Maybe the best political video I’ve seen this year

By
Greg Diamond
– December 23, 2011Posted in: "The OC", Education, Fresh Juice, justice, women's rights

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It Only Takes A Girl video campaign

Get thee to http://www.itonlytakesagirl.org/movie.html. Learn something.

Yes, it’s maybe the best of a strong year of political video — and it’s not even partisan.   (And no, it’s not Occupy either.)

Visit www.itonlytakesagirl.org for more info, and to donate!

This addresses something that everyone who studies international development and global poverty and related matters knows — but that (so far as I can tell) most Americans either don’t know or don’t consider: promoting the education of girls is one of the major things that we can do to reduce overpopulation and promote greater well-being in the world.  That’s what www.itonlytakesagirl.org asks us to understand.

The cycle of being used by older men, by the way, is why reactionary and traditionalist cultural movements — mostly foreign, but some domestic as well — are opposed to equal (or even decent) education for young girls.  If that child “got her own,” how are you going to get 15-year-old brides for 55-year-old men who prey on their desperation?  This is an issue that ought to unite right and left, religious and secular, in this country.  Will it?

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)