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The Pacific Ocean Is Dying

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

nationofchange.org - May. 18 (Special Report) - Just prior to the Supermoon of March 18th, 2011, the world witnessed a natural and manmade disaster of epic proportions. What transpired off the coast of Honshu Island, Japan on March 11 has forever altered the planet and irremediably affected the global environment.

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Missouri Republicans Fight To Stop Women From Entering Politics

Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Robin Marty - May. 10 (News Report) - As more politicians continue to promote anti-women policies both locally and nationally, one suggestion that has been made to combat their efforts is a simple one — get more women elected to politics. Women legislators are the best ones to know how these oppressive policies will really effect women in the real world, and would be the most likely to fight against them being made law. Unfortunately, Missouri has caught on. To nip that problem in the bud, the state legislature has a simple solution. Cut off access to programs that can help women get into government. Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/missouri-republicans-fight-to-stop-women-from-entering-politics.html#ixzz1uV0lTyy4

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Fox News Contributor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Gene Demby - May. 09 (News) - Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women the right to vote.

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U.S. Nuns Face Vatican Rebuke for "Radical Feminism" in Stances on Church Teachings, Social Justice

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 27 (News Report) - The Vatican has reprimanded the largest group of Catholic nuns in the United States, accusing them of focusing too heavily on issues of social justice, while failing to speak out enough on "issues of crucial importance," such as abortion and same-sex marriage. It accuses the nuns of promoting "radical feminist" ideas and challenging church teachings on homosexuality and male-only priesthood. An archbishop and two bishops -- all of them male -- have been appointed to oversee the nuns. The reprimand, issued in a report last week, comes as the so-called "war on women" has become a key issue in the 2012 presidential race. Some Catholic nuns have opposed the bishops by supporting Obama’s healthcare reform law and contraceptive mandate. We speak to Sister Simone Campbell, head of the Catholic social justice group NETWORK, which was harshly criticized in the Vatican report. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Checking Romney's secret weapon: Infographics

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Louis Jacobson - Apr. 26 (Fact Check) - As he struggles to overcome deficits among key demographic groups, Mitt Romney is consistently wielding one weapon: "infographics" chock full of statistics that seek to undermine Pres

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Murder, Suicide and Financial Ruin: How the Class War Is Destroying Americans' Lives

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Mark Ames - Apr. 18 (News Report) - This past Thursday, a Modesto, California, man whose house was in foreclosure shot and killed the Sheriff’s deputy and the locksmith who came to evict him from his condominium unit. Modesto authorities responded by sending 100 police and SWAT snipers to counter-attack, and it ended Waco-style, with the fourplex structure burning to the ground with the shooter inside.

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Biden Says 'GOP's War on Women is Real,' Acknowledges Importance of President's Likely Supreme Court Nominee | AlterNet

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Apr. 13 (News Analysis) - The war on women isn't something that Democrats dreamt up as a cynical ploy to win an election: it is, as Biden says, a real thing, and it's being waged by Republicans. As long as Democrats are willing to fight, the only way it's going to end is if Republicans finally accept that women have a fundamental right to control their own lives and their own bodies. And if the Romney campaign's Hilary Rosen fauxtrage is an indication, of anything, it's that Republicans aren't planning to stand down anytime soon.

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Wisconsin State Senator Says Money Is 'Less Important' To Women

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Travis Waldron - Apr. 10 (News Report) - Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,”

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Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Adam Weinstein - Apr. 04 (Special Report) - They called it the Count, and the concept was simple: Tally up how many women get published in some of the world's top literary magazines and journals, compare it with the number of men gracing those pages, and slap the results into a pie chart. Red for men, blue for women. The result was a lot of big red pie slices . First published in 2011, they conveyed a clear fact: From Harpers to The New Yorker to The Atlantic , it's still very much a man's world. Roughly 65 to 75 percent of the space in the prestigious magazines went to male writers. The Count is the brainchild of two accomplished poets, Cate Marvin and Erin Belieu. In 2009, the duo founded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts , a nonprofit that acts as part online community, part advocate and agitator for women of letters. The idea, Belieu says, came in a "moment of loathing and terror and revolutionary spark." They intended the Count to be a conversation-starter, and it certainly has been : After they published the first round, some major ...

