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Is Access to the Internet a Right? Deanna Zandt on CNN International (VIDEO)

July 2, 2010 – 3:15 pm

On July 1, 2010, Finland granted its citizens the right to Internet access. The same day, Deanna Zandt, Progressive Women’s Voices alumna, media technologist and author of Share This! How You Will Change the World With Social Networking, contributed her thoughts about this groundbreaking law on CNN International. An expert in the realm of technology [...]

By Corinne Colgan | Also posted in *Feature*, Media, Progressive Women's Voices, Social Media | Comments (0)

Judith Butler Declines Berlin Pride Award Citing Racism

June 28, 2010 – 1:11 pm

On June 19, Judith Butler declined the Civil Courage prize awarded to her by Berlin Pride, citing her wishes to distance herself from the group’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim statements.
In a speech delivered in German during the award ceremony, the well-known professor of queer studies said, “I must distance myself from this complicity with racism, including [...]

By Fiona Lee | Also posted in *Feature*, LGBT, Race | Comments (0)

War Strategy Collapses Along with Petraeus

June 21, 2010 – 1:17 pm

by Aimee Allison
How patient should the American people be while the Afghanistan war strategy wilts and faints? Not patient at all, especially because the key component of the strategy – training an Afghan police force – is destined to fail.
The U.S. is now in the 105th month of the war in Afghanistan, earning the distinction [...]

By Aimee Allison | Also posted in General, Politics, Progressive Women's Voices | Comments (0)

EXCLUSIVE Honoring Helen Thomas

June 18, 2010 – 8:51 am

by Jenny Warburg and Linda Belans
In the wake of veteran reporter Helen Thomas’s resignation from the White House Press Corps after her controversial comments, photojournalist Jenny Warburg and urban educational leader Linda Belans honor Thomas’s trailblazing career as a journalist.

As has been heavily documented in the news recently, Congressman Bob Etheridge was approached by [...]

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Can Mosque Pray-ins Change the Conservative Culture of Some American Mosques?

June 16, 2010 – 5:15 pm

by Jehan S. Harney
Mosque pray-ins are springing up across the U.S. They’re orchestrated by a group of Muslim women wanting to end gender segregation in nearly two-thirds of American mosques. To get their point across, some of these women are literally walking out from behind the seven-foot barrier separating men and women in some [...]

By Jehan Harney | Also posted in *Feature*, Advocacy, Entertainment, Media, Women in Film | Comments (0)

Female Genital Cutting: Affecting Girls in the US? Taina Bien-Aime on ABC World News (VIDEO)

June 16, 2010 – 2:13 pm

In April, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement that suggested US doctors in certain communities could complete a ritual pricking of the clitoris in place of cultural genital mutilation. Following the responses of advocacy groups and survivors of genital mutilation, the AAP rescinded the statement on May 27, 2010. The safety of [...]

By Corinne Colgan | Also posted in *Feature*, Health, Progressive Women's Voices | Comments (1)

Under the Spotlight: World Cup 2010 and AIDS Awareness Campaigns

June 14, 2010 – 1:10 pm

World Cup: The Other South Africa
Once again, World Cup fever is upon us. As soccer fans turn their eyes and switch their television channels to the games in South Africa, the host of the 2010 tournament and home to the largest number of HIV carriers worldwide, AIDS organizations are taking advantage of the media blitz [...]

By Fiona Lee | Also posted in *Feature*, HIV/AIDS, Health, Media, Sports | Comments (0)

EXCLUSIVE: The Ground We Stand On

June 11, 2010 – 1:14 pm

By Achola O. Pala
In Zimbabwe, Kenya and other countries wrested from colonial powers, women must look to their own rich heritage for security and rights, argues the author, Kenyan feminist and scholar Achola O. Pala.

Recently, I went on a solidarity mission to Zimbabwe with other African women leaders to support women of Zimbabwe who are [...]

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Beck Grasps at Flotilla Straws

June 3, 2010 – 1:30 pm

In the wake of the controversial Gaza flotilla raid, Glenn Beck linked humanitarian aid workers (like Women’s Media Center Board Chair Jodie Evans) to support of Hamas and terrorism and therefore, by degrees of separation, linked terrorism to the White House.
Beck is employing one of the oldest tricks in the conservative attack-book: basically, calling people [...]

By Michaela Monahan | Also posted in Media | Comments (1)

EXCLUSIVE I’ve Seen First Hand What CEDAW Can Do

May 27, 2010 – 8:51 am

By Letty Chiwara
The author, chief of the Africa Division of UNIFEM, explains the power of the UN treaty to eliminate discrimination against women—a potent tool that will only gain in strength with ratification by the United States.

I come from a country where discrimination against women, and as a result domestic violence, has always been the [...]

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