WMC News & Features
Media Mistakes Fuel High Court Abortion Ruling
[The] partial birth abortion ban is a political scam but a public relations goldmine... The major benefit is the debate that surrounds it. —Randall Terry
Ruth Bader Ginzburg’s Dissent As Linda ...
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Duke Saga—a Prosecutor’s Legacy
In just one year of obfuscation and several apparent lies to a judge, defense attorneys and the public in a single case, a North Carolina prosecutor has undermined decades of progress toward justice...
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Beyond Imus—It’s the Hypocrisy, Stupid!
Periodically, some new wound rips the scab off our national, livid scar where sex and race intersect: the young law professor, Anita Hill, shaming Congress by her dignity and inspiring women with he...
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Imus Fallout—“No One Gets a Pass Here”
The Reverend Al Sharpton, a key point man on the successful campaign against Don Imus this week, gave clear signals that this was the beginning rather than the end of the war.
Long searching for a...
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April 12, 2007 | Regina Cornwell |
Environment
More Women Leaders—For the Sake of the Earth
Kathleen Rogers, the clear, straight-talking, passionate head of the Earth Day Network (EDN), was emphatic: "No, there aren’t enough women in environmental leadership roles." Citing our global clima...
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Rutgers Team as “Instrument of Change”
C. Vivian Stringer, the coach of the Imus-defamed college basketball team, got it exactly right this morning on the CBS Early Show, calling her young women an “instrument of change.” As the story de...
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The Rutgers Women Speak Out
“Mr. Imus has stolen a moment of pure grace from us.”
Rutgers’ team leader Essence Carson, who said she and her team were “highly angered… and deeply saddened” by Don Imus’ remarks, said that the ...
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April 09, 2007 | Peggy Simpson |
Health
Understanding Women’s Risks for Cardiovascular Disease
Most women think cardiovascular disease is a “man’s disease.” Wrong.
Coronary heart disease caused one in six female deaths in 2004 compared to one in 30 from breast cancer, says the American Hear...
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How to Finally Answer Imus
That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos . . . "
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
...
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Women's Sports and Media - The Challenges Ahead
It’s the Super Bowl of women’s sports this week in Cleveland, Ohio: the NCAA Women’s Final Four is in town after years of planning. Even security guards at the sold-out Quicken Loans arena marvel at...
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A Crossroads for Human Rights—the Achievement of the Korean Comfort Claims
In the years following World War II, we are in what legal scholar Eric Yamamoto has called a global “Age of Reparations.” Yet reparations claims and settlements have until recently ignored harms uniquely experienced by women.
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One More Taboo
In 1984, when my brother came down with the mysterious disease that came to be called AIDS, the diagnosis was a death sentence; today it is a disconcerting and traumatic, but not fatal, surprise. Th...
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March 26, 2007 | Gemma Puglisi |
Media
Is Three the Charm? Running the Network Nightly News
When NBC nightly news execs got the ratings for February and could sense ABC nosing ahead, they decided to do something drastic. They hired a woman.
“Nightly News with Brian Williams” had maintain...
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Stepping It Up, Against Global Warming
Because of her love of large white artic animals and fear for their future, a woman will host a rally April 15 at the Polar Bear Exhibit at the Indianapolis Zoo. In Tucson, three young women have pl...
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Right Candidates, Wrong Question
Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking which candidate are Americans more ready for, a white woman or a bla...
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Journalists, Recruited from Provinces, Train in Bangladesh
When Pushpita Alam began interviewing candidates for a fellowship program in Bangladesh teaching working-class women to be journalists, she looked for personal strength and the determination to exce...
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What a War Crime Looks Like
The account below is compiled from testimony given at the courts martial of Paul Cortez and James Barker, from accounts of the Article 32 Hearing and other court proceedings in the cases, and from previous WMC and newspaper reports. Former Pfc. Steven Green, Pfc. Jesse Spielman and Pfc. Bryan Howard are still awaiting trial. References to them are to alleged actions on their part according to the above sources.
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The Casualties of War Crimes—Who Weeps for Abeer?
Sandwiched between International Women’s Day on March 8 and the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 19 is another date that marks a tragic nexus of the two: the day one year ago when 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Al-Janabi was stalked, gang-raped, shot in the head and her corpse burned in her own home in Mahmoudiya, Iraq. Four U.S. soldiers and one former soldier are charged with the crimes committed March 12, 2006.
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My Subversive Barbie
A friend of mine is turning 50 today.
Our friendship was brief but intense. I didn’t get invited to her glitzy celebrity and fashion-hype parties. We don’t run in the same circles any longer.
Al...
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March 08, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
Politics
Black Enough? Obama’s Dilemma and Mine
Is he black enough? Is he black enough? Is he black enough? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
As a biracial person, I too, like Senator Barack Obama, have known the pain of rejection by th...
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March 06, 2007 | Susan Dworkin |
Arts and culture
The Thinking Woman’s Theatre
“A woman’s perspective is exactly what’s needed when tackling plays about aggression, warfare and political upheaval,” says director Eleanor Holdridge. “In Shakespeare, there’s an intrinsic sense of...
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March 05, 2007 | Sarah Olson |
International
Family Backs Army Medic Facing Desertion Charges This Week
Update: Augustine Aguayo was convicted of missing movement and of desertion and sentenced to eight months in prison. Because he has already served nearly six, he is likely to be released in less tha...
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Feminist Bloggergate—a Cautionary Tale
The first feminist political uproar of 2007 was not about Hillary Clinton but about two, relatively unknown-to-the-mainstream stars of the feminist blogosphere. Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon and Melis...
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February 27, 2007 | Kristal Brent Zook |
Arts and culture
Murphy’s “Norbit”—Just a Good Laugh?
You may have heard the film “Norbit” was number one at the box office on its opening weekend earlier this month. You’ve probably also seen the ads at bus stop benches and on billboards: the image of...
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“I’m Down With That”
“I’m down with that.” According to prosecutors, this was Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman’s response when hearing of a plan to rape 14 year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. Spielman is undergoing court martial on various charges involving her rape and murder and the murder of her mother Fikhriya, father Qassim, and little sister Hadeel.