(video) The Republicans’ all-out war on women
By : Elizabeth Schulte - Thursday March 3, 2011 Reports on the right’s latest assault—and the stirrings of resistance. ANTI-CHOICE Republicans are waging an all-out attack on women’s right to abortion—in Congress, where the Republican-run House voted to strip funding from Planned Parenthood; and in individual states, where legislators are proposing bills so extreme that they could ban abortions altogether. But supporters of abortion rights are starting to push back. Thousands took part in marches across the (...)
read more, comments... A Tale of Three Nations: Freedom, Religion and the Rights of Women
By : William John Cox - Thursday February 24, 2011 As the youth-led Freedom Movement of 2011 spreads rapidly across the Middle East and around the world, one can only wonder what would be happening in Iraq today if the U.S. had not invaded eight years ago. What does the movement portend for the rights of women in other nations, such as Tunisia and in the United States? The rights of women continue to deteriorate in Iraq under the U.S. installed Shiite government; their status is now threatened by Islamists in Tunisia, the most secular of (...)
read more, comments... World’s Largest Breast Milk Sharing Network Spreads Across Facebook: "Eats On Feets" Goes Global
By : GaJ - Wednesday December 8, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : World’s Largest Breast Milk Sharing Network Spreads Across Facebook: "Eats On Feets" Goes Global Within a matter of days, women around the world have mobilized on the social networking site Facebook to organize an international, woman-to-woman milk sharing network. Human milk is for human babies, and formula-feeding is associated with risks to both the mother and infant. Women today are aware of this fact and are taking their life-sustaining power back into (...)
read more, comments... More of the Same Game
By : Daveparts - Monday June 1, 2009 More of the Same Game By David Glenn Cox The Republicans rant and froth at the mouth over Obama’s choice of Sonia Sotomayor for Supreme Court Justice, taking quotes out of context and using her membership in Hispanic organizations as they try to paint her into a corner as a racist. The left is giddy with diversity as a Latina and woman was Obama’s choice, and of course women and minorities should be better represented on the Supreme Court. Jackie Robinson was chosen to be the (...)
read more, comments... Abortion: Government’s Choice?
By : William John Cox - Monday October 27, 2008 By William John Cox Any government having the power to prohibit abortions also has the power to require abortions. Any government having the power to prohibit birth control also has the power to forcibly sterilize women (and men). The pregnant woman is forcibly strapped to a Gurney and wheeled into the treatment room where her fetus is aborted and her fallopian tubes are tied. Why? A test has shown that the fetus has Down syndrome and she already has one living child. Where? (...)
read more, comments... Hollow Women of the Hegemon
By : Dr. June Scorza Terpstra - Sunday March 9, 2008 Hollow Women of the Hegemon By Dr. June Terpstra 3-8-08 This article is a call in honor of International Women’s Day warning the people not to follow the woman leader who stands by her hegemon. This is a call for new women leaders who will stand with men to resist and defend the people against tyrannical governments posing as democracies. This is a call to us all, women and men, to end the oppression of globalized debt based economics that funds all wars, profiting from state (...)
read more, comments... Iraqi Women More Oppressed Than Ever, by Dahr JAMAIL
By : Internationalnews - Saturday March 8, 2008 ANTIWAR/INTER PRESS SERVICE March 7, 2008 http://internationalnews.over-blog.... Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career. Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women to take up jobs as professors, doctors and government officials. In today’s Iraq, women are being killed by militia groups for not (...)
read more, comments... Afghanistan : Women’s Lives Are Worse Than Ever
By : Internationalnews - Friday March 7, 2008 President Bush claims that Afghani Women are "learning the Blessings of Freedom" But all we’ve given them is Poverty, Death and Abuse Women’s lives worse than ever. That’s the actual headline to an article in The Independent about the state of women’s (and girls’) lives in Afghanistan, six years after our war to "liberate" them. At a White House Celebration of International Women’s Day, March 12, 2004, President Bush said: "In the last two-and-a-half (...)
read more, comments... 1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves
By : Internationalnews - Friday February 15, 2008 Alternet - February 14, 2008 1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Earning $16/Month and Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves Posted by Lucinda Marshall Feminist Peace Network The average age of an Afghan widow is just 35 years, and 94 percent of them are unable to read and write. The following report from IRIN tells the ghastly truth of what it is like for women in the aftermath of decades of militarism in Afghanistan: "There over 1.5 million widows out of an estimated 26.6 (...)
read more, comments... Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Assaults by security firms in IRAQ
Thursday February 14, 2008 Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults Left, Andrew Cutraro for The New York Times; Right, David Ahntholz for The New York Times Jamie Leigh Jones, left, a former employee for the military contractor KBR, told Congress that she had been gang-raped by co-workers in Iraq in 2005. Mary Beth Kineston, also a former KBR worker, said she was sexually assaulted by one driver, groped by another worker and fired after complaining. By JAMES RISEN Published: February 13, 2008 WASHINGTON (...)
