If your understanding of what is happening in Myanmar/Burma boils down to thousands of marching monks in brightly colored robes, a military junta who is trying to stop them and one lone beloved, imprisoned woman who happens to be a Nobel Laureate, you are not alone. News reports make little mention of the many […]
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Check out the following transcript of author Naomi Klein and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now verbally skewering (that’s probably putting it politely) former Fed chief Alan Greenspan. I thought it was quite brave when Greenspan appeared on Jon Stewart recently to plug his new book, but compared to the grilling he got from Goodman […]
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It has been a VERY perilous week for free speech. The New York Times reports that,
“Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a […]
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Many thanks to Heart for her post on how to assist the New Jersey 7. As one of the comments on her blog points out,
“There are (two separate) online petitions for the Jena Six and for the New Jersey Lesbian Four (http://www.petitiononline.com/theseven/). The last I checked, the Jena Six petition had something like 119,000 […]
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Riane Eisler has an excellent piece posted on Alternet that examines the intimate relationship between porn and militarism:
“But if war propaganda is effective in dehumanizing members of “enemy” nations to make it possible for men to hurt, kill, and degrade other human beings — as it clearly is — why would images of women as […]
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Let’s keep in mind we’re talking about taking medical boards here:
“A Harvard student must be allowed extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she can pump breast milk to feed her 4-month-old daughter, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled Wednesday.
Sophie Currier, 33, sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners turned down […]
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The other day while investigating why there was a huge surge in traffic on the Feminist Peace Network blog, I discovered that Time Magazine’s Middle East Blog had posted a link to our site. Finding it rather amazing that such a mainstream publication had taken notice of a site that proudly exists somewhere out […]
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A new report from the American Cancer Society has a bevy of interesting stats about breast cancer, mostly encouraging, but it certainly raises some questions:
“The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society […]
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WILPF Statement on the situation in Burma:
“The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom sends greetings,
solidarity and support to citizens of Burma, who courageously and
non-violently stand up for peace and freedom in their country.
A reign of terror has prevailed in Burma since 1962, the population being
brutally repressed by a military dictatorship; women have suffered […]
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Amnesty International has issued a report on the Iraqi refugee crisis that makes all too clear the need for immediate action. The report confirms the particularly dire situation being faced by women and children who are being forced into prostitution in order to survive, something that has been mentioned on this […]
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