By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Holy shit.

This is crazy:

“In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for some female American soldiers serving in Iraq.
Last week, Col. Janis Karpinski told a panel of judges at the Commission of Inquiry for Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration in New York that several women had died of dehydration because they refused to drink liquids late in the day. They were afraid of being assaulted or even raped by male soldiers if they had to use the women’s latrine after dark.”

Alternet gives us details. I’m honestly too appalled ...

This is crazy:

“In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior US military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Coretta Scott King dies


What a horribly sad day.
Coretta Scott King, civil rights icon and Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, died today at the age of 78.
After her husband’s assassination in 1968, she took up his unfinished work and continued as a human rights and peace activist for the remainder of her life. A quote from the “first lady of the civil rights movement”:

“Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation.”


What a horribly sad day.
Coretta Scott King, civil rights icon and Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, died today at the age of 78.
After her husband’s assassination in 1968, she took up his unfinished ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

Indiana decides when life begins

Here’s a hint: It starts with “con” and ends with “ception.” (And, sadly, it’s not “contraception.”)
Indiana is considering legislation that would require abortion providers to tell women that life begins at conception.
Even though the state already has mandatory pre-abortion counseling (and a slew of other abortion restrictions), a new law would require women seeking abortions to be informed in writing “that human life begins when a human ovum is fertilized by a human sperm.”
Huh? Haven’t they heard that South Dakota (surprise, surprise) aready tried this? A federal judge prevented the law from taking effect.
Under the Indiana law, doctors would also have to notify women that the fetus may ...

Here’s a hint: It starts with “con” and ends with “ception.” (And, sadly, it’s not “contraception.”)
Indiana is considering legislation that would require abortion providers to tell women that life begins at conception.
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Female football fans on the rise (and in great outfits)

While football is generally seen as the epitome of American masculinity, it looks like women football fans are increasing like a mofo.
While this article by USA Today had to focus on clothing in order to make this increase in female football fans interesting, we find that women’s gear made about 15% of the NFL’s total merchandise sales for the 2005 season compared with 3% in 2004.
The reason for the increase in sales may not even be due to the increase of female fans, but due to a larger production of women’s gear in general. “We’ve finally listened to the cries of women who wanted NFL product,” said Eddie White, vice president of sports marketing.
Nevertheless, women ...

While football is generally seen as the epitome of American masculinity, it looks like women football fans are increasing like a mofo.
While this article by USA Today had to focus on clothing in order ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

Feminist Playwright Wendy Wasserstein dies


Wendy Wasserstein died yesterday at the age of 55 from complications due to lymphoma. She wrote a number of plays that approached feminist issues, and won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for “The Heidi Chronicles” (1986).
Her final play, “Third,” recently closed at Lincoln Center.


Wendy Wasserstein died yesterday at the age of 55 from complications due to lymphoma. She wrote a number of plays that approached feminist issues, and won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for ...
By Vanessa • 18 years ago

It’s a homophobic world after all.

Just because I’m not too surprised about this doesn’t mean it’s any less upsetting to hear.
It was reported yesterday that the Bush administration is rejecting consultative status of the United Nations to two LGBT organizations. In response, 39 organizations have written a letter to Condoleeza Rice, requesting an explanation for the decision.
Last year, the International Lesbian and Gay Association and the Danish gay rights group Landsforeningen for Bøsser og Lesbiske (LBL) applied for consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. This status allows NGOs worldwide can participate in discussions among member states at the UN. There are already 3,000 groups who have this status.
While organizations applying for consultative status ...

Just because I’m not too surprised about this doesn’t mean it’s any less upsetting to hear.
It was reported yesterday that the Bush administration is rejecting consultative status of the United Nations to two LGBT ...
By Ann • 18 years ago

On Target

Remember the Target pharmacist in Fenton, Missouri who refused to dispense emergency contraception?
Fashionable, pro-choice discount shoppers rejoice! Target seems to have responded to the deluge of letters they received. The store now requires its pharmacists to sign a “conscience policy” – in which they agree to fill or refer EC prescriptions.
And what about employees who refuse to sign the policy? They’re fired. A pharmacist at a different Missouri Target store has filed a complaint with the equal-employment opportunity commission because she was axed for failing to agree to dispense or refer prescriptions for EC.
The pharmacist says Target fired her because Planned Parenthood threatened to boycott. True, some letter-writers may have refused to ...

Remember the Target pharmacist in Fenton, Missouri who refused to dispense emergency contraception?
Fashionable, pro-choice discount shoppers rejoice! Target seems to have responded to the deluge of letters they received. The store now requires its ...

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