Hilary Klein: Women Are at the Forefront of the Zapatista Revolution
Klein: From the civil rights movement in the United States to the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, from the campaign against apartheid in South Africa to the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle...
View ArticleThe FBI Built a Database That Can Catch Rapists, But Almost Nobody Uses It
Miller: What’s striking about ViCAP today: the paucity of information it contains. Only about 1,400 police agencies in the U.S., out of roughly 18,000, participate in the system. The database receives...
View ArticleLee Fang: Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net...
From the article: MMTC has gone to bat for other major media companies, arguing in 2011 that minority communities would benefit from the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. After urging support for the deal,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Mnar Muhawesh | Former CIA Agent John Kiriakou Takes Us Inside The...
Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally, is supporting many of the same terror groups the United States claims to be fighting in its so-called “war on terror.” By Mnar Muhawesh Mint Press News September 23,...
View ArticleRad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries!
For example: We may be familiar with Nellie Bly as a muckraking journalist, but unaware that she beat Phileas Fogg’s fictional record of going around the world in 80 days.
View ArticleChris Hedges | Prostitution: Being Raped for a Living
Activist Rachel Moran talks about her new book "Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution."
View ArticleAnn Jones | Afghanistan “After” the American War: Once More Down the Rabbit Hole
Tomgram: Ann Jones, The Never-Ending War. Jones has been remarkably, consistently, undeniably ahead of the curve on the conflict, a reality reflected in her revelatory look at the deeply personal costs...
View ArticleI Am the Beggar of the World: Poems by Afghan Women
Hakimi: The title of the book, which was taken from this last landay, is an epigraph of the lives of women indentured from birth by a patriarchal culture. The perils they face in their homeland,...
View ArticleNazila Fathi: Until We Are Free
The 1979 Islamic Revolution stripped Ebadi of her judgeship after it banned women from holding the position, forcing her to stay home and raise her two daughters. A decade later, she opened a law firm...
View ArticleA Foreign Policy That Can Change Everything for Everyone
War is the weaponization of discrimination, classism and misogyny. So why are so few women talking about it?
View ArticleHER
Naomi Wadler, Emma Gonzales, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kiran Gandhi (Madame Gandhi), Ellen DeGeneres, Chelsea Manning, Janelle Monae, Gloria Steinem, Laverne Cox, Gwen Carr (mother of Eric Garner)...
View ArticleRebellions! Worldwide: Brazil, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti and more
Haiti: 4 More Dead in Longest Bout Of Protests Against President Telesur October 12, 2019 So far, around 17 people have died and almost two hundred have been injured in the month-long protests. At...
View ArticleWar, U.S. Imperialism, Women and the Environment
"Well-behaved women rarely make history."
View ArticleTomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Feminism in the Time of Coronavirus
"The Future May Be Female, But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal"
View ArticleToday is Women’s Equality Day, August 26th
"...these new Jim Crow tactics that have blocked the vote of millions of voters, mostly people of color."
View ArticleRemembering the Uighur Women We Ignored, updated March 1, 2021
"The girl became completely different after that, she wouldn't speak to anyone, she sat quietly staring as if in a trance," Ziawudun said. "There were many people in those cells who lost their minds."
View ArticleFRSO Presents International Women’s Day
The current status of women in the U.S., patriarchy, wages, and also women making a difference.
View ArticleAnti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire
Exoticized and fetishized Asian American women have borne a dual burden of both racism and sexism, viewed on one hand as submissive and sexually available “lotus blossoms” and on the other as...
View ArticlePeasant Farmers Protest: Free Trade Isn’t Free for Haitian Women and Haitian...
The struggle of women is the struggle of the Haitian people!
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