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March for Women's Lives (New York City) 
The largest abortion rights rally ever held in New York City....
Posted: Thu, Sep 2, 2004 12:18am PDT
The Global Women's Strike to the RNC: Invest in Caring not Killing Our multi-racial, anti-racist delegation of mothers, grand-mothers, welfare recipients, women with disabilities, lesbian/ gay people, & other activists, women & men, are in NYC for the protests around the RNC....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 7:42pm PDT
Poll: Majority of Women Do Not Feel Understood by Bush or Kerry A survey conducted by Lifetime Television in July found that fewer than 10 percent of women feel that either President Bush or Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry understands them well. Broken down by candidate, 51 percent of the women polled said that Bush understands them not well or not at all, and 39 percent said the same about Kerry, reports KRON4.com...
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:48pm PDT
New York Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauded the ruling issued today in National Abortion Federation (NAF) v. Ashcroft, a lawsuit challenging the federal abortion ban passed by Congress last October and signed by President Bush....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Talibanism in Technology: 7 Reasons Why Women in Tech are Invisible A lot has been written about the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women, which resulted in the worldwide outcry against women wearing full-length burkhas, which rendered them invisible and the denial of their fundamental rights. However, there’s not even a whimper about the systematic Talibanism of women in technology, which has made them invisible throughout the ages. Despite a large number of talented and successful women in the field, why is it that society tends to associate only men with te...
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:57am PDT
Radical Cheerlbloc CALL TO ACTION during the RNC 
A Call to action to oust Republicans from New York City.. a large convergence of Red and Black during the marches at the RNC...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 5:46am PDT
Vatican attacks "radical feminism" The Vatican has published a document designed to address "distortions" generated by radical feminism....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 5:15pm PDT
Elder Indian womyn's nude protest against military July 2004- In Manipur, as in Marin, womyn protest against violence. (Please repost worldwide.)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 21, 2004 8:52am PDT
Betraying Iraqi Women Remember when the Bush administration told us that American soldiers would be greeted as liberators? How about when we were told that the war would free Iraqi women? We know that the citizens throwing flowers never materialized, and now it turns out that helping Iraqi women was just a PR line too. Women in Iraq still face poverty, fear of imprisonment, rape and repressive laws. Only now, the United States is in charge of it all....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:35am PDT
Will Martha Redecorate the Big House? 
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
CODEPINK: Women For Peace NoRNC Events WOMEN AGAINST WAR; A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
New York, New York – With hundreds of thousands of people in New York City to protest the Republican National Convention and thousands of journalists in town to cover it, this will be the perfect time to send a message to the world that the women of the United States are determined to work for a world based on non-violence and respect for all human life - not war, militarism and aggression....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:04pm PDT
Condoms vs Abstinence Divides World AIDS Conference (Bangkok) AIDS conference delegates were deeply split over the use of condoms Monday, with Uganda's leader drawing criticism for insisting they are less effective for HIV prevention than campaigns to promote abstinence and loving relationships....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:10am PDT
7/13: Women to call white house Religious, Environmental, HIV/AIDS and Women’s Health Groups Join in National Call-in Day to Demand Bush Administration Fund UN Population Fund (UNFPA)...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 7:56pm PDT
Capital is Masculine: Book Review "The debt crisis of the South is one element of the current process of destruction. In the third world as a result of dependence on the North, relatively more is always spent on interest payments to the banks in the North than on satisfying elementary human needs.."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 9:44am PDT
Another murdered woman's body found south of Edmonton, Alberta The serial torture murders of women continue unimpeded in Canada, U.S. and Mexico. Most of those killed are women of color and often, sex workers, Indigenous people, homeless, homosexuals, immigrants and others having no voice. When will activists pay attention to what these increasing killings imply?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2004 11:00am PDT
Womyn Fight Domestic Violence Womyn launch initiative to fight domestic violence by outting womyn-bashers....
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 4:52am PDT
Federal Abortion Ban Struck Down in Court! The federal abortion ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last year is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, Federal District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton ruled today. The ban, challenged in Planned Parenthood v. Ashcroft, could have outlawed abortions as early as 12 to 15 weeks in pregnancy, including those that doctors say are safe and among the best to protect women's health....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:28am PDT
Federal judge says partial-birth abortion ban unconstitutional A federal judge Tuesday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringes on a woman's right to choose.
The ruling applies to the nation's 900 or so Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half of all abortions in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:03am PDT
Federal Judge Declares 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Ban Unconstitutional Federal Judge Declares 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Ban Unconstitutional;
Exposes Right-Wing Policy as Infringement on a Woman's Right to Choose...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:01am PDT
Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value The Abu Ghraib portraits of sexual humiliation and submission have
exposed the unbelievably tangled strands of racism, misogyny,
homophobia, national arrogance and hyper-masculinity that
characterize the U.S. military....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 12:44am PDT
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