One Response to “Um, yeah… Tampons as a National Security Issue”

1. payal Says:
   December 13th, 2006 at 11:11 am

   I can’t help but view stories like this as a classic example of why we need women in politics– it’s one of those issues that speaks directly to our experience as females in a way that men are unlikely to understand. Searching around the original blog that posted the story, I found this link– http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/407 . It describes ways to help, including:

   Information on the campaign on the ACTSA website

   Make a secure online donation to the campaign here. Or you can also send cheques payable to ACTSA (with sanitary appeal written on the back). Details on the website.

   People in the UK can ask their MP to sign the parliamentary Early Day Motion (EDM) supporting the campaign.
   Everyone else, please contact your local MP and encourage them to actively support the campaign.

   Download and distribute the ACTSA Dignity.Period! leaflet. Print out multiple copies and leave them in places where people can pick them up - in the cubicles of women’s public toilets are one suggestion.

   If you are a blogger or have a website, please feel free to use the button Sokwanele has created on your website or blog as well. Using our code will add an image like the one we have in our sidebar, and a link back to this post where we hope to build on the list of ideas here. Details on how to do so below.

   Think about how people around the world can help and send us your ideas. We’ll continue to build this list of suggestions.

Leave a Reply