaging sacrificially to its work. Elizabeth's somewhat scandalous private life caused her to be criticised by many among this more conservative group, and thus she received only a couple of mentions in Strachey's work.
The other significant book, The Suffragette Movement, (1931) was written by Emmeline Pankhurst's daughter, Sylvia. While Pankhurst did acknowledge Elizabeth's significant contribution to the early years of women's suffragism from the 1860s, she clearly wanted to place her mother and her father (the "Red Doctor", socialist lawyer Richard Marsden Pankhurst) in the premier roles. Elizabeth was, therefore, marginalised and damned with faint praise as an overworked woman and an 'instrument in the grasp of progress' – her small physical frame likened to that of a 'Jenny Wren'. Subsequent scholars failed to realise her significance to the movement until the 1980s when revisionist scholars began to uncover the extent of her contribution. My biography is the first full-length narrative of Elizabeth's life, some 30 years after the first call was made for it to be written!
Elizabeth's early passion was education for women. Tell us a little about how that emerged and the role Manchester played in her development as a campaigner.
When Elizabeth returned to Worsley in 1854 from undertaking two years work as a governess in Bedfordshire it was to inherit a 'small capital' on her 21st birthday. Her guardian, who, remember, had advised her against undertaking higher education herself, now suggested that she invest her money in the establishment of a boarding school for middle-class girls. Elizabeth established precisely such a school, at The Grange in Boothstown Road, which catered for between 12-16 teenage pupils. In the spring of 1867 she moved her school to Moody Hall, a substantial Georgian residence in the town of Congleton where she continued in her role of Headmistress for another 4 years. Before her move to Cheshire Elizabeth founded the Manchester Schoolmistresses Association in 1865, and her pupils were among the first to sit the Cambridge Local Examination.
In 1866, Elizabeth had travelled to London to testify before the Royal Commission into Education – known as the Taunton Commission. She was one of the first women in the country to undertake such a role, but did not appear at all daunted at the prospect. If one reads the transcript of her evidence, it's obvious that her answers were given in a clear and direct manner. As she tells of her work at The Grange, it's clear too that the curriculum she taught was not one only of female "accomplishments" (such as singing, dancing and drawing) but included political economy, mathematics and other skills thought to be to 'masculine' in nature for a girls' school. Elizabeth sought to fit her girls for not only the world of marriage and motherhood, but for the world of work, and many of them went on to become Headmistresses of schools.
It became increasingly difficult, however, at this time for Elizabeth to continue her career. This was because she was turning against the Christian faith – the teaching of which was, of course, a core element in the Victorian curriculum. The loss of her faith caused Elizabeth deep personal pain and unhappiness and ultimately she couldn't force herself against her conscience to teach something in which she no longer believed. Thus she abandoned Moody Hall for a new life as the first professional employee of the women's emancipation movement.
From around 1870, EWE's role as a feminist took precedence over her vocation in education. What were the major campaigns she worked on and what long-term influence did she have?
Before her move to Congleton, Elizabeth had been active in many areas of female emancipation in Manchester. These included: The Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage, the Manchester Branch of the Society for the Employment of Women and the Northern Counties League for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. She was a founder member of the Married Women's Property Committee (MWPC), established in the winter of 1867/8 to campaign for the rights of women in marriage. She was to be its Secretary until the passage of the Married Women's Property Act, 1882. In addition, she was an Executive Committee member of the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (LNA) from 1870.
Her paid work however (from 1871-74) was as Secretary of the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights (VADPR). She was based in London and she termed her work as being as a 'scrutinizer' of parliamentary practice – for which her salary was the princely sum of £300 per annum. So effective a political lobbyist did she prove that MPs gave her a nickname – the 'parliamentary watch-dog' – and, upon seeing her tiny figure approaching them along the corridors of power, many of the country's greatest would quake in fear. Elizabeth's tenacity shines through here. She was a life-long advocate of "small government", in which the individual's personal right to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' should be as free from government intervention as possible.
