Last week the Feminist Majority Foundation hosted an “Open House” at FMF’s Los Angeles office for the Leadership Alliances in the region. FMLAs from CAL STATE LA, UCLA, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, FULLERTON COLLEGE, and CERRITOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE met and discussed plans for their region and their upcoming Rock for Choice concert.
Congratulations to the Leadership Alliances at FULLERTON COLLEGE who recently launched and will be holding their first meeting this week!
The Leadership Alliance at IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY recently performed the Vagina Monologues to an audience of 500 people, and donated the proceeds, totaling $1200, to their local women’s shelter. The Leadership Alliance at the UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA held a benefit concert and will be donating their proceeds of $945 to the Harbor House, a […]
The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY held their Women of Distinction Awards last month, honoring women who have done great deeds for other women and society. Every year the group honors 2 students, 2 faculty/staff, and 2 community members, along with a pro-feminist man. This year State Senator Lisa Boscola gave the […]
FMLA Activists from across the country are traveling to DC for the National Council of Women’s Organization’s Women’s Equality Summit and to Hampshire College for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy conference “From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom.” Both conferences will take place next week and will allow students […]
Congratulations to the new Leadership Alliances and affiliates at the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT BOSTON, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE, EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, and TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. The SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance’s first general interest meeting was videotaped and aired on their […]
The FMLA at the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO (UTEP) is working with the Coalition on Violence Against Women and Families on the Border to organize a silent protest against the murders of hundreds of women in Juarez. The group also plans to host a major concert to raise awareness of the murders of […]
The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition proudly announces its 2nd annual National Conference on Gender from May 18-20, in Washington, DC at the Washington Hilton in Dupont Circle. NCG unites, informs, and connects all Americans — gay, straight, transgender, youth, feminist — who are committed to ending discrimination and violence caused by gender stereotypes. Keynote speakers […]
The Coalition on Women and Taxes has called for a more responsible tax cut that would both stimulate the economy and increase tax fairness for women. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Patty Murray (D-WA) joined Nancy Duff Campbell of the National Women’s Law Center, Linda Chavez-Thompson of the AFL-CIO, and Heidi Hartmann […]
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), along with other Democratic Senators, the National Urban League, the National Committee on Pay Equity, and the AFL-CIO, have called for the Department of Labor to release their report on the pay gap. The report reveals that even 38 years after the Equal Pay Act became law, the average working woman […]
Authorities unveiled a May 1999 affidavit exposing evidence that the FBI used to charge James Charles Kopp with the 1998 murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian. Among the evidence was hair and fibers found on a baseball cap buried near Slepian’s home as well as on a tree on the Slepian property. DNA from these samples […]
As a direct result of a new French law requiring 50% of candidates on municipal election ballots to be women, the number of women municipal officeholders more than doubled from 22% in 1995 to 47.5% in 2001. At the county level, where there was no candidate parity requirement, the number of women officeholders grew only […]
US Senate Republican and Democratic leaders are in negotiations this week regarding a bill that would raise the minimum wage, currently $5.15 per hour, by as much as $1.50 over the next three years. While this hike would make a difference in lives of minimum wage earnersÑthe majority of which are womenÑa $1.50 per hour […]
In a victory for pro-choice activists, a U.S. District Judge in Indiana struck down a portion of an informed consent law that required women seeking abortions to receive state-mandated information in person 18 hours before obtaining the procedure. Under the March 30 ruling, women can get the information over the phone, eliminating the “two-trip requirement.” […]
The Taliban have demonstrated that they unable to effectively govern, said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Alan Eastham. Eastham cited the Taliban’s refusal to address the needs of the Afghan people and the fact that the Taliban have not taken into account the wishes of the international community with respect to terrorism, […]
This weekend, the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives and the National Hispana Leadership Institute honored activist, United Farm Workers co-founder and founding Feminist Majority board member Dolores Huerta with the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal. Huerta was honored for her dedication to workers’ and Latina rights. She participated in the event via video, as she is […]
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the world’s largest voluntary family planning organization, honored individuals and organizations in the media that have made significant contributions to women’s reproductive freedom at its annual conference this weekend. The Feminist Majority Foundation won a Maggie Award in the Internet category for www.feminist.org. Specifically mentioned was the feminist.org Daily Feminist […]
As most abortion rights activists anticipated, the Bush administration officially announced that the government will apply the same restrictions on Medicaid funding for mifepristone as it has for surgical abortions. The Department of Health and Human Services, led by anti-choice Secretary Tommy Thompson, sent a letter to state Medicaid directors last week announcing that the […]
The weight of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners’ (SANE) testimony in trials of rape is in question, as three judges in Virginia have ruled that SANE nurses may not draw conclusions regarding whether or not the sex that occurred was consensual or forced and may only testify about injuries noticed during sexual assault examinations. An appeals […]
The dogs may bark, but the caravan keeps going. That’s Sayeda Abdou Hamed’s mantra when times get rough in her fight to stop female genital mutilation (FGM). Hamed, a survivor of the procedure, is a member of Egypt’s FGM Task Force, a growing network that is fast becoming a movement. The task force, composed of […]
