Category: Women’s Rights

4th Annual OB Woman’s Club Ping Pong Tournament — Friday, Sept. 27

 Source  September 17, 2024  1 Comment on 4th Annual OB Woman’s Club Ping Pong Tournament — Friday, Sept. 27

The 4th Annual OBWC Ping Pong Tournament is back on Friday, September 27th.  This annual event features fierce competition, with the current champion, Kevin Hastings, coming back to defend his two year reigning title.

The 1st tournament kicked off in 2019, but was cancelled the next 2 years due to COVID. Now on its 4th year, it has grown into one of the most highly anticipated parties in Ocean Beach.

This year’s winner will go home with the treasured Golden Paddle and a WWE Style Championship Belt-provided by Skrewball.

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Women Will Win the 2024 Election, Part 2

 Source  August 12, 2024  3 Comments on Women Will Win the 2024 Election, Part 2

By Colleen O’Connor

If you didn’t watch the Olympics, you missed awesome talent, fierce competition, spontaneous joy and a history of new world records writ large. Not just excellence that dwarfed the past, but a whole new future.

A future I predicted in an April OB Rag column, titled, “It’s the Women, Stupid,” (a play on James Carville’s’ “it’s the economy stupid”) that will determine the outcome of the 2024 election.

That future was on full display in the Paris Olympics. Or as the NBC news headlines announced in bold print: “World beaters: Women athletes ruled the Olympics.”

Especially American women.

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A Page from History: The Renaissance of the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club

 Source  July 26, 2024  2 Comments on A Page from History: The Renaissance of the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club

The club has survived waves and fire in its 100 years of ‘Friendship, community, fun and philanthropy’

By Eric Duvall /Pt Loma-OB Monthly (SDUT) / July 17, 2024

In the early days of the Ocean Beach Historical Society, it met in the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club clubhouse.  In the early days of the Ocean Beach Woman’s Club, it met at the Alligator Rock Lodge (aka Collier’s Shack).

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Michael Moore: ‘Now, We Beat Trump’

 Source  July 23, 2024  14 Comments on Michael Moore: ‘Now, We Beat Trump’

OK Everyone! It’s time to rise out of our despair! It’s been 24 days of mourning since the debate debacle sunk all of us into believing this election was over, that we were going to be abused by Trump for another four years. A sick, sick feeling.

But in one shining moment, at 1:46pm Sunday afternoon, President Biden, in a true profile in courage, a selfless act for which he will be honored and remembered for years to come, put his country ahead of himself. May I ask you, Mr. President, for one more brave and bold action? Kamala Harris will be in a much stronger position to win if she can run as the President of the United States.

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Cheer Up — One Down. One to Go.

 Source  July 22, 2024  10 Comments on Cheer Up — One Down. One to Go.

By Colleen O’Connor

As I predicted in an OB Rag column on December 12,  2022. “Thus, the big predictions.  Neither Biden nor Trump will be the U.S. President.” Simple reason two years ago. Same simple reason today.

As I also stated in another OB column. “It’s the Women, Stupid” who will decide in 2024. Despite all the chaos, the cruelty, the ignorance and the fear, good things have already happened and will continue. Credit women. The suffragettes.

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Solidarity and Protest Rally of 2nd Anniversary of Fall of Roe v Wade — Sunday, June 23 at Mission Bay

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Members of Change Begins With ME Indivisible and local activists to mark two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade by mobilizing pro-abortion voters ahead of the 2024 election.  Hundreds of Indivisible chapters nationwide are hosting similar events this same weekend.

Mission Bay Park (grassy area just south of Mission Bay Beach Club) – 2688 E Mission Bay Dr, San Diego, CA 92109 on June 23, 2024 / 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

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OB Woman’s Club to Celebrate 100 Years With New Brew — To Be Dedicated June 21

 Frank Gormlie  June 19, 2024  0 Comments on OB Woman’s Club to Celebrate 100 Years With New Brew — To Be Dedicated June 21

by Dave Schwab / Peninsula Beacon / June 13, 2024

Marking its centennial this year, Ocean Beach Woman’s Club has something special to help its celebration along with its milestone brew.

Bill DeWitt of California Wild Ales, and Jim Millea, head brewer of OB Brewing have collaborated to craft “Making Waves Blonde,” a centennial-hops ale made especially for OBWC’s centennial anniversary. The new brew will officially be dedicated on the summer solstice from OB Brewery’s rooftop bar.

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Do You Want to Know More About Claudia Sheinbaum, the New President of Mexico?

 Source  June 3, 2024  0 Comments on Do You Want to Know More About Claudia Sheinbaum, the New President of Mexico?

From Mexico News Daily

[Edited slighted at beginning for clarification. Article originally published Sept. 2023]

Claudia Sheinbaum, the new President of Mexico, was the former Mexico City mayor (2018-23), who will also represent the Labor Party and the Ecological Green Party of Mexico, will face off against the Broad Front for Mexico’s Xóchitl Gálvez at the June 2, 2024 election. Senator Gálvez was officially designated as the three-party opposition alliance’s “coordinator” just over a week ago.

Sheinbaum – a physicist and environmental scientist who was environment minister in Mexico City when Andrés Manuel López Obrador was mayor in the early 2000s – recently spoke with Expansión Política, the politics site of the Expansión news organization, and expressed views on a range of issues she will face if elected as Mexico’s first female president next June.

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In Its Largest National Election Ever — Mexico Just Elected a Woman President: Claudia Sheinbaum

 Source  June 3, 2024  0 Comments on In Its Largest National Election Ever — Mexico Just Elected a Woman President: Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexican voters on Sunday elected Claudia Sheinbaum

From Washington Post / June 3, 2024

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is famous for its macho culture. Women here didn’t win the right to vote for president until 1953 — three decades after their U.S. counterparts. As recently as nine years ago, there wasn’t a single female state governor.

Yet Mexico has just elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum,

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2024 Election: ‘It’s the Women, Stupid.’

 Source  April 10, 2024  8 Comments on 2024 Election: ‘It’s the Women, Stupid.’

By Colleen O’Connor

“It’s the economy, stupid,” a phrase coined by Bill Clinton strategist, James Carville in 1992, defined that election and defeated President George W. Bush.

The 2024 election, however, will not be about the economy.  Inflation is hot again (nothing new); rents and housing are expensive.  The price of gas and food (kept out of the inflation stats) are already baked in.

Women know about these costs while trying to put “food on the table.”  Now their reproductive rights are at risk.  A bitter assault on personal, private decisions. The 2024 election will be about and for women. 

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OB Woman’s Club Annual Hat Contest — Thursday, April 4 — at Dirty Birds Restaurant

 Frank Gormlie  March 28, 2024  0 Comments on OB Woman’s Club Annual Hat Contest — Thursday, April 4 — at Dirty Birds Restaurant

The Ocean Beach Woman’s Club is holding their fourth annual hat contest scheduled for Thursday, April 4, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. , at Dirty Birds restaurant, located 1929 Cable St.

This competition is free and open to everyone who has a favorite hat – or who wants to craft a new one.

This year’s “hat-egories” are:

  • Best Party Hat,
  • Most Ridiculous,
  • Most OBcean and
  • Ode to Mae, a nod to the club’s garden tradition.
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