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Vigil for Maribel Cuevas
Fresno, CA: On April 29th, Maribel was playing on the sidewalk with her 6-year-old brother and other younger children, when boys rode by on their bikes. They started teasing her, calling her names and hitting her with water balloons. The 11-year-old girl threw a rock to defend herself as neighborhood boys pelted her, hitting one hard enough to make him bleed. The boy admitted to officers that he started the fight and was quickly released from the hospital after getting his head stitched up. T...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 11:02pm PDT
Rad Radio interview from a front line Planned Parenthood Clinic Defender (audio/mpeg 16.5MB)
Lichi from the International Socialist Organization is interviewed on clinic defense at Planned Parenthood's San Francisco clinic the past two Saturdays. Anti-abortion Catholic college students, the "Crusade For Life" passed through San Francisco on a statewide abortion protest tour, were met head on by well organized, militant clinic defenders. Lichi discusses the protests, contadictions of the "pro-life movement, the fundamentals of the abortion battle including current leg...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:31pm PDT
SF Clinic Defenders Stand Firm Against Crusade For Life Protesters
Socialist-led clinic defenders stand off against and shout down the anti-abortion Catholic college group "Crusade For Life", protesting the past two Saturdays in front of San Francisco's Planned Parenthood clinic. The article looks at the abortion debate with an analysis of "Crusade' and the related reactionary movement...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 9:06pm PDT
Update on Maribel vs Fresno PD Bullies
For more info go to the Free Maribel Cuevas website below...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 4:32pm PDT
Video: Anti-choice religious “crusaders” in SF (video/x-ms-wmv 11.2MB)
2:26 min. Windoze Media Player required. Anti-choice religious “crusaders” descended on Planned Parenthood in San Francisco this morning, July 23....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 4:12pm PDT
Anti-choice religious “crusaders” in SF
Anti-choice religious “crusaders” descended on Planned Parenthood in San Francisco this morning, July 23....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 2:53pm PDT
Audio From July 23rd Press Conference And Rally To Fight The Anti-Choice Bigots (audio/mpeg 1.3MB)
Audio from rally and press conference at Eddy & Van Ness in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 2:22pm PDT
Release and Response to DA Kamala and Her Release: Sex Panic, Trafficking...
Activist and writer, Carol Leigh, is featured author in the San
Francisco Chronicle Open Forum asking readers to see through the "sex
slave melodrama" and consider the real lives, needs and challenges of
local massage establishment workers....
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Photos From July 23rd Press Conference And Rally To Fight The Anti-Choice Bigots
Photos from rally and press conference at Eddy & Van Ness in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 12:36pm PDT
Press Conference and Rally to Fight the Anti-Choice Bigots!
NO to John Roberts! NO to PROP 73! And NO to the “Crusade for Life”!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 9:55am PDT
Update about Saturday pro-choice demonstration
this is an update of http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1753057.php
we agreed... to rally and have
the press conference on VAN NESS at eddy we'll be there by 8 a.m. to remain available
in defense of the clinic should we be needed
(more details as they become available)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 21, 2005 11:16pm PDT
Today at 5:30 in SF: SFNOW EMERGENCY ACTION TODAY JULY 19!
> When: TODAY at 5:30pm
> Where: The edge of Civic Center Plaza, on McAllister between Grove
> and Larkin
> Bring: Noisemakers, signs, yourselves and your friends!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 19, 2005 4:54pm PDT
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
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
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
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