The 'New' Liberalism of the late-nineteenth century, with its increased emphasis on regulating public behaviour through legislation, was anathema to her. Elizabeth worked tirelessly and travelled extensively to promote the organisation's objective of an equal right to live in a just society. She published copious reports, minutes, pamphlets and articles and Elizabeth continued her labours in other areas. She was, for example, a Committee member of the Central Committee of the National Society of Women's Suffrage and remained strongly committed to the work of both the LNA and the MWPC. In fact, one begins to wonder how she ever found enough hours in her day!
One radical aspect of Elizabeth WE is that she was secularist and an advocate of 'free love'. This was quite hard for many of her colleagues to deal with and was particularly problematic when she got pregnant. Was she perceived as too radical in some ways?
It was when Elizabeth was headmistress of Moody Hall School in Congleton she met the man who would become her life-long companion. Benjamin Elmy was from a Suffolk family, he owned three silk-crepe mills in Congleton but his avowed secularism was always a matter of concern for the town's civic leaders. One of the most divisive issues was the charge that secularists advocated 'free love' (living together un-wed), something which undermined the rigid moral structures of mid-Victorian society.
The couple undertook a 'commitment' ceremony in the spring of 1874, making solemn vows to one another before witnesses. But when this and Elizabeth's subsequent pregnancy became known more widely, there was general outrage and condemnation within their circle of friends. Despite her expressed wish that her marriage (with took place under some duress in October 1874 in London) should have no effect upon her work for women, the opposite was true and the couple were forced to retire from public life for a short period. Elizabeth did however continue her Secretary's role with the MWPC, working 'underground' and unacknowledged in the organisation's reports for another six years – until her 'rehabilitation' in 1880.
Those of Elizabeth's colleagues who knew of her secularism were prepared to turn a 'blind eye' to it before her pregnancy – one reason being that they knew her work was exemplary and her shoes would be difficult to fill. However, the immanent arrival of her son Frank proved to be the catalyst that changed attitudes towards her.
Lydia Becker (a close friend and confidante of Elizabeth's since 1867) demanded at one meeting that the Registers at Kensington be searched to confirm that the October wedding had taken place. Another close friend since 1866, the physically frail Josephine Butler, recorded in a letter from her sickbed that she wished she had 'never heard of such people as the Elmys'. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, never especially close to Elizabeth, chastised her with the fact that she had brought the women's movement into disrepute. For Elizabeth the hurt of their rejection of friends was so great that she retired to Congleton for the birth 'wishing never to be spoken of again'. Obviously, her resolve on this matter did not last long.
Although Elizabeth WE preferred to work outside party politics (apart from her support for the Independent Labour Party), there were political movements and figures which influenced her. Could you talk us through the main players which informed her political consciousness?
Elizabeth believed that party politics 'ruined work', as it caused divisions and factionalism where there should be a united desire to improve life for all. The bedrock of this belief, I believe, came from the Quaker influences of her early life. She was a lifelong pacifist, a cause to which she held true even throughout the jingoism of the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War. The family refused, in 1902, to join in the celebrations in Congleton Park after peace was restored and although there are no first-hand sources to confirm or deny this, I feel sure Elizabeth's reaction to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 would have been one of complete horror.
Though of radical-Liberal heritage, Elizabeth found William E. Gladstone, three times PM of the United Kingdom, a trial. She believed he was the biggest stumbling block to women's freedom, as he was known to use his veto as Prime Minister to prevent the passage of women's suffrage bills through parliament. Elizabeth herself became a member of the Manchester Central Branch of the ILP in 1905 but her commitment to socialism in its strictest sense was never total, unlike that of her husband, who she wrote of as being an 'ardent socialist' until his death in March 1906.
The truth about Elizabeth's politics is that she was, first and last, a humanitarian and she was not above using any party-political machinery she could to promote her work. As secretary of the Women's Emancipation Union from 1891-99 she had as much contact with the labour movement's Women's Co-operative Guild and Trades' Unions as she did with the Conservative's Primrose Dames, using these and many other organisations to promote feminist views and propaganda.
