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I12/17 Int'l Day of Sex Workers United Against Violence
International Day of Sex Workers United Against Violence: A Green River Memorial and Call to Action. Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) focuses on safety, dignity, diversity and the changing needs of sex industry workers, to foster an environment which enables and affirms individual choices and occupational rights....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 9:57pm PST
School Teacher Arrested for Prostitution Speaks Out
update on case of teacher charged with sexwork, statement from Shanon Williams, 12/11/2003...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 9:46pm PST
We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism; Ingrid Chapman
We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism
An interview with Ingrid Chapman
By Chris Crass
Ingrid Chapman has been involved in direct action organizing for the past 4 years. At 23, she has helped pull off successful mass actions, worked with thousands of activists around the country and bases her work in the question, "How do we build broad based movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism?" While it is easy to get de...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 1:14pm PST
Ten Reasons for Not Legalizing Prostitution
Legitimation prostitution as "work" does not empower the women in prostitution....
Posted: Sun, Oct 26, 2003 2:21pm PST
Over 400 Iraqi Women Raped Since War's End
The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq chided coalition forces for their failure to protect women in post-war Iraq, asserting that over 400 have been raped since the war ended four months ago....
Posted: Sun, Sep 7, 2003 12:35pm PDT
Women's rights under attack in Iraq
A UPI story about the fight against attacks on women in Iraq by the vile Islamic fundamentalists.
Once again, a victory for US rulers is a profound defeat for vast numbers of ordinary people....
Posted: Wed, Aug 20, 2003 8:41pm PDT
Don't Cry For Me Nigeria
In a whirlwind tour of Africa, First Lady, Laura Bush, was said to have shed a tear in Uganda, poor thing, as she listened to a choir sing. Of course she forgot to mention Amina Lawal in Nigeria, surprising, given her contribution of sewing kits to the abused women in Afghanistan....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 9:33pm PDT
Film Showing for Disappeared Women in Juarez, Mexico
The Black wHole Collective will be showing Senorita Extraviada, a film by Lourdes Portillo about the disappearance and murder of hundreds of women in Juarez, Mexico over the last 10 years. The film showing will be in Fruitvale in Oakland and include a discussion and letter-writing session....
Posted: Thu, Jul 10, 2003 1:12pm PDT
Anti-Women Congress Restricts Abortion
The weakness of labor has reached a point of allowing such reactionary legislation as restricting our right to abortion to pass in the House. We must mobilize to restore our full right to abortion on demand with no restrictions now....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2003 8:04pm PDT
Womyns' Action Camp, April 10-24, 2003
Knob timber sale, Salmon River
Klamath National Forest...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 3:45pm PDT
Code Pink 4 Peace Call for Action and Meeting this week
Code Pink Action - Wednesday March 26th at noon - CNN 50 California Street...
Posted: Tue, Mar 25, 2003 7:36pm PST
Code Pink Bay Area gather at Larkin/Fulton 11am
Code Pink 4 Peace - Code Pink, Bay Area gather at Larkin/Fulton 11am...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2003 9:05am PST
Bay Area Code Pink 4 Peace
East Bay and Bay Area Code Pink Action Alerts....
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2003 3:56pm PST
****Code Pink 4 Peace Call for Action!
Code Pink 4 Peace gathers in Peaceful Participation...
Posted: Thu, Mar 20, 2003 1:02pm PST
Code Pink Vigil and Arrest in front of White House
Code Pink Vigil held on International Women's Day. Over 20 arrested....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 7:33am PST
Bay Area Women March and Rally on International Women’s Day
Hundreds of women gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to demonstrate their opposition to war on Iraq. A rally of about a hundred women was held outside of the Bechtel Corporation, followed by a march, first to the Venezuelan consulate, then to Union Square, where the march joined about three hundred women in black holding a silent vigil....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2003 6:36pm PST
Code Pink vigilers, Amy Goodman released
23 Code Pink vigilers and Amy Goodman, the journalist who was covering them, have been released from detention by US Park Police in DC....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2003 10:11pm PST
Women in Black Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Among the first to make the "Honor Roll" of being opposed by the Bush-Ashcroft Gestapo was the outstanding Women in Black, whom the American Friends Service Committee has nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize....
Posted: Fri, Jan 31, 2003 2:31am PST
Politics of Female Bodyhair
Women of the left - overcome your fear of bodyhair!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 23, 2003 2:51am PST
Medea and Code Pink in DC for X-Mas Demo - Pics, etc.
This is good .. . .
The Code Pink Carolers serenade the residence of Defense Secretary Donald "Duck" Rumsfeld with pro-peace parody carols. The Don blows off Code Pink's offer of cider, fruitcake and cookies. "Bombing kids is NAUGHTY!" sez Santa. RealVideo, 09:31 (article 1)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 18, 2002 4:22pm PST