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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
California Woman Suffrage Exhibit
UCSF Women's Health Building
2356 Sutter St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Tue, Aug 22, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 10:51am PDT
Camp Suzanne - A Call to Action
Enough is enough Sexual assault in the military is intolerable and inexcusable. The military's response of indifference is incomprehensible. The failure of us, as citizens, to hold them accountable for their sex crimes stops now....
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 9:28pm PDT
Become A Powerful Woman Street Performer
In my fantasy world of women’s equality and a high artistic bar for street performance, I would probably recommend the following steps for a woman street performer, if my opinion was asked: 1) Memorize your music/act, 2) Stand up!, 3) Learn how to be loud, 4) Don't be a Linda McCartney, 5) Don't resort to cheesey signs, 6) Grow emotional armor, 7) Excel at something, 8) Learn to perform clothed first, 9) Do not let men choose or arrange your material, 10) Lead, don't follow; Create, don't imi...
Posted: Tue, Aug 15, 2006 1:58pm PDT
Fourth of July at CCWF
Once a year, we grudgingly get one grilled soy burger and one weiner on a bun. Once a year, we get a small wedge of watermelon on the state's dime and the guards complain that it's "too much."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 6:49pm PDT
85 Days to Stop Prop 85
Prop 85 would amend our
state constitution to prohibit young women from obtaining
abortion care without government-mandated parental notification.
With only 85 days to "re-defeat" Prop 85, there's no time to
waste....
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:52am PDT
Women's Magazine on KPFA
94.1 FM or online at www.kpfa.org...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Aug 14, 2006 10:44am PDT