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27th annual Sacramento Women Take Back the Night Rally Women Take Back the Night
Sacramento, California
The annual Rally and March affirms Northern California's commitment to ending the violence that restricts women's personal freedom and safety.
The 27th annual Sacramento Women Take Back the Night Rally and March is scheduled for October 7, 2006. See you there!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 1:18pm PDT
Pro, Anti Choice Groups Represented at Park Presidio 
Chain of Life, Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) members represent pro and anti choice viewpoints on Park Presidio Blvd....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2006 7:25pm PDT
Angela Davis is coming to UC Davis on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at Freeborn Hall Freeborn Hall, UC Davis...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 8:17pm PDT
SF: Seeking Answers- An All Women Human Rights Delegation's Report Back from the Philippines New College, 777 Valencia (between 18th and 19th near 16th Street BART)...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 11:58am PDT
Anti-Choice Religious Right protest women's right to abortion on Sunday 10/1/06 in SF The right wing Religious Right is back to celebrate the loss of women's rights and the advancement of their agenda. This will happen in San Francisco on Sunday October 1st on Park Presidio Blvd. between Geary and Clement., from 2:30 to 3:30PM. BACORR and others will be there to support the "No on 85" campaign....
Posted: Sat, Sep 23, 2006 10:27pm PDT
Women Lie in Support of Filipina National Raped by US Marines 
A Demonstration in Solidarity with Women’s Organizations Internationally...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2006 2:34pm PDT
Sept. 15 Solidarity Demonstration in Support of Rape Victim Sept. 15, 2006 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Members of the Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity (FACES) and Women for Genuine Security (WGS) will lay in symbolic protest around the Dewey Statue in Union Square Park, San Francisco in support of Filipina raped by US Marines at the former US military base....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 4:09pm PDT
Exotic Dancers Struggle For Their Rights (audio/mpeg 18.5MB) Part One of a series detailing the history of dancer's struggles against worksite labor and criminal violations that include sexual assault and coerced prostitution....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 11:50pm PDT
Politics of Vulvic Symbology/TRAVELLING VULVA MUSEUM COMING TO TOWN! The Travelling VULVA MUSEUM Exhibit and Speaker Series is coming to town!
* Learn about Vulvas in Art, History, and Mythology
* Explore Political and Religious Vulvic Relations
* View a rich collection of vulvic items including 3 different designers' vulvic prayer flags, vulvic jewelry, vulvic postcards, zines, pillows, religious/ritual items, and more!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 10, 2006 9:53pm PDT
BCA E-Alert September 2006 1. NEW AT BCA: August/September Newsletter Now Online; 2005 Annual Report Now Online
2. IN THE NEWS: Governor of California to Veto Universal Health Care; BCA Guide for
Newly Diagnosed Women Highlighted in AARP Magazine; Understanding Metastasis; High
Cost of Chemotherapy
3. TAKE ACTION: Register to Vote
4. SAVE THE DATE: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers' Third Annual
Symposium, November 2-3, Berkeley, CA; San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December
14-17, San Anto...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:30pm 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jewish Women In San Francisco Take Stand Against War In Lebanon 
A large portion of the US Jewish community in the United States is opposed to war. While many of the right-wing groups that pretend to speak for all of us try to portray the US Jewish community as being supportive of the war in Lebanon, they do not speak for the majority of us.
At the August 12th anti-war protest in San Francisco, Women in Black carried antiwar signs and many others in the crowd held signs making it clear that they were Jewish and opposed Israel's actions....
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2006 12:46pm PDT
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