by Rebecca Doran / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action In May, The House Armed Services Committee, in a 61-1 vote, approved a bill that would set Defense Department policy and spending plans for the upcoming budget year. The bill envisions creating a $50 billion fund for conflicts in the upcoming year; however, … Continue reading Should Women Be Assigned to Combat Duty?
Category: Women’s Liberation
Northern Lights: News & Views From SA/Canada
by Barry Weisleder / June 2005 issue of Socialist Action 1. Federal Liberals rebound There will be no Canadian federal election—not for a few months any way. Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Liberal government narrowly escaped defeat in Parliament on May 19, with the help of millionaire Conservative Party defector … Continue reading Northern Lights: News & Views From SA/Canada
Women and the Media
by Jeni Johnson / May 2005 issue of Socialist Action When discussing the role of media in the average woman’s life, I decided the best place to see what the media wanted woman to want was in a very popular magazine called Cosmo. When I looked at the table of context, it all looked pretty … Continue reading Women and the Media
College of St. Scholastica Tries to Block Vagina Monologues
Below is an interview conducted by Socialist Action newspaper with a pair of student activists at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. The Vagina Monologues is a performance that highlights violence against women and girls, and has become an important fundraiser for numerous programs dealing with these issues. It has become an annual event … Continue reading College of St. Scholastica Tries to Block Vagina Monologues
Right Wing Mobilizes Against Women’s Rights
by Rebecca Doran – February, 2005 Jan. 22 marked the 32nd anniversary of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which made the right to abortion legal in all states. Anti-choice advocates took advantage of this date to spread their right-wing agenda of so-called family values. Bearing religious icons, American flags, and signs … Continue reading Right Wing Mobilizes Against Women’s Rights
Loaded Language in the Media
by Joe Auciello – February, 2005 Last August Arundhati Roy began a speech to the American Sociological Association by referring to a problem with language. Words, she said, have been “butchered and bled of meaning.” (Her talk, “Public Power in the Age of Empire,” has been published by Seven Stories Press). This is … Continue reading Loaded Language in the Media
Democrats, Republicans attack women’s rights
by Rebecca Doran A common goal of the feminist movement has always been for the end of sex discrimination and abolishment of the second-class status of women. One of the most vital issues pertaining to this goal is the right to reproductive freedom and accessible health care, without which, women are constrained to the shackles … Continue reading Democrats, Republicans attack women’s rights
Youth in Action
Advertising: a system of sexist oppression By TRISHA GROVER (Duluth, Minn., YSA) Advertising frequently uses the image of sex or sexual pleasure to sell a product that has nothing to do with sex. Women in advertisements are almost always the ones to provide the sexual pleasure. They are shown to be willing and ready-in almost … Continue reading Youth in Action
One Woman Speaks for Many
The FCC has banned her rap CD, calling it "indecent" - but Sarah Jones attracts huge audiences to her feminist performances. By GAETANA CALDWELL--SMITH SAN FRANCISCO-The mostly young activist types and older leftists packing the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre had come to see Sarah Jones's performance of "Women Can't Wait." Initially, the … Continue reading One Woman Speaks for Many
Fightback: Viagra for Him – “Bubkas” for Her
by Sylvia Weinstein Bubkas, for those who are uninformed, means "nada"-zippo-nothing. Most health insurance policies do not cover birth control for women. On an average it costs $300 per year for contraceptives for women-from birth control pills, to the diaphragm, to Norplant. This comes out of a woman's paycheck, 68 percent of which goes to … Continue reading Fightback: Viagra for Him – “Bubkas” for Her
Fightback: How French Deal With Teen Pregnancy
by Sylvia Weinstein Once again the French have shown more common sense than this country. The government of France is going to dispense the morning-after pill to young women in junior high schools and high schools. A nonprescription pill called Norlevo will be included in the school nurse's kit along with band aids and iodine. … Continue reading Fightback: How French Deal With Teen Pregnancy
Fightback: ‘Memories of My Mind’
FIGHTBACK by Sylvia Weinstein 'MEMORIES OF MY MIND' This is a song written by my friend Jack: If you see me sitting with a teardrop in my eye, it's just a memory passing by And if you see me walking and I don't say hello it's just a memory that I know Time goes … Continue reading Fightback: ‘Memories of My Mind’
FIGHTBACK: Mothers Day 1999
By SYLVIA WEINSTEIN The first Mothers Day proclamation was proclaimed by Julia Ward Howe in a poem titled "Mothers Day Proclamation, 1870." Julia Ward Howe wrote the lyrics for the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Her poem starts out with: "Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism … Continue reading FIGHTBACK: Mothers Day 1999
FIGHTBACK: ‘Child is Pending’
By SYLVIA WEINSTEIN A Black woman has been accused of recklessly causing the death of her son. Tabitha Walrond, a 19-year-old welfare recipient, gave birth to her first child on June 27, 1997. She decided to breast-feed him. But seven weeks later her son, Tyler Isaac Walrond, died in her arms of malnutrition. Now the … Continue reading FIGHTBACK: ‘Child is Pending’