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February 27, 2010 – 8:05 am
During February, SisterSong and other organizations have campaigned against anti-abortion advertising targeting Black women throughout the State of Georgia with billboard campaigns. Then, the companion legislation, HB 1155, the Pre-natal Non-discrimination Act (The Sex and Race Selection Bill) was introduced in the GA House. 80 of the billboards were erected and CBS Outdoor Advertising has [...]
February 16, 2010 – 7:55 am
SISTERSONG HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE IN OPPOSITION
TO COLLECTIVE OPPOSES HB 1155
THE SEX AND RACE SELECTION BILL
WHO: SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective OPPOSES House Bill 1155 – The Sex and Race Selection Bill. Speakers will include reproductive justice organization leaders, civil rights leaders, faith-based leaders, local legislators, and local community members. SisterSong, headquartered in Atlanta, [...]
February 8, 2010 – 6:25 pm
Featured on the Huffington Post
By Jehmu Greene and Shelby Knox
Though the New Orleans Saints’ decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads. CBS and its advertisers served up enough offensive fare to give everyone with an opinion an opportunity to take a swing – [...]
February 8, 2010 – 4:48 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Rebekah Spicuglia, Media Director
Women’s Media Center
(office) 212-563-0680; (cell) 415-290-2970
rebekah@womensmediacenter.com
February 7, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Tebow Super Bowl ad has aired, and as expected, it is a benign telling of the Tebow family story that attempts to hide Focus on the Family’s true anti-choice, anti-woman, and homophobic agenda.
We respect Pam Tebow’s choice [...]
February 6, 2010 – 12:32 pm
With 200,000 of your letters in hand, the WMC is not backing down. Join Gloria Steinem, WMC President Jehmu Greene, Shelby Knox, and special guests on Super Bowl Sunday as we continue to hold CBS the NFL accountable for their biased policy reversal in favor of Focus on the Family’s anti-choice, anti-woman, homophobic agenda.
JOCKOCRACY, [...]
February 5, 2010 – 5:19 pm
February 5, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Women’s Media Center is not backing down. CBS, the NFL and Super Bowl advertisers are still planning to air the anti-choice Super Bowl ad, and we continue to hold them accountable. This biased policy reversal in favor of the anti-woman, homophobic organization Focus on the Family should [...]
February 4, 2010 – 1:27 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Rebekah Spicuglia, Media Director
Women’s Media Center
(office) 212-563-0680; (cell) 415-290-2970
rebekah@womensmediacenter.com
February 4, 2010 (New York, NY) – Tim Tebow shared the stage with President Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast. We have listened all week to comments from Focus on the Family about how they want to “raise the debate” regarding women’s reproductive health [...]
February 3, 2010 – 2:18 pm
It’s been an exciting week at the WMC as we fight to protect reproductive rights and protest CBS’s anti-choice Super Bowl ad. And now, hot off the presses, three articles take on the genesis and consequences of the ad, including our campaign to get the ad pulled. Writing for The Daily Beast, Dana Goldstein exposes [...]
February 2, 2010 – 2:24 pm
Featured on The Huffington Post
Super Bowl advertising has always been a showcase of overt sexism. This year the biased barrage also includes CBS’s and the NFL’s decision to air a seemingly subtle ad highlighting college football star Tim Tebow’s story, sponsored by Focus on the Family, which aggressively works to strip women of medical choices. [...]
February 2, 2010 – 12:59 pm
Amidst the flurry of conversation and debate over CBS’s anti-choice Super Bowl ad, Lauren Martin at The Women’s Campaign Forum has written an astute piece on why the ad reveals a distinct bias within CBS. She asks, what if they aired a pro-choice ad? Would it still be called an innocuous “celebration of life”? Martin [...]
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