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Eye On The Middle East: Women, Not Just Wars, On Arab Media's Minds While much attention is being paid to the war in Iraq, issues regarding women in the Middle East are also making headlines in Arab media, so reports NAM contributor Jalal Ghazi. Ghazi monitors and translates Arab media for New America Media, a project of Pacific News Service, and Link TV....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:54pm PST
Register TODAY to Lobby on 3/29 for Reproductive Freedom in Sacramento 1. Taking Action: Practical action tools for community organizing.
2. Messaging and the Media: Lessons from Proposition 73.
3. A Woman Knows What's Best for Herself and Her Family: Using what we know
now to make change tomorrow....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:21pm PST
This Week @ The Women's Building The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street between Valencia and Guererro...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:13pm PST
Dianne Patterson and Kelle Greene at FRSC on International Women's Day 
On March 8th, International Women's Day, Dianne Patterson and Kelle Greene were special guests of The Feminist Radio Collective on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 12:44pm PST
International Women's Day in the Philippines 
Women of different political groups and professions were present at the March. Thirteen major groups joined forces under the banner “Martsa ng Kababaihan”. Present in big numbers were members of Akbayan, LABAN ng MASA, Bayan, Black and White Movement, Sanlakas, women advocate groups like Gabriela Women’s Party, Welga ng Kababaihan, and WomenSpeak. In an interesting twist of history, this was the first time that the women’s movements gathered together in a common cause since the Marcos dictato...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 12:05am PST
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
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