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  • In the name of equality and freedom
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    of RUMINA SETHI
    Feminist critique of the march of globalisation and the resultant shrinking of democratic possibilities
    AGAINST EMPIRE - Feminisms, Racism, and the West: Zillah Eisenstein; Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, K-36, Hauz Khas Enclave, Ground Floor, New Delhi-110016. Rs. 350.
    This book marks a significant attempt to conflate activism among women and the hegemonic processes of globalisation. Zillah Eisenstein’s particular attack is on the masculinist U.S. (…)

  • Oppose Repression in the Philippines
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE MOST ONEROUS EMERGENCY IN THE PHILIPPINES IS ITS DE FACTO PRESIDENT
    In an act of collective punishment, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, still claiming the title and position of president of the Republic of the Philippines despite elections generally deemed fraudulent, declared a “state of national emergency” through out the archipelago. Even though the justification given was a nebulous report of an impending coup by some military officers, Macapagal-Arroyo chose to afflict all the people of (…)

  • Did the Pro-Choice Movement Save America?
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    AlterNet speaks with Cristina Page, the author of a controversial new book about the state of sex, morality and abortion rights in America.
    By Rachel Fudge
    In her new book, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex (Basic Books), Cristina Page boldly declares that the pro-choice movement is "doing a better job at what the public understands to be the pro-life agenda than the pro-lifers are": that is, not only dramatically reducing the number of (…)

  • Frankfurt : preparation of women’s meeting
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends,
    The next women’s meeting of the European Preparatory Assembly will take place in Frankfurt on Friday 3.3.06 at 16 -18 am.
    Some propositions for the agenda.
    A) Discussion about the programme of the seminars of the feminist’s axe and the meanstraming of the seminars.
    B)Proposal of the text for the Manifesto (or Appeal) for the Women Assembly, and
    C) Preparation of the Women Assembly.
    Unfortunately, Hugo Braun has told me that we will have no interpretation. That is (…)

  • Women on the move, let’s change Europe, let’s change the world!
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    INVITATION To the Women’s Assembly Of the 4th European Social Forum, Athens 4-7 May 2006 Dear friends in the women’s and feminist movement and women’s and feminist organisations, As you probably know, women are subject to attack by a holy alliance of conservatism, neoliberalism and the Vatican, which is sharpening sex discrimination and which has as its goal to erode or even abolish our hard-won rights.
    And yet, at the same time, we have more than 200,000 women “emerging from the silence” (…)

  • The woman warrior
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ellen Goodman
    WHEN THE news came of Betty Friedan’s death on her 85th birthday, I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women’s Strike for Equality. I remembered Betty Friedan parading down New York’s Fifth Avenue, with tens of thousands of exhilarated women behind her.
    I also remembered the afternoon edition of my paper illustrating that march with two front-page photos. On the left was the pretty, blond, smiling figurehead of some unknown group of Happy Homemakers. On the right was Betty (…)

  • BOLIVIA: Indigenous Leaders, Women Head New Cabinet
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Franz Chávez
    LA PAZ, Jan 24 (IPS) - Reforms to Bolivia’s current "neoliberal" free-market policies and the fight against corruption and red tape announced by incoming President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, were put in the hands of a cabinet made up largely of indigenous people, trade unionists and women.
    Bolivia’s first-ever indigenous president, sporting the same red, grey, white and blue sweater that became famous on his tour to Europe as president-elect, swore in his new cabinet (…)

  • Girls Against Boys?
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katha Pollitt
    I went to Radcliffe, the women’s wing of Harvard, at a time when the combined undergraduate student body was fixed at four male students for every female one. I don’t remember anyone worrying about the boys’ social lives, or whether they would find anyone to marry—even though nationally, too, boys were more likely to go to college and to graduate than girls. When in 1975 President Derek Bok instituted equal-access admissions, nobody said, "Great idea, more marital choice (…)

  • The Supremes
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARY DEIBEL
    To most Americans, Samuel Alito remains as much a "stealth" candidate for Supreme Court as he was the day that President Bush named him to replace the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor, the justice at the center of a deeply divided court.
    But Alito’s work on the federal bench for 15 years, and as a Reagan Justice Department official before that, read large on the radar screen of the Bush White House and its outside advisers.
    Since Bush tapped Alito Oct. 31, outside groups and (…)

  • American Girl Expects Strong Sales Despite Boycott
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Courtney E. Martin
    Anti-choice activists are boycotting the American Girl doll series this holiday season, but strong sales expectations suggest the girl-power message is prevailing with shoppers. The high price of the dolls, however, means they aren’t for everyone.
    American Girl dolls
    (WOMENSENEWS)—It’s that time of year again, when some shoppers are roaming the aisles of local toy stores in a somewhat desperate search for gifts that don’t send archaic gender messages to their (…)