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  • Bush Gives Female German Chancellor Uninvited Neck Massage At Summit
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Gives Female German Chancellor Uninvited Neck Massage At Summit By John in DC - 7/18/2006 12:06:00 AM
    At first I thought this was just weird. Then I looked at the photos and the video. The chancellor looks rather surprised at someone suddenly touching her neck from behind. This is sexual harassment in any other workplace, isn’t it? And it’s rather inappropriate behavior for any man, let alone the president of the United States at a summit with (…)

  • The Hidden War On Women In Iraq
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Hidden War On Women In Iraq By Ruth Rosen TomDispatch July 13, 2006 Abu Ghraib. Haditha. Guantanamo. These are words that shame our country. Now, add to them Mahmudiya, a town 20 miles south of Baghdad. There, this March, a group of five American soldiers allegedly were involved in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza, a young Iraqi girl. Her body was then set on fire to cover up their crimes, her father, mother, and sister murdered. The rape of this one girl, if proven true, is (…)

  • The New Light of the Balanced Man-Woman is Now being Born
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Through out history one thing can be seen as a continuous evolving factor in the development of the social and mind structures of awareness of the human species and that is the integration of the feminine and the masculine is growing in balance with the cosmic evolution of the universe.
    Over history which in its beginnings was male dominated due to a lack of intelligence and structural knowledge, wisdom, and genetic development we are seeing that the genetic structure is evolving and the (…)

  • For the Women of Iraq, the War is Just Beginning
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Terri Judd
    The women of Basra have disappeared. Three years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, women’s secular freedoms - once the envy of women across the Middle East - have been snatched away because militant Islam is rising across the country.
    Across Iraq, a bloody and relentless oppression of women has taken hold. Many women had their heads shaved for refusing to wear a scarf or have been stoned in the street for wearing make-up. Others have been kidnapped and murdered for crimes (…)

  • Female Focus Needed to Stop AIDS, Say African and U.S. Activists
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Katherine Curtis
    WASHINGTON - A dramatic shift of funds and priorities is needed to stem the tide of the global AIDS pandemic, said women’s health advocates in Washington, DC last week, marking the 25th anniversary of the disease’s discovery.
    As world leaders convene in New York for a United Nations meeting to review progress on a 2001 commitment to fight the disease, the activists from Zimbabwe, Kenya, and the United States said that since HIV and AIDS tend to target women more than (…)

  • The "Marriage Ammendment," Slavery, and Women As Property
    1 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is a lesson to be learned here from history, most importantly what has been glossed over and hidden in the teaching of it.
    Not only were African-American slaves and women held in bondage, so were white indentured servants, Chinese immigrant laborers on the railways, and numerous other groups of POOR PEOPLE. In fact, many still are held in effective bondage to this very day.
    This has always been a case of the wealthy using every possible distinction they can drum up, be it class, (…)

  • "We Are Human, Like You"
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    A delegation of women from Iraq told stories last night in Washington, D.C., unlike anything we’ve ever heard about this war from the media in the United States. And the media was not there, so I’m going to tell you what they said.
    The event was held at Busboys and Poets, the restaurant that serves as the gathering place for all social justice groups in Washington. The restaurant’s owner is Andy Shallal, an Iraqi American and an active opponent of the war. Shallal spoke (…)

  • Bread and Roses: International Women’s Day and the fight for a better life for all
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Given the state of politics in the US and the moribund resistance from popular forces, it is often surprising to many that some of the great struggles of our time had their start in the Belly of the Beast. The tradition of May 1 as International Labor Day, for example, is marginalized in the country of its birth: it was the capstone of American Labor’s fight for the eight hour day in which women and anarchists played a prominent role. International Women’s Day was (…)

  • Female Muralists Dip Brushes in Women’s History
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Eleanor Bader
    A colorful mural of 90 female activists puts a splash of militant sass on the side of an otherwise drab wall in Brooklyn, N.Y. Produced by an all-female team of artists it leaves its chief creator dreaming of more public tributes to women.
    BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WOMENSENEWS)—It is a cold, blustery Saturday and in the hours before a blizzard is set to begin, people in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn are moving quickly. Most carry heavy bags and seem to be rushed. (…)

  • FOR A WOMEN’S SPACE AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FORUM IN ATHENS, IN MAY
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The organizing committee of the European Social Forum
    Subject: Creation of a specific space for the women’s and feminist organizations and our meetings
    Dear comrades,
    It is well known that the women’s and feminist organizations and collectives have had an important presence in the World and European fora. We hope that our presence in May will be equally important.
    For the facilitation of meetings, small activities, networking, we wish the formation of a women’s space which we are (…)