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Mothers of the Disappeared in Sinaloa The Other Campaign Meets with Relatives of Victims from Mexico’s “Dirty War”...
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:20am PDT
Rally Against Proposition 85 in Dolores Park (audio/mpeg 7.8MB) A rally was held in Dolores Park on Saturday, October 7th to kick off the local organizing against Proposition 85, the parental notification bill, a return almost word-for-word of the failed Proposition 73 on last November's ballot. State Representative Mark Leno, California Teachers' Association President Barbara Kerr, Planned Parenthood Golden Gate Chief Medical Officer Ann Foster Rosales, Latino Issues Forum Policy Analyst Lacy Ceros (spelling?) and a moderator tell many reasons why this ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 5:55pm PDT
Modern Day Slavery under the Guise of Foreign 'Bride' Dieu-Hien arrived in Taiwan as a bride, but was made to work as a servant from the very first day. That’s when she found out that her “husband’s” former wife had left him due to his drinking and abuse, and now she has to take care of his four children as well as his parents. Hien’s day starts at 5am, cooking and taking care of the household, then making tofu to sell at the store. During the day, she’s expected to make and carry 150-200 sets of tofu, each weighing 25 pounds. Throughout the day...
Posted: Sun, Oct 15, 2006 10:43am PDT
Abortion may be legal in California -- but that doesn't mean you can actually get one. ....The number of abortion providers has been declining nationwide. The Alan Guttmacher Institute, the foremost clearinghouse for abortion information in the country, found that more than half of the US hospitals that provided abortions in 1982 had stopped by 2000. The institute also documented an 11 percent decrease in the number of abortion providers in the United States between 1996 and 2000. In California the decline was even greater: a 19 percent drop during the same period. Today, 41 pe...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:48am PDT
No On 85: Beyond the Issue of Choice Here in San Francisco, fear about the local success of a ballot measure which attacks a woman’s right to choose is low: San Francisco has long been a haven for pro-choice supporters. However, Proposition 85 has a fundamental flaw which overrides an individual’s position on abortion, and everyone should be talking about it. Proposition 85 only affects those citizens who coincidentally are the only citizens with cannot directly impact the vote’s outcome: those under 18 years of age. The voice o...
Posted: Sat, Oct 14, 2006 10:46am PDT
Live No on Prop 85 in Dolores Park! 
Pictures from the ProChoice No on 85 event on Saturday 10/7....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 11:50pm PDT
Imitating Others As Control: Is Drag Sexist/Racist? Next time you see someone performing either gender or race drag, THINK ABOUT IT! Don’t support racist or sexist stereotyping via imitation (or gender/race drag), as entertainment. It is not benign humor; no more so than "black face" was. It is very rare that I see any gender or race drag acts that are not sexist and/or racist. Only when the dominant paradigm is the butt of the joke, not the oppressed group, does drag work for me as entertainment....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 2:50am PDT
Violence Against Women Officially Declared a Human Rights Violation The United Nations released a report late last week officially classifying violence against women as a human rights violation, increasing pressure on states in the UN to intensify and improve systems in place for handling violence against women....
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 5:17pm PDT
Women's Magazine on KPFA today Today, October 9 th at 1pm , The Women’s Magazone on KPFA radio 94.1 FM
will be discussing the recently published book “ The Color of
Violence: The INCITE! Anthology”...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 10:56am PDT
CA National Organization for Women Releases E-book on Crisis in Family Law Courts Announcement of electronic book about mothers and their allies fighting back against injustice for mothers in the family law courts. A collection of essays by the country's leading experts and advocates fighting to address bias against women in contested custody and divorce cases, and the epidemic of mothers losing custody of their children to perpetrators of domestic violence and sexual abuse....
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2006 7:24am PDT
Who Is Teen Esteem? East Bay Anti-choice group "TEEN ESTEEM"
promoting negative messages about contraceptives in our public schools...
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 2:20pm PDT
Isn't it about time we had answers? This October, BCA is continuing to move
beyond “awareness” into action with the launch of Answers Wanted. This new
multi-year public education campaign focuses on crucial questions about breast
cancer that remain unanswered....
Posted: Sun, Oct 8, 2006 1:45pm PDT
Karaoke for the Cure Steiners Tavern, Sonoma...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 13, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 10:33am PDT
Maquilapolis/ City of Factories PBS-TV...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 10:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Oct 7, 2006 6:12am PDT
Twelve dead in Bolivia mine clashes At least 12 people have been killed and 57 injured in Bolivia in clashes between state-employed and independent tin miners, the interior ministry said....
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2006 7:50am PDT
Whither Goest our Reproductive Rights: A CounterPULSE Fall Talk CounterPULSE is located at 1310 Mission Street (at 9th) in
San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 8:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 3:46pm PDT
SF: Stop the Femicides Event California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street (Between 10th and 11th)
Room 607, 6th floor
San Francisco, near the Civic Center BART station
Directions: http://www.ciis.edu/about/directions.html...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2006 1:34pm PDT
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
Call For Vulva/Vagina Art & Activism! 
The Vulva Museum (www.vulvamuseum.org) wants to archive the most complete collection of vulvic activism and vagina arts anywhere! And we need your help! The Vulva Museum is currently expanding our collection. If you or anyone you know produces vulvic art or activism, we would like to talk to you/them, and perhaps display your/their work in our museum! (Currently our collection includes paintings, pillows, prayer flags, vulva jewelry, ritual items, cards, art, t-shirts, zines, books, rocks and...
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2006 3:51am PDT
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