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
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 24th, 2008
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September 24th, 2008
From The Independent (UK):
“The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has pardoned three men who had been found guilty of gang raping a woman in the northern province of Samangan.
The woman, Sara, and her family found out about the pardon only when they saw the rapists back in their village”
“Everyone was […]
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September 24th, 2008
From GMA News:
“The complainant’s camp in the Subic rape case on Thursday said they will insist that convicted rapist US Lance Corporal Daniel Smith be turned over to Philippine custody when the Supreme Court holds oral arguments on the matter Friday.In a radio interview, lawyer Evalyn Ursua, the victim’s legal counsel, said they expect to […]
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September 23rd, 2008
From Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism In Iran (WFAFI):
Amnesty International - August 17, 2008 An Iranian woman been sentenced to 100 lashes, after being found guilty of adultery at a retrial. The woman, Shamaheh Ghorbani, claims that she only said she was having a relationship with a man found at her house to ensure that her […]
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September 22nd, 2008
We just totally heart Anorak for this excellent video about Sarah Palin’s Rape Kits:
But as Amie Newman points out at RH Reality Check, all the hoopla about rape kits is a distraction from the larger issue of how we deal with violence against women in this country and what the candidates would do to fight […]
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