The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Executive Vice President Kathy Spillar served as keynote speaker at a conference on Mifepristone, “Recasting Reproductive Choice: Perspectives on RU-486,” at Scripps College in California. California Campus Organizer Michelle Wood also spoke at the conference on the current campus Prescribe Choice campaign to increase campus access to mifepristone and Emergency Contraception. […]
Neetu Abad, President of the TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance (MO), received the Woman of Distinction Award from the Women’s Resource Center for her service to the campus community on women’s issues. Congratulations!
The SUNY STONY BROOK Leadership Alliance hosted “Freedom Fest,” a day-long event to raise awareness and mobilize support for the women of Afghanistan. The event included a screening of FMF’s “Shroud of Silence,” along with feminist speakers, poets, and musicians, and a fundraiser for FMF’s Help Afghan Women Campaign. The WESTERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY affiliate recently […]
The ILLINOIS WESLEYAN Leadership Alliance hosted an AIDS Awareness Week, to commemorate International AIDS Awareness Day on December 1st. This innovative public education campaign included informational flyers, condom goodie bags, and an HIV and STD lottery, which raised awareness about the escalating number of people, infected with HIV and STDs. The weeklong event ended with […]
The Choices Campus Community and the Campus Leadership Program is growing at a phenomenal rate. We welcome the hundreds of new members that join the Choices website every month and newly chartered Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances at AMERICAN UNIVERSITY in Washington, DC and EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY!
Does your group want to harness the power of the internet with a website and representation online? Leadership Alliances at GOUCHER COLLEGE, BASTYR UNIVERSITY, EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, SPELMAN COLLEGE, OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, DEPAUW UNIVERSITY, MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY, KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, and CORNELL UNIVERSITY have all represented […]
Earlier this month, Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, chatted with a full house of Leadership Alliance activists and online Choices Campus Community members. The chat, “The War Against Women: Connecting Domestic and International Terrorism,” focused on the right-wing’s use of religion as a cover for their violent tactics. Smeal drew connections between […]
In an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner explained that he had planned to send bomb threats to every abortion clinic in the nation. The threats would have been sent on FBI letterhead by fax and would have warned clinic personnel not to use their telephones to alert anyone, claiming […]
Despite the a global International Safe Motherhood Initiative launched in 1987, maternal death is the second leading cause of death worldwide, according to a report issued by the Panos Institute, an international development charity based in London. Each year, there are 525,000 recorded maternal deaths, and 15 million women who experience complications during pregnancy that […]
Women participating in the 12th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Africa declared that cultural attitudes assuming male domination over women and a lack of women’s rights contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS among African women. Of the 28.1 million people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, 55 percent are women, according […]
A group of world leaders have announced its plan to open a private, independent college for women in Asia. The college, to be built in Bangladesh, will focus its attention on a liberal arts education for women and attempt to recruit primarily poor rural women through special scholarships. “I see this as sort of a […]
Six delegates from the Afghan Women’s Summit, held in Brussels December 4-5, will meet with members of the U.S. House and Senate as well as the State Department to garner support for the Brussels Proclamation, the Summit’s plan for Afghan reconstruction. The delegates, hosted by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sam Brownback (R-KS), will present […]
The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments en banc Tuesday for Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, et al. v. American Coalition of Life Activists (ACLA), et al., also known as the “Nuremberg Files” case. The Feminist Majority Foundation, along with several reproductive rights groups, filed an amicus brief urging that the Ninth Circuit re-hear […]
Afghan women leaders meeting in Brussels concluded a roundtable meeting, sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Belgian government, on Building Women’s Leadership in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. Participants issued measures to ensure the full participation of women in all aspects of the reconstruction process and the successful implementation of […]
Two weeks before the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, an unnamed military officer involved in the planning offered the Washington Post some chilling insight into the Bush administration’s media strategy: “This is the most information-intensive war you can imagine,” the source said. “We’re going to lie about things.” If you expected the press to summon up […]
Studies presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium indicate that a new class of hormone therapy may replace Tamoxifen in the treatment of certain types of breast cancers. In post-menopausal women with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer and also in post-menopausal women with estrogen-receptor and HER-2 positive breast cancer, data suggests that Femara, […]
Declaring that the future of Afghanistan hinged on “ensuring the essential rights of all Afghans,” President Bush today signed into law the Afghan Women and Children Relief Act. Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal and FM Director of Policy and Research Jennifer Jackman attended the bill signing along with Afghan women leaders, women members of Congress, […]
The International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development awarded Dr. Sima Samar the John Humphrey Freedom Award yesterday in Montreal for her work on behalf of Afghan women and girls. Samar was also recently appointed to the position of deputy vice chair and head of the ministry of women’s affairs in the transitional Afghan […]
In Missouri and North Carolina, pollsters and analysts are already beginning to see a gender gap that may prove favorable to women candidates in the November 2002 elections. Senator Jean Carnahan (D-MO) will be facing former Republican Missouri Representative Jim Talent in her race. Talent ran unsuccessfully for governor last year, after gaining only 47 […]
Anti-abortion extremist Clayton Lee Waagner was in possession of a white powder when U.S. Marshals apprehended him last week. Waagner told the arresting officers that the powder could be found in his stolen car and that even though it was not anthrax, it would initially test positive for the bacteria in field tests. Waagner also […]
