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Call to Protect Clinics Please read the update at http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1754669.php as the location and nature of the 7/23 protest have changed.
The “Crusade for Life” plans to disrupt our community by harassing women at health clinics from July 15-27. We need your help to defend our clinics and to send the message that the Bay Area is pro-choice and stands up for reproductive rights!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2005 3:17pm PDT
Volunteer at the Women's Community Clinic The Women's Community Clinic is currently recruiting for its Fall 2005 volunteer training. Join an awesome, dedicated group of volunteers and be a part of providing free, quality healthcare for women! Applications are due Monday August 29th, 2005....
Posted: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 8:27pm PDT
Women's Magazine this Monday on KPFA > The Women’s Magazine airs Mondays from 1 – 2 pm on
> KPFA, 94.1 FM in Berkeley. Listen on-line at
> www.kpfa.org...
Posted: Sun, Jul 10, 2005 2:29pm PDT
The story of Maryam Rajavi, Iranian Resistance Movement Fighter (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) Maryam Rajavi, a fighter in the Iranian Resistance Movement, has come under heavy repression in France, where she lives. I am including audio about her....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 4:25pm PDT
Acid attacks on "immodest" women on the rise Acid attacks on "immodest" women on the rise
Report, IRIN, 4 July 2005...
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 12:35pm PDT
Fire closes Florida Family Planning Clinic. Is San Francisco next? Read below for a description of a fire started at a Florida Family Planning/Abortion clinic. Stay tuned as the anti-choice organization "Crusade for Life" starts a two-week wave of harrassment against Bay Area clinics July 14th through July 25th.
Contact Elizabeth Creely for more details....
Posted: Tue, Jul 5, 2005 2:13pm PDT
Trafficked Korean womyn deserve feminist help Apparently these South Korean women were lured to U$A by traffickers who promised regular jobs, then forced them into sexwork. Will feds treat them as victims, or not?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 7:10am PDT
1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 Publication of the 1000 Names - 12 Bay Area Women Nominated...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 10:08am PDT
Audio From the June 25th 2005 Dyke March In San Francisco (audio/mpeg 455.8KB) Audio Clips fro the 2005 SF Dyke March...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 7:32am PDT
Some photos from the Dyke March 
Some photos from the dyke march, in which tens of thousands of women-loving-women (and some ex-women) took to the streets...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 12:51am PDT
Gloria Steinem Remembers Feminist Writer and Activist Andrea Dworkin Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem remembers writer and activist Andrea Dworkin. She died at her home in Washington in Apri. Steinem says, "She is our Old Testament prophet raging in the hills, telling the truth...She really is a world mind that is still accessible to us through her work, and that is her greatest legacy."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:57am PDT
Milk Money: How Corporate Interests Shaped Government Health Policy for Women Last summer, the Department of Health and Human Services unveiled an ad campaign to promote breast-feeding in the United States. We look at how baby formula corporations put intense pressure on the government to change its approach and eventually reshaped the campaign....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:47am PDT
For Iraqi Women, a Facing Down of 'Two Forces' of Violence 
Iraqi women's rights activist Layla Mohammed, on working for change in Iraq amidst the violence of the U.S. occupation and Muslim fundamentalism...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:37am PDT
He's trying to block birth control - help us block him! To make matters worse, Bush has nominated Lester Crawford, who has
helped
block attempts to improve women's access to birth control, for the top
job at the
FDA. During his tenure as acting commissioner, the FDA has ignored the
recommendation from its own scientific and medical experts and blocked
an
application to make the morning-after pill available without a
prescription....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:36am PDT
Rare Broadcast Interview With Pakistani Rape Survivor Mukhtar Mai The Pakistani government is barring a woman from coming to the United States to speak out about her case and the plight of women's rights in Pakistan. She was gang-raped on orders by her local tribal counsel. We play a rare broadcast interview with Mukhtar Mai from her home in Pakistan and we speak with a Pakistani journalist who met with her in April....
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 8:28am PDT
Sex Discrimination Suit Filed Against Pacifica Station KPFA 
Community radio station KPFA was served on Monday with a lawsuit filed by Noelle Hanrahan, former producer and co-host of Flashpoints, the station’s drive-time public affairs broadcast. Also named in the complaint are Pacifica Foundation, Flashpoints executive producer Dennis Bernstein, and ex-general manager, Jim Bennett.
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> Among the charges in the complaint are sexual harassment and sex discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 8:02am PDT
Planned Parenthood Sues to Protect South Dakota Women Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota filed a lawsuit today challenging newly enacted restrictions on abortion that force doctors to read to women seeking an abortion state-scripted information that is medically inaccurate and infused with ideology....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 10:00pm PDT
Planned Parenthood Celebrates 40 Years of Protected Birth Control, Women Face Obstacles Planned Parenthood Celebrates 40 Years of Protected Birth Control
Forty Years After Griswold v. Connecticut Case, Women Still Face Obstacles to Accessing Reliable Birth Control Options...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 9:55pm PDT
Monday! Free Women of Spain with Martha Ackelsberg Monday, June 6th - 7 PM
FREE WOMEN OF SPAIN: ANARCHISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN with author Martha Ackelsberg
at the AK Press Warehouse - Free...
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 7:45am PDT
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