October 16th, 2007
Code Pink’s Nancy Krikorian has a blistering (and totally right on target) critique of Hillary Clinton’s vote for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment that labels the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
Clinton, the only presidential candidate who voted for the amendment,
“claimed, “I voted for this resolution in order to apply greater diplomatic pressure on Iran. This resolution […]
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October 15th, 2007
R.J. Reynolds has introduced a new cigarette targeted specifically towards women. You can tell that Camel No. 9 is a girl thing because it has lots of shocking pink on the box. According to the New York Times,
“For decades, Camel has been a male-focused cigarette; only about 30 percent of Camel buyers are […]
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October 15th, 2007
The following was forwarded to us and is excerpted from Document the Silence. Their website has much more information including the video “How Do We Keep A Social Movement Alive.“
be bold be brave be red […]
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October 12th, 2007
“Public announcement
Women’s solidarity with our sisters in peace – Ana Politikovskaja and
Aung San Su Chi
We hereby wish to remind the public that, one year ago, Ana
Politikovskaja, one of the leading Russian journalists, was killed in
the center of Moscow, in front of the building she used to live in.
She was well known for her harsh, uncompromising […]
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October 11th, 2007
Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has just issued a new report on state brutality against its members.
“(W)omen activists opposed to the government are regularly tortured and sexually abused by agents of the state. Mahlangu explained that this includes the police and officials from the Law and Order division.
The report read in part: “The women endured […]
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October 11th, 2007
What do you call people who live in Wyoming, Wyomingans? Well whatever you call them, they are totally half-cocked on this one. Seems they want to overrule federal law to allow people (aka men) who have domestic abuse misdemeanor convictions to regain their right to bear arms because it is just unreasonable to deny them […]
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October 11th, 2007
I try to avoid quoting people who are quoting me because, aside from being a bit egotistical, it gets quite circular. But I’m going to make an exception and share this very perceptive Sept. 25th critique of shopping and racing for a breast cancer cure that was posted on SoundingBalance:
“We don’t need to be […]
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October 10th, 2007
I’ve got to hand it to the folks at Chocolate Bytes for putting together the most crass, opportunistic list of supposedly cure-supporting crap I’ve ever seen. Note that I just used a cuss word, something that I indulge in regularly in real life, but rarely on this blog. Don’t say I didn’t warn […]
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October 10th, 2007
Many thanks to Dr. Lynette Dumble of the Global Sisterhood Network for sharing this horrifying account of how the Myanmar junta is treating women from Mizzma News,
“When they intervened and arrested peaceful demonstrators, they pushed women on their chest violently and lifted their sarong (skirt) from the bottom, tore apart their blouses, hit and slapped […]
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October 10th, 2007
“Afterwards, the police came and told Miloš that the attacker told him that he broke the flag because it is a symbol of ‘sick homosexuality that you promote.’ Miloš said that that is an act
of hate speech and that to use our sexuality in that way discredits all of us peace activists and defenders of […]
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