Well it seems the banks have another six months to continuing getting richer and fatter (it seems they make 2.6 BILLION a year from bank charges) because I found an article today that is featured on the Times Online site reporting banks now have until January 2009 to let their customers know if they will receive compensation.

I guess one way to let them know how unhappy you are is to vote with your feet and set up an account with a co-operative! They would soon take notice if thousands of people left every week. I’m having trouble finding a co-operative in West London but still looking.

Maybe they do online banking… I really must look into this.

You can read the story here

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/savings/article4372007.ece

I was watching an American comedy yesterday called one on one and heard the word “womanist” used. I thought it was a term to describe a woman interested in empowering other women but it turns out its actually a term used to describe black women… here’s some info I found from

Womanist Theology: Black Women’s Voices by Delores S. WilliamsWhat then is a womanist? Her origins are in the black folk expression “You acting womanish,” meaning, according to Walker, “wanting to know more and in greater depth than is good for one — outrageous audacious, courageous and willful behavior.” A womanist is also “responsible, in charge, serious.” She can walk to Canada and take others with her. She loves, she is committed, she is a universalist by temperament.

Her universality includes loving men and woman, sexually or nonsexually. She loves music, dance, the spirit, food and roundness, struggle, and she loves herself. “Regardless.”

Walker insists that a womanist is also “committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female.” She is no separatist, “except for health.” A womanist is a black feminist or feminist of color. Or as Walker says, “Womanist is to feminist as purple to lavender.”

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So welcome to all the womanists out there!

Diane

Gregory Rabess is a Culture & Media Consultant in the UK who does alot of TV work and runs his own TV show in Dominica (thats the Commonwealth of Dominica for anyone not familiar NOT Dominican Republic!)

This year Dominica is celebrating 30 years of independence from British rule at the end of October/ early November and Gregory is putting together a TV show interviewing Dominican Brits (or British Dominicans!)

He kindly sent me my part of the show and I look forward to watching it all

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