from the Meydaan Stop Stoning website:
URGENT: A Man and a Woman Schedule To Be Stoned on Thursday, June 21
The news about the scheduled stoning of a man and a woman in Takistan, Ghazvin, was spread through mobile phone messages and the Internet. The office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province has issued the order to […]
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Beccah Golubock Watson has an excellent analysis of the recent defeat (no it wasn’t voted down, it just wasn’t voted on at all, same result) of Rep. Michael Michaud’s amendment to restore access to emergency contraception for women in the military. She writes,
“For reasons that remain unclear, Michaud withdrew the legislation the next morning. According […]
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Excerpted from the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran (WFAFI) Newsletter:
AKI Italian News Agency - May 15, 2007 Iranian health minister Kamran Bagheri Lamkarani has presented a reform under which men and women would be divided in public hospitals under a new moralization campaign which kicked off last month. Under the new provisions, women would […]
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On July 29, 1994, Paul Hill assasinated 2 abortion providers, John Britton and James Barrett. He (Hill) will be honored by 3 organizations Children Need Heroes, […]
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The Whore-ifying Impact of Media Misogyny
Lucinda Marshall, @ 2007
In an unfortunate recent interview, former CBS news anchor Dan Rather offered his take on why CBS news has taken a plunge in the ratings, opining that, “(T)he mistake was to try to bring the ‘Today’ ethos to the evening news and to dumb it down, tart […]
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We heart Christine over at Our Bodies Our Blog for this one:
“Liberating Iraqi Women: Andrea Lynch at RH Reality Check has a great post on an article penned by “veteran feminist Lt. Col. Oliver North,” who argues that “if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were really interested in promoting women’s rights, she would be […]
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Words of Power has a beautiful tribute in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday, including this account of Burmese activists’ attempt to honor her life:
“More than 20 Burmese women activists were driven out of a Rangoon pagoda today and were stopped from conducting a prayer vigil for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San […]
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PRESS RELEASE
CONTACT: Annalisa Enrile, National Chairperson
chair@gabnet.org; 619.316.0920
GABNet Denounces Sentence Commutation of Pedophile
GABRIELA Network National Chairperson Annalisa Enrile today condemned the commutation of sentence given by de-facto President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to former Zamboanga del Norte Congressman Romeo Jalosjos.
“Pedophiles do not age out of pedophilia,â€? said Dr. Enrile, who is an assistant professor of Social Work […]
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Few of us know the name Sir Richard Doll, but an article by Judy Brady in the latest Breast Cancer Action Newsletter, provides a chilling biography that sheds a great deal of light on how and why the impact on industrial chemicals and toxins has been so discounted in the discussion of what causes cancer. […]
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The Sentencing Project has a chilling new report out entitled, “Women in the Criminal Justice System: Involvement in Crime,” which documents the horrendous impact that drug sentencing laws have on women, the devastating effect that incarceration has on mothers who are incarcerated and their children, the disproportionate incarceration of women of color and […]
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