The decision in 1909 to force feed the militants of the WSPU was seen by Elizabeth as 'state torture' – even though she condemned the actions of the women themselves, which grew increasingly more violent after 1912. She berated them for their antics of window smashing, axe throwing and arson for, she wrote, "how could they be certain not to hurt the innocent?" From that moment on (and bear in mind she was almost 80 years old) she continued her campaigning as a 'non-militant' – even leading the NUWSS procession into her home town of Congleton in 1913. By now, as an octogenarian, she had earned the respect even of her former critics.
One of the controversial topics which Elizabeth WE spoke about was marital rape- indeed she was the first woman to speak on the issue in a public platform. Why did she feel so strongly about this issue?
Elizabeth's abhorrence of marital rape became clear in 1880, when she stood on the platform of the London Dialectical Society to declare her desire to see the practice criminalised. Her opposition was in part built on personal reasons and a desire to see a legal inequality quashed.
Wives were often beaten or starved for non-compliance or, as evidence from one notable legal case of 1891 shows, imprisoned against their will. Elizabeth saw the crime of marital rape as one common to women of all classes, and thus a cause of unity. At a moment when even polite society was concerned with the ever-increasing rise in sexually transmitted diseases she found a receptive audience, in some quarters, for her views.
That is not to say her path in this regard was an easy one; far from it, for she found herself apologising to her 1880 audience for speaking, as a woman, on so 'delicate' an issue in public. Of all the disadvantages married women faced Elizabeth believed this 'sex slavery', as she termed, it to be the worst. For all her efforts, Elizabeth did not see a law passed against it in her lifetime – in fact this did not pass the Statute Book until 1991.
Reading through some of the exchanges and letters of Elizabeth WE it's clear that whilst she was hard to work with at times, people respected her and her work for the feminist movement deeply. One example of this, is the financial support she received after the death of her husband.
Ben Elmy's firm was a victim of the textile recession in north-west England in the late-1880s and was sold at a significant loss. After his death, Elizabeth and her son Frank had little more than their house and the £52 a year Frank earned as a local council rate collector. What saved them financially was the assistance of Elizabeth's colleagues, led by Harriet McIlquham along with Frances Rowe and Louisa Martindale. These women could see beyond the sometimes acerbic exterior to the woman beneath and, to ease her material burdens, established the 'Grateful Fund' in the mid-1890s, which provided an income for the Elmys of £1.00 per week. The 'Grateful Fund' and, latterly, a Testimonial organised in 1910 by (among others) Lady Constance Lytton and Emmeline Pankhurst, provided for her care in the final years of her life.
Sometimes, as Elizabeth's letters show, the money kept the family from real poverty – although she only accepted it on the grounds that it let her work continue. The reality is that as many as found Elizabeth difficult found her vulnerable, and they loved her with real devotion and commitment, understanding that she worked from pure, selfless motives. Elizabeth's significant collections of letters and other documents, which form the documentary base for the biography, are wonderful resources and they tell many times of her gratefulness to her benefactors. Often written late at night, after she had completed a full day of domestic and political work, her letters to Harriet McIlquham are full of love and tender concern.
Also, albeit infrequently, they show what one eminent historian has referred to as 'bile and vitriol', spiteful commentaries regarding colleagues who, Elizabeth believes, have fallen from the true, selfless, feminist path. Particular targets of criticism include Florence Fenwick Miller, Ursula Bright (sister-in-law of John Bright), Millicent Garrett Fawcett and the leadership of the NUWSS. It is true that some of these letters can be read as being excessively critical of some of her colleagues, but the context in which she wrote them is important – particularly when she was under severe strain following Ben Elmy's business failure in 1888. The fact that she was herself working over 50 hours a week in the textile mill to try and save its fortunes, plus her 'normal' domestic duties and feminist campaigning, perhaps makes her somewhat harsh style a little more understandable.
What do you think is the key aspect of EWE's legacy?
