By Miriam • 15 years ago

Youth voter guide for ballot initiatives

This year many states are facing a variety of ballot measures. We’ve heard a lot about the CA gay marriage initiative, and there are initiatives in 14 different states that could affect reproductive freedom, affirmative action, economic security, transportation, education, health care, energy and security (to name a few).
Choice USA, Campus Progress Action and Progressive Future have teamed up with the Ballot Initiatives Strategy Center to create this awesome guide to all these ballot measures, what they would really mean, and how you should vote on them.
So if you live in any of these states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Massachusets, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington download ...

This year many states are facing a variety of ballot measures. We’ve heard a lot about the CA gay marriage initiative, and there are initiatives in 14 different states that could affect reproductive freedom, affirmative action, economic ...
By Miriam • 15 years ago

Quick Hit: Lynn Paltrow on justice for pregnant women

From Lynn Paltrow’s piece at RH Reality Check:

This summer, the question of abortion and the rights of the unborn once again took center stage as a presidential campaign issue. In August, at the Saddleback Civil Forum, Pastor Rick Warren asked both presidential candidates: “At what point is a baby entitled to human rights?” Senator John McCain’s answer, “at the moment of conception,” immediately established his anti-abortion bona fides.
But the right answer, as a matter of international human rights principles and simple justice, is: human rights attach at birth, not at conception.This is the only position that ensures that upon becoming pregnant, women do not lose their human rights.
Political candidates of all persuasions should rest assured that to ...

From Lynn Paltrow’s piece at RH Reality Check:

This summer, the question of abortion and the rights of the unborn once again took center stage as a presidential campaign issue. In August, at the Saddleback Civil Forum, ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Abstinence shocker: Engaged couples don’t want to forgo sex

From the Associated Press:

A contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple, as long as they abstain from premarital sex, hasn’t gotten any takers. The deadline for the Marriage for a Lifetime contest is Oct. 31. The prize includes free flowers, invitations and other wedding treats.

Considering 95% of Americans have pre-marital sex, I’m not exactly shocked.
The contest is sponsored by the Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education (MATURE) project in Georgia, a federally-funded abstinence program. The group is set to receive $455,510 a year until 2011; the money for the contest was to come from those funds. In an economic crisis, it’s pretty awesome to see our federal dollars being ...

From the Associated Press:

A contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple, as long as they abstain from premarital sex, hasn’t gotten any takers. The deadline for the Marriage for a Lifetime contest is Oct. ...
By Jessica • 15 years ago

Palin backtracks on being a feminist


Sarah Palin, who called herself a feminist in the infamous Katie Couric interview, is not so sure anymore…

In an interview on NBC Nightly News that aired yesterday, Brian Williams asked Palin: “Governor, are you a feminist?”
“I’m not gonna label myself anything, Brian,” said Palin. “And I think that’s what annoys a lot of Americans, especially in a political campaign, is to start trying to label different parts of America different, different backgrounds, different…I’m not going to put a label on myself.”

You know, this is a flip flop I can deal with. Don’t label yourself, Gov. Palin. Especially not as a feminist.
UPDATE: Video of Palin’s change of heart after the jump.


Sarah Palin, who called herself a feminist in the infamous Katie Couric interview, is not so sure anymore…

In an interview on NBC Nightly News that aired yesterday, Brian Williams asked Palin: “Governor, are you ...
By Sharkfu • 15 years ago

Notes from a bitch…

A bitch has been working on several campaigns and I am tired as hell!
I’ve canvassed…phone-banked…blogged…rallied…and there is still so much that needs to be done.
Pause…consider…continue.
Yep, ’tis time for a pre-election Bitchfirmation!
Ahem.
When we’re called un-American for doing what this nation’s founders did by calling out bullshit and questioning those elected to serve us…
When we’re called socialists by people who couldn’t define socialism without a Google search an the assistance of an online dictionary if their herd mentality-based lives depended on it…
When they drop dollops of hate in the comment section of my blog as if I’ve lived damn near 36 years…all of them black…and never been called that shit before…
When they hang up ...

A bitch has been working on several campaigns and I am tired as hell!
I’ve canvassed…phone-banked…blogged…rallied…and there is still so much that needs to be done.
Pause…consider…continue.
Yep, ’tis time for a pre-election Bitchfirmation!
Ahem.
When we’re ...
By Ann • 15 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

Jezebel: Teen Moms Displeased At Double Standard Glorifying Bristol Palin & Jamie Lynn Spears
Genevieve at UneFemmePlusCourageuse catalogs the pro-rape “flair” on Facebook. (Via)
There have been a series of attacks on gay and trans students at Washington State University. (Via)
Sara calls out Palin for giving domestic terrorists a pass.
Fatemeh wrote An Open Letter to White Non-Muslim Western Feminists.
Chicago Defender: “Domestic Violence Hits Black Women Harder”
Mable F. Yee: How Can 30+ Million Women Be Invisible? (Also see Celina’s interview with Mable.)
Religion Dispatches: A Woman Leads Muslim Prayer in Britain For the First Time
A new anti-rape campaign in Scotland takes on ...

Jezebel: Teen Moms Displeased At Double Standard Glorifying Bristol Palin & Jamie Lynn Spears
Genevieve at UneFemmePlusCourageuse catalogs the pro-rape “flair” on Facebook. (Via)
There have been a series of attacks on ...
By celina • 15 years ago

Mable Yee: Who isn’t voting?


Through EngageHer.org and documentary film Engage Her: Getting minority women to lead and vote, founder and CEO Mable Yee is working to get women to the polls — especially women of color — millions are registered to vote but don’t cast their votes. So why do all those undecideds get so much attention?
Just 10 days to go till the big vote for the next prez. Here’s Mable…


Through EngageHer.org and documentary film Engage Her: Getting minority women to lead and vote, founder and CEO Mable Yee is working to get women to the polls — especially women of color ...

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