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Ladyfest Garage Sale...this Saturday!
Ladyfest Benefit Garage Sale...be there or be square....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2004 2:13pm PST
Every Weds: Code Pink Vigils
Election season is upon us and many believe this is the most important election in decades. Being visible and speaking out in our communities is more important than ever. Our vigils are gaining great momentum....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 9:54pm PST
March for Women's Lives
I think I was about 17 when I found out that my mom had had an abortion. She had just recovered from tuberculosis and was still taking massive doses of antibiotics to fight off the chronic bronchitis that had sprung up in its wake. She had been seriously dating somebody for the first time since her divorce. Despite protection, she got pregnant....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 2:03pm PST
Tonight: Webcast discussion with Eve Ensler on tampax.com (?!)
Tampax invites you to meet Eve Ensler live online and hear her talk about what it means to be a vagina warrior, share stories of the amazing women and girls who make up V-Day (http://www.vday.orG), and answer your questions! Visit http://www.tampax.com/ to participate in the free webcast at 11:00PM EST (8:00 pacific)....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 6:49pm PST
Call for Global Women's Strike 3/8
8 March 2004 -- Calling all women
5th GLOBAL WOMEN'S STRIKE
Calling all men to join with women to STOP THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT!
INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:52pm PST
Religious rightist to head FDA’s Reproductive Committee
Dr. Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:24pm PST
Ashcroft Seeks Hospital Abortion Records
The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and other cities turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. We speak with the president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:33pm PST
Bush Administration Violates Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
The Bush Administration has claimed in recent legal proceedings that it does not believe that there is any legal protection for the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, according to recently released court documents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 9:47am PST
Tonight: Film about Women in Prison in Iran
"Women's Prison," a dramatic interpretation of turbulent times in Iranian history shown through the eyes of female prison inmates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 10:34am PST
Ciudad Juarez mass murders get international spotlight as giant puppets start SF weekend
Meanwhile, local
demonstrations will begin Friday at 4pm at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco,
where Giant Puppets of Grieving Mothers carrying rag-doll dead children will mourn
the victims and demand an end to the slaughter....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:16pm PST
Dance For Change: Save Women's Lives Event 2/27
Join Planned Parenthood for a benefit to support the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:46pm PST
Women Under Occupation: From Palestine To Iraq- A Report by Kate Raphael
Bay Area activist Kate Raphael will speak on February 27 about her work in
Palestine, and the recent women's delegation to Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 5:02pm PST
International Women's Peace Service - Palestine Needs Women Now
IWPS - Palestine is a project which began in August 2002 to set up and run
an International Women's House in the village of Haris, Salfit District. We
provide trained women from the international community to witness, monitor,
document and publicize human rights abuses......
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 12:27am PST
2/15: Status of Women in Iraq: CodePink Women's Delegation Report Back
2/15 7:30 pm:
7th Heaven Yoga Studio
2820 7th St. (at Heinz) Berkeley...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 6:52pm PST
2/13 NAFTA and Ciudad Juarez Murders
Since 1993, when 340 U.S. owned corporations relocated to Ciudad Juarez, over 370
young women have been brutally murdered, many raped, tortured and mutilated....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 11:38pm PST
Women's Voices Rise Up Event 2/28
benefit for:
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq...
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 11:46am PST
2/14: Silent Candlelight Vigil in Solidarity with the Women of Juarez
In solidarity with the families of the women of Juarez and those that are joining
them there in an awareness weekend, CodePink will hold a candlelight vigil in
Dolores Park similar to the one that will be held the same evening in Ciudad Juarez....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 12:22am PST
San Francisco sex workers are on a mission to decriminalize prostitution
A new Bay Area coalition is arguing that the best way to stop the horrifying exploitation of forced prostitution is to make the world's oldest profession legal....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:25pm PST
Journal 3 -- Straight out of Palestine
Kate Raphael is part of a 12-woman delegation to Baghdad organized by CodePink and Occupation Watch. She spent the last five months working with International Women's Peace Service in Occupied Palestine. You can subscribe to her list by emailing iwps-kate-subscribe@lists.riseup.net.
For information about the delegation see www.codepinkalert.org. For info about IWPS, www.iwps.info....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 11:42am PST
Who is killing the women of Juarez Mexico? Updated Release
You have a number of opportunities to see the powerful film, "Senorita Extraviada," from Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 in Sacramento and Davis. I saw this film at the event on last Tuesday and everybody, including myself, was very moved about the atrocities taking place in Juarez. Don't miss it!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 10:13am PST