Women and oppressed genders

Women, yes! Corporations, no!

The International Working Women’s Day Coalition held an after-work protest in Union Square on June 30. The group denounced the…

July 3, 2014

Ruling aids anti-choice terror

Top court attacks women The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling eliminating a 35-foot buffer zone around clinics that provide reproductive…

July 2, 2014

Bosses can deny birth control

Top Court attacks women The Supreme Court has done it again. It bestowed new rights on corporations. All a corporation…

July 1, 2014

Letter to the Editor: Another pro-abortion-rights movie

June 20, 2014 Dear Editor, In her article “Obvious Child” about abortion and films, Sue Davis overlooked a great film…

June 27, 2014

‘Obvious Child’ a breakthrough on abortion rights

On some issues, U.S. movies lag decades behind social change. Abortion is one of them, especially when statistically one woman…

June 22, 2014

Struggle cancels anti-woman conference in Detroit

On June 11, just five days after it was targeted by hundreds of protesters and thousands of petitions, Doubletree Hotel…

June 17, 2014

Protest exposes anti-woman group

Efforts are underway to stop the anti-woman group “A Voice for Men” from holding its first international conference in Detroit…

June 10, 2014

A rampage and an epidemic

A deadly attack killed six young students at the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 23 and injured 13 others…

June 3, 2014

Maya Angelou gave literary, political voice to African-American women

Youth and students from successive generations were influenced by Maya Angelou’s widely read book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird…

June 3, 2014

Mothers’ march for justice at Baltimore hospital

Thousands of Johns Hopkins Hospital workers and their supporters gathered in Baltimore’s downtown and staged a Mother’s March and Rally…

May 14, 2014