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White House to Stop Sneaking in Judicial Nominees Big news! After tremendous outcry from outraged activists (that's
you!), the White House reached an agreement with Senate Democrats
yesterday and vowed to stop installing judicial nominees during
Congressional recesses....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 11:44pm PDT
Gloria Anzaldua's Obituary it is with great sorrow y dolor en el corazon que hoy les doy la mala
noticia de la muerte de gloria anzaldua. todavia no se saben todos los
detalles de su muerte, pero por favor, si saben algo, please pass along
the
information...
ahorita no tengo las palabras que surgen dentro de mi... all i can say
for
now is that my heart goes out to the family and all those who know and
can
understand the detrimental magnitude of loosing one of the most
admirable,
inspiring, and ove...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 4:56pm PDT
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
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
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
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
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
Another Woman Murdered in Juarez Another woman has been found dead in the area of Ciudad Juarez...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 8:48pm PDT
Female targets: Iraq's postwar kidnapping crime wave Although world attention has focused on the fate of dozens of foreigners kidnapped in Iraq over the past week, the story of hundreds of other victims has received scant publicity....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 10:02pm PDT
Radical Pro-Choice Call To Action For April 25, 2004 Feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, anarchists and all those concerned with women's autonomy: join us on April 25th 2004 in Washington, DC for a highly festive mobile cheer bloc!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 1:11am PDT
3/29: "Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003" Faces Challenge FEDERAL ABORTION BAN TRIALS BEGIN TODAY
IN NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, AND NEBRASKA
"Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003" Faces Challenge --
2003 Law Bans Procedures as Early as 12-15 Weeks
with No Exception to Protect Women’s Health...
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 12:36am PST
ACLU Calls Senate Anti-Choice Vote Misguided ACLU Calls Senate Anti-Choice Vote Misguided; Reproductive Freedom Could Be Undermined By Bill’s Passage...
Posted: Sun, Mar 28, 2004 12:03am PST
4/25 Pro-abortion march on Washington; S.D. bans abortion The April 25, 2004 March on Washington for our right to abortion comes just as South Dakota, Democrats & Republicans together, passed a ban on abortion, which SD's Gov. Mike Rounds is expected to sign....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 5:58am PST
New FDA Advisory Fails to Protect Seafood Consumers Today, the FDA released an mercury warning advisory that will threaten the health of children nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2004 4:30pm PST
Caribbean women support Aristide Following are excerpts from a letter being circulated on the internet:...
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 6:19pm PST
Womens Struggle for Freedom in Iraq Below is a brilliant article by Houzan Mahmoud, UK representative of the Organisation of Womens Freedom in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 11:01am PST
International Women's Day interview with Claire Robillard Every year, women around the world gather to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8. The occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the progress made towards equality and justice for women, and to demand change in the struggle against sexism and patriarchy. Claire Robillard has helped organise International Women's Day events since she moved to Vancouver in 1994. Last week, Seven Oaks spoke to Robillard about the role of IWD and the women's movement in the context of severe cutbac...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 10:18am PST
RECENT STATS ON U.S. MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULTS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG Human Rights Organization Launches Two-Year Campaign to Fight Violence
Against Women, Calling Such Abuse the 'Greatest Human Rights Scandal Today'...
Posted: Mon, Mar 8, 2004 9:40am PST
March for Women's Lives I think I was about 17 when I found out that my mom had had an abortion. She had just recovered from tuberculosis and was still taking massive doses of antibiotics to fight off the chronic bronchitis that had sprung up in its wake. She had been seriously dating somebody for the first time since her divorce. Despite protection, she got pregnant....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 2:03pm PST
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