An all-star roster of some the music industry’s top artists Melissa Etheridge, Paula Cole, The Bangles and Mia Doi Todd will belt-it-out for women’s rights in a first ever, all women concert benefiting the Feminist Majority’s Campaign to Save Roe. Concertgoers will be in for an added bonus as the evening will be hosted by […]
Outrage Over Court-Protected Domestic Terrorism Statement of Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal WASHINGTON, DC – We are shocked and dismayed that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously chosen to limit and weaken the protections guaranteed by Congress through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). Under […]
Ring of Anti-Abortion Terrorists Must be Brought to Justice! WASHINGTON, DC – Justice will finally be served with today’s capture of accused murderer and anti-abortion extremist James Charles Kopp. Kopp has been on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list for nearly 900 days, during which time pro-choice advocates and law enforcement have redoubled their efforts to […]
The terrorist Taliban regime publicly lashed a woman accused of having sex with a man who was not her husband. The woman received 100 lashes with a leather strap this week; the man involved had been punished earlier. The lashing is punishment under the Taliban’s strict Islamic Sharia law. Since taking control of Afghanistan in […]
Affirmative action programs could be codified as the U.S. Supreme Court hears Adarand Constructors v. Mineta, a case that challenges a highway construction program that offered incentives to large companies to hire subcontractors owned by racial minorities, says Americans for a Fair Chance, the nation’s leading coalition on affirmative action. “We are confident that the […]
During the six-week session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer condemned the Taliban for “completely depriving” Afghan women and girls of their human rights, and for destroying ancient Buddha statues in the region. Italy is expected to issue a resolution against the Taliban before the session ends. The […]
The number of women in law school has risen dramatically in the last 30 yearsÑfrom 8 percent in 1970, to 49.4 percent in the fall of 2000, and as of March 2001, the number of women applying to law schools surpassed men. In the country’s most selective law schools, including Yale, Columbia and New York […]
Exploited Nuns Go Unheard A young Islamic woman converts to Christianity, alienating her family and effectively banishing herself from the community she has grown up in. She approaches her parish priest, expressing her desire to become a Catholic nun and requesting the required certificates. The price for certification was incomprehensibly high: rape. When she finds […]
More than eight years after the Swiss Socialist Party proposed legalizing abortion, the Swiss Parliament voted last week to legalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy without obliging women to seek “neutral” advice at a state-approved center. Currently, though abortion is technically illegal in all of Switzerland, it is widely practiced and a […]
Two studies released within the last week, one by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and one by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), report that the prolonged use of estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) to relieve the symptoms of menopause may increase women’s risk of dying from ovarian cancer. The ACS surveyed over 200,000 post-menopausal women from […]
With one presidential memorandum, President Bush will attempt to ensure the reinstitution of the Global Gag rule that will prohibit family planning programs in the developing world that provide abortion information or abortion counseling from receiving U.S. funding, even if abortion information and counseling are paid for by the groups’ or the countries’ own money. […]
Yesterday, on the 29th anniversary of the 1972 congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Stephen Horn (R-CA) reintroduced ERA in the House, while Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) reintroduced it in the Senate. Rep. Maloney, who was the sole sponsor of the ERA last legislative session, is joined by […]
On Thursday, President Bush ended the nearly 50-year old tradition of inviting the American Bar Association (ABA) to perform pre-nomination evaluations of potential candidates for federal judgeships. Since 1953 presidents have provided the ABA with a list of potential federal judgeship nominees and requested an evaluation of the candidates’ professional qualifications. According to an ABA […]
Priests Impregnate Nuns, Some Advise Abortion Reports from 23 countries, mostly concentrated in Africa, reveal the widespread sexual exploitation of nuns by priests, many of whom are targeting nuns for sex because they see nuns as “safe” from HIV and AIDS. This sexist treatment includes not only rape and the extortion of sexual favors in […]
Congratulations to Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances at SOUTHWEST TEXAS UNIVERSITY and SOUTHWEST STATE UNIVERSITY in Minnesota for building new websites to represent their groups online! Visit these new sites, check out other websites for groups in your area, or create a website for your group. It’s quick, easy, and a great way to strengthen your […]
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On a campus where the Student Health Center does not provide birth control, the MERCER UNIVERSITY Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance is making quite an impact with students! Leadership Alliance activists have distributed 500 condoms on campus and in the process have educated their peers about the lack of access to contraception on campus. Brandi Brown, […]
Earlier this month, dozens of Leadership Alliance activists came together to attend a Mid-Atlantic Regional Training organized hosted by the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campus Organizers. Leadership Alliance activists and students from the UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, GOUCHER COLLEGE, THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY, MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE, and THE COLLEGE OF […]
Although International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th, our groups continue to work for women’s rights around the world during Women’s History Month and throughout the year.The GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance organized a panel on international women’s rights with speakers from around the world discussing their firsthand experiences and general women’s rights in […]
Leadership Alliance activists across the nation have organized major events to educate and raise awareness about violence against women. Last month, many groups participated in “V-Day” a global campaign for the elimination of violence against women where feminists fundraise and organize performances of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues on their campus. Throughout the year, our groups […]
