December 11th, 2007
You’ve already probably got a long list of reasons why you think Mike Huckabee is way too scary to vote for, but just in case you need another one:
“In August of 1998, Huckabee was one of 131 signatories to a full page USA Today Ad which declared: “I affirm the statement on the family issued […]
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December 11th, 2007
As this report from IRIN clearly indicated, women are being imprisoned in Iraq in violation of the Geneva Conventions,
“Nearly four months ago, an Iraqi army force raided a house in western Baghdad looking for a suspected insurgent accused of launching attacks against Iraqi security forces but they took his sister instead, according to her.
“They didn’t […]
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December 11th, 2007
“Somewhere on the Border” photo by Brenda Norrell.
Cross-posted from Censored:
Press Release: For Wide Distribution
From: Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache)
December 6, 2007
Chertoff Announces Occupation of Land Title Holders Refusing to Sign NSA Waivers
Dear supporters of the Lipan Apache Women Title Holder Defenders: Ahi’i’e for all your wonderful outpouring of support to our elders of El […]
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December 11th, 2007
Well I wasn’t planning to change the appearance of the blog, but…while attempting to add some new features, I added a script that somehow totally messed up the files for the theme and while I’m sure it is fixable, could take awhile…so in order to keep the site readable, I’m using another theme temporarily.
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December 10th, 2007
According to ABC News, a lawsuit has been brought against Halliburton/KBR by a former employee who claims that after she reported being gang-raped at a KBR camp in Baghdad’s so-called Green Zone,
“the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, […]
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December 10th, 2007
Received via e-mail from the Women’s Network from Nicaragua:
FOR THE LIFE OF WOMEN — NOT ONE MORE DEAD
neither by femicide nor by forced maternity
NETWORK OF WOMEN OF MATAGALPA
Once again, on 25 November, international day against violence towards women, we point out the multiple ways in which our society expresses this violence, and we cannot forget […]
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December 10th, 2007
In an effort to increase the visibility of this website, I recently looked into adding a link to Digg, the popular content-sharing website. All was going along quite well (although perhaps I should have gotten a clue when I was offered 16 gender choices to choose from) until, after signing up, I was told,
“You’re […]
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December 7th, 2007
Yesterday I wrote that,
“Historically, the harms that are committed against women have been silenced in many, many ways and still are in many settings today.”
Hardly an hour later I came upon this story that sadly illustrates the point. An article on All Africa about the normalacy of violence against women in Niger reports that,
“The […]
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December 6th, 2007
When people visit the Feminist Peace Network website for the first time, their initial response is frequently, “How can you work so intensely with these sorts of stories–they make me angry, sad, I feel overwhelmed.” Well truthfully, on some days I have the same response. But over time, I’ve found that talking about […]
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December 6th, 2007
Eva Sohlman has an interesting piece in The Women’s International Perspective about women in Yemen who are jailed because they have been raped, prostituted, etc.
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