Dominique Bressi, a founding member of Stop Porn Culture, is undertaking an awesome fundraising attempt. Please help her if you can.
What I am doing:
I will be racing in the 2008 Coeur D’Alene Ironman, a distinguished athletic event – one day, one race: swim, bike, run, 140.6 miles. I will be racing in an effort to […]

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Or are some people missing the point in a great big way?

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McKinney Responds to Verdict in Sean Bell’s Murder
Green Party Hopeful Would De-fund Departments Which Violate Civil Rights

Cynthia McKinney, a Presidential candidate seeking the Green Party nomination, today released a statement commenting on Queens State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Cooperman’s verdict, acquitting NYPD Detectives Marc Cooper, Gescard Isnora and Michael Oliver of all charges stemming from […]

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Today’s grand prize winner is Tulsa County district judge Tom Gillert* who dropped a felony charge against a prick who took a picture up the skirt of a 16-year-old girl at the local Target. The honorable reasoning behind his decision? “…[t]he person photographed was not in a place where she had a reasonable […]

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Contrary to what some folks have said, it’s not that hard to attribute ideas. On the internet, links work great. In books, that’s what footnotes are for. I’m suspicious of nonfiction books without footnotes. “Oh, that’s too academic and elitist, waah waah.” No. People don’t have to read the […]

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Media Madness: The Impact of Sex, Violence and Commercial Culture on Adults, Children and Society
A Summer Institute/Training for Educators, Students, Human Service Professionals, Activists and Parents
July 8-11, 2008, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
For the 14th consecutive year, Wheelock College is offering a very popular summer institute on the role that the media (television, magazines, advertising, […]

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This was written by a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. It’s a response to this poster (pdf) which is up in a space where we sometimes hang out.

For every womon/gyrl in a family, neighborhood, school, or job who fears violent backlash if she names oppression, there is a male who holds the power […]

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Please read Tara’s excellent post on the subject if you haven’t already. You may want to skip the utterly predictable comments.

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…making a point in your feminist projects to “include” the voices and issues of women of color, working-class and poor white women, and maybe even trans folks and members of other groups historically marginalized by dominant feminisms.
(from here)
But to say birth control is essential to feminism is to say infertile women are not. Girls, post-menopausal […]

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Human rights activists Mary and Carrie Dann on their Nevada ranch in 1979 (photo by Ilka Hartmann)
The injustice at a glance
Congress has never acted and nothing has ever occurred as a matter of law to “take” or “extinguish” Western Shoshone’s title to their ancestral lands.

The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley (Nevada) did not cede any […]

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