The NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance co-sponsored a benefit concert and silent auction to help survivors of the earthquake ravaged village of Jayaque, El Salvador. The event was a success and raised $3500, which will go to building homes that were destroyed from the quake. FMLA activists also joined a campus-wide delegation that traveled to […]
Yesterday a judge overruled the city of Wichita by granting anti-abortion extremist group Operation Save America (formerly Operation Rescue) the right to parade for one hour twice daily during their demonstrations this week outside of Dr. George Tiller’s reproductive health clinic. In 1991, when the group first appeared in Wichita, their violent agitation resulted in […]
The Delta Women’s Clinic, which was the target of anti-abortion arsonists in 1985, was destroyed in a fire Sunday. The blaze resulted in no injuries, but the clinic’s destruction leaves Baton Rouge, Louisiana without a single abortion clinic in town. In 1987 four men were convicted on charges in connection with the firebombing of the […]
Public forums on ergonomics began yesterday in the wake of a backlash against the Bush Administration and the U.S. Senate’s March decision to overturn the nation’s first federal ergonomics standard. The standard would have mandated employers to redesign workplaces and compensate employees suffering from repetitive motion injuries. Annually, over 600,000 US workers suffer from repetitive […]
Samantha Richards (not her real name) was only seven on January 12, 1996, when 29-year-old Jasper Washington pulled her into his car, drove a few miles, raped her, and pushed her out onto the snow-covered ground. Doctors found dried blood and semen in the girl’s underwear. “The man laid me down and pulled my pants […]
By the third city council hearing in December 2000, 91 percent of the 2701 cases had been reviewed. According to the Inquirer, more than 700 cases were found to be rapes, with over 500 determined other sexual crimes. The Inquirer’s detective work and the work of advocacy groups has resulted in a major corrective process […]
New York City is being sued by the U.S. Government for failing to respond adequately to complaints of sexual and racial harassment by four city employees participating in workfare programs. In this unusual case, the federal government is seeking compensatory damanges and the halting of improper conduct by NYC on behalf of four city employees. […]
At demonstrations in New York and Washington D.C., a coalition of over 140 religious, human rights and women’s rights organizations, including the Feminist Majority Foundation, called the Vatican to accountability in an effort to end sexual violence against nuns by Catholic priests. The coalition, led by Catholics for a Free Choice, called for an independent […]
Florida House Democratic Leader Lois Frankel announced her candidacy for the 2002 governor’s race yesterday, joining a growing list of challengers to Jeb Bush. Known as a leading spokesperson for an unbiased recount after the 2000 presidential election, Frankel has served in the Florida House since 1986 and became its first female Democratic leader. “It’s […]
Reversing his previous position, Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the U.S. Marshal Service to provide protection for Dr. George Tiller after prompting by the Feminist Majority Foundation, Planned Parenthood, and the National Abortion Federation. This weekend Operation Save America, formerly Operation Rescue, plans to start their ‘Let’s Finish It’ campaign in Wichita, Kansas, referring to […]
For the past four weeks the Feminist Majority Foundation has led efforts to protect Dr. George Tiller’s reproductive health clinic in Wichita, Kansas by providing logistical and organizing experience and spearheading volunteer recruitment drives to ensure patients’ access to the clinic after “Operation Save America” arrives this weekend. Feminist Majority staff have trained hundreds of […]
After repeated statements from the Bush Administration that senior officials were not in contact with the Salvation Army about a regulation allowing religious charities to discriminate against gay employee applicants, The Washington Post revealed that Karl Rove, President Bush’s primary advisor, began the Salvation Army negotiations according to several anonymous White House employees. Rove reportedly […]
On Wednesday’s UN World Population Day, the United Nations Population Fund asked the Taliban to allow women access to the health care they need. A UN spokesperson outlined the problem facing Afghan women: “On the one hand, the country is deficient in health facilities for women, while on the other, the Taliban rulers do not […]
Seventy percent of ovarian cancers are detected only in the advanced stages – when the survival rate is 20 percent. Only a small segment of women survive for more than five years with ovarian cancer. The Maine grassroots movement Miles For Women is raising awareness and funds to improve diagnostic testing for ovarian cancer. Organizer […]
The White House swiftly ended its consideration of a proposed regulation that would protect government-funded religious charities from state and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination. The measure, requested by the Salvation Army, would have allowed religious charities to discriminate against gays and lesbians in their hiring procedures. The Washington Post broke a front page […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation, along with over 100 national and international organizations, will participate in demonstrations at the Permanent Mission of the Holy See (Vatican Mission) on July 14, 2001 in New York City and the Vatican Embassy in Washington D.C. The demonstration, led by Catholics for Choice, will first begin in New York at […]
Last year Venus Williams became the first black woman since Althea Gibson (1957 and 1958) to win Wimbledon and now, like Gibson, she’s a repeat champion. On Sunday Williams defeated Justine Henin 6-1, 3-6, 6-0. However, William’s prize of $647,500 amounts to 84% of male champion Goran Ivanisevic’s awardÑa disparity that Wimbledon has made no […]
Last week, U.S. District Judge Henry Herlong issued a temporary restraining order against the enforcement of South Carolina’s Regulation 61-12, a “Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers.” The restraining order is the latest development in a lawsuit filed against TRAP by two South Carolina abortion providers. CRLP attorney Bonnie Scott Jones has said of TRAP that […]
In his Sunday speech to the 92nd annual NAACP convention, Chairman Julian Bond criticized President Bush’s “charitable choice” proposal. According to Bond, Bush’s intention to allow churches receiving government funding to discriminate based on creed amounts to “federally financed discrimination.” Bush’s proposal would also permit discriminatory hiring based on sexual orientation. A recent Salvation Army […]
One day last year, a 20-year-old woman named Kadra walked into a mosque in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. For a young Somali-Norwegian of Muslim faith, this was nothing out of the ordinary. But underneath her traditional dress, Kadra was equipped with a hidden camera. Her mission, in alliance with national television network TV2, was […]