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Wall Street Journal Claims War on Women a "Myth"

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Robin Marty - Mar. 27 (Fact Check) - in essence, what Eberstadt really wants to talk about is whether women are “happier” now than they were back when you only had sex while married and for the purpose of making babies. And, in case you didn’t know this, you aren’t.

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Offensive WSJ Op-Ed Dude Verklempt That Septuagenarian Feminists Still Hanging Tough

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jill F - Mar. 13 (News Analysis) - James is upset because a bunch of women have the audacity to have opinions— and they’re old!

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Rush Limbaugh Scandal Proves Contagious for Talk-Radio Advertisers

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By John Avlon - Mar. 10 (News Analysis) - Premiere Networks, which distributes Limbaugh as well as a host of other right-wing talkers, sent an email out to its affiliates early Friday listing 98 large corporations that have requested their ads appear only on “programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity).”

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White conservative manhood crisis

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - Mar. 08 (News Analysis) - Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum’s attacks on women’s reproductive rights didn’t happen in a vacuum. They’re part of a larger conservative backlash against women, minorities and the poor.

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Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying | AlterNet

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Igor Volsky - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Democrats tore into House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) for preventing women and minorities from testifying before a hearing examining the Obama administration’s new regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Republicans oppose the administration’s rule and have sponsored legislation that would allow employers to limit the availability of birth control to women.

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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Yesterday the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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Michele Bachmann says HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson - Sep. 16 (Fact Check) - After criticizing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls, Rep. Michele Bachmann added some scary charges: She claimed to have just met a woman whose daughter suffered mental retardation from the vaccine, that it has "very dangerous consequences" and that it puts "little children's lives at risk." In the CNN/Tea Party Express debate in Tampa on Sept. 12, 2011, Bachmann blasted Perry for mandating a vaccine for school girls to guard against human papilloma virus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. The vaccine can prevent the virus, but the virus is sexually transmitted, which makes ...

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ed Pilkington - Jul. 04 (Special Report) - Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is alleged to have committed does not sound like an ordinary killing. Yet she faces life in prison in Mississippi over the death of her unborn child.

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Sheconomics: Why more women on boards boosts company performance

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Karen Pine - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - How many women does it take to make a company more profitable? Just three. Karen Pine finds a remarkable statistic that is being ignored in city boardrooms worldwide.

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“There is a Women's Spring Beginning”: Playwright Eve Ensler and Congolese Activist Christine Schuler Deschryver on Gender Violence in Congo

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Christine Schuler Deschryver, Eve Ensler - Jun. 07 (Special Report) - A newly published study in the American Journal of Public Health estimates more than two million women have been raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 2006. But women’s advocates say there is also positive news coming from the DRC. The group V-Day, a global movement to stop all forms of gender-based violence, recently held the opening ceremony for the City of Joy, a groundbreaking new community that will be run by women survivors of gender violence in the Congo. We speak with V-Day founder, Eve Ensler, the bestselling author and playwright behind The Vagina Monologues, about gender violence in DRC. We are also joined Christine Schuler Deschryver, director of V-Day Congo and the City of Joy, about the growing number of rape prosecutions in DRC.

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Kansas Lawmaker Says Women Should Plan Ahead For Rape: ‘I Have A Spare Tire’

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Tanya Somanader - May. 25 (News Report) - DeGraaf’s belief that women should plan and prepare for their own rape is more than groan-worthy, it’s woefully out-of-touch. As Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann notes, DeGraaf is basically telling sexual assault victims that “the state isn’t AAA” so a Kansas woman is responsible for the consequences of her attacker. And by comparing it to life insurance, DeGraaf goes further to insinuate that rape is as inevitable as death. Unfortunately, this Boy Scout dismissal of rape and incest victims is as galling as it is common among the GOP.

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Cry Me a River

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Stacie Murphy - May. 10 (Special Report) - Since the current legislative session started on January 5th, John Boehner's House of Representatives has never missed an opportunity to attack reproductive rights and access to family Planning ---often in jaw-dropping fashion.

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10 Worst States To Be a Woman

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - May. 09 (Special Report) - In a time of war and record unemployment, the GOP is sending a message: fertile women are the country’s number one enemy, and their freedoms must be quashed at all costs. State Republican (and some Democratic) legislators have introduced nearly 1,000 laws restricting women’s reproductive health access on the state level, and this is on top of decades of reproductive health policies that have made women second-class citizens in many states.

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