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World AIDS Day Summit Planning Meeting WORLD Office, 414 13th Street, Second Floor
Oakland (near 12th Street/City Center BART)...
Event Date: Thu, May 3, 2007 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 12:12pm PDT
Rebellion and Rhyme: An Evening of Poetry and Resistance Mills College - Staff/Faculty Dining Hall
Directions available at http://www.mills.edu/maps/index.php...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:33am PDT
Mexican capital legalises abortion Legislators in the Mexican capital have legalised abortion, defying the Roman Catholic Church which prohibits the procedure....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 6:42am PDT
Dishing it! with Amy Andre and CR Hill 1800 Market @ Octavia...
Event Date: Tue, May 8, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 7:44pm PDT
Peaceful Demonstrations and Video from Inside Iran A celebration of Persian cinema continues in Westwood until May 11th. Meanwhile, in Iran, Iranians today challenge their government on the printed page, in the street, and in the prisons and jails of Tehran.
Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh (at right) was released after posting bail last Sunday. She was arrested on April 2nd along with others working on the One Million Signatures Campaign, which seeks to restore the basic civil liberties of women in Iran....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 7:32pm PDT
Urgent Manifest TO WHOEVER IT MAY CONCERN:
"POETRY IS A WEAPON THAT THUNDERS THE SIDEWALKS"
Only poetry can expressin these moments the rage and the shame that we suffer, because there are sick minds that are killing young ladies, girls, and women in Mexico with the cynical complicity of the gorvernment....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 5:43pm PDT
Supreme Court Decision: Huge Attack on Women Last week the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 margin to uphold the federal “Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.” This is an extremely oppressive and unjust decision, which will certainly—and needlessly—cause the deaths of some women and the imprisonment of doctors who attempt to aid them. Moreover, the legal arguments used to justify the decision mark a huge escalation in the war against women and in turning the United States into a theocracy, ruled by Christian Fascists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:47am PDT
USA: Stop sexual violence against Indigenous women The right to exist in a world free from violence is a basic tenet in many indigenous cultures and governments. The epidemic of sexual violence perpetrated against Native American women in the United States reflects a fundamental breakdown in the cultural and legal norms that have served to provide protection to Native women from time immemorial.”
-- Sarah Deer...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 11:35am PDT
Mexico City to vote on abortion Mexico City's legislative assembly is to vote on whether to legalise abortion in the city, the capital of the world's second-largest Roman Catholic country....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:45am PDT
SHINE! Mug-a-Thon 
Event: IMPACT Bay Area Mug-a-thon (Fights for Funds!)
Date & Location: Sunday, April 29th 1pm at San Fran Women's Building Auditorium
What: "Live" Full-Impact Women's Self Defense/Rape Prevention Fights w/ padded assailants
Cost: FREE (raffle tickets for sale to win free classes)
Why: Nonprofit self defense org raising money for scholarship fund.
Who: Open to the general public...
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 12:09pm PDT
The PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT - Mark Leno and others speak out! (video/quicktime 34.7MB) The April 19th rally at San Francisco City Hall was called to protest the US Supreme Court's decision Gonzales v. Carhart the day before. Two-minute QuickTime movie. 35MB....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 1:43am PDT
Jail Groupies Some people think jail is sexy
Some people treat prisoners like stars
Some people court men in jail as a habit
Some prisoners shuffle women like cards......
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 10:33am PDT
The PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT - It burdens the practice of Dr.Pratima Gupta! (video/quicktime 25.1MB) She must give priority to her patients' health, yet Gonzales v. Carhart adds a two-year jail term for her if she does. Three-minute QuickTime movie. 25MB....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 10:30am PDT
April Choice and Change :: NEWS FROM NANCY
:: HELP US FIGHT THE BAN
:: WHERE DO THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES STAND ON CHOICE?
:: CHOICE IN THE NEWS
:: HERO AND ZERO OF THE MONTH
:: IN THE NEWS
:: BUSH V. CHOICE BLOG...
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:52pm PDT
Leading Democrats posture on abortion ruling Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision marks a turning point in jurisprudence on abortion in the United States. By upholding the so-called Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, the Court has set the stage for numerous restrictions on abortion rights....
Posted: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 10:05am PDT
The PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT of 2003 - Exactly how did the Supreme Court uphold it? (video/quicktime 25.4MB) Atty. Beth Parker explains in detail the three arguments of the five-member majority in the April 18th Gonzales v. Carhart decision. Three-minute QT movie. 25MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 9:59pm PDT
From Iraq to the Supreme Court: A New Dark Ages for Women "The Supreme Court's decision is an affirmation of the progress we have made over the past six years in protecting human dignity."
-- George W. Bush praising the Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on dilation and extraction abortions, August 18, 2007
"What does that mean, 'outrages upon human dignity'?"
-- George W. Bush lashing out against the Geneva Conventions and demanding that Congress remove legal obstacles to torture, September 6, 2006...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 6:46am PDT
Gonzales v. Carhart - Prelude to reversing Roe v. Wade? (video/quicktime 6.7MB) Atty. Beth Parker, counsel to Planned Parenthood, spoke April 19, 2007, at San Francisco City Hall. The rally was called to protest the United States Supreme Court decision of the previous day. (More speeches later.) Parker warns that we should expect a flood of anti-choice legislation in coming months and years based on the invitation issued by the five-member majority in Gonzales v. Carhart. Two-minute QuickTime movie. 7MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 4:18am PDT
Supreme Court Upholds Late-Term Abortion Ban The Supreme Court has handed down what is being called one of the biggest setbacks for the abortion rights movement in years. On Wednesday, the court voted 5-4 to uphold a ban on late-term abortion. The ruling marks the first time justices have agreed that a specific abortion procedure can be banned....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:31am PDT
US Supreme Court rules in favor of abortion restrictions In a highly significant decision released Wednesday morning, the US Supreme Court for the first time upheld a law banning certain types of abortion. The ruling sets the stage for further legal restrictions on abortion rights throughout the country. It represents a further attack on democratic rights and the separation of church and state....
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:16am PDT
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