Category: Women’s Rights

It was 1965 and I remember very well staring at the cover of Life magazine. It had a young woman, a local Point Loman, on the cover doing a handstand on a skateboard. It was an amazing picture and even more of an amazing stunt. The young blond on the cover was Patti McGee.

Skateboards were brand new back in the mid-sixties and most kids who had them had made them themselves. Take the metal skates available and attach them to a wood board covered by a piece of carpeting. Voila! A skateboard.

Patti McGee has just passed; she was 79. She broke so many records, it’s difficult now to imagine a world without her. Fortunately for us, U-T writer Maura Fox has just laid out McGee’s history and significance, and to let the rest of us know that a nonprofit named Exposure Skate will hold a ceremony for McGee at its annual skate event for women and nonbinary skaters in Encinitas this Saturday, November 2 at 5 p.m.

By Julie Meier Wright / Op-Ed San Diego Union-Tribune / October 23, 2024

Women — and the men who support them — can elect a president in 2024 who will protect our Constitution and treasured freedoms.  She happens to be a woman.  It is time.

Forty years ago, Maureen Reagan, our dear friend Judy Miller and I, tackled the gender gap

By Amita Sharma / KPBS / October 21, 2024

As the presidential race nears its finish, Project 2025 continues to be a lightning rod.

The Heritage Foundation’s 922-page, 30-chapter document subtitled “Mandate for Leadership, The Conservative Promise” lays out a plan to dramatically reshape the federal government starting on day one of the next conservative president’s term.

“The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before,” Project 2025 states.

If carried out after the election, Project 2025 could have broad local impacts, including drastic upheavals in school funding, which cases federal and state prosecutors pursue, and climate warnings.

On Saturday, October 5th at 2PM, a group of 15+ community organizations are coming together for a rally and march to commemorate one year since the genocide in Gaza began.  There have been verified deaths of more than 40,000 people in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military.

The rally will take place Saturday, October 5, 2:00 PM, at the County Administration Building, 1600 Pacific Highway.  Speakers will include international law expert Marjorie Cohn and popular Egyptian-American comedian and television host Bassem Yousef.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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