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Fmr. Political Prisoner Michelle Bachelet Elected Chile's First Female President In Chile, former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet has become the country first-ever female president. Running on the Socialist ticket, Bachelet beat her billionaire rival in Sunday's election. Bachelet is the daughter of an air force general who was tortured and died in prison after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. She too was imprisoned by Pinochet's regime before fleeing into exile. We speak with Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman, Chilean torture survivor Emilio Banda as well ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:49am PST
New Poster for Jan 21 Stand for Repro Justice Stand for reproductive justice vs. "Walk for Life" is coming this saturday , here's a printer freindly poster in .pdf format you can post appropriately....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 1:40pm PST
9 months? 
It seems there are changes in the works. A lame duck prezzy will get to replace a moderate voice of reason on the Supreme Court with handpicked right-white-man who thinks he knows what's best for the rest of us. Now there are ads on BART from the rightwingers.
Well we got our own ads!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 11:21pm PST
COUNTER PROTEST "WALK FOR LIFE" 1/21 ANNIVERSERY OF ROE VS WADE (audio/mpeg 20.3MB) Anita O'Shea of BAYCORR discusses fights against attacks on womens' right to abortion, a comprehensive reproductive health care rights agenda, and organizing efforsts to confront the 2nd annual "Walk For Life" demonstration. (22 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:29pm PST
Girls Don't Need Weighlifting - Top Ten Reasons Earlier this week Ambrea Phillips, a senior at Anderson County High in Tennessee, was involuntarily removed from a weight training class because she was the only girl. Below are some reasons school officials might have cited to explain....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:39pm PST
Pro-choice Messages on Indybay Anger Catholic League The following is an email that the Catholic League sent out to its email list today criticizing Indybay because "the website embraces every conceivable anti-American, left-wing cause, including issues that are positively insane." Special thanks to Catholic League president Bill Donohue for addressing the issue in such a professional and enlightened manner. Thanks as well for sending out the email recommending your flock visit here....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 3:42pm PST
Abused woman beaten again by state of California For killing her abuser, Rose Parker, promised pardon after 15 years in prison, 5 years on parole, now on parole for life...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:34am PST
Defacement of Anti-Choice BART Ads Tied to Indybay in Corporate Press Some supporters of abortion rights have called BART to complain about the ads and demand their removal. The political Web site www.indybay.org urged activists to call BART and members of its Board of Directors to register their discontent.
http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=4023&category_id=31...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:27am PST
Pro-choice Rally and Counter-protest on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade 
Bay Area community activists are convening a broad-based “Stand for Reproductive Justice – Women’s Rights are Human Rights!” celebration and counter-picket opposing the second annual “Walk for Life - West Coast" march in San Francisco on January 21 – the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Rally will start at 11AM , Near Pier 1 just north of the Ferry Bldg.. Following the rally, pro-choice advocates from the Radical Cheerleaders to the Raging Grannies will line the anti-abortionists’ marc...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 8:18pm PST
Alito Refuses to State Whether Roe v. Wade is Settled Law Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito refuses to state that Roe v. Wade was the settled law of the land -- a statement made by John Roberts four months ago during his confirmation hearings to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:34am PST
Women Launch Campaign to End Iraq War 
On Thursday, January 5, women from around the world—from the US to Iraq to Britain to Japan—launched a campaign aimed at ending the Iraq war and all attacks on Iraqi civilians in 2006. The new campaign, Women Say No to War, coordinated by CodePink, plans to gather some 100,000 signatures by March 8, International Women’s Day, when US and Iraqi women will deliver the signatures to leaders in Washington, DC and women around the world will deliver them to US embassies. To read the full text of ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 4:14pm PST
Filibuster or Bush: Feinstein Must Stop Alito Sen. Feinstein must declare her intention now to lead a filibuster against Alito. Simply voting against him is an empty gesture....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 3:02pm PST
ALERT!! Call Dianne Feinstein's office NOW!!! This call was put out by Nichole Yelich, a reproductive rights organizer...CALL NOW!!!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 12:06pm PST
Help Free Theresa Cruz Imprisoned for 15 years for the non-fatal shooting of her ex-husband, Theresa Cruz is finally up for parole! She's not a media star, just a regular working-class woman who needs your help. This is a case we could win! Please write the governor....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:56am PST
Women's Groups Launch Historic Effort to Block Alito NOW Calls on Supporters to Join "Enraged and Engaged" Campaign...
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 11:10pm PST
New Year Starts With Legislative Victories for Women We won! Two issues we followed throughout 2005—the Bureau of Labor Statistics' decision to discontinue collecting women workers data and reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act—have been successfully resolved at the beginning of the new year....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 11:07pm PST
Legendary Zapatista Leader Comandanta Ramona Has Died She Struggled with Cancer for Ten Years; “Other Campaign” Temporarily Suspended for Her Funeral...
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 10:55pm PST
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito 
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:49pm PST
Protest "Walk for Life" (video/quicktime 4.8MB) Stand for Reproductive Justice....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 6:05pm PST
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