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From Margie...
We are happy to be able to use this site to present feminist and progressive news and commentary on recent national and world events. It is our intention to make these perspectives accessible as an alternative to the limited viewpoints which we are being presented in mainstream media outlets.

Peace pin    Hillary Clinton - Washington, DC Speech - 06.07.08
   Andrew Stephen - Hating Hillary - New Statesmen 05.22.08
   Sean Wilentz - On Annie Oakley and Hillary Clinton - History News Network 04.14.08
   Sean Wilentz - Why Hillary Clinton Should Be Winning - salon.com 04.07.08
   Lissa Muscatine - The Facts of Hillary's Bosnia Trip - The New York Times 04.01.08
   Vicki Noble - Weighing In On Rolling Stone Piece Slamming Hillary Clinton - 03.22.08
   Leslie Bennetts - Older Women...Keeping Clinton In The Race - Los Angeles Times 03.09.08
   Geraldine A. Ferraro - Super-Delegates Explained - The New York Times 02.28.08
   Joe Wilson - Battle-Tested - Huffington Post 02.13.08
   Stanley Fish - A Calumny A Day To Keep Hillary Away - The New York Times 02.10.08
   Erica Jong - Hillary Vs. The Patriarchy - The Washington Post 02.04.08
   Stanley Fish - All You Need Is Hate: Hillary-Hating - The New York Times 02.03.08
   Patricia Williams - American Pie - The Nation Magazine - 01.23.08
   Maya Angelou - Super Tuesday - The Observer 01.20.08
   Bob Herbert - Politics And Misogyny - The New York Times 01.15.08
   Susan Faludi - The Correct Hillary Clinton Stereotype - The Los Angeles TImes 01.15.08
   Mark Leibovich - Rights Vs. Rights: An Improbable Collision Course - The New York Times 01.13.08
   Erika Falk - Media Bias in Eight Women's Presidential Campaigns: 1872-2008 - Johns Hopkins Study 01.11.08
   Ellen Goodman - Iron Your Own Shirt, Buster - Seattle Times - 01.11.08
   Jocelyn Noveck - Bias in Questions of Clinton's "Likeability" - Philadelphia Inquirer 01.11.08
   Jodi Kantor - Women's Support of Clinton Rises in Wake of Perceived Sexism - The New York Times 01.10.08
   Gloria Steinem - Women Are Never Front-Runners - The New York Times 01.08.08
   Ezra Klein - Misogyny and The Election - The American Prospect 01.08.08
   Katha Pollitt - Hillary Clinton, Shows Feelings, Is Slammed - Nation Magazine 01.07.08
   Bill Moyers - Kathleen Hall Jamieson Interview - Public Television 12.07.07
   Ellen R. Malcolm - Myths about Hillary Clinton - EMILY's List June 07
   Norman Solomon - Let Us Now Praise an Infamous Woman - and Our Own Possibilities - AlterNet. 08.08.07
   Victor Payan & Perry Vasquez - Keep On Crossin' Manifesto - 07.23.07
   Mark Dery - The Hidden Costs of America's Hypermasculine Culture - AlterNet. 05.09.07
   Margie Adam - Presentation of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Pioneer Award to Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon - 04.28.07
   Robin Morgan - Beyond Imus-It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid! - Women's Media Center 04.16.07
   Frank Rich - Elizabeth Edwards for President - New York Times 04.01.07
   Sara Corbett - The Women's War - New York Times 03.18.07
   Robin Pogrebin - Ms. Chicago, Party of 39? Your Table's Ready in Brooklyn - The New York Times 02.01.07
   Holland Cotter - Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage - The New York Times 01.29.07
   John Nichols - DC Marchers Challenge Congress to End War - The Nation 01.28.07
   James Carroll - War, religion, and gay rights - The Boston Globe 11.13.06
