American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist

American Association of University Women – Two Minute Activist.

An Attack on Reproductive Health Care: The New Domestic Gag Rule

On Saturday night, the House passed the largest health care overhaul bill in 40 years.  Many of AAUW’s key priorities were included in the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), including coverage for maternity care, [...]

NOW! UConn Metanoia 2009: Preventing Violence Against Women

For complete information: http://www.metanoia.uconn.edu/

Sunday, Oct. 4
Past (1979), Present (2009), and Future (?): Preventing VAW

This panel – featuring participants from the 1979 Metanoia as well as current students and professionals in the field – will kick off the week of the 2009 Metanoia. Audience questions and discussion by the panelists will conclude the session.

4:00pm – 5:15pm
Dodd [...]

UConn Human Rights Conference and Film Series

October 22-24, 2009: Human Rights in the USA Conference sponsored by the Human Rights Institute and UConn School of Law
The “Human Rights in the USA.” Conference at the University of Connecticut in Fall 2009 will evaluate how international human rights laws and norms are presently applied in the USA and will suggest recommendations for the [...]

Enough! The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity

Cell phone statistics reported by Jason Griffey, July 12, 2009, and posted on The Shifted Librarian

numbers (because this arena is very important for us)
4,100,000,000 number of mobile phone subscriptions in the world
over 60% of the people on earth have a mobile phone subscription service
in 50 different countries around the world, the number of cellphones per [...]

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

August 26 is Equality Day, thanks to  Rep. Bella Abzug and first celebrated in 1971.

From the National Archives, follow the documents that brought women the right to vote in 1920.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
The Documents
A Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution
December 7, 1868
Petition to Congress
December 1871
Memorial to Congress from [...]

Drowning in the Shallow End: Third Wave Feminis

Thinking of feminism in “waves” continually makes for reinvention — a real stalling technique to real forward motion. The waves (now beginning to hear the start of a 4th wave) is a speck in the whole history of women. This belief that we need to start over leads to loss of our base, the solidity [...]

Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics

Exposing Fake Women’s Health Clinics from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

Find over 20 short videos on important women’s issues: reproductive rights, sex education, clinics, religion and abortion. Be sure you check the menu of Stuart Productions. Here are a few available:

SIECUS State by State : Abstinence only until marriage programs report
Lessons of Hate in [...]

Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty

June 8, 2009 from Vital Voices:
Vital Voices Blog » Profile of Success – Egyptian Businesswomen’s Association Grows Its Membership to More than Fifty
Think of all the cities in the world where the “green” movement is taking hold. Cairo, Egypt, a desert megalopolis of 17 million people, probably isn’t at the top of your list. But [...]

Race and Recession Report from the Applied Research Center

A new report on the impact of economic recessions on people of color has just been released by the Applied Research Center. Find the Executive Summary and full report at http://www.arc.org/content/view/726/36/
They have gathered and compared data from the past 6 periods of recession (since 1972) and compared levels of wealth from 1992 to current depending [...]

Naomi Wolf on Third Wave Feminism