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Update—Spielman Convicted and Sentenced for the Murder and Rape of Abeer
A third soldier, Private Jesse Spielman, 23, was sentenced Saturday night to 110 years in prison after being convicted Friday of the rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Rasheed Al-Janabi. However, like Sergeant Paul Cortez and Specialist James Barker, who were also convicted in the case, Spielman will, says the Associated Press, be eligible for parole after only 10 years in prison.
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America’s Military Kids Are Latest Collateral Damage
The children of the troops serving in Iraq are experiencing significant collateral damage at home, according to two staggering new reports on the occurrence of child maltreatment, neglect, and abuse...
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Spielman Court-Martial Underway in Murder and Rape of Abeer
According to testimony at his court-martial, which began Monday at Fort Campbell, Private Jesse Spielman went with Sergeant Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker and Private Steven Green on March 12, 2006, to the home of the Al-Janabi family in a village south of Baghdad. He watched while they raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Rasheed Al-Janabi and murdered her and her family.
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Women Are Half of All Bloggers—But Media Aren’t Noticing
If you get your news from, well, the news media, you can be forgiven if you didn’t know that nearly 800 women gathered in Chicago last weekend for the third annual convention of BlogHer, an online c...
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Title IX—35 Years Later
When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...
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Following the Footsteps of Genocide—Mia Farrow and Darfur
One late evening earlier this month in New York’s Central Park, Mia Farrow sat on the stage of the Delacorte amphitheater, her trademark blond hair loose to her shoulders on either side of her face....
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Headscarves and Turkish Politics
The largest ever demonstration for the rights of women in the United States took place the spring of 2004 when slightly over a million people marched in Washington, D.C. This spring women’s rights s...
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Opting for Family-Friendly Policies
In a recent article and a follow-up blog on women’s work patterns, two Washington Post writers cling to the traditional media framing of the difficult options facing a mother as being within the rea...
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The Sun as Sous Chef—Solar Cooking in Kenya
With concern over climate change, the sun promises a clean and renewable energy source, which those of us in rich countries often associate with expensive photovoltaic panels for generating electric...
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Brenda's Story
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Houma women feel they must be the strong ones. I had to tell people they had a right to feel bad. —Brenda Dardar Robichaux, principal chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the Un...
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New Study Explores the Aftermath for Women
Some women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have had to choose between finding basic shelter and guarding their personal safety.
Of the estimated 142,000 New Orleans apartments or houses destroyed b...
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A Modest Proposal . . .
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
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Al Mahaba Radio Speaks to Iraqi Women
Bushra Jamil, co-founder of Radio Al Mahaba, the first and only independent women’s radio station in the Middle East, has questions. Lots of them.
“Why on earth would America come in and get rid o...
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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...
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June 28, 2007 | Ariel Dougherty |
Arts and culture
Joining Audience to Filmmaker
Documentary filmmaking is never a job for the faint-hearted. Nevertheless, five separate works are currently in production that all focus in radically different ways on the women’s liberation moveme...
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Women’s eNews Five Years Later
When Rita Henley Jensen arrived in New York City in 1977 and enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she had no idea how difficult it would be to get her stories about women...
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SiCKO Hits the House
It’s ironic, but outside of hospitals and day care centers, perhaps the best place to acquire some kind of illness on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., was Michael Moore’s press conference on Capitol H...
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A Massive Effort Pays Off—N.Y. Anti-Trafficking Law
Earlier this month, Governor Eliot Spitzer, flanked by New York state legislators, signed into law the strongest state anti-trafficking legislation in the country. Depending on the source—including ...
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Hillary in Book-land
At first glance, the impact of the latest two mega-books on Hillary Clinton seems neutral if not mostly positive for her.
She appeared a relaxed, commanding figure in the second Democratic debate,...
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June 14, 2007 | Carol Jenkins |
Media
Rather on CBS and Couric
Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins on former CBS anchor Dan Rather’s remarks that CBS is “dumbing it down and tarting it up,” referring to the current CBS Evening News with Katie Couric:
...
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New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women Owned Radio Stations
In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
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The Thinking Woman’s Theater—Mary-Mitchell Campbell
I first saw Company by Stephen Sondheim back in the 70s, when Elaine Stritch with her alcoholic rasp was singing “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch” and the whole show had a snooty, misogynistic qualit...
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Jordanian Journalist Breaks Taboos Campaigning Against Violence
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother’s friend’s cellphone. Muqadas Bibi’s throat...
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Chicago Radio Station Owner at the Crossroads
When civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in 1963, more than 50,000 callers flooded WVON (1690 AM), then known as “Voice of the Negro”; so many callers, in fact, that they caused a meltdo...
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Looking to Congress for Justice on Wage Bias
Key congressional Democrats plan to take up the challenge by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to overturn what she called the court’s “parsimonious reading” of civil rights laws banning wag...