Simply, her tenacity. Without her single-mindedness and untiring focus, I wonder just how successful Victorian feminists would have been in changing so many of the laws that repressed women in all circumstances of life. Elizabeth was foremost in campaigns which made it possible, for example, for working women to have a right to their own income; for separated wives to have increased rights of access to their children; and for the campaign for the vote to be rooted not in the possession of property but simply on grounds of individual autonomy. She died having achieving much of what she had set out to do. The parliamentary vote had been granted to women over thirty year of age (and to women University graduates) a mere six days before her death.
As I have written in the conclusion to the book, it is satisfying that she died at a moment of triumph in feminist history but she still would not have been content because the issue of 'sex slavery' had still not been resolved. Her true legacy though is that she never stalled in her objectives, no matter how ill or tired, no matter what her age or personal circumstances, she put all thoughts of self aside. Her place in history should be, perhaps, as one of England's greatest humanitarians.
Title: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy and the Victorian Feminist Movement – The biography of an insurgent woman
Author: Maureen Wright
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Published: 2011
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The construction began after the Cromwellian and Williamite wars; this resulted in a new Protestant aristocracy that was beginning to enjoy the lands that they had inherited. The fashion of this new era dictated that inherited land should now separate the burden of agriculture from that of class, and create elegant mansions that could not in any way resemble the farmhouse type buildings of the previous age.
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When Casino of the Wind opens this morning, visitors will see the wow. Water flowing down a 35-foot-tall wall of cosmos granite imported from Brazil with morphing colors projected onto it. Streams of leaves, birds and clouds flowing across the ceiling. And, after a five-year hiatus from Mohegan Sun, they will see poker being dealt once again in a room lined with undulating pillars of wood, twisted and turned like taffy.
Snacking on a corned beef and pastrami sandwich Thursday afternoon, Bruce "Two Dogs" Bozsum said he had the best view at Mohegan Sun.
The tribal chairman of the Mohegans sat with other tribal leaders at Chief's Deli, an eatery opening today in the new Casino of the Wind expansion, and watched as construction workers put the finishing touches on the gambling floor.
Despite a stumbling economy and credit downgrades threatening Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino, Bozsum said their plans never changed.
"We didn't see a reason to stop what we're doing here on the casino side," he said.
When Casino of the Wind opens this morning, visitors will see the wow.
Water flowing down a 35-foot-tall wall of cosmos granite imported from Brazil with morphing colors projected onto it. Streams of leaves, birds and clouds flowing across the ceiling. And, after a five-year hiatus from Mohegan Sun, they will see poker being dealt once again in a room lined with undulating pillars of wood, twisted and turned like taffy.
It's less likely they will stop to consider the work put into making the casino's second gambling expansion and the economy into which it will open.
In the 14 months since Bozsum actually dug up a small landscaping water line during the casino's ground-breaking, discretionary spending by patrons has taken a hit and cut into casinos' bottom lines. As many as 400 construction workers have toiled around the clock for the last month to finish an expansion casino executives hope will bring players to game tables and slot machines if only for curiosity's sake. And then there were the late-night tours given by casino executives to bondholders and bankers.
"We show them what we're doing with their money," Leo Chupaska, the chief financial officer of the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, said about a month ago during a tour of the casino still under construction. "We set sort of a standard or a bar.
"And the expectation is that we'll meet or exceed that."
Ultimately, as it was when the Mohegans opened the Casino of the Earth nearly 13 years ago, it will be the customers who decide whether the expansion pays off.
"The tribe always looks to the long term," said Jeffrey Hartmann, the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority's chief operating officer. "We're prepared to weather through."
Barry Cregan, Foxwoods' interim president, said his facility is confident in its product, service and the ability for the two casinos to coexist in Connecticut.
"I'm sure there are going to be people going over to see the new kid on the block, just the same when we put up MGM Grand," he said, adding the market should sustain additional poker tables. "No one likes to lose a monopoly, but we do live in a capitalist society and we can build our businesses.
"We watch them carefully and they watch us carefully."
In the early days of Connecticut's casinos, New Englanders' appetite for more slots and table games seemed insatiable. Keith Foley, a senior vice president with Moody's Investors Service in New York, said both Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun went through a "pretty strong honeymoon period."
