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October 28, 2012 | Julie Zeilinger | Economy, Education, Feminism, Girls, Immigration, Politics
An Interview with Peta Lindsay
Over the past few months, we have been inundated with news about Obama and Romney -- especially about their policies in terms of women. But did you know that there's a woman running for president? You...
WMC Women Under Siege
October 25, 2012 Immigration, International, Violence against women
Abused from Ethiopia to England: My story as a raped refugee
The day my life changed I was 23 years old. I come from Ethiopia. I always loved writing, and as soon as I finished high school I started to work at a newspaper. In 2001, I was reporting a student demonstration. The police came and started shooting people.
WMC News & Features
September 06, 2012 | Mary Ann Swissler | Economy, Health, Immigration, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
DNC Platform—Reaching for a New Normal
The author, who last week analyzed the potential impact on women of the policies outlined in the Republican National Platform, here turns to the Democratic statement of principles.
WMC News & Features
August 31, 2012 | Mary Ann Swissler | Health, Immigration, Politics
Tea Party, Anyone?
The GOP platform presumably states the values of the party—not good news for the 99 percent of us, argues the author.
WMC Women Under Siege
July 27, 2012 | Michelle Seyler | Immigration, International, Violence against women
For immigrant women in U.S., reporting abuse rarely an option
Imagine living every day with the terror that, at any moment, you might be ripped apart from your family, your home, your job, your livelihood, your friends. Imagine feeling as though you have no choice but to risk all of this to report a case of rape or domestic violence. Such is the dilemma for countless immigrant women in the United States: Either suffer silently—often at the hands of husbands or family members—or go to the police and risk deportation.
WMC Women Under Siege
April 02, 2012 | Michele Lent Hirsch | Immigration, International, Violence against women
For women displaced by war, can a new stove spell safety?
Usually, headlines about women and kitchen appliances conjure anti-feminist rhetoric. But as we've reported previously, the cooking tools that women in refugee camps use—and lack—may have a key effect on whether they're targets of rape.
WMC News & Features
December 09, 2011 | Ellen Bravo | Immigration
A Child's Holiday Wish
A troop of children visited Congress yesterday to deliver messages to lawmakers: "Please let my family stay together."
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November 10, 2011 | Peggy Simpson | Immigration, Politics
Voters Reject GOP State Initiatives—What's the Message for 2012?
In a week when voters shot down anti-union and anti-reproductive choice measures, President Obama took pride in initiatives to advance women's equality.
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October 28, 2011 | Laura Tillman | Immigration, Violence against women
Domestic Abuse Fears Grow in Immigrant Communities
Alabama has passed the most extreme of the new state immigration laws copying Arizona's statute. Laura Tillman explores how they threaten victims of domestic violence.
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January 27, 2011 | Shelby Knox | Economy, Environment, Feminism, Health, Immigration, LGBTQIA, Politics, Violence against women
An Obama Report Card: State of the Union for Women and Children
In the wake of President Obama's State of the Union Address, the WMC looks at his record on a series of essential issues. Overall grade? Pass, but with ample room for improvement.
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December 20, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger | Feminism, Immigration, LGBTQIA, Media, Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Violence against women
11 for '11: Eleven Ways to Fight for Human Rights and Social Justice in 2011
Human rights org Breakthrough has announced eleven ways that individuals can help fight for human rights in 2011, recommending eleven unique actions, many supported by activist and nonprofit organ...
WMC News & Features
June 24, 2010 Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Immigration
Women Need Immigration Reform: What You Can Do About It
Women immigrants in the United States are a positive force in their communities. Rather than criminalizing them, argues the author, we must let them take care of their families.
WMC News & Features
June 16, 2010 | Gloria Steinem, Pramila Jayapal | Feminism, Immigration, Politics
Surprise! Immigration Is A Woman's Issue!
In the wake of the recent passing of the harsh anti-immigrant law in Arizona, Gloria Steinem, writer, feminist organizer and cofounder of the Women’s Media Center, and Pramila Jayapal, an immigrant herself, and founder and executive director of OneAmerica, a national organization that works for civil and human rights for immigrants, consider the unique impact of immigration on women.
WMC News & Features
May 20, 2010 | Ellen Bravo | Feminism, Immigration
Women’s Stake in Fighting Arizona’s New Law
The author, a Women’s Media Center Progressive Women’s Voices alumna, reports back from a Mother’s Day delegation in Phoenix to protest the state’s treatment of immigrant women.
WMC News & Features
May 04, 2010 | Laura Tillman | Immigration
On a Border Near Arizona: How Police Can Protect Immigrant Women
As the Arizona governor tries to push back criticism of the new immigration law, other Southwest communities concentrate on fighting actual criminal behavior. The author describes a case in point in Brownsville, Texas.
WMC News & Features
April 26, 2010 | Peggy Simpson | Economy, Immigration, Politics
The Tea Party Movement - Taking the Pulse
So far this election year, the angry grass-roots organizing energy is strongest on the right, but the Tea Partiers are hard to pigeonhole says veteran D.C. journalist and frequent WMC reporter Peggy Simpson.
WMC News & Features
April 26, 2010 Economy, Health, Immigration, Politics
The Tea Party Comes Out
A fear of diversity is at the center of Tea Party anger, argues The White House Project’s Marie Wilson—the very quality that produces good decision-making and the innovation that is likely to pull us out of the Great Recession.
WMC News & Features
July 28, 2009 | Sharmeen Akbani Gangat | Health, Immigration
Will Healthcare Reform Be Fair to Immigrants?
For reform to work, argues the author, it must fully include immigrant communities, whose members already struggle to afford decent medical care in the United States.
WMC News & Features
February 20, 2009 | Erica González Martínez | Immigration, Politics
A Challenge to New York’s New Senator—and to Her Supporters
Senator Gillibrand’s troublesome record on immigration policy was ignored by a number of social justice organizations quick to congratulate her. Now the senator and those who support her must embrace an agenda that protects the human rights of immigrants.
WMC News & Features
August 07, 2008 | Pramila Jayapal | Immigration, Politics
Immigration: Waiting for Leadership
Once touted by conservatives as the number one wedge issue, immigration has slipped off the table in these 2008 presidential elections. In part, this is because conservative candidates across the country lost when they tried to make immigrant-bashing a winning issue. (Witness the 2006 losing campaigns of Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and John Hostettler of Indiana, as examples.)
WMC News & Features
July 03, 2007 | Nida Khan | Immigration, International, Politics
Thoughts on July Fourth—An American Dream Shattered
I remember like it was yesterday. Every time I would act out one of my mischievous schemes, my mother and father would quickly remind me of their sacrifice. “We came here with two suitcases—that’s i...
WMC News & Features
May 08, 2006 | Susan Loubet | Immigration, Violence against women
Immigration Law Proposals Threaten Victims of Domestic Violence
When a victim of domestic violence also happens to be an immigrant woman without documents, the barriers she faces in trying to escape her tormentor are enormous. Two New Mexico women, founders of E...
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