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Women Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant Two women have testified at an evidentiary hearing in a civil case against a former Haitian death squad leader living in New York City. The suit against Emmanuel "Toto" Constant was launched in December 2004 by a group of women who suffered gang rape and other abuses from Constant's forces. We speak with the lead attorney in the case....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 7:53am PDT
Concord Hospital Workers Stage Two-Day Strike 
On Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, hospital workers at John Muir Medical Center's Concord Campus (formerly Mt. Diablo) went on strike, urging the management to come back to the bargaining table. Without a contract since October, members of the 450-strong union (part of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers' 140,000 members in the Western U.S.), have been struggling to prevent the profit-oriented John Muir management from cutting back their families' healthcare packages. Other issues of concern include the need...
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 5:32am PDT
Samantha King Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 3:28pm PDT
suffragist parade in sacramento It's been 93 years since women received the right to vote in 1913, but hundreds of people marched to the State Capitol on Saturday morning to address issues affecting women locally and world-wide....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:14am PDT
Photos and Audio from Sistahs Steppin in Pride 
This reporter is sorry to report that she woke up at the time the march began, and thusly missed the first two hours of Sistahs Steppin' in Pride 2006. But I did make it to the festival in Snow Park....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 12:39am PDT
FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Access for Plan B for Women 18 and Older FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Access for Plan B for Women 18 and Older
Prescription Remains Required for Those 17 and Under...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 11:05pm PDT
Women: Rock the Vote! Auditorium, California State Building
455 Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 4:53pm PDT
International Museum of Women's Speaker Series JW Marriott
500 Post Street
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 1:59pm PDT
Great news: Morning-after pill available over-the-counter! We did it!
At 9:20 a.m. today, the FDA approved over-the-counter access to
the "morning-after" pill!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 10:04am PDT
FDA Decision a Victory for Adult Women, Leaves Young Women Vulnerable FDA Decision is a Victory for Millions of Adult Women,
But Leaves Young Women Vulnerable...
Posted: Thu, Aug 24, 2006 10:02am PDT
Chaos at the Clinic: On the Frontline of the Reproductive Rights War 
During the third week of July, anti-abortion activists from all over the country converged on Jackson, Mississippi under the banner Operation Save America. Jackson is home to the only abortion clinic in Mississippi. Many women already must travel outside of the state for reproductive healthcare, including abortions. If this clinic closes, choices will be even more limited for the women of Mississippi....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 11:47pm PDT
80 Military Recruiters Disciplined for Sexual Misconduct Over the Past Year The Associated Press has revealed that more than 80 military recruiters have been disciplined over the past year for sexual misconduct. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams. We speak with Martha Mendoza, the Pulitzer prize-winning AP reporter who exposed the story....
Posted: Wed, Aug 23, 2006 7:18am PDT
Women's Equality Day Commemorative Parade on August 26 Don't miss the Women's Equality Day Commemorative Parade on Saturday starting at 9:30 am at Southside Park in Sacramento....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 4:25pm PDT
US Church Fires Teacher for Being Woman NEW YORK — A decision by the minister of a US Baptist church to fire a female Sunday School teacher after more than 50 years on the job on the ground that the Bible bans women from teaching men has touched off a firestorm of public controversy....
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 9:51am PDT
We women demand that we use our power for justice 
We women demand that we use our power for justice. 3 minute video...
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2006 9:43am PDT
Army Spc Suzanne Swift, Iraq vet and sexual assult victim, supporters rally at Ft Lewis 
Supporters of Army Spc Suzanne Swift establish ongoing vigil outside Fort Lewis, Washington. Dozens rally August 19, 2006 to demand an honorable discharge for the Iraq veteran and sexual assult victim who went AWOL instead of returning to Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 1:09pm PDT
Central Valley Women’s Equality Day March and Rally 
Several hundred women from throughout the Central Valley rallied to empower women and to get women to vote in the November 2006 elections. The event started with a march, led by Dolores Huerta, in downtown Fresno. The march concluded at the Free Speech area on the Fulton Mall where participants heard a series of speakers.
Organizers for the march and rally included:
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
National Women’s Political Caucus
Fresn...
Posted: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 4:41pm PDT
FDA Decision Imminent on Emergency Contraception After years of controversy over the "safer than aspirin" product known as Plan B or the "morning after pill," the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will finally announce their decision whether women can obtain Plan B emergency contraception (EC) without a doctor's prescription....
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 6:58pm PDT
Critics and Emotional Armor As An Artist Wanna be a political artist, woman writer, or solo performer? Then you’d better start growing some emotional armor right now. I had grown certain calluses to public opinion and heckling as a solo woman act doing feminist comedy for decades, but my last 3 years as a political writer lunged knives in places no one attacked when I was a comedian. I have learned 4 things were the collective wisdom that served as my life preserver, letting me end up still alive and kickin’, after going down a Niag...
Posted: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 8:12am PDT
Saturday Night Vigil for Abeer Hamza - Berkeley 
On Saturday, August 19th, a candlelight vigil will be held at Willard Park in Berkeley (Derby Way east of Telegraph Ave) from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. for Abeer Hamza, a young Iraqi girl raped and killed along with her family in mid-March by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq. August 19, 2006 would have been Abeer's 15th birthday. In early July, four U.S. soldiers and one ex-soldier were charged with these crimes....
Event Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 6:53pm PDT
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