More than a decade into operation, expansion at the state's two tribally owned casinos comes in a different form. When Foxwoods unveiled its $700 million MGM Grand addition in mid-May, very little of the facility was actually dedicated to slot machines and table games. Instead, the focus was on upscale eateries, a nightclub, shopping and a 4,000-seat theater. Foley said strategic planning comes into play as the market and the casinos mature and face competition from slot facilities in such states as New York and Rhode Island.
"This is not just fill up a slot box and you'll make money," he said. "Home runs are harder to come by now in gaming. Typically, you have to invest more. The expectation of what a casino is now is different than from 10 years ago."
And expansion, he said, becomes a bit of a vicious cycle. By the time Project Horizon is finished in October 2010, the tribe's gaming authority will have spent $925 million in about three years to reconfigure and expand its existing Mohegan Sun property. The changes will range from adding a bus lobby, gaming and dining area catering specifically to its Asian customers to a complete range of House of Blues offerings from a music hall to themed hotel rooms to a foundation room for members atop the new hotel tower, which — at 34 stories — will be the tallest building in Connecticut. The authority also will have spent millions of dollars to improve ramps on Route 2A and Interstate 395 to improve access to Mohegan Sun.
The gains will have a price beyond original estimates. In December, casino executives announced bad estimates and increased construction costs pumped the project's price tag up $185 million from $740 million originally. It also is a project that likely wouldn't happen in the same way, if at all, if the authority was first proposing it today, according to Jeff Hartmann, the authority's chief operating officer.
"The credit markets are basically shut down," he said.
But not before the Mohegans got their financing and a chance to check off one of the items on their wish list for additional space at Mohegan Sun. Long before anyone else knew about the construction project, Hartmann said, the authority knew exactly what Mohegan Sun needed — hotel rooms. Project Horizon will bring 922 additional rooms to the casino.
"We can't meet the demand for the hotel rooms on the weekend," he said of the current situation, "and even midweek."
It is part of a plan some analysts say is part of taking the tribe's name nationwide.
"They're really redefining their market as a national, rather than a regional market," Clyde Barrow, head of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, said of both Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods. "There's no question that that's a very conscious strategy that they initiated years ago on the full anticipation that other states would authorize slot machines or casinos."
Despite New York having slot parlors at several locations, Rosalie King of Baldwin, N.Y., said she and her husband come to Mohegan Sun about twice a year. They've been watching the video kiosk presentations about the expansion expectantly, but a trip to the new casino will have to wait until next time.
"The whole thing is awesome actually," she said, saying the scope of Mohegan Sun is stunning. "You get all turned around."
The Norwich BulletinTimeline: Mohegan Sun Project Horizon Nov. 16, 2006: Mohegan Sun announces Project Horizon. The $740 million expansion will add a 1,000-room Earth hotel tower with 300 House of Blues-themed rooms and music hall. The project also will add 115,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space, an Asian gaming and dining area called Sunrise Square and the 64,000-square-foot Casino of the Wind with more than 900 slots, 10 table games and a 45-table poker room.
June 28, 2007: Tribal members, including Chief Ralph Sturges, casino executives and other guests break ground on the Casino of the Wind portion of Project Horizon. Tribal Chairman Bruce Bozsum accidentally digs up an irrigation line with a back hoe. Upon completion, scheduled for summer 2008, the casino will have 964 slot machines, 10 table games, a deli and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant, complete with an 8-foot-tall blender and views of the Thames River.
Mid-August 2007: Mohegan Sun unveils Sunrise Square, the first portion of Project Horizon to be completed. The renovation of existing space near the Casino of the Earth adds dining, gambling, a corner store and a bus lobby catering to its Asian players. Cost: $17 million.
Dec. 13, 2007: The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority announces Project Horizon will now cost $925 million, $185 million more than its original price tag of $740 million. Mitchell Etess, the authority's chief executive officer, said the jump comes from a bad estimate of original costs as well as rising construction material costs.
Jan. 2: Construction workers hoist the last piece of structural steel into place at the Casino of the Wind. The beam carries the signatures of workers, officials and tribal members. Bozsum adds "G'tinemong," the Mohegan name of the late Chief Ralph Sturges, who died Sept. 30. The casino now will have 826 slot machines, 42 poker tables and 28 table games.
