The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the creation of buffer zones around abortion clinics and reproductive health care facilities in Rochester and Buffalo and upheld a complete ban of anti-abortion protesters from that zone. In the same opinion, the Court decreased the size of the buffer zone around two clinics and struck down a […]
The Supreme Court will not review a decision of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which approved of the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) affirmative action contracting program. The Tenth Circuit decision found that DOT’s program, which permits state grantees to give businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals certain preferences in the contracting process, […]
As Taliban soldiers began to flee Kabul about three weeks ago, they kidnapped girls and young women from the area, according to Northern Alliance officials and Kabul residents. They also took women kept as prisoners for disobeying Taliban decrees on behavior and dress. No one knows exactly how many women are missing, but officials estimate […]
Tuesday Dec 4th, 8pm EST, 5pm (PST) “Reproductive Choice, Abortion Bans, and Clinic Violence: Connecting Domestic and International Terrorism” with Eleanor Smeal in our Choices Online Chatroom! For the first time this year, Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and renowned feminist leader, will speak to students about the efforts to erode women’s […]
Now your Leadership Alliance and Choices Campus Community members can access resources and gain recognition for their contributions to the feminist community in journalism! Feministcampus.org’s new FEMINIST JOURNALIST CENTER will provide networking opportunities, media and internship resources, and research tools for feminist writers, journalists, and editors on campus. Submissions of articles on feminist issues and […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation welcomes recently chartered campus groups at UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN -ANN ARBOR and CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY (CMU) and congratulates CMU for garnering media attention with an article about the group’s formation in their campus paper. Following successful recruitment drives, SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE and ILLINIOS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY held their first general interest meetings, […]
The Leadership Alliance at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA hosted a major speaking event entitled, “Ending Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan,” with special guest speakers Mavis Leno, head of the Feminist Majority’s Campaign to Help Afghan Women, and Kathy Spillar, Executive Vice President of the Feminist Majority Foundation. This event was co-sponsored by USC’s Unruh Institute […]
MOUNT HOOD COMMUNITY ITY COLLEGE Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance organized a peaceful protest in response to a campus visit by known anti-choice extremist Paul de Parrie. De Parrie was arrested in 1991 for participating in a massive blockade of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. He is also a signer of the Defensive Action petition, […]
The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at SPELMAN COLLEGE in Atlanta recently hosted a Faces of Feminism panel. Over 300 people turned out to the event, which was co-sponsored by the FMLA and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The panel included six diverse faces of feminism, including one of FMF’s own Campus Organizers. The event generated […]
The UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINÑGREEN BAY Leadership Alliance mobilized over 600 students, faculty, and staff to participate in a major visibility event and petition drive for on-campus day care. In response to findings from the University’s most recent Status of Women report, the FMLA is leading efforts on campus to draw attention to the fact that […]
The NORTHEASTEARN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance recently hosted a workshop and concert with singer, activist, and actress Holly Near. The workshop, entitled, “Singers in the Storm: Living an Activist Life,” drew in a great crowd and the concert that followed played to a full house. Near has worked with the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campus Program […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) and Ms. magazine announced last week that FMF will assume ownership of Liberty Media for Women, the publisher of Ms. magazine. The magazine, co-founded in 1972 by Gloria Steinem, provides an international feminist space for new ideas and issues and has been recognized as one of the most influential magazines […]
In refugee camps in western Afghanistan, disease has spread like wildfire, killing hundreds of children over the past few weeks. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates that as many as 100,000 children alone could die from starvation and disease if they do not receive humanitarian aid supplies quickly. Thirty-three tons of relief supplies are […]
Pope John Paul last week apologized to those who were victims of sexual abuse and rape committed by clergy members, including priests. The Pope specifically made reference to the sexual abuse of nuns in developing nations. The apology was one paragraph in a 120-page document posted on the Internet regarding a synod of bishops from […]
Clayton Lee Waagner, convicted felon, anti-abortion extremist, and prison escapee, was allegedly in Carrollton, Georgia on November 23, 2001. During this visit to another anti-abortion extremist, it has been reported to law enforcement that Waagner specifically threatened to kill 42 abortion providers. Law enforcement officials are now in the process of verifying Waagner’s visit to […]
The Feminist Majority has received reports indicating that five women will attend the United Nations sponsored meeting of Afghan factions in Bonn, Germany tomorrow to discuss the political future of Afghanistan. Two women are going as part of the Northern Alliance delegation, two from the former king’s delegation, and one from the Cyprus group. The […]
In 1999, when interviewing Afghan women refugees who had recently fled to Pakistan, the Feminist Majority Foundation’s research staff first heard reports of torture in Taliban-run women’s prisons. Now that the Taliban have fled Kabul, evidence of torture is laid bare. The “room of pain” in the women’s prison in Kabul was the site of […]
The Turkish parliament adopted a revision to the country’s civil code formally recognizing women’s equality. Under the revised code, women will no longer need to ask permission from their husbands to work outside of the home. Married women will now enjoy property rights and will be able to keep their maiden names if they choose. […]
Afghan delegations representing the Northern Alliance, former king Zahir Shah, the Peshawar Convention, and the Cyprus group, will meet next week in Berlin to discuss the future of Afghanistan, including the development of a new broad-based representative government. Among the delegations, will be Afghan women. The former king, declaring “Women have always played an important […]
Hundreds of women and girls took to the streets in Kabul to demand the right to work, the right to education, and the right to political representation. The women, led by Saraya Parlika, Chairwoman of the General Coalition of Women, a 100-member human rights organization formed in secret in 1996, abandoned their burqas to march […]
