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(video) The Republicans' all-out war on women

2011-03-03T10:32:27Z

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 country on February 26, and (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Demos-Actions, Discriminations-Minorit., USA

A Tale of Three Nations: Freedom, Religion and the Rights of Women

2011-02-24T19:27:52Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Discriminations-Minorit., USA

World's Largest Breast Milk Sharing Network Spreads Across Facebook: "Eats On Feets" Goes Global

2010-12-07T23:30:21Z

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 their (…)

- contributions / Internet, Women - Feminism, Health

More of the Same Game

2009-06-01T14:41:26Z

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 first (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Discriminations-Minorit., Governments, USA, Daveparts

Abortion: Government's Choice?

2008-10-27T12:00:30Z

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? (…)

- contributions / Edito, Women - Feminism, USA, US election 2008

Hollow Women of the Hegemon

2008-03-09T00:15:33Z

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 terror (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Governments

Iraqi Women More Oppressed Than Ever, by Dahr JAMAIL

2008-03-08T16:15:36Z

ANTIWAR/INTER PRESS SERVICE March 7, 2008
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-17474083.html
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 (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Wars and conflicts, International

Afghanistan : Women's Lives Are Worse Than Ever

2008-03-07T05:48:14Z

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 years, we have seen remarkable and (…)

- contributions / Edito, Women - Feminism, Wars and conflicts, International

1.5 Million Afghani Widows, Illiterate, Often Forced to Prostitute Themselves

2008-02-15T09:33:14Z

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 (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, International

Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Assaults by security firms in IRAQ

2008-02-14T16:10:30Z

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 — (…)

- contributions / Women - Feminism, Wars and conflicts, USA