Huge numbers of visitors from the East, where no State has equal suffrage, are visiting the Exposition here in San Francisco.
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Fast Food Workers Will Hold The Largest-Ever Worldwide Day of Action Next Week
Fast food workers are planning the largest one-day action so far on May 15. Workers will strike in 150 cities around the United States, and protests will be held in thirty other countries, including England, India, and South Africa. The campaigners demand $15 per hour in wages and the ability to form a union. McDonald’s […]
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May 7, 1894: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriot Stanton Blatch Lead Mass Suffrage Meeting
There certainly seem to be plenty of people willing to do whatever it takes to remove a single word from the New York State Constitution, which presently grants the right to vote to “every male citizen of the age of 21 years.”
Veterans Groups File Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination Against Military Sexual Assault Survivors
The lawsuit alleges that the VA makes military sexual assault survivors who are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) go through more procedural hurdles than other veterans to receive disability benefits.
Beverly Hills City Council Condemns Taliban-Like Brunei Penal Code
“The City of Beverly Hills strongly condemns the government of Brunei as well as other governments which engage in similar policies for adopting laws that impose extreme and inhumane penalties including execution by stoning, flogging and severing of limbs.”
President Obama Announces That US Will Help Nigeria Find Kidnapped Girls
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that the US will assist Nigeria in finding the over 200 teenage girls who were abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram three weeks ago.
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US Will Help Nigeria Find Kidnapped Girls
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that the US will assist Nigeria in finding the over 200 teenage girls who were abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram three weeks ago. “We’ve already sent in a team to Nigeria – they’ve accepted our help through a combination of military, law enforcement, and other agencies who are going […]
PHOTOS: Feminists Rally Across from the Beverly Hills Hotel to #StopTheSultan!
Yesterday’s star-studded #StopTheSultan rally was a huge success! We’ve got the photos to prove it.
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May 6, 1911: NYC Suffrage Parade Largely Exceeds Expectations
Anyone who still doubts that the woman suffrage movement is rapidly gaining support must have been a long way from New York’s Fifth Avenue earlier today.
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Feminist Majority Rally Brings Together Women’s and LGBTQ Groups to Protest Brunei Penal Code
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), which pulled its annual Global Women’s Rights Awards from the Beverly Hills Hotel — owned by the Sultan of Brunei — held a rally yesterday across from the hotel to urge the Sultan to rescind a new, Taliban-like penal code that includes the stoning to death of gay men and […]
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Vatican Questioned by UN Panel on Child Sex Abuse Scandal
The Vatican came under fire yesterday during questioning by the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which demanded answers from Archbishop Silvano Tomasi – the Vatican’s representative in Geneva – on the Holy See’s response to widespread sexual violence and abuse by priests. The Committee called on the Archbishop to demonstrate the systems the Holy See […]
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Boko Haram Kidnaps Eight More Girls in Nigeria
Less than one month after kidnapping over 200 girls from Chibok, terrorist group Boko Haram reportedly kidnapped eight more girls, ages 12 to 15, from Warabe, another village in northeast Nigeria. The girls were taken from their homes on Sunday night, loaded onto trucks by gunpoint. Warabe is close to the border of Cameroon and […]
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May 5, 1916: Attendees Celebrating Emma Goldman’s Release from Prison Storm Carnegie Hall Stage for Birth Control Information
Rose Pastor Stokes has just caused a sensation in Carnegie Hall by distributing small slips of paper containing birth control information, a clear violation of Section 1142 of the New York State Penal Code.
Voter ID Law Struck Down in Wisconsin
A federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s new voter identification law last week, ruling that the law violated the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution as well as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Boko Haram Leader Admits to Mass Kidnapping in Nigeria, Declares Intent to Sell Girls
The alleged leader of militant insurgency group Boko Haram admitted in a new video obtained by Agence France-Presse to kidnapping over 200 Nigerian girls on April 14 – and also declared his intentions to sell them “on the market.” “I abducted your girls,” Abubakar Shekau is quoted by CNN’s translators as declaring in the 57-minute […]
Carolyn Maloney Leads Charge for National Women’s History Museum
Maloney has been working to establish the museum for nearly 20 years, first introducing a bill in 1997.
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May 2, 1913: President Theodore Roosevelt Speaks Out for Suffrage
Theodore Roosevelt joined the ranks of suffrage speakers tonight, and left no doubt he will bring the same enthusiasm and stirring oratory to the “Votes for Women” campaign which have characterized his efforts for other causes he passionately supports.
US Department of Education: Title IX Protects Transgender Students
The United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued guidelines this week that Title IX prohibits discrimination against transgender students.
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Nigerians Demand More Rescue Efforts for 200 Kidnapped Girls
Nigerians are demanding that their government do more to bring home the roughly 200 girls who were kidnapped more than two weeks ago on April 14 by the militant insurgency group Boko Haram. Protesters took to the streets of Abuja and Lagos this week to criticize the Nigerian government’s handling of the mass kidnapping. Rallies […]
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May 1, 1895: New York State Investigates Labor Conditions for Women and Children
A special report investigating conditions of female and child labor in New York City was submitted today, and it paints a bleak portrait of working conditions for those who earn their living at department store counters, in factories, or through home work.