   Molly Ivins - Stand Up Against the Surge - Creators Syndicate 01.11.07
   Katha Pollitt - Watch Out! Women Are Powerful! - The Nation 12.04.06
   Paula Ettelbrick - Global Warming For Gay Rights - Los Angeles Times 12.04.06
   Losses Jolt Religious Right - MSNBC 11.10.06
   Frank Rich - Dying to Save the GOP Congress - The New York Times 10.29.06
   Tributes to Ann Richards - Posted 09.24.06
   Kate Millett, Merle Hoffman Women's Equality Day speeches - Posted 08.30.06
   Bay Area Women In Black Statement - Distributed at Vigil 07.22.06
   Michelle Bachelet - The Importance of Completing Chile's Beautiful Task - Financial Times 06.27.06
   Marjorie Cohn - Spinning Suicide - t r u t h o u t.org 06.12.06
   Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith - Lieutenant Watada's War Against the War - The Nation Magazine 06.12.06
   Anne Lamott - The Rights of the Born - Los Angeles Times 02.10.06
   John Yaukey - Cities Voice Opposition to War - Gannett News 12.02.05
   "Rallies to Combat Global Warming" - Associated Press 12.01.05
   Tim Leslie - US Military and "Management of Perception" - Common Dreams.org 12.02.05
   Robert Scheer - The Big Lie Technique - The Nation 11.16.05
   Kathleen Sharp - The Woman Behind Arnold's Defeat - AlterNet 11.10.05
   Frank Rich - One Step Closer to the Big Enchilada - The New York Times 10.30.05
   Eric Alterman - New Orleans Is Us - The Nation 10.01.05
   Clarissa Pinkola-Estes - Do Not Lose Heart - We Were Made For These Times - 09.05
   Stephen Elliot - Maxine Waters Leads Action In Louisiana - salon.com 09.03.05
   Donna Brazile - Roberts' Record Deserves Scrutiny - Washington Post 07.05
   Emily Wax - A Place Where Women Rule - Washington Post 07.05
   Editorial - The Women of Gitmo - New York Times 07.15.05
   Paul Krugman - Karl Rove's America - New York Times 07.15.05
   Barbara Ehrenreich - A New Counterterrorism Strategy: Feminism - AlterNet - 05.10.05
   Catharine A. MacKinnon - Who Was Afraid of Andrea Dworkin? - New York Times 04.16.05
   "Feminist Icon Andrea Dworkin Dies" - The Guardian 04.11.05
   Debra Chasnoff - "Bluster Over Buster" - The Washington Post 02.04.05
   Bill Moyers - "There Is No Tomorrow" - The Star Tribune 01.30.05
   Paula Martinac - "The Limited Lesbian" - PlanetOut 01.03.05
   Patrick Moore - "Susan Sontag and a Case of Curious Silence" - LA Times 01.15.05
   Howard Zinn - "The Optimism of Uncertainy" - Winter 2004
   Katrina vanden Heuvel - "Stand and Fight" - The Nation 11.04.04
   Sarah Anderson - "Ten Reasons Not to Move to Canada" - CommonDreams.org 11.03.04
   Sheila Gibbons - "Campaign Coverage of Women Was Way Off" - WomensENews 11.04.04
   Linda D. O'Brien - "The Tribe vs. George W. Bush" - CommonDreams.org Posted 11.03.04
   Donna Brazile - "Democrats Have Chance to erase 'Liberal Stigma'" - Roll Call 10.21.04
   E.L. Doctorow - "The Unfeeling President" - Baltimore Sun 10.25.04
   NY Times Editorial - "John Kerry for President" - NY Times 10.17.04
   Naeem Mohaiemen - "Gita Drury and The League of Pissed Off Voters" - AlterNet.org 10.04.04
   Jen Christensen - "Margaret Sloan-Hunter Dies at 57" - PlanetOut Network October 2004
   Terry Tempest Williams - "A Letter to University President..." - October 2004
   Barbara Ehrenreich - "To Catch A Thief" - The Progressive October 2004
   Tony Kushner - "Despair Is A Live We Tell Ourselves" - AlterNet.org 09.18.04
   Bruce Springsteen - "Chords For Change" - New York Times 08.05.04
