September 30th, 2008
From IRIN:
“During the bitterly contested Zimbabwe elections between President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the country’s rural areas became effective no-go areas. There were numerous reports of politically motivated killings and widespread rapes, allegedly by members of Zimbabwe’s national army, veterans of the country’s liberation war and members […]
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September 29th, 2008
Can the McCain campaign stoop any lower?? Go to
VoteForTheMILF.com and you will be re-directed to, wait for it…JohnMcCain.com. Read the whole ridiculous story here.
I’m guessing that as soon as the word starts getting around, they’ll stop it, so check it out now! And if you don’t know what a MILF is, here’s the definition.
Update–As predicted […]
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September 29th, 2008
From the Urgent Appeals Programme Asian Human Rights Commission:
Dear friends,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is shocked to learn that three more women have been buried alive in Balochistan province, a few days after they protested against the live burial of five women taking place in the same province. One prime perpetrator of the murder […]
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September 29th, 2008
It’s refreshing to see a piece like this that gets that Palin is not gawd’s gift to feminism. Unfortunately, Rasna Warah’s commentary appeared in The Nation (Kenya), it will likely not be read by too many American voters. Maybe we should outsource our media?
“Women who have had to struggle all their lives to survive and […]
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September 29th, 2008
From the Office Of Sen. Joe Biden:
Senate Passes BIDEN’s Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act
September 25, 2008
Today, the Senate passed Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s (D-DE) Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2008, legislation designed to help eliminate the nationwide backlog of rape evidence kits and bolster DNA testing of criminals and crime scene evidence. The original law […]
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September 26th, 2008
I am very pleased to share that the Women’s Visions For Peace issue of off our backs is out. I was the guest editor for this issue which, sadly, may be the last print issue of oob, although a web presence will continue (see more about this on the oob website). Below is the intro […]
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September 26th, 2008
Sit down and put your feet up, we’re going to be here for awhile. All of the kerfuffle about Sarah Palin being saved from witchcraft is truly unfortunate because witch wisdom is precisely what we need in this time of peril.
There were 2 stories this week, that while not subjects that are directly the focus […]
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September 25th, 2008
Reprinted with permission:
Collapse and Elections: My Lessons from Katrina
By Starhawk
“I’ve been meaning to write this essay for three years, since I went down to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to volunteer with a grassroots organization called Common Ground Relief. I went to New Orleans because for decades I’ve been part of groups […]
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September 25th, 2008
A few days ago we reported that Sarah Palin said it felt “awesome” to have a witch-hunting priest lay hands on her in an effort to help her become Governor of Alaska. Don’t quite believe it, well here is the video of the awesome experience:
Guess we’ll have to start a Pagans for Obama […]
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September 25th, 2008
According to a new report from UNICEF:
“Over 500,000 women die unnecessarily every year due to complications from pregnancy and childbirth, with 99 per cent of those deaths occurring in developing countries, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“Progress for Children: a report card on maternal mortality” shows that […]
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