WMC News & Features
January 21, 2011
Violent Rhetoric Has Consequences—Just Ask Abortion Providers
With the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that affirms women's right to choose abortion, approaching tomorrow, National Abortion Federation President Vicki Saporta calls civil dialogue a national responsibility.
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Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women?
When an angry young man aimed his semiautomatic handgun at Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a Tucson Safeway store on Saturday, he didn’t just critically wound her and kill or wound 19 others. He fired a shot through the heart of American democracy.
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In Chile, a Spiritual Space for Activism
Women who formed the backbone of the antipoverty and human rights work of liberation theology in Latin America have organized for women's empowerment for decades.
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December 17, 2010 | Peggy Simpson |
International
Micro-lender Fonkoze to the Rescue in Haiti
A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the rescue of the overall economy in the wake of the devastating earthquake. At a time when Haitian commercial banks remain closed, Fonkoze, the Haitian branch of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, mobilized over the weekend to get funds to its members in rural towns as well as Port-au-Prince.
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November 30, 2010 | Linda Hallman |
Economy
Batgirl and Other Fair Pay Heroes
While the Senate recently bungled its chance to advance paycheck fairness, gender pay equality has impressive champions ready to join the battle again, as AAUW's executive director Linda D. Hallman explains.
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November 23, 2010 | Valerie Plame Wilson |
Politics
Arms Treaty Must Not Be Derailed
Author and former covert CIA operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career protecting national security is depicted in the new movie "Fair Game," issues an urgent plea to the Senate to ratify the New START treaty without delay.
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Documenting Late-Term Abortion
Journalist Catherine Epstein talks to two documentarians about their film on late-term abortion and their motives for creating it.
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A Good Virus: Social Media Storytelling
National governments are not the only means for sparking change, as this year's Omega Institute Women and Power Conference emphasized. Author and media producer Kathleen Sweeney asked participants how activists can develop their power through social media.
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November 10, 2010 | Sharmeen Akbani Gangat |
Religion
Islam: Religion of Peace or Violence?
Pakistani American commentator Sharmeen Gangat explores how terrorists' vision of Islam is so vastly at odds with the Muslim tradition that nurtured her.
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How War Trounces Women's Rights
In her new book "Unmaking War, Remaking Men," feminist sociologist Kathleen Barry argues that by demanding a violent and aggressive masculinity—literally making men expendable—war precludes equality for women.
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November 03, 2010 | Anna Ziering |
Education
Ready for Right Now: Lessons from a Women’s College
Being educated among women, WMC intern Anna Ziering writes, shaped her understanding of leadership.
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November 01, 2010 | Linda Lowen |
Politics
Anger. Apathy. Frustration. Disgust.
WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna and commentator Linda Lowen urges feminists to shake off any discouragement and take to their social media sites to help turn out the vote for the midterms tomorrow.
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Why Mama Grizzlies Vote Pro-Choice
WMC Co-founder Gloria Steinem writes about the most crucial economic issues for women on Election Day–and the real Mama Grizzlies.
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Federal Suits Threaten Health Benefits
From the White House, presidential assistant Stephanie Cutter rallies defenders of the health care bill against legal threats, health care journalist Sharon Ufberg reports. Two federal lawsuits brought by state attorneys general imperil the newly won benefits.
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Black Women Could Swing November's Vote
For Democrats to succeed in the midterm elections, the President must convince African American women that he needs them to watch his back—and that he'll look out for them— argues blogger and commentator Debbie Hines.
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Out Cry: Ending Violence Against LGBTQ Youth
After Spirit Day, yesterday’s memoriam for LGBTQ suicides, the president and the executive vice president of the Ms. Foundation for Women call on us to fight the cultural messages that cause vulnerable teens to turn violence inward.
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October 19, 2010 | Shelby Knox |
Politics
Why Christine O'Donnell Is Not a Joke
Drawing on her experience as an “itinerant feminist organizer,” WMC Progressive Women's Voices alumna Shelby Knox explains why the seemingly fringe views of Delaware’s GOP Senate candidate are no laughing matter.
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October 12, 2010 | Catherine Epstein |
Economy
Power Play: Reversing the Recession’s Toll on Women
Influential advocates met last week in New York to address the economic security of women and their families. Journalist Catherine Epstein reports on their deliberations—and the people they hope will join the conversation.
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Manifesting a movement — a spiritual uprising
Inspired by the women she met at the Omega Women and Power Conference, WMC's Jamia Wilson explains why their visions of spirituality belong at the heart of feminism.
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Feminism and the 14-Year-Old: Tavi Gevinson Says “Do What You Want”
Fresh from covering New York Fashion Week and being profiled in The New Yorker, 14-year-old blogger Tavi Gevinson talks to journalist (and former WMC intern) Catherine Epstein.
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A Palestinian Midwife Who Defies the Odds
Feeza Shraim overcame violence and Israeli embargoes in the Gaza Strip to bring new life to her damaged homeland, as independent journalist Nida Khan recounts before Shraim receives her award from A...
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At War at Home
The Veteran Affairs Department defines a service-connected disability as "an illness or injury incurred in or aggravated by military service." As author and advocate Stacy Bannerman argues, the military spouses of those injured are on their own when it comes to treatment.
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The UN Steps Up to Women's Rights Challenges
Upon the appointment of Michelle Bachelet to head the UN's promising new women's agency, Shazia Z. Rafi, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, explains how an international coalition of women effectively negotiated the UN power process to get us to this point.
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September 16, 2010 | Michelle Dicinoski |
International
Australian Woman Prosecuted for Medical Abortion
In the state of Queensland, a young woman may face seven years in prison for allegedly taking the abortifacient RU486. Michelle Dicinoski, PhD, looks into the pro-choice advocates rallying around her case.
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How To Get the Best Out of Health Care Reform
Action on health care reform has moved to the states as they implement, or resist, provisions of the federal bill. Giovanna Rossi Pressley, a member of New Mexico's Health Care Reform Leadership Team, tells women what to watch for during this process.