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Mendocino students raped by Marine recruiters at office (Why do I remember the army recruiters at my high school being on the edge of sexual harrassment much of the time).
Two Mendocino County high school students who say they were raped by Marine Corps recruiters sued the Marines in San Francisco on Wednesday, alleging that the Corps "fosters and condones'' sexual assaults by recruiters....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 7:42am PST
Berkeley International Women's Day March in Solidarity with Struggle of Iranian Women 
On the occassion of March 8 International Women's Day, a rally and March was held in Berkeley in solidarity with a 4-day march in Europe organized by the Campaign for the Abolition of All Misogynist, Gender-Based Legislation & Islamic Punitive Laws in Iran. The call for the European march begins: "If you are against death by stoning! If you are against forced veiling! If you are against the prosecution and imprisonment of women! If you are against lashing a woman’s body! If you are aga...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 10:06pm PST
Women's Voices From Africa: A Conversation with Margaret Busby Today is International Women’s Day. Millions are marking the day around the world celebrating advances made by women over the past year, but also calling for greater equality and an end to war. We speak with Margaret Busby, editor of “Daughters of Africa,” about women’s voices that oftentimes go unheard....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:25pm PST
Feminist Radio Show: Int'l Women's Day w/ Dianne Patterson and Kelle Greene (audio/mpeg 39.6MB) Ann Simonton and DJ Shatter host this week's Int'l Women's Day edition of The Feminist Radio Show. Folk goddess, Dianne Patterson along with partner Kelle Greene, play some of their inspiring music, and talk about the Global Women's Strike, Int'l Women's Day, and the struggle for equality. (1 hour and 55 minutes)
More info about Dianne and Kelle:
http://www.greenfestivals.com/green_bio.php?bioid=1961...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 4:46pm PST
Women Celebrate International Women's Day by Rallying for Peace Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:10am PST
Women's Day at KPFA is Insulting to Thinking Women We women are certainly proud of our accomplishments, including the fact that Amy Goodman is a leading progressive journalist in the US, heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, at 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., weekdays on Democracy Now, the former time being when most of us have time to listen. However, on International Women's Day, Wednesday, 3/8/06, we got religion and song and dance acts instead, demonstrating that KPFA not only never asked the women listeners what we want, but that they view women as backward peas...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:29am PST
Mexican rape women 'denied help' Rape victims in Mexico are routinely denied access to legal abortion, says Human Rights Watch in a new study....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:28pm PST
UN: Women denied representation, making war on poverty hard to win Millions of women around the world, including those in the UK and other Western countries, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:23pm PST
How does the right think? The right thinks punitively. This is a TIME magazine article. Please note how mental and economic health benefits of abortion are dismissed as inconsequential and how the legitimacy of elective abortions isnt even considered or discussed....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:10pm PST
The Iraqi Women Have Arrived. Cindy Sheehan & Medea Benjamin Jailed Delivering Message Breaking News: Following a very successful event Sunday in NYC, the Iraqi women
finished their press conference in the UN just in time to watch their friends, Cindy
Sheehan and Medea Benjamin be dragged off by cops and jailed for trying to deliver
the truth. The week of International Women?s Day has begun....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:32pm PST
Sheehan, Benajamin Violently Arrested at U.N. Without Cause On Monday, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and three other CODEPINK members attempted to peacefully enter the United States mission to the U.N. -- and were violently arrested.
There were no grounds for their arrest, they had alerted local law enforcement about their presence and they were completely nonviolent. According to reports, the women were slammed up against brick walls and, at one point, Cindy Sheehan was exposed while police were roughing her up....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:25am PST
South Dakota has banned abortion - is your state next? Please join us in sending a message to U.S. governors asking them to hold the line on a woman's right to choose.
Help protect the right to choose in your state by volunteering with your state affiliate...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:50pm PST
BACORR meeting Wednesday, March 8th at 6:30 BACORR is meeting at New Valencia Hall 1908 Mission at 15th....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:02pm PST
S.D. Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law By CHET BROKAW, Associated Press Writer ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 11:01am PST
Iraqi Women Make Rare Trip to U.S. to Tell Their Stories of Life Under Occupation This weekend, five Iraqi women arrived in New York City to begin a speaking tour to educate Americans about the reality in Iraq and meet with UN and US officials to call for a peace plan. Two of them join us in our firehouse studio: Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and blogger, whose family recently fled to Jordan after her son was temporarily kidnapped, and Eman Ahmad Khamas, an Iraqi journalist, translator and human rights activist....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:33am PST
BTL:South Dakota Anti-Abortion Forces Working to Overturn Roe vs. Wade Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 3:47am PST
An act of social cruelty: South Dakota bars abortions for victims of rape and incest Embarking on a deliberate challenge to the historic Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court that legalized abortion throughout the United States, the South Dakota state legislature voted last week to outlaw all abortions except where the life of a pregnant woman was in danger. Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican like a majority of the state lawmakers, said he would sign the bill....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:32pm PST
Decision by Wal-Mart to Stock EC "Long Overdue" Spurred on by a lawsuit in Massachusetts, national retail chain Wal-Mart announced Friday that it has decided to stock emergency contraception (EC) in all of its pharmacies, acquiescing to pressure from the National Organization for Women and other women's rights groups....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:27pm PST
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