Off Our Backs, the venerable feminist journal that has been publishing now for 38 years is in deep financial trouble and may not be able to continue publishing. This week the collective that publishes the magazine sent out a plea for funds. Print media in general is struggling these days, but as many of us […]
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From the Every Mother is a Working Mother Network:
Dear Friends,
We have had a major media breakthrough in the “DHS – Give Us Back Our Children” campaign (see below for background). Elmer Smith, who has a regular column in the Philadelphia Daily News and is also on their Editorial Board, did a […]
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From Human Rights First:
Today marks the second anniversary of a protest held by women’s rights activists in Iran. That demonstration was broken up violently by security forces and led to the arrest of 70 men and women. The activists then launched the One Million Signatures Campaign, an unprecedented grass-roots campaign to change gender discrimination in […]
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From Women Living Under Muslim Laws:
On Monday 3 June 2008, the Women’s Minister of the Bougainville Autonomous Government was sacked from her Cabinet position. Magdalene Toroansi was the lone voice in the Cabinet to oppose President Kabui’s signature to a mining contract with Canadian mining company, Invincible which would reopen the Panguna Mine in Central […]
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Received from María Suárez Toro, Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE):
Huger Strike for Democracy in Nicaragua
A legendary Sandinista leader and political activist launched an indefinite hunger strike on June 4, 2008 against the current President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega for his authoritarian policies. Dora María Tellez, who fought against the Somoza dictatorship during the 1970s and […]
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Global call to action: It’s time for gender equality and women’s empowerment
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
A wave of initiatives - started just two months ago
Half way to 2015 we are far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). If we don’t get on track, we will fail on gender equality, women’s empowerment […]
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Via Frieda Werden of WINGS:
“Word just arrived that the UN is poised to cancel the program “Women” produced by UN Radio’s English service. There is no other program focused on women that I know of coming out of UN media. You can find it for streaming and downloading on the website http://radio.un.org
My letter […]
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Many thanks to Cara at Feministe for permission to cross-post this appalling story:
An immigrant woman from Honduras who has very recently awakened from a coma is being threatened with what can effectively be called deportation, because she does not have the insurance needed to cover her medical bills. (Don’t read the comments in these articles […]
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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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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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