April 1: The tribe and the New London-Norwich Building and Construction Trades Council sign a
formalized labor agreement saying Project Horizon will open on time without strikes or walkouts.
May 14: Comedian and actor Dan Aykroyd helps break ground on the Earth tower hotel and House of Blues entertainment complex portion of Project Horizon.
Summer: Work begins on expanding access to Mohegan Sun along Route 2A and Interstate 395, including blasting. Total traffic renovations as part of the project will include road re-routings, additional surface parking and a 1,700-space parking garage. Cost: $101 million.
Today: Casino of the Wind opens, heralding the return of poker after a five-year absence. Mohegan Sun will hold an official celebration of the new casino in October. Cost: $125 million.
October 2010: The 922-room, 39-story Earth hotel tower, with 261 House of Blues rooms, is scheduled to open and will be the tallest building in Connecticut. The expansion will include a 1,500-person capacity, 19,400-square-foot House of Blues music hall as well as 35,000 square feet of dining and retail. Cost: $682 million.
Temporarily on hold One part of Mohegan Sun's Casino of the Wind that will not open today is Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. Construction on the two-story, tropical-themed restaurant with outdoor eating terrace along the Thames River was delayed by another Margaritaville opening out West.
The eatery is expected to open by the end of September.
In the works Here's what Connecticut's casinos have in the works in other states:
Foxwoods: Dropped out of running in Sumner County.
Mohegan Sun: Made a presentation in mid-August for a casino in Wyandotte County, just outside of Kansas City, Kan. The state's lottery commission will choose in mid-September from four developers vying for that site.
Foxwoods: Has shown some interest in a dog track site near Boston, but no firmly announced plans.
Mohegan Sun: Continues to visit Palmer, where a proposed casino would sit next to the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Foxwoods: Was not chosen to run roughly 4,500 video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Racetrack in New York.
Mohegan Sun: Proposed contract still one of three bids but no selection day has been set.
Foxwoods: Battling both local and state officials for almost two years, developers are now looking beyond the original site along the Delaware River in Philadelphia to build a casino.
Mohegan Sun: Expanded Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs this summer, a harness racetrack it opened as a slots parlor in November 2006.
Mashantucket Pequots: Partnered with the Pauma Yuima Band of Mission Indians to expand their existing casino.
Mohegans: Contracted to build and manage future casinos for the Cowlitz tribe in Washington and the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin. Both proposals are going through the Bureau of Indian Affairs process.
After opposing introducing slot machines to the state while he was mayor of Baltimore, Gov. Martin O'Malley now sends the issue to voters in November.
Residents will vote on whether to repeal a law that limits gambling losses to $500 every two hours, which could affect revenue estimates for casinos competing to build in nearby Wyandotte County, Kan.
By the numbers When Casino of the Wind opens today at Mohegan Sun, it will bring Connecticut close to having 15,000 slot machines between Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort Casino. There are 96,759 slot machines or video lottery terminals in the region.
14,825 slot machines at two tribally owned casinos
8,147 at Foxwoods Resort Casino
6,678 at Mohegan Sun
680 machines in the new Casino of the Wind.
15.3 percent market share
Number of slot machines and video lottery terminals at other locations in recent months:
34,872 slot machines
11 casinos in June
4,791 Bally's Atlantic City had the most
36 percent market share
1,000 slot machines at Hollywood Slots at Bangor.
1 percent market share
23,357 total machines
12,957 video lottery terminals at eight commercial casinos in mid-July
5,339 Empire City at Yonkers Raceway had the most
8,000 (est.) slot machines at four American Indian casinos
2,400 video lottery terminals at one American Indian casino.
24.1 percent market share
16,842 slot machines at seven casinos in mid-July
2,912 Philadelphia Park Casino and Racetrack in Bensalem had the most
17.4 percent market share
5,863 video lottery terminals at two casinos
4,752 Twin River in Lincoln had the most
6.1 percent market share


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