By Samhita • 15 years ago

Domestic Violence in Japan

Check out this video by Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reporting from Tokyo on the women who are speaking out about the problem of domestic violence in Japan.

Transcript after the jump.

Check out this video by Al Jazeera’s Tony Birtley reporting from Tokyo on the women who are speaking out about the problem of domestic violence in Japan.

Transcript after the jump.
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Women and Libertarians are Strange Bedfellows according to Peter Thiel.

<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/04/custom_1240943508276_peterthielvote.png"
I mean, I could have told you that. But not because I think that women are what ruined the country, specifically women's right to vote. Peter Thiel a very rich silicon valley libertarian who used to be the CEO of Paypal and is currently one of the main investors at Facebook. He has put forth an essay that suggests that women are in fact who ruined our country. Or at least women's right to speak for themselves and not vote like their husbands tell them to.
In his essay at the Cato Institute blog he writes (excerpted by Valleywag),

The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. ...

<img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/04/custom_1240943508276_peterthielvote.png"
I mean, I could have told you that. But not because I think that women are what ruined the country, specifically women's right to vote. Peter Thiel a very rich silicon valley libertarian who used ...
By Ann • 15 years ago

Sojourner Truth honored in the Capitol


Today Congress will unveil a new bust of Sojourner Truth in the U.S. Capitol. She’s the first black woman to be honored there. This is a far cry from the last time Congress proposed “honoring” a black woman, Melissa Harris Lacewell writes:

It is important to remember that Truth is not the first black woman for proposed to be enshrined on federal land. In 1923, Mississippi senator, John Williams proposed a bill seeking a site for a national Mammy monument. The Richmond, Virginia chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was prepared to pay for the statue, which would stand on federal land “as a gift to the people of the United States . . . a ...


Today Congress will unveil a new bust of Sojourner Truth in the U.S. Capitol. She’s the first black woman to be honored there. This is a far cry from the last time Congress proposed “honoring” ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Quick Hit: NY Cops Indicted for Raping Woman.

The NY City police officers that were charged with the rape of an intoxicated woman have been indicted.

A grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict two New York City police officers in the December rape of a woman who claimed she was sexually attacked after the officers escorted her from a taxicab to her apartment in the East Village while she was intoxicated, according to law enforcement officials and other people familiar with the case.
The grand jury last week charged both officers — Kenneth Moreno and Franklin L. Mata — though the details of the indictment were not immediately disclosed, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The officers, who ...

The NY City police officers that were charged with the rape of an intoxicated woman have been indicted.

A grand jury in Manhattan has voted to indict two New York City police officers in ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Debate over Kathleen Sebelius Confirmation Starting Today.

And pro-life activists are pissed. Via Washington Post.

The battle against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans.), President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has gone better than many pro-life activists had hoped. Yes, it’s true that Sebelius is expected to be confirmed after an eight-hour debate and cloture vote are held in the Senate today. It’s also true that activists have not managed to dislodge the support of Sebelius’s home state senators, Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts, both Republicans — an embarrassing setback that has prevented the Sebelius nomination from becoming quite the abortion rights showdown that they had hoped for. But they can count some small victories.

They feel so powerless, they are even making ...

And pro-life activists are pissed. Via Washington Post.

The battle against Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kans.), President Obama’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has gone better than many pro-life activists had hoped. ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Today is Equal Pay Day!

(I am not writing a transcript for this, but basically every man that interacts with this woman in the work place calls her a different derogatory term)
And why is it on a Tuesday? Because it is by Tuesday that women catch up to the wages earned by a man from the previous week.
via National Committee on Pay Equity.

Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages. The day, observed on a Tuesday in April, symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. ...

(I am not writing a transcript for this, but basically every man that interacts with this woman in the work place calls her a different derogatory term)
And why is it on a Tuesday? Because it is ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Obama’s 99th Day in Office

Tomorrow marks Obama’s first 100 days in office. Obama has been all over the place, but a couple of things that make me happy I voted for him include the overturning of the Global Gag Rule, the passing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, and his signature to shut down Guantanamo Bay. I am also happy with many of his appointments, most notable to me is Van Jones as the green czar, someone who comes from the same organizing community as myself.
The one place I differ with this administration, even if far better than the last administration, is their stance on foreign policy from our role in the G20 to our stance on ...

Tomorrow marks Obama’s first 100 days in office. Obama has been all over the place, but a couple of things that make me happy I voted for him include the overturning of the Global Gag Rule, ...
By Samhita • 15 years ago

Ten Unscientific and Sexist Reasons Women Can’t Drive


As someone who is often called an aggressive driver, I take personal offense to this stupid piece via Yahoo News Canada in the “car research” section listing 10 inarticulate and sexist reasons women supposedly can’t drive. The piece is from Askmen.com, which means it is actually not humor, even if to us that website is hilarious since it is drenched in the cowardly spirit of men that are afraid of vagina.
One of the reasons women can’t drive,

No.4 – They have no interest in cars
Another reason women can’t drive is a matter of interest — or rather, a lack thereof. You can’t do well at something when your give-a-damn meter reads zero point zero. Women have no ...


As someone who is often called an aggressive driver, I take personal offense to this stupid piece via Yahoo News Canada in the “car research” section listing 10 inarticulate and sexist reasons women supposedly can’t ...

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