From Human Rights First:
New York, NY – Hawa Aden Mohamed received the 2008 Roger N. Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award presented by Human Rights First in honor of her work to improve the quality of life for Somali women and girls. The award ceremony took place at a private reception on Tuesday, May 13th in […]
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I could easily spew on for hours, no– make that days, about Pres. Bush’s comments regarding women’s rights during his Middle East tour, but I’ll spare you. Is he fricking kidding? Does he understand the concept of irony?? To say that this is insulting after the unendurable damage his administration has done […]
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And who says there isn’t an intimate connection between sex and violence…
“Vancouver businessman Randy Puder was drawn to the booth operated by Taser International at the Consumer Trade Show in Las Vegas last January.
Playboy bunnies were signing photographs while salesmen pitched a new personal Taser that’s small enough to fit into a woman’s purse, he […]
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From the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran:
NCRI Website - April 17 2008 Hossein Tayeb, deputy commander of the paramilitary Bassij Force, a domestic subordinate of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the formation of new “Security Patrols,” reported the official news agency IRNA on Wednesday.”The major goal for running the new Bassij patrols […]
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I’m embarrassed. Not for anything that I did, but for the institute of higher learning from which I earned my undergraduate degree, Washington University, which has apparently lost all sight of common sense or decency in deciding to award an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly. Yes the same Phyllis Schlafly that got […]
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Press Release received via e-mail:
Human Rights in China is deeply concerned by the Chinese authorities’ continuing misuse of the law to persecute Yuan Weijing (袁伟静), the wife of jailed blind activist and barefoot lawyer Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚).
Most recently, a Chinese court on May 14 upheld a decision by Beijing authorities to prohibit Yuan from leaving […]
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Read here about the poignant anguish of mothers separated from their children along the Mexico/U.S. border, where “a modest opening here and there, just wide enough to slip a hand or a homemade taco through” allows families their only physical contact.
And kudos to Ellen Bravo for her fabulous op-ed about what mothers really need (hint: […]
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MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION
Julia Ward Howe Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
“Our husbands shall not come […]
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Hey guess what–Playboy and Penthouse aren’t pornographic, at least according to the military:
“U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material “sexually explicit.”
A Department of Defense committee […]
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Yes I know, the title to this post is grammatically challenged, merely a nod to W’s “Is our children learning” line. But seriously, whatever happened to teaching reading, writing and ‘rithmatic???
“The first high school dedicated to preparing students for the front lines in the Nation’s homeland security has gone from theory to planning […]
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