Leadership Alliances Celebrate Women’s History Month Across the US! As we kick off Women’s History Month, students around the country are preparing to celebrate International Women’s Day. The Leadership Alliance at New College will be hosting a film festival, and students at St. Lawrence University have invited a speaker to address the issues in Afghanistan. […]
Leadership Trainings in NY! Field Representatives Annie O’Connell and Beth Raboin recently spent four days at Hunter College in New York where they conducted leadership training workshops and helped recruit 21 new members to the Leadership Alliance.
Six-year old Kayla Rolland was shot and killed yesterday by a six-year old male classmate while at school in Michigan. The boy is the youngest suspect in the school shootings that have shocked communities across the country in the last three years – shootings by boys that have largely targeted women and girls. The fact […]
Egypt’s new law making it easier for a woman to divorce their husbands took effect today. Twenty women, an unprecedented number, took advantage of the new law in its first day and filed for divorce in Cairo. Egypt’s Parliament voted in January to give women the option to file for divorce before a judge based […]
Flora Brovina is a prominent Kosovar Albanian pediatrician and poet, and a champion of women’s rights. As of December 9, 1999, she’s also a convicted terrorist. After seven and a half months of detention, a Serbian court sentenced Brovina to 12 years in prison for committing terrorist acts against Yugoslavia. Brovina denied the charge that […]
Recent disclosures in a growing scandal within the Los Angeles Police Department have revealed allegations of police officers involved in beatings and shootings of citizens, perjury, and drug dealing. According to ex-officer Rafael Perez, who has revealed much of the LAPD scandal in exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-dealing charges, women officers were not […]
The U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday that it would rule on whether public hospitals can drug test pregnant women and then provide the results to police. In Ferguson v. City of Charleston, ten women from South Carolina filed suit against a Charleston hospital for searching a targeted group of women seeking obstetrical care. Women who […]
The number of hate groups is growing in the Portland/Seattle area of the Northwest according to the Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity. In its “Hate by State” report released yesterday, the coalition identified the location of 52 hate groups in the Northwest corridor, including the Aryan Nations, numerous chapters of the World Church of the […]
Last Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony in support of the “Unborn Victims of Violence Act,” which would make it a crime to harm a fetus in the process of committing any of 68 federal crimes. The federal law would, as opponents argue, tread dangerously on a woman’s right to choose, as its language […]
The Asracadero Gazette has lost about 11 employees and 200 subscribers in the wake of their recent cancellation of a calendar listing for a local Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) meeting. Publisher Steve Martin and editor Ron Bast both quit after the Gazette’s owners ordered them not to publish any materials that […]
In the October/November 1999 issue of Ms., we reported that 30-year-old Amazon Bookstore of Minneapolis, the oldest continuing independent feminist bookstore in the nation, filed suit against Amazon. com, the five-year-old Internet retailer, for taking the name Amazon without so much as a “by your leave” to the Minneapolis bookseller. You don’t need to be […]
Students have been staying busy in the wake of the recent Roe v. Wade anniversary, and are gearing up for Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day (and of course planning to attend Feminist Expo 2000!). The Cerritos Community College FMLA recently co-sponsored a speaking event with Sheila Tobias, author of “Faces of Feminism.” Tobias […]
Canada’s Justice Minister Anne McLellan has introduced a measure that would grant lesbian and gay partnerships the same rights that are given common-law heterosexual couples. The proposed measure would modify 68 federal statutes, such as the Pension Act and the Tax Act, but requires Parliamentary approval. Amending these two statutes would allow lesbians and gay […]
Anti-abortion militant Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, was given a censure letter by his pastor at the Landmark Church in Binghamton, NY. Ironically, once again Terry has formed a new group called the Loyal Opposition, which is dedicated to “preserving the sanctity of traditional marriage.” Right now Terry is in Vermont with the Loyal […]
Students demanding better working conditions for manufacturers of university-related clothing ended their eight-day sit-in yesterday after school officials agreed to meet some of their demands. Penn agreed to withdraw from the Fair Labor Association, a group that consists of apparel manufacturers and retailers that monitor working conditions, which the students claim is an inadequate monitor […]
The all-male, religious right organization, Promise Keepers, has closed all eight of its U.S. regional offices and located all field work at their headquarters. This is the second major reorganizing and cut back for the Promise Keepers. In February 1998, the group had announced that it was firing its entire staff due to a financial […]
Nearly 70 Afghans are seeking asylum in Britain following last week’s hijacking of an Ariana Boeing 727. The former hostages are facing resistance from the British government. Home Secretary Jack Straw stated as early as last week that he “wished to see removed from Britain all those on the place as soon as reasonably practicable.” […]
Emily Lyons, the nurse who was seriously injured in the 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing, is suing bomb suspect Eric Robert Rudolph. The suit is intended to prevent Rudolph from receiving any profits from a book or movie. Lyons is also seeking damages in her suit against Rudolph, which she filed on Thursday. Rudolph is […]
The body of Turkish feminist Konca Kuris was found in a hideout used by Islamic militants. The militants tortured her for weeks and documented it on video, which was also found during a recent raid on the hideout. Kuris was once a member of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah that seeks to establish an Islamic […]
Afghanistan’s extremist Taliban militia spoke out against the decision by Egypt’s parliament for passing a law making it easier for women seeking to divorce their husbands. Taliban spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen said “we consider the ruling as oppression.” The Taliban control 90 percent of Afghanistan and since taking control have barred most women from working […]
