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San Francisco Women's Film Festival April 8-10,2005 With the goal of showcasing films directed or co-directed by women from around the globe and at all levels of experience, the Women's Film Festival will screen approximately 30 short and feature-length films representing a cross section of genres. Additional activities scheduled for the three-day event are lectures, panel discussions, and educational programs led by filmmakers, professors, and other notable figures in the world of film. "This is a must for all film lovers!" says Wom...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:36pm PDT
NOW Urges FDA to Reject Risky Silicone Gel-Filled Breast Implant Applications NOW President Kim Gandy Will Testify Before FDA Advisory Panel on Monday, April 11th...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:55am PDT
Serious Title IX Battles Ahead, But Major Victory in the Supreme Court 1. Bush Administration Covertly Attacks Title IX by Weakening Athletics Policies
2. Ruling in University of Colorado Case Threatens Women’s Ability to Hold Schools and Universities Accountable for Sexual Harassment and Assault
3. Supreme Court Protects All Who Stand Up for Title IX Rights, Including Coaches and Teachers
4. Protect Title IX and Other Fundamental Rights for Women and Girls – Call Your Senators toll free April 6-7 at 1-866-808-0065 to Stop the “Nuclear Option”...
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2005 12:43am PDT
BTL: Race/Gender Wage Study Reveals Surprising View of U.S. Work Force Interview with Avis Jones-DeWeever, Institute for Women's Policy Research, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 4:34am PST
Spring into Elderflower Benefit - April 3 in Oakland When:
Sunday, April 3, 2005
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
$40 - $25 Sliding scale
Where:
Humanist Hall of the Fellowship of Humanity
390 27th Street, Oakland CA
between Telegraph & Broadway
Off Street Parking
Wheelchair Accessible entrance at 411 28th Street
i guess women's spirituality is expensive...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 12:14am PST
Palestine: Conflict, Occupation and Patriarchy - Women carry the burden
Women carry the bu Women have faced increased demands as care-givers and providers while at the same time their freedom of movement and action has been curtailed, and they have borne the brunt of the anger and frustration of male relatives who feel humiliated because they cannot fulfill their traditional role as providers. The escalation of violence and the deterioration of the situation in recent years have occurred in the context of Israel’s 38-year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which h...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 5:48pm PST
Please Help To Save Kobra Rahmanpour, A 22-Year-Old Woman From Execution Execution of Kobra Rahmanpour has been set to be carried out on April
15, 2005 we have got less than three weeks to save her....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 2:42pm PST
Prostitution and its Social Consequences Sisyphe delivers cutting edge analysis of women's condition and of other important issues, notably prostitution....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 5:43pm PST
Prostitution and its Social Consequences Sisyphe website delivers cutting edge analysis of women's condition and of other important issues, notably prostitution....
Posted: Wed, Mar 30, 2005 4:28pm PST
Womyn, Democrats and Terri Schindler Schiavo It is a scary time to be a disabled women in the USA or a wife of a democrat...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 3:39pm PST
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at book fair (audio/x-wav 22.1MB) This is a somewhat noisy soundfile of author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at the anarchist bookfair, march 26, 2005 San Francisco. Turn it up to high volume...
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 11:33pm PST
Abortion Issue Boiled Down to Reality If my mother had felt the need to abort me when I was growing in her
womb, I would have been grateful to give her that wish....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 6:35pm PST
Video: Powerfull Women's Action for the TREES (video/quicktime 13.3MB) On March 14th 2005 a large group of women organized, they said enough is enough to the Old Growth Logging just up the road from the Green Bridge along the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in Southern Oregon....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 6:37pm PST
THE SCHIAVO CASE AND THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY The cynical use by the US Republican Party of the Terri Schiavo case
repeats, whether deliberately or accidentally, the tactics of Muslim
fundamentalists and theocrats in places like Egypt and Pakistan. These
tactics involve a disturbing tendency to make private, intimate decisions
matters of public interest and then to bring the courts and the legislature
to bear on them....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 5:55pm PST
Poll Shows Public Opinion Sharply Divided on Regulating Appearance at Workplace Poll Shows Public Opinion Sharply Divided on Regulating Appearance at Workplace; 16 Pct. Say They Were Victims of Discrimination on the Job...
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 1:28am PST
4/1-3: Women of Color & Allies Summit In only two weeks, hundreds of activists and leaders from across the country will gather in Arlington, Va., to "Empower, Enfranchise and Energize" women of color. The Women of Color and Allies (WOCA) Summit, April 1 through 3, will feature dynamic speakers, music, forums, comedy and workshops....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 11:18pm PST
Jeanette Rankin, "A Single Woman" Jeanette Rankin, "A Single Woman". An inspirational play about the life, times, and fortitude of the first US Congresswoman...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 11:13pm PST
The Truth About Terry Schindler SChiavo-What White Democrats do not want you to know The White members of the Democratic party has snubebd its nose at the SChindler family and the Catholic Church by insisting on the death of terry Schindler Schiavo....
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 10:04pm PST
Democrats Anxious to Kill Schiavo "Who can, before God and humanity, pretend with impunity to claim such a right?" L'Osservatore Romano said. "Who — and on the basis of which criteria — can establish to whom the 'privilege' to live should be given?"...
Posted: Mon, Mar 21, 2005 11:09am PST
Islamic Bill of Rights for Women New York - Breaking with Muslim traditions that only men lead prayers, a small group of American women planned to conduct the practise on Friday, sending shockwaves through mosques in New York City.
Amina Wadud, professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and a leader of the Muslim WakeUp group, was to lead and deliver a sermon to a mixed-gender gathering at the Synod House of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in the upper West side of Manhattan....
Posted: Fri, Mar 18, 2005 8:52pm PST
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