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Who Are We to Judge?
Ever wonder what life is like inside the California Prison System? Here is a first hand account of the horrors of what is like in the Chowchilla prison for women, located in the Central Valley....
Posted: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 12:33pm PDT
BACORR Pro-Choice planning meeting
New Valencia Hall, 1908 Mission St. (at 15th St.), San Francisco....
Event Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 10:29pm PDT
International Museum of Women's "Imagining Ourselves" Exhibit
County Government Center, 70 W. Hedding, East Wing, Santa Clara...
Event Date: Thu, Aug 17, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 8, 2006 12:09pm PDT
SCPD Meeting With Seabright Neighbors About Recent Sexual Assaults (audio/mpeg 14.5MB)
Audio and analysis of an August 3 meeting with SCPD and Seabright residents, to address a recent string of violent, sexual assaults in the neighborhood. At the meeting, police announced the arrest of a suspect in one of the sexual assaults....
Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 1:20pm PDT
8/26: Just around the corner: Sistahs Steppin’ in Pride
*March:* Gather at the Lake Merritt pillars at 11 a.m. and march at noon. Bring your
friends, your drum (or borrow one of ours), and join us as we fill the streets with our
voices and merry-making!
*Festival:* The free celebration continues from 1 to 6 p.m. in Snow Park's Sistah Village
(Harrison between 19th & 20th Streets)....
Posted: Sun, Aug 6, 2006 9:15pm PDT
LAST CHANCE to save AJR36, Bring Home our CA National Guard from Iraq
EMERGENCY National Guard Working Group meeting at the CodePINK office, East Bay, 1248 Solano Ave., Albany 94706...
Event Date: Wed, Aug 9, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Aug 6, 2006 5:03pm PDT
LAST CHANCE to save AJR36, Bring Home our CA National Guard from Iraq
Meet on the steps of the State Capitol Building, Sacramento...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 11, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Aug 6, 2006 4:58pm PDT
Feminist News Digest: 7/28/06 - 8/04/06
Top Feminist News - 7/28/2006 - 8/4/2006...
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 2:14pm PDT
13th Annual WOC Film and Arts Fest at UCSC Aug 3 - 6
The theme of this year's Women of Color Film Festival, Regenerations, draws inspiration from the number 13 in the Mayan calendar, which symbolizes transformation, movement, and change. This event builds upon the tremendous history established by previous film festivals to bring emerging and well-established filmmakers, artists, media activists and community members to our campus. As the longest running festival of its kind, the UCSC Women of Color Film and Video Festival has sparked dialogue ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 12:57pm PDT
UCSC Women Of Color Film Fest
PORTER COLLEGE at the UCSC CAMPUS...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 12:45pm PDT
Is Your Governor Like This?
IS ARNIE THIS BAD? IS ARNIE WORSE?...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 5:44am PDT
Tell the FDA: Just do it!
Is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ready to end its
three-year delay on making the "morning-after" pill available
without a prescription?...
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 12:16am PDT
US FDA nominee defends morning-after pill moves
The acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief sought support from senators for his stalled nomination on Tuesday, saying his plan to reconsider a "morning-after pill" was based on science and not politics....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 11:41pm PDT
New Mexico Groper ..errr.. GOVERNOR Bill Richardson
Lt. Gov. Denish softens comments about ‘touchy’ Richardson...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 8:27am PDT
Choice and Change
:: NEWS FROM NANCY
:: NEW CONGRESSIONAL REPORT DOCUMENTS FRAUD AT FAKE CLINICS
:: GETTING A PRO-CHOICE CONGRESS? IT'S ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS
:: HERO AND ZERO
:: CHOICE IN THE NEWS...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 12:53am PDT
The Struggle for Somali: Warlords, Islamists, US Global Militarism and Women
I will try to spare the readers from 'famine stories,' or the downing of American Blackhawk war planes or the killing and dismemberment of 18 American soldiers in that 1993 mission, or the American military killing of a thousand or so Somalis in retaliation of the killing of 18 American Marines....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 10:20pm PDT
Arab women reporters on frontlines of Lebanon war
Young female reporters beat their male colleagues to forefront of both sides of Lebanon-Israel war zone....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 7:43am PDT
Seabright attack flyer
The following flyer was posted in the Seabright neighborhood, detailing the attack that the woman survived. The flyer has been torn down, possibly by the police, as it challenges conventional responses to violence against women: "ATTACK"
On Thursday, July 20, around 10:15pm, I was attacked on Cayuga between Logan and Idaho. A man in his early 30's with short (buzzed) dark hair, wearing a white hooded sweatshirt knocked me to ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 4:51pm PDT
U.S. Republican Taliban Endangers Girls and Young Women
Thursday evening the U.S. Senate joined with their House colleagues in passing their version of legislation that will endanger the health and lives of many young women, or make felons out of their trusted relatives and clergy. The House passed an even harsher measure last year and the bills will have to be reconciled before this cruel bill becomes law....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 10:19pm PDT
Planned Parenthood Newsletter: July 2006
The so-called Medical Institute for Sexual Health (MISH)
recently made headlines after the federal government announced
that the group would receive a $200,000 grant to establish a
sexual health curriculum for medical students....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 10:01pm PDT