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audioExotic Dancers Struggle For Their Rights (audio/mpeg 18.5MB) by Daisy Anarchy
Part One of a series detailing the history of dancer's struggles against worksite labor and criminal violations that include sexual assault and coerced prostitution....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 11:50pm PDT
calendarNo on 85 Rally by Amy De Reyes
Back steps of the State Building in San Francisco (455 Golden Gate Ave.) - on McAllister...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 9:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 4:25pm PDT
textPolitics of Vulvic Symbology/TRAVELLING VULVA MUSEUM COMING TO TOWN! by kirsten anderberg
The Travelling VULVA MUSEUM Exhibit and Speaker Series is coming to town! * Learn about Vulvas in Art, History, and Mythology * Explore Political and Religious Vulvic Relations * View a rich collection of vulvic items including 3 different designers' vulvic prayer flags, vulvic jewelry, vulvic postcards, zines, pillows, religious/ritual items, and more!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 10, 2006 9:53pm PDT
calendarSeptember 21 Talk on Marxism and Feminism by Ellen Schwartz
The Green Room of the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., Sac....
Event Date: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 10, 2006 10:58am PDT
calendar23rd Annual Womyn's Spiral Dance by Leilani
Orinda Masonic Temple, 9 Altarinda Road, Orinda, CA...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 10:01pm PDT
textGive Peace a Vote by CODEPINK
With elections coming up in just two months, it's time for us to turn this anti-war sentiment into a powerful voter bloc. Let's take the message that Connecticut voters sent to Joe Lieberman and send it all over the country: We will not vote for candidates who support George Bush's lies and George Bush's war!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 4:17pm PDT
calendarreading from Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis
Modern Times Books, 888 Valencia St., San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 11:47am PDT
calendarreading from Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis
Cody's 4th Street, 1730 4th St, Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 13, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 11:45am PDT
calendarVoice of New Generation: A Young Zimbabwean Woman Talks about Her Experiences and Her Fut by Gillian Wilson
The Women’s Building, 3453 18th Street, San Francisco. For directions go to http://www.womensbuilding.org/public/about/contact.html...
Event Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 10:12am PDT
textBCA E-Alert September 2006 by Breast Cancer Action
1. NEW AT BCA: August/September Newsletter Now Online; 2005 Annual Report Now Online 2. IN THE NEWS: Governor of California to Veto Universal Health Care; BCA Guide for Newly Diagnosed Women Highlighted in AARP Magazine; Understanding Metastasis; High Cost of Chemotherapy 3. TAKE ACTION: Register to Vote 4. SAVE THE DATE: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers' Third Annual Symposium, November 2-3, Berkeley, CA; San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 14-17, San Anto...
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 12:30pm PDT
calendarKaraoke for Choice to defeat Prop. 85 by
Deep, 2030 H street (on the corner of H and 21st)...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Sep 7, 2006 11:32am PDT
calendarLisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler BITCHfest: Ten Years of Bitch Magazine by Modern Times Bookstore
Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia St. San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 5:29pm PDT
textSex Selection in India Dodges Existing Laws by New American Media (reposted)
The unholy spectre of illegal sex selection to prevent or destroy female offspring - at the pre-conception stage or the pre-natal - just doesn't seem to stop. Even as the country is battling to remedy its skewed sex ratio, newer onslaughts are afoot through technology driven procedures available in cyberspace; the warped Indian brain is quick to learn and adapt with ulterior aims....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 7:34am PDT
calendarVigil for Woman Who Was SET ON FIRE in Oakland by
>> Monday, 7:30 at 44th and Shafter >> Candlelight vigil to honor this woman¹s tragedy...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2006 6:29pm PDT
calendarLIP: An all grrrl MC Battle Returns! by Alpheta
House of Stormz Studios:: 1439 105th Ave.@ International Blvd (E.14th Street)...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 22, 2006 10:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 12:23pm PDT
textBTL:FDA Approves OTC Sale of Morning-After Pill Decision excludes women under18 by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
Interview with Ted Miller, communications director for NARAL ProChoice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Sep 2, 2006 4:38am PDT
textWomen Recount Gang Rape, Abuse at Hearing Against Haitian Death Squad Leader Emmanuel Constant by Democracy Now (reposted)
Two women have testified at an evidentiary hearing in a civil case against a former Haitian death squad leader living in New York City. The suit against Emmanuel "Toto" Constant was launched in December 2004 by a group of women who suffered gang rape and other abuses from Constant's forces. We speak with the lead attorney in the case....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 7:53am PDT
imageConcord Hospital Workers Stage Two-Day Strike
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by josh sonnenfeld
On Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, hospital workers at John Muir Medical Center's Concord Campus (formerly Mt. Diablo) went on strike, urging the management to come back to the bargaining table. Without a contract since October, members of the 450-strong union (part of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers' 140,000 members in the Western U.S.), have been struggling to prevent the profit-oriented John Muir management from cutting back their families' healthcare packages. Other issues of concern include the need...
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 5:32am PDT
calendarSamantha King Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Modern Times
Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 6, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Aug 30, 2006 3:28pm PDT
textsuffragist parade in sacramento by monica krauth
It's been 93 years since women received the right to vote in 1913, but hundreds of people marched to the State Capitol on Saturday morning to address issues affecting women locally and world-wide....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:14am PDT
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