the tech view: 7.0 [Bachelet ]

[ http://www.unwomen.org/2010/09/un-women-staff-welcomes-michelle-bachelet/]

Michelle Bachelet

assumed the risk
of
prominence and power;
when she entered
SIPA's 15th Floor
hotspot
where the chatter
the vibe
flowed like
Chilean wine.

the crowd ; the press
was hyper-global
South America
was in the house.

Bachelet's primary constituency ?

An over-flow collection [next time : a live-stream projection to accompany the audio feed. please.].
where
laptops lay low
floor to ceiling
intellects
http://internationalcenter.umich.edu/swt/work/options/usgovt.html
@ SIPA [http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/international_affairs.html]

Of extraordinary accomplishment : President of Chile. Surgeon. Minister of Defense. Mother. Hers is a trajectory of extreme accomplishment.

Bachelet asserts a commitment ; a special interest where rural-specific tautologies are @ stake. So do I.

UNWOMEN depends on 3 things : Bachelet's 1. leadership. 2. imagination 3. determination.

Bachelet is a "Renaissance woman" says Edie Samuels [Vassar '53] with a real-time mandate to engage --- 21st Century Realities.

Holding up half of the sky; we must be still --- and achieve a sense of understanding; there is work to be done ---- within ourselves --- that is --- to acknowledge "that sexism dos not discriminate on the basis of gender; that we, as women; as men --- hold the power of emancipation's elixir in our hands." " Poverty is unnatural and equal rights [opportunities] for girls and women is a matter of the here and now; of our elevated sense of uncompromising justice."


Moderator Elisabeth Lindenmayer [ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/el2253-fac.html] listens to Bachelet. Lindenmayer's cohesively probing pivot-points of inquiry anchored Bachelet --- while she addressed the global rights and freedoms of women today ; and before them, our mothers; daughters, sisters.