   Barbara Ehrenreich - "The New Macho: Feminism" - New York Times 07.29.04
   Arianna Huffington - "In Praise of Unruly Women" - July 2004
   Barbara Ehrenreich - Barnard College Commencement Address - June 2004
   Linda Burnham - "Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value" - Women of Color Resource Center - June 2004
   Susan Sontag - "What Have We Done?" - The Guardian 05.24.04
   FROM THE EDITORS - "The Times and Iraq" - NY Times 05.24.04
   Allison Stevens - "Pro-Choice Advocates Converge on Capital" - WomensENews.org - CBS News 04.25.04
   TruthOut.org - "Woodward Shares War Secrets" - 60 Minutes - CBS News 04.18.04
   Ruth Rosen - "Summer of 2004" - San Francisco Chronicle 04.15.04
   William Greider - "Iraq as Vietnam" - The Nation 04.15.04
   David Sirota, Christy Harvey and Judd Legum - "No Plan, No Apologies" - The Progress Report 04.14.04
   Sheryl Gay Stolberg - "9/11 Widows Skillfully Applied Power..." - New York Times 04.10.04
   Robert Byrd - Follow The Exit Signs - Washington Post 04.09.04
   Tom Hayden - On Jane Fonda: You Gotta Love Her - The Nation 04.01.04
   Karen Kwiatkowski - The New Pentagon Papers - salon.com 03.10.04
   Katha Pollitt - Kristof's Accusing US Feminists of Ignoring Third World Women - The Nation 03.01.04
   Susan Montoya Bryan - New Mexico Begins Issuing Marriage Licenses - Associated Press 02.20.04
   Haifa Zangana - Why Iraqi Women Aren't Complaining - Guardian/UK 02.19.04
   Ruth Rosen - "We're Already Married" - San Francisco Chronicle 02.18.04
   Rachel Gordon - It didn't seem right to say "No." - The Nation 02.18.04
   Beverly Eckert - My Silence Cannot Be Bought - USA Today 12.19.03
   Jane Fonda - Speech at the National Women's Leadership Summit, 2004 - Washington, DC
   Ellen Goodman - Reason to Cheer Moseley Braun's Run For Office - Minneapolis Star Tribune 09.25.03
   Sara Paretsky - For Those Who Wish to Dissent... - Chicago Tribune 09.21.03
   Lauren Sandler - Veiled and Worried in Iraq - NY Times 09.16.03
   Jonathan Schell - The Importance of Losing the War - AlterNet, The Nation 09.05.03
   Arthur Miller - Why Israel Must Choose Justice - Jerusalem Prize Speech 06.25.03
   Susan Griffin - Fearlessness - Yes Magazine Summer 2003
   Susan Sontag - Of Courage and Resistance - The Nation 05.05.03
   Barbara Ehrenreich - The Roots of War - The Progressive Magazine - April 2003
   Mary Ann Maggiore - Peace Work/Piece Work -- Women's History of Peace - 04.15.03
   Karana - Dr. Robert Muller on Waging Peace - 03.11.03
   Brady Kiesling - U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation - 02.28.03
   U.S. Senator Robert Byrd - Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences - 02.12.03
   Peace March Coverage from Major Newspapers - 01.21.03
   Chicago Tribune - Chicago Passes Anti-War Resolution - 01.16.03
   Peter Whoriskey - A first for 'First Baby of the Year' - The Washington Post
01.02.03
   Richard Lacayo and Amanda Ripley - Women of the Year: Watkins, Rowley, Cooper - Time Magazine 12.22.02
   Alan Gathright - No-fly Blacklist Snares Political Activists - SF Chronicle
   Coretta Scott King - Address at Circles of Hope Dinner - San Francisco, CA 11.22.02
   Doris Haddock - How To Break the American Trance - AlterNet 11.08.02
   Gila Svirsky - Update on Feminist Peace Activism in Middle East - UN Speech 11.01.02
   Charlotte Bunch - Whose Security? - The Nation Magazine 09.23.02
   Susan Sontag - Real Battles and Empty Metaphors - NY Times 09.11.02
