LSR Issue#1- Having it all, meaningful career and happy little ones.
LSR Issue#2- Law and medicine, what they hold for us.


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Welcome to a tour
of the inaugural issues of
LastStraw Revolution.

Our publishing schedule is roughly quarterly and we´ll be adding articles, updates, letters from readers, to keep you in touch with the adventure of women building a new economy and social structure via their own homebased businesses. Come join us. Skim the topics below, click and enjoy.


LSR Issue#1
Having it all, meaningful career and happy little ones.

Daycare Debate

- Why is there such disparity between the nearly universal distress young mothers feel when they return to their careers and the widely published reassurances by daycare researchers that young mothers´ feelings are unwarranted? Let´s have a look at the actual results that form the basis of the pronouncement that our intuition is misleading us.

Economic Shell Games

- Given the current economic forces, what strategies can we devise, what personal and educational investments hold the key to success and satisfaction?

Butterflies of Chaos - Women Diverting the Storms

WAHMfest--

WorkAtHomeMothers is the focus of Marybeth Henry of VA. Marybeth is organizing fests -- all day conference programs -- to present home-based opportunities for women to explore in their neighborhood, gathering sponsors from among the women business owners in the area.

Her first is scheduled for Washington, DC in mid March. Look for more details at her website http://www.WAHMfest.org

Future events and information on bringing WAHMfest to your area is on her agenda. Touch base and see how it's done.


Breaking the Silence

-- Jessica Sundram and Rachel Szego of Ithaca NY are in the process of collecting material for a book/zine called Breaking The Silence: Women Speak Out Against Sexual Violence because it is a more far-reaching problem that not too many other people acknowledge.

They are also looking for submissions of poetry, prose, essays, etc. about personal experience with violence against women or about the issue, e.g. political commentary, prevention. "All submissions will be kept anonymous unless otherwise specified, and no work will be published without notifying the author beforehand." http://www.anidifranco.net/breakingthesilence/


MagicFlowers

-- Imagine watching a field of flowers bloom before your eyes, turning from green buds to yellow blossoms. Linda Esson Ligman of OH has this media event planned as part of her adventure. Linda is parlaying this rare flower into a wonderful opportunity for a whole spectrum of women -- women supporting non-profits, women with their own businesses, and battered mothers escaping from the insanity of the welfare scene. Check it out. http://www.magicflower.com


And many more...



Incoming Wounded


Payphone Provider
Can a small time operator expect to emulate the public-spirited Working Assets Long Distance by being a payphone provider?

Merchant Services
Offering credit card service to your business clients and customers opens a world of strange deals, some simply overly expensive, some simply complex, and some really suspect, or all of the above. Join us for an inside look and analysis, at Merchant Services, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Futurist Reconnaissance: Impending Depression
More signs of global depression taking shape as we compare historical and financial analyses in Impending Depression. Monitoring resource and cautious optimism.

Y2K Update offers resources on reasonable preparedness in the US and some reassurances. Why Y2K may save us from global economic depression.

Shortage of Tech Skills & Surplus of Tech Workers
Something doesn´t compute here!

Realities in Human Resources
Is it a poor choice of phrase or is there some nefarious strategy in the department touted as most benificent in the corporate structure? With friends like these... What's the Reality In Human Resources? Why and when there´s a need for keeping your guard up.

Valian´s Model & Its Implications
Why we can´t get there from here.



New Life

Quantification
-- Stats on Income & Stability for HomeBased Businesses
Some preliminary good news, puzzles and goals. Join us as we explore the 'jelly on the wall'.

Author Events
-- Token Woman's Culvert House at the AEA
Recently JHR has been working on another piece of strategy to help launch more women in their own businesses. The plot involves an unusual house. The Alternate Energy Association is featuring her proposal at their website for the next few months. Or you can go directly to her presentation CulvertHouse. Once you've seen the house and it's features, come join LSR-net to discuss the possibilities.

-- Token Woman and the Search for Community
On days when the news reaches levels of depressing that warrant general alarm and the signs on the horizon take on horrifying shapes recognizable from history and logic, on those days the dream of escaping to some utopia of your own specification is so clear. So when we heard that there are utopian experiments in considerable number being worked on all over the US, it was the beginning of an odyssey to determine what such experiments were like, where they were, who were the members, and whether they were viable enterprises. Join JHR as she develops her presentation on DeerRock Intentional Community given at Sheltering Ourselves' last Learning Exchange.

Riding To The Rescue.
Corporations, compulsory education, massive debt and mandatory lawncare were not part of the picture in the US at the beginning of the 20th century. Early in the century, the number of hours in the American workweek was dropping at a rate that raised questions about what to do with the expected leisure. How on earth did we get to our current dilemmas and how do we extricate ourselves?

Hindsight, foresight and why it's up to women.

CEO Training
Analysing observations of entreprenuerial skill, knowledge requirements, and developed intuition leads to a recognizable program and an opportunity!

Simply Gourmand
Hedonistic guide to minimalist philosophy and the secret of Mocha Yogurt icing.

Millennium Chic
Bill Gates ain't got it. Gaviotas does.




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LSR Issue#2
Law and medicine, what they hold for us.

The Unjustice System

-An inside look at the breakdown of the social contract between our justice system and the citizens who need it most. Concealing the action and implications behind the jury´s closed doors. One glimmer of hope to escape the trap.

The Cure

- News to be grateful for, for ourselves and for our children. But why isn´t it in the big media anywhere? Possibilities as integrative medicine and wishes in the interim. You´re going to love this.

Butterflies of Chaos - Women Diverting the Storms

Angel Scoop--

Terminal Stroke Magic is the story of BJ Sandoz´s odyssey in reviving her father from the clutches of established medical diagnosis.

Her invented therapy and experience in navigating through the nursing home, insurance and regulatory scene hold hope for others.

Bringing the ideas to your group is on her agenda, soon.


Living Dangerously

-- <Coming Soon>








Incoming Wounded

-- The Rules of Drinking and Ensnarement
One more hazard to be careful of and how to reduce your risks. One young man´s story.

-- Waiting for Definity
After thirty years of attempting to enforce equal rights legislation, how much longer must we wait for definitive evidence that the system won´t protect you. News from the midwest.



New Life

Rewards or Dangers
Corporate incentive systems, compulsory education´s omni-present classroom management tool, rewards are a sacrosanct fixture of the systems around us. But do they work or are they the reason for the mess around us? What does the research show and what does that mean for us?

CEO Training
Developing entreprenuerial intuition and the connection to games!

Simply Gourmand
Days of Cabbage Wine and Salads, hedonistic guide to minimalist philosophy.

Millennium Chic & the Better Homes Strategy
Montana quonset home or how Judi and Jeff built their own.




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