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5/20, The Ongoing Abortion Debate Panelists, including attorney Beth Parker of Planned Parenthood and Jennifer Lahl, R.N., founder and national director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, discuss the federal "partial-birth" abortion ban and the medical controversy igniting the national abortion debate....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 2:41pm PDT
San Francisco's anti-female ordinance SF Park Code criminalizes just one of the genders...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 11:47am PDT
Thu 5/20: March for Women's Lives Report Back March for Women's Lives Report Back. Join journalist Rose Aguilar for a report back and video footage from the March, along with a panel discussion about reproductive rights. Thursday May 20th, 7:00 pm at New College of California, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, May 19, 2004 10:55pm PDT
Gloria Anzaldua's Obituary it is with great sorrow y dolor en el corazon que hoy les doy la mala
noticia de la muerte de gloria anzaldua. todavia no se saben todos los
detalles de su muerte, pero por favor, si saben algo, please pass along
the
information...
ahorita no tengo las palabras que surgen dentro de mi... all i can say
for
now is that my heart goes out to the family and all those who know and
can
understand the detrimental magnitude of loosing one of the most
admirable,
inspiring, and ove...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 4:56pm PDT
Protest the cut of the "In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project" Your help is urgently needed to protest the cut of the In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project by Department on the Status of Women
BREAKING NEWS: Thanks to an outpouring of support from the community*, we won an agreement that the Commission on the Status of Women would hold a meeting on Thursday, May 20th at 4:00 at City Hall, Room 408 to examine the cutting of our grant!! Thanks to all of you who came out and supported the Project at the April 28th Commission Meeting! We w...
Posted: Sat, May 15, 2004 3:44pm PDT
5/18 Rally the Vote Arianna Huffington and MoveOn.org's Joan Blades speak at "Rally the Vote," an event to promote the women's vote by encouraging women to register to vote and to take part in the upcoming presidential election....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:20am PDT
6/7 Medical Facts Behind the Headlines - Sacramento Please join NARAL Pro-Choice California with Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH) on Monday, June 7, 2004 for an educational evening with medical experts who will discuss the current news making the headlines...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:19pm PDT
Lusty Lady One Year Aniversary Playday support worker owner peep show, womyn free...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 1:47pm PDT
Focus shifts to jail abuse of women For Huda Shaker, the humiliation began at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad. The American soldiers demanded to search her handbag. When she refused one of the soldiers pointed his gun towards her chest.
"He pointed the laser sight directly in the middle of my chest," said Professor Shaker, a political scientist at Baghdad University. "Then he pointed to his penis. He told me, 'Come here, bitch, I'm going to fuck you.'"...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:21pm PDT
Stories have started appearing about Iraqi women/girls being raped while in US prisons According to Prof Shaker, several women held in Abu Ghraib jail were sexually abused, including one who was raped by an American military policeman and became pregnant. She has now disappeared.
"A female colleague of mine was arrested and taken there. When I asked her after she was released what happened at Abu Ghraib she started crying," Prof Shaker said.
Yesterday Prof Shaker, who began researching the subject this year for Amnesty International, said she believed the woma...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:16pm PDT
Shelley Doty live at dolores Park (audio/mpeg 11.1MB) local singer/songwriter Shelley Doty rocks in a solo accoustic set at the 4/24 San Francisco reproductive rights rally at Dolores Park; 24 minutes...
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 5:53pm PDT
Reproductive Rights Rally - 4/24 Dolores Park (audio/mpeg 7.0MB) Excerpts from speakers on the stage and a interview with Norma Gallegos of Radical Women at the April 24th Reproductive Rights Rally in Dolores Park, San Francisco. The rally was in conjunction with the 4/25 reproductive rights march on Washington, D.C. that had upwards toward 1 million participants. 15 minutes...
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 1:42pm PDT
Mothers Day message — Our husbands shall not smell of carnage 
First Mothers Day message from 1870. It's not about presents. It's about peace....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:43am PDT
Protest the Cut of the In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project URGENT ACTION ALERT AND UPDATE
Your help is urgently needed to protest the cut of the In Defense of Prostitute Women’s Safety Project by Department on the Status of Women...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 6:38pm PDT
5/6: Benefit for CodePink and MoveOn.org Event
Thursday, May 6, 7pm
Benefit for CodePink and MoveOn.org
Enjoy a great night at the Grand Lake Theater, benefitting CodePink and MoveOn.org....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 12:20am PDT
Abortion, "reproductive rights", homosexuality and so on... THE BILLIONAIRE BOMB Just look who's funding anti-population programs.
Bill Gates ($63 billion), Warren Buffett ($28 billion), and Ted Turner ($9 billion) have billions on their minds, and not just in their bank accounts and stock portfolios. On a planet inhabited by 6 billion people, they claim that overpopulation is the greatest threat to survival in the 21st century — “the single most important issue facing mankind today,” according to Turner, founder of the Cable News Network (CNN).
Turner statement ...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:44am PDT
WHITE WOMEN MARCHING Pandora L. Leong directs the Teen Health Initiative at the New York Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Fri, Apr 30, 2004 4:09pm PDT
New Indypendent Looks at Feminism, Abortion and the "God Squad" The most recent Indypendent, timed to coincide with the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C., takes a look at feminism, abortion, and the attack of the "god squad"....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 11:03pm PDT
PATRIARCHY, CIVILIZATION, AND THE ORIGINS OF GENDER Civilization, very fundamentally, is the history of the domination of nature and of women. Patriarchy means rule over women and nature. Are the two institutions at base synonymous?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 9:37pm PDT
Afghan women protest the fundamentalist rule More than a hundred Afghan women activists of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan) together with some men and children demonstrated outside the U.N office in Islamabad on Tuesday to protest as they said, the rule of fundamentalists in Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 4:38pm PDT
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