The newly forming SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY Leadership Alliance organized their first general interest meeting this week. The meeting was a huge success, with many students and faculty in attendance. The group also garnered much media attention during the meeting, with the campus newspaper, campus radio station, and main campus news television station reporting back […]
The Supreme Court yesterday struck down a South Carolina drug testing project in which pregnant women were subjected to secret searches for evidence of drug use in Ferguson v. City of Charleston. The scheme violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches, the Court said in a 6-3 opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens […]
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced Tuesday that they and five other Senators will be challenging the Mexico City Policy, reinstated by President Bush on February 15. The Mexico City, or Global Gag Rule, prohibits international family planning groups that provide abortion services or abortion counseling from receiving US funding, even […]
Sexual Exploitation of Nuns by Priests Widespread The scandal surrounding priests, rape, and AIDS, according to news accounts, includes abuses of power and financial explotation. Taking advantage of nuns’ relatively poor education, some priests, especially in developing nations, are exploiting their power both as men and as spiritual leaders to force nuns into sexual servitude, […]
In violation of a recent United Nations Security Council sanction against the Taliban regime, which currently occupies 95 percent of Afghanistan, a senior official from the Taliban Foreign Ministry traveled to the U.S. on Tuesday and spoke at the Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS). The UN sanction imposed on the Taliban included restricting […]
Despite the Federal Reserve’s half point interest rate cuts yesterday, when the stock market will correct itself and when a healthy economy will return is not clear, but the behavior of women investors is a good model for how personal investors should handle the ups and downs of the stock market. After Tuesday’s rate cut […]
HIV Leads Priests Away from Prostitutes, Toward Nuns, Young Girls According to several reports by senior nuns, and in one case by a priest, the sexual abuse of nuns by priests, including rape, is a serious problem in the Catholic Church, especially in Africa and the developing nations where the AIDS epidemic has hit hardest. […]
In preparation to stack all levels of the courts with right-wing justices, President Bush officially withdrew 62 executive and judicial nominations made by former President Clinton during his last days in office. Of the 62 nominations pulled by Bush, 10 were for federal judgeships and several were women and minority nominees, whose candidacy had been […]
After renewing requests for $450,000 in federal grants for family planning programs and learning that federal law made the morning-after pill available to teenagers, San Bernadino County supervisors are working to ban the distribution of the morning after pills to minors. To do so, the county supervisors must work around state and federal laws. California […]
The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, which has in the past impeded gay rights legislation, is expected to pass a statewide ban on discrimination against lesbian and gay men in housing and employment. If approved in committee, the bill is expected to pass easily in the Senate and would be signed by Gov. Parris Glendening […]
As former Chinese Premier Li Peng was being wined and dined in New York City at the United Nations Millennium Conference in August, a lawsuit was being filed against him downtown. “Crimes against humanity” was the charge levied against Li for his role in the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June […]
Congratulations to the new Leadership Alliances at HAMLINE UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, AND NORTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE! Facing an uphill battle in getting recognized by a resistant student government, the feminist activists at Hamline University organized a petition drive and collected 400 signatures of support for the group and were […]
Congratulations to Northeastern Illinois Leadership Alliance for laboriously collecting hundreds of signatures to demand a Women’s Studies Department. Their Board of Trustees voted unanimously for the creation of the department and the president noted the strong support from the petitions collected by the Leadership Alliance members.
Women’s History Month is in full swing and the Leadership Alliances are organizing events nationwide: The BROWN Leadership Alliance raised money and awareness for the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan and organized petition drive to protest the Global Gag Rule. On International Women’s Day, the CAL STATE LOS ANGELES Leadership Alliance organized a […]
Congratulations to the Leadership Alliances at ST MARY’S COLLEGE, HUNTER COLLEGE, PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, and WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY for building “online offices” (interactive websites) for their Leadership Alliances! We have a special place for *your* Leadership Alliance on feministcampus.org! Linking your site to feministcampus.org will allow you to increase your campus site’s traffic and hits, […]
The Feminist Majority is proud to announce a critical all-women Rock for Choice concert in Los Angeles, CA, Friday April 6, 2001 to benefit theCampaign to Save Roe. The concert will be emceed by Laura Dern and feature performances by Melissa Etheridge, Paula Cole, The Bangles, and Mia Doi Todd, plus a special appearance by […]
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) are the first women to lead the Senate and House campaign committees for the Democratic party. While women have certainly made gains in Congress over the last 30 years, they hold only 14 percent of seats, and have not been able to crack the top leadership […]
In a dangerous attack on the right to privacy, the 14th Court of Appeals voted 7-2 to uphold Texas’ sodomy law, which makes oral or anal sex between same-sex partners – but not opposite-sex partners – a crime. The ruling overturned an earlier vote by a three-member panel of the same body that declared Texas’ […]
In a front page story in this Sunday’s Washington Post, journalist David Finkel provides one of the first comprehensive U.S. media stories on the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, where at least 1 million people face death from famine and drought. The majority of these refugees are women and children. The crisis has been exacerbated by […]
Republicans in the House announced an orchestrated campaign to push the limits to restrict abortion access, including legislation on mifepristone, “partial-birth” abortion, and minors’ access to reproductive health services. In a front page story in the Washington Post, Republican leaders including House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX) announced a strategy to limit abortion incrementally through […]
