Guest Post by The Diamondback Online Staff Editorial Board A seemingly obvious protection went into effect when former President Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994. Although activists knew the law would periodically be up for reauthorization, it seemed unfathomable to them that members of Congress would try to reverse a law [...]
Written collaboratively by FMF Interns Colleen Osborne, Debra Miller, and Gina Barber Just when you were hoping for another feminist hero to call your own, Marissa Mayer ruined the party before it began. In an interview with Makers, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer stressed that she does not call herself a feminist because it has “become [...]
Hundreds of thousands of students in the mostly French-speaking province of Canada have been involved in this year’s inspiring Quebec student movement – often referred to as the Maple Spring – which began in February as a response to the government’s announcement to raise university tuition costs by 65% over the next 4 years. Quebec’s university [...]
The first time I stood outside of an abortion clinic was in the summer of 2010. Activists like me were spending the week defending a clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina, that had been targeted for a national event by a rowdy anti-choice group called Operation Save America (OSA). The first time I saw these protestors [...]
The Supreme Court released its decision today on Arizona v. United States, the case which decided the fate of the controversial immigration bill in Arizona, S.B. 1070. The court struck down three out of four provisions in the law, but unanimously upheld perhaps the most controversial aspect of the bill. The provisions that were struck [...]
Guest post by FMF intern and Iowa State University student Molly Bryant. We did it! We won by a landslide, 64 to 36 percent vote against measure 3. Thanks in part to the organizing efforts and determination of college students in the North Dakota and Minnesota areas, North Dakota’s primary had astonishing turnout of 175,286 [...]
North Dakotans voted overwhelmingly – 64% to 36% – against Measure 3 the so-called “religious liberties” state Constitutional amendment that could have been a huge blow to women’s rights. The measure would have amended the North Dakotan Constitution to allow a person or institution to carry out any action or practice solely based on his/her [...]
In less than a week, North Dakotans will vote on the Measure 3 ballot initiative which would amend the North Dakota state constitution to permit a person or religious institution to practice or carry out any action based on their religious beliefs. The vagueness and ambiguity of the measure could have devastating unintended consequences, especially [...]
I worked at the same part-time job from my sophomore year of high school to my sophomore year of college at a retail store in my hometown. I faithfully worked every Christmas Eve for the holiday rush over my winter breaks, and scrubbed what seemed like thousands of puddles on the floor from customers’ dirty [...]
Florida Governor Rick Scott claims to be protecting his state from voter fraud in the upcoming November elections by purging all suspected “non-citizens” from the voting rolls. Under this disguise, both Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner are leading the charge to enact what seems to be another attempt to suppress the vote in [...]
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