WMC News & Features
November 22, 2006 | Adrienne Verrilli |
Politics
Women’s Groups, Hill Leaders Take On Bush Choice for Family Planning Post
In a classic “say what?” moment last week, President George W. Bush appointed an anti-birth control, anti-sex education doctor to head the federal family planning program. The good news: leaders on ...
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November 17, 2006 | Tamara Kreinin |
Nsombi’s Story
I see my aunts and cousins and grandparents in these people’s faces. I take it very personally. It angers me when I see the lack of accountability. — Nsombi Lambright
Nsombi Lambright is passionat...
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Soldier Sentenced to Life in Rape-Murder Case
A military judge in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, yesterday sentenced U.S. Army Spec. James P. Barker to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Barker had pled guilty to 16 crimes related to the gang rape and premeditated murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, earlier this year.
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Soldier Pleads Guilty—First Sentencing Expected Today
U.S. Army Spec. James P. Barker on Wednesday pleaded guilty to 16 crimes related to the gang rape and premeditated murder of 14-year-old Abeer Al-Janabi and her family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, earlier this year. He is to be sentenced today, Army officials and his civilian defense attorney said.
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November 13, 2006 | Tamera Gugelmeyer |
Powered by Google, Powered by Women
According to Sheryl Sandberg, there are too few female role models in business. But she and her colleagues at Google are working to change that.
Sandberg, a graduate of Harvard Business School, is...
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November 09, 2006 Politics
Midterm Elections—Women Voters Lead Democrats to Victory
Against a backdrop of scandal and corruption, U.S. voters turned against the party in power on Tuesday. This time, the hypocrisy of self-declared family-values politicians who would protect colleagu...
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Obscure Beginnings to Justice for Abeer
While most of the country was focused on the election aftermath, former U.S. soldier Steven D. Green was quietly arraigned today at a U.S. courthouse in Louisville, Kentucky, three blocks from the Show n’ Tell Lounge advertising “girls, girls, girls.”
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November 08, 2006 | Sara K. Gould |
Women and Microenterprise—Learning from the new Nobel Prize Winner
Last month, the world awoke to the announcement that Muhammad Yunus, founder of the world renowned Grameen Bank, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Globally, as champions of the microenterprise...
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November 06, 2006 | Adele M. Stan |
Election Ads Reframe Abortion Debate
On the day before they head to the polls to determine whether to let stand a state law that bans virtually all abortions, South Dakotans, in newspapers throughout the state, are being asked to recon...
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Young Women Voters—Tipping the Ballot Balance?
With Republican control of Congress hanging in the balance, this is a critical election year—and young women voters (YWVs) could be the deciding factor. Midterm elections traditionally suffer from l...
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November 01, 2006 | Melissa Silverstein |
Politics
Speaking Up and Speaking Out
Three years into the Iraq War, the American public is making next week’s election a national referendum on the policies that got us there and seem to offer no end in sight. In a democratic culture w...
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October 30, 2006 | Tamara Kreinin |
Environment
Sharon's Story
People are trying to take your community while you are sleeping. -Sharon Hanshaw
Sharon Hanshaw was out of town when Hurricane Katrina hit her lifelong home of Biloxi, Mississippi. She returned t...
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October 30, 2006 | Joanne Edgar |
Feminism
Katrina Storytelling Is a Prelude to Change
Good journalists have long used personal stories, integrating quotes and anecdotes into factual reporting. But the birth of the second wave of feminism—and the recognition that the personal is polit...
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October 26, 2006 | Angela Bonavoglia |
SD Choice Advocates Pull into Homestretch, Issue SOS
In response to a stepped up, aggressive campaign by anti-choice forces in South Dakota, pro-choice advocates are fighting hard to insure victory against the most complete ban on abortion passed anyw...
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October 24, 2006 | Justin Bank |
Talent for Deception--Missouri Sen. Talent's Attacks Use False Attribution
In four separate TV spots Republican Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri falsely attributes several unflattering quotes about his opponent to the Kansas City Star. Our examination reveals that the quotes ac...
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October 19, 2006 | Regina Cornwell |
All About Women—Spain’s Cities Exhibit
España [f.] nosotras, las ciudades (Spain [f.], We, the Cities) is an exuberant celebration of Spain’s cities through the voices of her women. It is Spain’s contribution to Venice’s 10th Internation...
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October 17, 2006 | Angela Bonavoglia |
Deliver Us From Evil Spotlights Women Victims of Priest Abuse
Amy Berg’s riveting documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, makes it abundantly clear how deeply the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church has wounded women. By focusing on two women victims an...
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October 13, 2006 | Milon Nagi |
Joan Blades on Real Family Values
With Joan Blades “there’s no down, you just keep going up and up,” said Carol Jenkins, Women’s Media Center president, introducing the pioneering social activist at a recent WMC journalists’ lunch. ...
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October 10, 2006 | Adrienne Verrilli |
The Other Washington Sex Scandal—Federally Funded Misinformation
As sexually explicit and highly inappropriate exchanges between Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) and a congressional page occupied the headlines last week, the Republican’s “do as I say, not as I do” h...
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October 05, 2006 | Ninotchka Rosca |
International
Human Rights Lawyers Expose Misuse of U.S. Aid to the Philippines
“The presence of U.S. troops on Philippine soil has always been particularly devastating to women.” This is one of the baldly stated findings of the Women’s Human Rights Delegation to the Philippine...
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October 03, 2006 | Ruth Konigsberg |
3 to 1—Male Writers Dominate “Thought Leader” Magazines
Last fall, I’d been noticing a lack of female voices in what are supposed to be general-interest—and presumably gender-neutral—magazines. I wanted to find out if men were consistently getting publis...
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Military Justice System Fails One More Victim of Sexual Violence
The life stories of Jessica Brakey and Abeer Al-Janabi unfold a half a world apart. Yet the former Air Force Academy cadet and the dead Iraqi girl are both powerful symbols of women’s experience of sexual assault. The legal tales of both are curiously juxtaposed this fall in the military’s sprawling criminal justice system.
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault on the “New News” from Africa
With a career spanning more than four decades, there is nothing Charlayne Hunter-Gault “hasn’t done, covered, said, influenced,” said Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, introducing the ve...
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September 28, 2006 | Robin Morgan |
Fighting Words—A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
Do you gnash your teeth, shout at your TV set, feel yourself wearying from the dogged assaults of our homegrown American Taliban?
After all, news items like the following have now become commonpla...
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September 27, 2006 | Rhonda Copelon |
International
Under the Radar Screen—Rape and Sexualized Violence and the Geneva Conventions
The photos from Abu Ghraib—exposing such a range of sexualized violence and abuse—shocked most people in the United States and around the world. Under the radar screen, in this week’s Congressional ...