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30 Nov 2011, 1:22 pm
The Media Education Foundation has released a new documentary film, “The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 12:14 pm
His Legacy Project (http://legacyproject.human.cornell.edu) has systematically studied the wisdom of more than 1,500 seniors – men and women who endured Depression, Holocaust and World War, as well as the ordinary trials of daily living – and has been offering these insights to the world since its launch earlier this year. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 5:00 pm
And ever since those damn Yankees tore across the good Ol’ South in the War Between the States, things just haven’t been the same. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 4:56 pm
I know that, if I learned anything in my high school history class about early electoral traditions, it was that the War of Independence was fought in order to reject that dastardly British fiction (as embodied in Parliament’s imperial claim to represent American colonists even in the absence of specifically American members or electors). [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 8:25 am
A total of 251 men, women and children were killed during the massacre. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 4:00 am
By Tzili Mor, Amnesty USA Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group Every day around the world, women challenge the status quo of poverty, exploitation, impunity, and war; they question oppressive customs and harmful traditions; they fight tirelessly for human rights. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 1:23 pm
By Meghan Iorianni Roughly 35,000 Bosnian and Croatian women and children were raped, tortured, and enslaved during the four year span of the Bosnian War (1992 to 1995). [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 1:51 pm
On the other hand, President Obama’s war in Libya may turn out to have been counterproductive as well as illegal. . [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 6:00 am
Because of easy access to small arms of all kinds, modern conflicts frequently target civilians for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and mass rape as a weapon of war. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 12:43 pm
I'd been asked to write something for the Fourth of July, and I wrote we have to fight a new war, a "war of independence from corporate politics. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 8:53 am
The worst was two treasury-draining wars that helped cave in the American dream, a loss of civil liberties, privacy, and governmental accountability. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 5:00 am
An earlier Rand report estimated that 300,000 veterans of those wars suffered post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 2:04 am
Carrie Chapman Catt [left], President of the International Suffrage Alliance," (photo credit) defended suffragists' militancy with these words:'I do not believe in war, but I say to you, fellow-citizens,that if the women are going on making their demand and election after election the voters are going against them at the polls, I tell you we will not endure it.'As posted, by Thanksgiving Day 1920, women had won the franchise. [read post]
24 Nov 2011, 12:21 am
I should say, the patriots across America today holding us to our own ideals; the service men and women who come back from fighting our wars abroad to say, we didn’t fight to bring democracy to other countries only to fail to defend it at home; the entrepreneurs who say, we may or may not be right in thinking that software patents oppress [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 4:47 pm
Specifically, this essay argues that the Muslim woman is a casualty of the post-9/11 “war on terror” in ways different than Muslim men. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 9:01 am
Then there’s war. [read post]
23 Nov 2011, 8:41 am
I guess it is possible, since Republicans love to prove their points by anecdotal stories instead with real evidence or logic (Michele Bachmann is especially fond of this since she used this method of proving how dangerous it is to vaccinate women against cancer. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 8:45 am
Or the Women's Liberation Movement? [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 12:49 am
Many have experienced war and violence, and some have been trafficked into Ireland for sexual exploitation. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 5:09 am
Because they are not part of the formal trial process, participation in these programs might enable women to tell their stories unfettered by the limitations inherent in criminal proceedings. [read post]
