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On The Opression Of Women In Occupied Iraq
:: Friday, January 16, 2004 ::...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 12:30am PST
Iraqi women protest proposed changes to family laws
BAGHDAD (AFP) - About 100 Iraqi women led by a minister protested in central Baghdad against a Governing Council proposal to scrap the secular family affairs code and place it under Muslim religious jurisdiction....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:49pm PST
Bernadine Dohrn
Im looking for a photo copy or even a photp of the mug shot of Bernadine Dohrn...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 11:39am PST
1/29 Herstories Project Benefit in Oakland
The Herstories Project is a community based multi-disciplinary performance and art
project collecting and bringing into interactive performance women's contemporary and ancestral
stories of difference, struggle, resistance, community, survival and achievement....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:50am PST
V-Day March on Juarez
CODEPINK Joins V-Day in a March on Ciudad Juárez: Since 1993, more than 320 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez, the sister city of El Paso, Texas. Of these deaths, approximately 100 have been sexual-torture killings of young women, ages 12 – 19. Some 450 more women are unaccounted for or missing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:24am PST
1/9: Challenging Abercrombie & Fitch
A lighthearted, educational picketing and leafleting event outside of Abercrombie & Fitch in San Francisco to bring attention to the clothing retailer's discriminatory hiring practices and exploitative use of sexuality to sell clothes to kids....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:21am PST
1/6 Protest Detention of Kate Raphael by Israel
Activists from several groups in the Bay Area are calling a demonstration for Tuesday, January 6, from 4-6 p.m. at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco, 456 Montgomery St. (at California). The demonstration will make several demands of the Israeli government (read below)...
Posted: Sun, Jan 4, 2004 10:37pm PST
Bay Area QUIT Activist Held in West Bank
People from the village of Budrus, joined by peace activists demonstrated against the construction of the separation Wall on Palestinian land. Israel arrested several people, including Kate Raphael, an International Women's Peace Service activist from the Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 1, 2004 8:54pm PST
Iraq Women's Group Under Attack
The foremost Iraqi women's group is under attack from "security" forces of the Iraqi Ruling Council. They need our support....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 5:09pm PST
Protest harassment of women's rights activists by Kurdish nationalists!
Kurdish nationalist thugs have shut down offices of women's rights activists. These activists need our support now! E-mails and faxes of protest need to be sent before the end of the week....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 2:14pm PST
Judge Says No to Parental Notification for Abortion
A federal judge Monday declared unconstitutional a state law that would have required parental notice before a minor could get an abortion....
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2003 1:20pm PST
Free Radio Santa Cruz Interviews The Indigo Girls
listen to the report (sound: mp3 @ 26.3 megs)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:59pm PST
Listen to the Radical Tea Party tonight!
Tonight's show will be a punk rock christmas eve special!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 2:47pm PST
SF Strippers Say Lax City Oversight Is Forcing Them Into Prostitution
AMONG THE MANY unseemly legacies left behind by the outgoing administration at City Hall is the lack of enforcement of labor laws and city codes in San Francisco's strip clubs....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:47am PST
Pro-life website exaggerates death risk from abortion
The abortion "facts" website doesn't seem to have its facts straight, as a little bit of internet research proved this evening....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 1:42am PST
Sex workers organize towards legalization of prostitution
Civics Lesson in Leopardskin:
Robyn Few believes the recent Supreme Court ruling on sodomy paves the way for prostitution to be legalized....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 10:18pm PST
Bay Area Woman Dies After Medical Abortion Treatment
The Making of a Martyr
Holly Patterson's death devastated her family, but gave new life to longtime foes of RU-486. Three factors have conspired to make Holly the ideal poster girl: Her story is tragic, she was beautiful, and she could’ve been anyone.
by Kara Platoni...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 10:08pm PST