By Samhita • 16 years ago

Self Promotion Tuesday: Social Forum Edition


I am very sad to report that I will not be attending the United States Social Forum this year. So cheer me up! Tell me who’s going, what you are doing there and what you are excited about!
Promote yo self!
UPDATE: If you are feeling shy (and I think many people are already in transit to USSF), look out next week in our “voices of. . . ” series, where we will be featuring activists, organizers and writers from the USSF.


I am very sad to report that I will not be attending the United States Social Forum this year. So cheer me up! Tell me who’s going, what you are doing there and what you ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

Man who raped 10 year-old gets lenient sentence because girl dressed “provocatively”

No, this isn’t about the case we reported on several months ago, where a 20 year-old man who raped a 10 year-old off with no jail time because of “his belief that she was over 16.” This is a whole new load of bullshit.

Oxford Crown Court heard that [Keith] Fenn raped the girl in a park on 14 October, before an accomplice, Darren Wright, 34, took her home and sexually assaulted her.
Judge Hall said in sentencing he faced a moral dilemma as the fact they had sex within 45 minutes of meeting was an absolute crime.
But he said the girl had dressed provocatively and looked as though she was 16. (Emphasis mine)

Well it’s nice to ...

No, this isn’t about the case we reported on several months ago, where a 20 year-old man who raped a 10 year-old off with no jail time because of “his belief that she was over 16.” ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

Save Internet Radio!

This one totally passed me right by, but today is a “Day of Silence” to save internet radio. Why should we care about the corporate takeover of web radio? Because people that can’t get radio stations on the airwaves anymore and folks (community run women and people of color stations) that have been put out of business by companies like Clear Channel, have gone to internet radio. But now internet radio is at risk as well.
via Wired News.

Barring Congressional intervention or the success of one of the many appeals of the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision, Internet radio will die on July 15th, when payments under the new scheme are due, though SoundExchange recently back-pedaled a bit by exempting ...

This one totally passed me right by, but today is a “Day of Silence” to save internet radio. Why should we care about the corporate takeover of web radio? Because people that can’t get radio stations on ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

What is not being said in the media coverage surrounding Paris Hilton?

I am a little late to this, but since the media seems to be spending more time covering Paris Hilton’s experience with the criminal justice system over anything else (only to be replaced by the murder of a pregnant woman–a seeming trend–which is a whole different post on how the media has to stop trying cases on TV) it seems that a conversation has failed us about the actual problems in the criminal justice system. And specifically in California, home to proposals that seek to expand prisons as opposed to schools, but also home to several prison abolitionist campaigns.
My colleague, Jeremy Bearer-Friend from Justice Now and Movement Strategy Center, pointed me to ...

I am a little late to this, but since the media seems to be spending more time covering Paris Hilton’s experience with the criminal justice system over anything else (only to be replaced by the

By Vanessa • 16 years ago

Horrific Story of the Day

This will certainly brighten your Tuesday morning.
A woman in Phoenix had the word “snitch� branded across her face because she helped police in an intimate partner violence case.
Don’t you just love the double whammies? Sigh.
Thanks to Jenn for the link.

This will certainly brighten your Tuesday morning.
A woman in Phoenix had the word “snitch� branded across her face because she helped police in an intimate partner violence case.
Don’t you just love the double ...
By Samhita • 16 years ago

AMC Wrap-up: What is your method to media justice?

So I am finally getting a chance to sit down and reflect on the last few days. I just got back from Detroit (late last night, into work first thing this morning!) where I attended the Allied Media Conference. Inspiring would be an understatement and I am only sad for all the great panels I ended up missing. AMC is one of those conferences where you can’t pick which workshop to go to, so you try and go to more than one at each time slot.
Since I was there with and for youth and racial justice media organizers, I unfortunately missed most of the INCITE led woman of color against violence track, for which I am most ...

So I am finally getting a chance to sit down and reflect on the last few days. I just got back from Detroit (late last night, into work first thing this morning!) where I attended the

By jen • 16 years ago

“You clearly need a man to save women in the sea.”

Italy recently opened its first women-only (almost) beach. Great? Uh, not so much. The article says,

“Italy’s long-standing tradition of male chauvinism has been delivered a bitter blow with the opening of the country’s first women-only beach.”

Hmm, so far so good. Wait, I see trouble brewing…

The man ban is accompanied by a restriction on loud disco music and traditional beach food such as deep-fried squid and chips.

Girls hate loud music and fried food. Well, some must, right? Not anyone I know, but it’s possible.

lessons in deportment, manicures, pedicures, keep-fit classes and cookery lessons from a well-known chef are the order of the day.

Thank goodness. The things most lacking in the beaches I go to are cooking and “deportment” lessons. ...

Italy recently opened its first women-only (almost) beach. Great? Uh, not so much. The article says,

“Italy’s long-standing tradition of male chauvinism has been delivered a bitter blow with the opening of the country’s first women-only beach.”

Hmm, ...

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