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Navajo Woman Walks to Washington so Missing Aunt Will Not Be Forgotten 
Seraphine Warren arrived in Washington DC in time for Indigenous Peoples Day, after having walked all the way from Sweetwater, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation, a trek of over 2,500 miles. She set out to raise awareness about the failures of government agencies and law enforcement in handling the MMIW, Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, terror on the reservations. This terror struck Seraphine Warren's family when her beloved Auntie Ella Mae Begay went missing....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2022 5:00am PDT
SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade: The Dissent of Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan 
Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan: "Today, the Court discards that balance. It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 6:00pm PDT
Overturning Roe is Illegitimate: SCOTUS Decision Must Not Stand 5:00 pm Protests at Supreme Court & everywhere, nationwide
RiseUp4AbortionRights.org is calling on people to bring the gears of society to a grinding halt through nonviolent mass resistance to compel the federal government to reverse the overturning of Roe v Wade by codifying into law access to abortion on demand nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 11:02am PDT
Abortion is not only about women its a human, civil, environmental rights issue says EOPA EOPA, an organization of thousands of elected officials, is appalled by the leaked Supreme Court abortion decision and warns of civil liberty erosion. Black and Brown communities will suffer the most. They do now, from fossil fuel production and factories that spew toxins, which have been strategically located in their communities because they were redlined decades ago. Environmental justice will become a utopian dream if we start eroding women’s rights, as all American rights will become end...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2022 2:59pm PDT
Leaked Draft Opinion Reveals the Supreme Court Intends to Completely Overturn Roe v Wade 
In a stunning breach of US Supreme Court secrecy, a draft majority opinion written by justice Samuel Alito has been leaked. The would-be ruling is outrageous, sneering at the concept of a constitutional right to privacy and bodily autonomy. Alito makes a case for completely overturning Roe v Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992), allowing states to outlaw all abortions without exceptions for rape and incest. Half of the country will lose access to safe and legal reproductive se...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2022 8:51pm PDT
The Prison System Fails Incarcerated Pregnant Women This article gives a look on how incarcerated pregnant women are treated poorly and what can be done to fix it....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2022 3:39pm PDT
Sterilization Should Never Be Forced This piece focuses on the importance of reproductive justice while also highlighting the use of forced sterilization to reduce birth rates of minorities....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2022 12:06pm PDT
Under Pressure, Texas DA Drops Murder Charge Against Woman in Abortion Case 
The district attorney of Starr County, Texas on April 10 said he would drop a murder charge against Lizelle Herrera, a woman who was arrested on April 8 for allegedly causing "the death of an individual by self-induced abortion."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2022 1:13am PDT
"Forced motherhood is female enslavement. When women are not free, no one is free" 
"We're really in a state of emergency as to whether women are going to be treated as both human beings or incubators," Sunsara Taylor, an initiator with a new movement called Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, told Newsweek....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2022 5:23pm PST
Stop the Fascist Assault on Abortion Rights! 
Now is the time for everyone, everywhere, to get in the streets to stop this fascist assault on abortion rights!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2021 4:13pm PST
Scientist Says Women in STEM 'Vulnerable to Mistreatment' In a post to her website, an environmental scientist and science educator, who goes by the handle of 'Biologist Ellie', drew a focus to the plight of women in STEM, suggesting a lack of 'visibility of women in the sciences' made the industry vulnerable to instances of harassment, mistreatment and inequalities....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2021 3:03am PST
WECAN Indigenous Women's Delegation to COP 26 Brings Vital Voices 
WECAN's International Indigenous Women's Delegation is bringing the voices vital to the COP 26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, beginning now....
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2021 9:38am PDT
Women of Standing Rock Celebrated at North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival 
The North Dakota Human Rights Film Festival will recognize the 5-year anniversary of the peaceful protest against the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock with the screening of the documentary feature film, END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK....
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2021 9:25am PDT
Safe Haven Resources for Domestic Violence Survivors with Pets Vary Markedly by State 
October 7, 2021, Washington, DC—In honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) released new research today that ranks states according to the number of safe havens available per capita. Safe havens include humane societies, veterinary offices, foster homes, and shelters that help domestic violence survivors and their pets escape abusive situations....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2021 11:44pm PDT
Washington March for Women's Rights 
Women march throughout the country to keep abortion legal...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2021 11:53am PDT
Supreme Court Announces Date for Case Directly Challenging Roe v. Wade 
Abortion rights advocates geared up for a major fight as the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will soon hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case in Mississippi which poses a direct challenge to Roe vs. Wade....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2021 6:23am PDT
Why Congress Must Codify Roe With all eyes on Texas Thursday [Sept 9] as the U.S. Justice Department sued the Lone Star State over its new abortion ban, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt held a ceremonial bill signing for nine so-called "pro-life" measures he approved during this year's legislative session—highlighting the need for Congress to protect reproductive rights at the federal level....
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2021 4:18am PDT
Abortion Bounty Hunters in Texas Are Not ‘Whistleblowers’ They’re Cruel Vigilantes...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 10:55am PDT
The sordid effort to oust New York Governor Andrew Cuomo 
The 165-page report issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James concerning sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo deserves to be treated with contempt....
Posted: Wed, Aug 4, 2021 10:13pm PDT
Winona LaDuke and Water Protectors Arrested: Horse Nation to the Front Line 
Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth, was among the women arrested today defending the Shell River from the construction of Enbridge Line 3....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2021 10:35pm PDT