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| Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:30 PM PDT 'The situation is grave.'  Those few words sum up matters at Kalma (left), whose more than 80,000 inhabitants make it the largest camp for persons displaced by years of conflict in Sudan's westernmost region, locus of the International Criminal Court's stalled Situation in Darfur. (prior posts)The words were spoken yesterday by a U.N. spokesperson based in Khartoum. He told Agence France-Presse that the government of Sudan had barred all humanitarian aid workers -- whether from the United Nations or a nongovernmental organization -- from entering the Kalma camp or the nearby town of Bilal. For its part, the government denied the charge through a local official, even as it acknowledged that the situation "'remains explosive'" in the wake of: ► last week's internecine killings among rebels; and ►the refusal by the U.N./African Union hybrid peacekeeping operation, UNAMID, to turn over persons it has detained to Sudanese officials. In short, the words serve to remind that conflict is far from over in Darfur.  |
| Posted: 06 Aug 2010 10:15 PM PDT  Tucked away on the Senate's docket Thursday -- lost in the hubbub about Elena Kagan -- was news of another confirmation of note:Senators unanimously approved the nomination of Melinda Haag (right) to be the top federal prosecutor for the Northern District of California. As posted at the time of her nomination, Melinda, with whom this 'Grrl was privileged to serve as defense co-counsel in a federal case a while back, becomes the 2d woman ever to serve as U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, headquarters of the district.
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| Posted: 06 Aug 2010 09:04 PM PDT  On this day in ...... 1890 (120 years ago today), a daughter was born in Concord, New Hampshire, to emigrants from Ireland who espoused socialism and feminism. Their daughter, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (left), would work for both throughout her life. She gave her 1st public speech, "On Women Under Socialism," as a teenager. Her oratory soon got her kicked out of high school, and she became a full-time Industrial Workers of the World organizer. For this group -- whose slogan was "One Big Union," and which was known colloquially as the "Wobblies" -- Flynn, nicknamed "Rebel Girl," organized children, women, and men who worked in industries across the United States. In the wake of World War I she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union; in 1940 the ACLU kicked her off its executive board because she belonged to the Communist Party. That membership also prompted a 9-month trial -- at which she defended herself -- that ended in a Smith Act conviction and a prison sentence served at Alderson federal prison for women. (Among the lawyers who represented Flynn at points in her career was Mary M. Kaufman, previously among the women U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg.) Having become in 1961 the 1st woman Chair of the U.S. Communist Party, Flynn died in Moscow on September 5, 1964. The Soviet government of Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave her "a full-scale state funeral in Red Square." (Prior August 7 posts are here, here, and here.)  |
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