Reprinted with kind permission from the Coalition of Women for Peace:
Annual Report 2006
2006 was yet another year of turbulence – the sudden disappearance of Sharon, the election of Hamas, the Lebanon War, the battering of Gaza…
In the Coalition of Women for Peace, we responded to these dramatic events, while pursuing our strategy of […]
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Talk about urban renewal with an attitude. Just when we were recovering from Joe Francis and the (underage) Girls Gone Wild, along come the guys at Kink, a web-based porn company which just bought an old armory building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the ooze and […]
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Last week I wrote a post questioning the National Organizaton for Women’s enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton’s candidacy while at the same time denouncing the war. Below is a press release from Code Pink that puts Clinton on notice that being a woman isn’t enough. NOW, are you listening?
FOR IMMEDIATE […]
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What excellent news! The U.S. Army is dropping its subpoena against journalist Sarah Olson in the US v Watada Court-Martial. In a press release, Olson had this to say about the decision:
“This is obviously a great victory for the principles of a free press that are so essential to this nation. […]
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IRIN News, a part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, recently ran this poignant look at what life in Baghdad is like, written by Lina Massufi, an Iraqi widow with 2 young children. She writes,
“I cannot stand the constant military raids in my home. Every time they [the soldiers] […]
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This website will be offline later today for complicated technical reasons I don’t understand, according to the folks who host the site. Our email will also be disfunctional during that period, so be patient. We should be back online late tonight.
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The following (from a NOW press release) is excerpted from NOW President Kim Gandy’s remarks at the Jan. 27 march in Washington, DC. What a wonderful, clear vision of why women are so invested in ending this war!
“Today women are marching because our daughters and sons, sisters and brothers, friends and partners are dying in […]
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The following is the lead paragraph for an AP report of the latest violence in Iraq. Equating mortar shells to raindrops is repugnant and unacceptable.
“BAGHDAD, Iraq - Mortar shells rained down Sunday on a girls’ secondary school in a mostly Sunni area of western Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20, witnesses and police said. […]
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Over the last several years, the National Organization for Women has done an excellent job of making clear why issues such as Katrina and the war in Iraq are women’s issues. Unfortunately, this leads to NOW being in a bit of an odd position as they laud Hillary Clinton’s run for the presidency as the,
“first […]
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(Crossposted from WIMNOnline’s Womens Voices blog)
According to Media Channel, CBS reporter Lara Logan is asking for letters to CBS urging that they air a segment she did called “Battle for Haifa Street” that takes a no-holds barred look at the reality in Baghdad, including civilians saying that the U.S. presence there is only making […]
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