   Mona Eltahawy - Keeping Faith With Islam in a New World - NY Times 09.03.02
   Medea Benjamin - We, The People, Can Stop a War - AlterNet 08.20.02
   Jennifer Friedlin - Women Should be Part of the Peace Talks - WENews
   Hanan Ashrawi - Reforming From Within - The Guardian 06.07.02
   Arundhati Roy - War Talk - NY Times 06.06.02
   Anita Hill - Insider Women With Outsider Values - NY Times 06.06.02
   Barbara Crossette - Afghan Women Fight to Assert Their Rights - NY Times 06.06.02
   Starhawk - The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier: Balata Camp - www.starhawk.org
   Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas, Terry Greenblatt - Feminist Peace Activists address UN Security Council 05.07.02
   Palestinian and Israeli Women Demand Immediate End to Occupation - Joint Declaration - April 2002
   George Monbiot - World Bank to West Bank - TheGuardian (London) 04.09.02
   Joint Statement from Human Rights Groups re: Mid-East Conflict - 04.07.02
   Rini Amiri - Muslim Women as Symbols - and Pawns - NY Times 03.20.02
   US & Global Feminist News This Week - www.feminist.org
   Feminist Daily News Wire - Afghan Women's Ministry Leads Internat'l Women's Day Events - Feminist.org 03.07.02

   Margie and friends raise Big $$ for Rep. Barbara Lee 02.07.02
Rep. Barbara Lee
        Statement on floor of the House of Representatives 09.14.01
        "Why I Voted Against The War"
   Joan Konner - Media's Patriotism Provides a Shield for Bush - Newsday 01.09.02
   Ruth Rosen - On The Public's Right To Know - SF Chronicle 01.06.02
   Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy - The Brussels Declaration
   Eve Ensler - The Brussels Afghan Women's Summit - 12.09.01
   Sara Austin - Where Are the Women? - The Nation Magazine 01.09.02
   Stephanie Salter - Women In Black - SF Chronicle 12.09.01
   Rini Amiri - Muslim Women as Symbols - and Pawns - NY Times 11.27.01
   NY Times Editorial - Liberating the Women of Afghanistan - 11.24.01
   Minnie Bruce Pratt - Women's Liberation and 'The New War' - 11.12.01
   Surina Khan - Gays Should Know Bombs Can't Deliver Justice - The Washington Blade 11.09.01
   Beena Sarwar - Afghan women demand right to speak - Middle East Times 11.04.01
   Ronnie Gilbert - The FBI Knocks Again - 11.01.01
   Sharon Lerner - Feminists Agonize Over War... - The Village Voice 11.01.01
   Starhawk - Only Poetry Can Address Grief - 10.23.01
   Jan Goodwin and Jessica Neuwirth - The Rifle and the Veil - NY Times 10.19.01
   Eileen McNamara - Ask Clinics About Fear - Boston Globe 10.17.01
   Nanette Asimov - Muslim Feminism Quietly Flourishes - SF Chronicle 10.15.01
   Susan Reimer - Feminist Tried to Warn Us... - 10.07.01
   Arundhati Roy - The Algebra of Infinite Justice - 9.29.01
   Barbara Kingsolver - article 9.24.01
   Susan Sontag -New Yorker article 9.24.01
   Frances Reid (Iris Films) - Speech at Women In Black Community Tashlich 9.23.01
   Jean Houston - We Are All New Yorkers - 9.18.01
   Kate Kendell - Terror, Sorrow and Scapegoating - National Center for Lesbian Rights 9.18.01
   Margie Adam - As Always, The Personal Is Political - 09.18.01
   Eve Ensler - I Have Been Thinking - 9.16.01

For current information on feminist activism in Afghanistan, visit The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Their slogan: "If you are freedom-loving and anti-fundamentalist, you are with RAWA."



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