read more, comments... IRAQ : Violence Draws Veil Over Women
By : Internationalnews - Monday February 4, 2008 By Dahr Jamail and Ahmed Ali IPS News. Posted February 1, 2008. As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered most in occupied Iraq Conditions are particularly difficult for women in Baquba, despite the relative lull in violence. The city, about 40 km northeast of Baghdad, is capital of Diyala province, amongst the most troubled regions of Iraq in recent months. As in all conflict areas, women, along with children and the elderly, have suffered (...)
read more, comments... Scheherazade painting, Arundhati Roy & ART for Peace & Womens’s Rights in the Bush War on Women
By : Dr Gideon Polya - Sunday September 2, 2007 PEACE is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity - we are obliged to at least INFORM OTHERS about gross human rights abuses, especially of Women and Children. What can decent people do about horrendous human rights abuse of Women and their Children around the World? I am an Artist as well as a scientist, writer and humanitarian advocate. I have an IDEA to empower decent folk - use ART to transmit a message of Peace and Respect for Women and for Mother and Child around the (...)
read more, comments... Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
By : Thomas Lemahieu - Sunday July 29, 2007 By Thomas Lemahieu Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned. A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”. Employees from the (...)
read more, comments... The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one
By : Mary MacElveen - Monday November 20, 2006 The United States use of Depleted Uranium, installment number one By Mary MacElveen November 20, 2006 With the newly elected Democratic controlled congress set to take power in January, one Congressman, Charles Rangel has called for the reimplementation of the draft. I really do not know how I feel at this at any given moment. I am just so sick and tired of these wars that we have been fighting and want us all just to sit down and breathe. Please remember that word breathe. But, my (...)
read more, comments... WHY CATS EAT UNCOVERED MEAT
By : peter fredson - Thursday October 26, 2006 Why Cats Eat Uncovered Meat By Peter Fredson October 26, 2006 Recently Australia’s senior Muslim cleric Sheik Taj Din Al Hilaly gave a controversial sermon in Arabic to 500 worshippers in Sydney, independently translated by an SBS Arabic expert, part of which follows: “When it comes to adultery, it’s 90 percent the woman’s responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on (...)
read more, comments... Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
By : Sarah Meyer - Tuesday October 17, 2006 by Sarah Meyer It is the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. We lived outside the US base near Newbury, Berkshire, where US Cruise missiles were to be installed. Sometimes there were two or three dozen of us. Sometimes there many more women, especially on weekends and holidays. The first big demonstration, "Embrace the Base,’ brought thousands of women to Greenham. Then Greenham became international. All Greenham gates had women living nearby. Women were (...)
read more, comments... Women And Rape In 21st Century Pakistan
By : Brian McAfee - Monday September 11, 2006 by Brian McAfee The basic human and civil right of a woman not to be raped and if she is, not to be held responsiible for it is front and center right now in Pakistan. Pakistan, a nation of about 166 million people, is one of the world’s poorest countries. The issue in question is a law, established in 1979, by U.S. supported dictator Zia Ul Haq called the Hudood Ordinance Law. This law basically states that rape victims are liable for prosecution for adultery unless they can (...)
read more, comments... War turns southern women away from GOP
By : SHANNON McCAFFREY - Monday September 11, 2006 By SHANNON McCAFFREY MACON, Ga. (AP) — President Bush’s once-solid relationship with Southern women is on the rocks. "I think history will show him to be the worst president since Ulysses S. Grant," said Barbara Knight, a self-described Republican since birth and the mother of three. "He’s been an embarrassment." In the heart of Dixie, comparisons to Grant, a symbol of the Union, are the worst sort of insult, especially from a Macon woman who voted for Bush in 2000 but (...)
read more, comments... Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
By : tel aviv - Thursday August 17, 2006 Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma During Tel Aviv demonstration, former MK Yael Dayan calls for end to women trafficking; ’it’s more than rape,’ she says. Haifa representative says prostitutes forced to look for customers in city’s streets during war, in spite of rockets Merav Crystal Women rights activists held a demonstration against women trafficking Wednesday, during which they chanted slogans such as "Police, women are not goods" and (...)
read more, comments... Abortion under siege in Mississippi
By : Michelle Goldberg - Sunday August 6, 2006 Preaching that abortion is as evil as Islam, Nazism and homosexuality, dozens of activists have descended on Jackson, determined to shut down the state’s last abortion clinic. By Michelle Goldberg Aug. 01, 2006 | Flip Benham was going to burn a Koran at Mississippi’s state Capitol on July 18 but he couldn’t get a fire permit. The blaze was to be the culmination of an antiabortion rally that Benham, director of Operation Save America, billed as an "ecclesiastical court." (...)
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