Some Valentine’s Day present. This week, Senator Roy Blunt is introducing a radical amendment that would not only roll back birth control access but potentially women’s health and rights over 50 years. Act NOW – Congress is set to vote on this today! At the urging of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, opponents to [...]
Cross-post by Sarah M from the SAFER Campus blog Today finds me crawling out of blog hibernation to point ya’ll to the latest installment of “College Boys Just Want to Have Fun…By Demeaning Women and Making Jokes About Rape.” Today’s episode takes place at the University of Vermont, where a puzzling and revolting survey was [...]
So, former NYPD officer Kenneth Moreno would like the world to feel bad for having to travel the “rough road” of the past two and half years since he was indicted for raping an intoxicated woman after escorting her to her apartment. Last Thursday, Moreno was found not guilty, as was former officer Franklin Mata [...]
This is a guest post by Students for CEDAW co-founders Lara Yeo & Alex Hayes. For more information find them on Facebook or email them at studentsforcedaw[at]gmail.com. President Carter signed the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1980. Today, the United States (US) remains one of [...]
The Feminist Majority Foundation unites with our union brothers and sisters to demand justice for farm workers! Nearly three weeks after Cesar E. Chavez’s birthday, the United Farm Workers continue to work for the rights of farm workers. Working conditions for farm workers have been historically unsafe, unsanitary, and unacceptable until community and environmental activists [...]
Education policy makers in Georgia are attempting to prevent undocumented youth from accessing higher education in this country. The Georgia House introduced Bill 59, a bill that would essentially restrict eligible immigrant youth from applying to some of the top schools in the state. “The Georgia 7″ are a group of undocumented students who came [...]
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