In the U.S., George W. Bush’s presidency has brought a fresh wind to anti-choicers’ sails: they’re stepping up their campaign to prevent access to abortion, using every tactic from Internet hijacking to murder. What’s worse, their methods seems to be spreading around the world. Death Down UnderAustralia had its first-ever abortion-related murder in July when […]
As the nation’s attention turns to what will happen in a possible post-Taliban Afghanistan, the Feminist Majority has been conducting a media blitz to call attention to the role Afghan women must play in reconstructing Afghan government and civil society. Appearing on major network TV shows, including Larry King Live, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Rivera […]
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA) became the highest-ranking women in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives when House Democrats elected her Democratic Whip, the first Italian-American to hold the post. With this election, Pelosi becomes second in command under House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt (MO) and has positioned herself to someday become speaker of […]
After negotiations with U.S. and other global officials, the Northern Alliance has postponed its plans to stage a takeover of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Pakistan and the United Nations have been urging that the U.S. not support a military offensive by the Northern Alliance to gain Kabul, fearing that the Alliance will assume control of […]
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation, testified before the U.S. Senate at a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Terrorism and the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asia Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Smeal called for a significant increase in humanitarian aid for […]
Feminists Unite! Currently, we are working with hundreds of groups and thousands of pro-choice activists. We welcome new Leadership Alliances from ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-WEST, ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE FORT WAYNE, OGELTHORPE UNIVERSITY (GA), and SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY. Congratulations to all of the new FMLAs! Check out all of the groups currently participating in […]
Last month, FMF launched the Prescribe Choice campaign to increase campus availability of emergency contraception (EC) and mifepristone. Hundreds of groups have already received our campaign action kits and the online requests at www.prescribechoice.com continue to pour in! As a part of their Prescribe Choice actions, the TEXAS TECH Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance celebrated the […]
Last month, members of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance attended an awards ceremony and met with the directors of and faculty in the Gender Studies Department and the Center for Feminist Research. FMLA President Maryanna Abdo was later interviewed by USC’s campus television station on the events of 9/11 and the […]
In a 118-95 vote, House Democrats elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA) to be their next Democratic Whip. With this election, Pelosi becomes the highest-ranking women in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives. She summarized this achievement saying, “We made history. Now we have to make progress.” Pelosi will replace Rep. David Bonior (MI), […]
Led by the Feminist Majority Foundation, the National Center for Women & Policing, and the Women’s Law Project of Philadelphia, nine women’s rights and women’s law enforcement organizations filed an amicus brief supporting the five women plaintiffs challenging Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) requirement that applicants must run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes; a requirement […]
As the U.S.-led war on terrorism ensues, Afghan and U.S. women continue to urge for the restoration of Afghan women’s rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Highlighted in the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, drafted at the “Conference for Women of Afghanistan” in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, those rights include the right to personal safety, the […]
Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority and the Feminist Majority Foundation, testified before the U.S. Senate at a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Terrorism and the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asia Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Smeal called for a significant increase in humanitarian aid for […]
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is holding up the Senate vote to confirm Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Mike Mills to be a federal district court judge in Mississippi because of a dissent joined by Justice Mills in an anti-abortion trespasser case. In the case at issue, an anti-abortion protester who was tried for trespassing on clinic […]
The park was silent as operation Save America (OSA) conducted its “Memorial Service for the Unborn.” Twenty-eight children (to mark the 28 years since Roe v. Wade) placed red carnations on a tiny white coffin; in it, a jar containing an aborted fetus. The flower presentation was followed by an open-casket viewing of “Mark,” during […]
Acknowledging a healthcare crisis for Afghan women refugees, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has requested $4.5 million for donor countries to provide refugees with reproductive healthcare services including services intended to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Currently, there are over 5 million Afghan refugees outside of Afghanistan in neighboring countries plus millions […]
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, founder of Women on Waves, a non-profit organization based in the Netherlands whose mission is to prevent unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world by providing essential reproductive services to women in countries where abortion is illegal, was recently in Washington, DC. She met with members of the Feminist Majority Foundation […]
House Democrats will cast their votes for minority whip on October 10. In the running are Reps. Steny Hoyer (MD) and Nancy Pelosi (CA). If Pelosi, a strong supporter of women’s rights and feminist causes, wins the post, she will become the highest-ranking woman ever in the U.S. House of Representatives. Pelosi expressed confidence in […]
As the United States launched military strikes in Afghanistan yesterday in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. military planes dropped food packages into remote areas of Afghanistan providing sustenance to the starving Afghan people. The air drops contained 37,500 rations, or meals representing daily caloric intake, but some 7.5 million are in desperate […]
A protest at Mexmode — an assembly factory in Atlixco, Mexico that produces college sweatshirts for Nike and Reebok — in January 2001 over objectionable working conditions launched an international outcry from Mexican and U.S. labor activists. The Worker Rights Consortium, a D.C. based group created by university students, administrators, and labor rights experts, began […]
Already in the media, debate has begun about what and who would constitute a post-Taliban Afghan government. Some favor allowing Afghanistan’s former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, negotiate a new representative government by calling a loya jirga, a grand assembly that could possibly determine Afghanistan’s new leadership if the Taliban is ousted. The Taliban has held […]
