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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."