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Fotos de Vigilio para Mujeres de Juarez
Unas 25 personas participaron en un vigilio en el Parque Dolores el 14 de febrero en solidaridad con el vigilio esa misma noche en Juarez, Mexico. Cientos de mujeres han desaparecido en Juarez; sus cadaveres mutilados a veces aparecen en el area....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 9:00pm PST
Pictures from 2/14 Juarez Vigil
About 25 people gathered at Dolores Park for a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the vigil that occurred the same night in Juarez, Mexico. Hundreds of women have disappeared in Juarez, with mutilated bodies appearing around the area; demonstrations on 2/14 remembered these women....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 8:54pm PST
Ashcroft Seeks Hospital Abortion Records
The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and other cities turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. We speak with the president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:33pm PST
Bush Administration Violates Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
The Bush Administration has claimed in recent legal proceedings that it does not believe that there is any legal protection for the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, according to recently released court documents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 9:47am PST
Tonight: Film about Women in Prison in Iran
"Women's Prison," a dramatic interpretation of turbulent times in Iranian history shown through the eyes of female prison inmates....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 10:34am PST
Ciudad Juarez mass murders get international spotlight as giant puppets start SF weekend
Meanwhile, local
demonstrations will begin Friday at 4pm at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco,
where Giant Puppets of Grieving Mothers carrying rag-doll dead children will mourn
the victims and demand an end to the slaughter....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:16pm PST
Dance For Change: Save Women's Lives Event 2/27
Join Planned Parenthood for a benefit to support the March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:46pm PST
Women Under Occupation: From Palestine To Iraq- A Report by Kate Raphael
Bay Area activist Kate Raphael will speak on February 27 about her work in
Palestine, and the recent women's delegation to Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 5:02pm PST
International Women's Peace Service - Palestine Needs Women Now
IWPS - Palestine is a project which began in August 2002 to set up and run
an International Women's House in the village of Haris, Salfit District. We
provide trained women from the international community to witness, monitor,
document and publicize human rights abuses......
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 12:27am PST
2/15: Status of Women in Iraq: CodePink Women's Delegation Report Back
2/15 7:30 pm:
7th Heaven Yoga Studio
2820 7th St. (at Heinz) Berkeley...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 6:52pm PST
Nora Castañeda Speaks in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 6.1MB)
A thirty-minute excerpt from Nora Castañeda's recent engagement in San Francisco, which kicked off her first speaking tour of the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:55am PST
2/13 NAFTA and Ciudad Juarez Murders
Since 1993, when 340 U.S. owned corporations relocated to Ciudad Juarez, over 370
young women have been brutally murdered, many raped, tortured and mutilated....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 11:38pm PST
Women's Voices Rise Up Event 2/28
benefit for:
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Union of Palestinian Women Committees
Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq...
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 11:46am PST
2/14: Silent Candlelight Vigil in Solidarity with the Women of Juarez
In solidarity with the families of the women of Juarez and those that are joining
them there in an awareness weekend, CodePink will hold a candlelight vigil in
Dolores Park similar to the one that will be held the same evening in Ciudad Juarez....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 12:22am PST
San Francisco sex workers are on a mission to decriminalize prostitution
A new Bay Area coalition is arguing that the best way to stop the horrifying exploitation of forced prostitution is to make the world's oldest profession legal....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:25pm PST
Journal 3 -- Straight out of Palestine
Kate Raphael is part of a 12-woman delegation to Baghdad organized by CodePink and Occupation Watch. She spent the last five months working with International Women's Peace Service in Occupied Palestine. You can subscribe to her list by emailing iwps-kate-subscribe@lists.riseup.net.
For information about the delegation see www.codepinkalert.org. For info about IWPS, www.iwps.info....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 11:42am PST
Who is killing the women of Juarez Mexico? Updated Release
You have a number of opportunities to see the powerful film, "Senorita Extraviada," from Feb. 3 to Feb. 9 in Sacramento and Davis. I saw this film at the event on last Tuesday and everybody, including myself, was very moved about the atrocities taking place in Juarez. Don't miss it!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 10:13am PST
Iraq Journal 2 -- Cops of the World?
Kate Raphael has recently been kicked out of Palestine and is now on a 7-day delegation to Baghdad organized by CodePink and Occupation Watch. The group is investigating the status of women under occupation....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 8:42pm PST
Iraq journal #1
Kate Raphael is a local activist. She has spent much time in Palestine, with the International Solidarity Movement, and with Queers for a Free Palestine. Last month she was detained in an Israeli prison. Today, Kate writes from Bagdhad where she is part of a delegation visiting Iraq. Her journals are reprinted here with her permission....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 8:31pm PST
Hermanas de Juarez
Hundreds of young women have been murdered in Juarez, Mexico in the last decade. Many more are missing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 7:57pm PST