I am taking the liberty of copying this post from the WOZA site verbatim because of the urgent need to take action:
“Following on from the demonstrations and arrests in Bulawayo last week, over 100 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested in Filabusi today. The exact numbers are not clear as activists are […]
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““Rape is terrible. Rape is awful. Is it made any better by killing an innocent child? Does it solve the problem for the woman that’s been raped?â€? the Kansas Republican asked at the St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers gathering.”
Those are the words of presidential hopeful Sam Brownback at the National Catholic Men’s Conference…Let us devoutly hope […]
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Well bravo…
“Settling a highly publicized case in which two military recruiters were accused of rape, the U.S. Marine Corps has agreed to pay two young women $200,000 and change its recruiting practices in northern California.”
According to Barry Vogel one of the atorneys representing the 2 women,
“(The Marines) must be held to the same standard as […]
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Many thanks to Amee Chew for passing along this inspiring speech by Olivia Chow from Canada. Please be sure to check out the link for some beautiful pics:
“In March 2006, more than 753,000 individuals in Canada used the food
banks because they were hungry. We know that there are many hungry
people across Canada in our neighbourhoods […]
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“A female owner of a radio station in Afghanistan has been shot dead. Zakia Zaki was shot seven times, including in the chest and head, as she slept with her 20-month-old son at her […]
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0604-10.htm
New Study: Women and People of Color Pushed Off the Radio Dial
Study Offers First Complete Picture of Female and Minority Radio Ownership
FCC Abandons Responsibility to Foster Diversity on the Airwaves
WASHINGTON - JUNE 4 -
The first comprehensive analysis of radio station ownership, Off the Dial finds that while women and people […]
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I don’t remember the last time I felt like singing the praises of a financial institution, but kudos to the institutions that have joined the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) in cutting off the financial pipeline for child pornography. Here is an […]
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Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney tells it like it is about the Democratic sell-out on funding the war in Iraq:
“The Democrats didn’t fight for their own true election results in 2000 or in 2004, so why should we expect them to impeach an illegitimate Administration that has violated the U.S. Constitution and international […]
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