By Ann • 16 years ago

Report domestic violence, risk deportation?

Broadsheet has the unfortunate news that an amendment may be tacked on to the immigration bill that would make women’s immigration status known to federal authorities if they report domestic violence to local police.
Currently the Violence Against Women Act protects women by preventing local law enforcement from disclosing immigration status to the feds. But this amendment would essentially junk that portion of VAWA in the name of facilitating “information sharing between federal and local law enforcement officials related to an individual’s immigration status,” as the amendment’s authors, Republican Senators Norm Coleman and Pete Domenici, put it. Broadsheet reports,

“This is an extraordinary attempt to punish the undocumented immigrants in our country,” said Olga Vives, NOW’s executive vice president, in ...

Broadsheet has the unfortunate news that an amendment may be tacked on to the immigration bill that would make women’s immigration status known to federal authorities if they report domestic violence to local police.
Currently the ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

US wants Japan to apologize for sexual slavery.

This is not new, but the last few months the US has been urging the Japanese government to apologize for the forced sexual slavery of women during WWII. Yesterday, a resolution that demands this apology passed overwhelmingly in the Foreign Affairs Committee and will be going to the House.

Japan “has actively promoted historical amnesia; the facts are plain,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., said. This resolution “seeks admission of the horrible truth, in order that this horror may never be perpetrated again.”
More than 140 lawmakers from both political parties have agreed to co-sponsor the nonbinding resolution, which urges Japan to “formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner” for the ...

This is not new, but the last few months the US has been urging the Japanese government to apologize for the forced sexual slavery of women during WWII. Yesterday, a resolution that demands this apology ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Concerned Women: Ladies can’t be aggressive while wearing pink!

This is pretty sweet. Concerned Women for America lashes out at Code Pink for not being demure and ladylike enough. How dare they wear pink, the color of quiet femininity, while aggressively demanding an end to the war?!

[Crouse] said Code Pink members “talk out of both sides of their mouths.”
“They emphasize their femininity but advocate policies that are very aggressive and more often associated with men,” she said.

Does CWA really think pro-peace positions have been historically associated with masculinity? Did I miss the part of the recent Republican debates when all the manly-man candidates were clamoring to assert their commitment to peace? I mean, sure, I’d love to see conservatives (and everyone, really) saying the peace is a ...

This is pretty sweet. Concerned Women for America lashes out at Code Pink for not being demure and ladylike enough. How dare they wear pink, the color of quiet femininity, while aggressively demanding an end to ...
By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Something’s missing.

In reference to Samhita’s mention in a recent post of Jessie Davis, a pregnant woman in Ohio who was murdered, I had to bring attention to its media coverage on the murder and accused boyfriend: Why isn’t anyone talking about intimate partner violence? Let’s look at some stats:

On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 2000, 1,247 women were killed by an intimate partner. The same year, 440 men were killed by an intimate partner. Women are much more likely than men to be killed by an intimate partner. In 2000, intimate partner homicides accounted for 33.5 percent of the murders of women and less than four ...

In reference to Samhita’s mention in a recent post of Jessie Davis, a pregnant woman in Ohio who was murdered, I had to bring attention to its media coverage on the murder and accused boyfriend: ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Documenting street harassment

Someone in the ever-growing street harassment thread mentioned that this issue would make good documentary fodder… Well, a Penn State women’s studies student made a video of what harassment is like for women on campus. Check it out:

Someone in the ever-growing street harassment thread mentioned that this issue would make good documentary fodder… Well, a Penn State women’s studies student made a video of what harassment is like for women on campus. Check ...

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