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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
REVIEW: Where's Feminism? Everywhere and Nowhere
This world really needs a new feminism, and the editors and contributors are right on to ground feminism in social movements dealing with real life and not just the simulacra of representational politics. But saying that all issues are women’s issues because women are involved or are leaders misses the point....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 2:33pm PDT
ACLU Chief's Speech to March for Women
"The Government Does Not Belong in Our Bedrooms," ACLU Chief Romero Declares at Historic March for Women's Lives...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 1:03am PDT
Radical Cheer Block at DC Women's March
We had a rocking feeder march to and at the DC March for Women's Reproductive Freedom...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 9:45pm PDT
Cheer Block/Anti-Fascist Block march
We had a rocking feeder march to the DC march for women's rights...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 8:54pm PDT
Albright, Clinton, Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi are Anti-Women's Freedoms
War Criminal Clinton's Sec of State Albright, US Senators Clinton, Feinstein & Boxer and Rep Pelosi are proud Democrats who support the war in Iraq, the war against Palestinians, the death penalty and the "Patriot" Act and thus are incapable of guaranteeing our right to abortion and should not have been invited to speak at the 4/25/04 March on Washington for abortion....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 7:11pm PDT
Pro-Choice Rally Held In Fresno
Pro-choice events were held throughout the country today - including Fresno California. See pictures from the pro-choice rally in the Central Valley....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 4:22pm PDT
ECR's on KALX! TONIGHT!!! 5:30pm!
Listen to ECR on KALX's Amandla! at 5:30pm every other Sunday on 90.7 FM in Berkley or online at www.kalx.berkeley.edu....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 1:51pm PDT
SF Rally for Women's Lives
About 200 people gathered in Dolores Park yesterday April 24 in solidarity with today's march on Washington DC for women's lives. The rally was led and largely organized by young women in high school....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 10:21am PDT