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Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:10am PST
We women are certainly proud of our accomplishments, including the fact that Amy Goodman is a leading progressive journalist in the US, heard on KPFA, 94.1 FM, at 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., weekdays on Democracy Now, the former time being when most of us have time to listen. However, on International Women's Day, Wednesday, 3/8/06, we got religion and song and dance acts instead, demonstrating that KPFA not only never asked the women listeners what we want, but that they view women as backward peas...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:29am PST
Rape victims in Mexico are routinely denied access to legal abortion, says Human Rights Watch in a new study....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:28pm PST
Millions of women around the world, including those in the UK and other Western countries, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:23pm PST
The right thinks punitively. This is a TIME magazine article. Please note how mental and economic health benefits of abortion are dismissed as inconsequential and how the legitimacy of elective abortions isnt even considered or discussed....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:10pm PST
Breaking News: Following a very successful event Sunday in NYC, the Iraqi women
finished their press conference in the UN just in time to watch their friends, Cindy
Sheehan and Medea Benjamin be dragged off by cops and jailed for trying to deliver
the truth. The week of International Women?s Day has begun....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:32pm PST
On Monday, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and three other CODEPINK members attempted to peacefully enter the United States mission to the U.N. -- and were violently arrested.
There were no grounds for their arrest, they had alerted local law enforcement about their presence and they were completely nonviolent. According to reports, the women were slammed up against brick walls and, at one point, Cindy Sheehan was exposed while police were roughing her up....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:25am PST
Please join us in sending a message to U.S. governors asking them to hold the line on a woman's right to choose.
Help protect the right to choose in your state by volunteering with your state affiliate...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:50pm PST
BACORR is meeting at New Valencia Hall 1908 Mission at 15th....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:02pm PST
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Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 11:01am PST
This weekend, five Iraqi women arrived in New York City to begin a speaking tour to educate Americans about the reality in Iraq and meet with UN and US officials to call for a peace plan. Two of them join us in our firehouse studio: Faiza Al-Araji is a civil engineer and blogger, whose family recently fled to Jordan after her son was temporarily kidnapped, and Eman Ahmad Khamas, an Iraqi journalist, translator and human rights activist....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:33am PST
Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Mar 4, 2006 3:47am PST
Embarking on a deliberate challenge to the historic Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court that legalized abortion throughout the United States, the South Dakota state legislature voted last week to outlaw all abortions except where the life of a pregnant woman was in danger. Governor Mike Rounds, a Republican like a majority of the state lawmakers, said he would sign the bill....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:32pm PST
Spurred on by a lawsuit in Massachusetts, national retail chain Wal-Mart announced Friday that it has decided to stock emergency contraception (EC) in all of its pharmacies, acquiescing to pressure from the National Organization for Women and other women's rights groups....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:27pm PST
Click here to send a message to Wal-Mart:
http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/walmart_pharmacyrefusal_3_3_06/wix3k3g4y5k5xki?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:16pm PST
Just a typo? Or are Anti-choice trying to divide and conquer?...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 11:07pm PST
We owe it to them to stand with them in solidarity. You can do that by signing the
Urgent Call for Peace...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:05pm PST
Maryland's state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer (also Former Governor) refers to 24 year old female aide as "a pretty little girl" in harassment incident....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 11:00am PST