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OK, let’s get this right: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is making the rounds of the Capitol this week and some jackasses are still saying she has to explain her “wise Latina” comment?
In a 2001 speech Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often […]
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OK, let’s get this right: Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is making the rounds of the Capitol this week and some jackasses are still saying she has to explain her “wise Latina” comment?
In a 2001 speech Sotomayor said, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often […]
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Uncategorized, African Americans in Entertainment, Criminal Justice & Prisons, Domestic Politics, Latina/o Community, Issues in the News |
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Quick hit: If you have Free Speech TV, tune in to Grit TV with Laura Flanders tonight at 8pmEST for a more in-depth discussion of the murder of Dr. George Tiller than you’ll find in most media accounts. Or, watch the segment here:
The segment — titled “What Should Change in Wake of Tiller Murder?” […]
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With outrage rising at today’s widely reported murder of doctor George Tiller at his church, many news outlets are reporting this crime as if it were a completely unpredictable aberration. As if this cold-blooded killing of this abortion provider for political purposes is somehow unthinkable.
A lesson from the Wayback Machine could be illuminating for […]
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By Guest Blogger Mikki Halpin
In this week’s New Yorker, writer Atul Gawande contributed a powerful piece about the use of solitary confinement in American prisons, titled “Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture?”
The article does what The New Yorker does best—high-end investigative journalism, covering topics […]
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Hi all, I’m going to attempt to liveblog the “Women Reporting on the Global Frontlines” panel - it’s the opening session of WAM!2009, the Women, Action and Media conference (of which WIMN is proud to be a supporting sponsor).
I’m going to do the best I can to just transcribe what these brilliant and […]
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By Guest Blogger Julie Hollar
Caitlin Flanagan, primarily known (and embraced by mainstream media) for her anti-feminist writings, was back in the New York Times this weekend–this time attacking former ’70s radical Sara Jane Olson. As a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Olson (born Kathleen Soliah) was indicted for plotting to bomb LAPD patrol […]
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This morning’s Washington Post (Dec. 12, 08) headline couldn’t have been more definitive: “Report on Detainee Abuse Blames Top Bush Officials“:
“A bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their […]
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Apologies for the late notice in posting, but I’d love to see you at our event tonight at Bluestockings, on the Lower East Side in NYC. I’ll particularly be emphasizing the rapid rise in the number of female drug war prisoners, supermax confinement, and media coverage of women’s imprisonment.
Here’s more about the event and […]
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The following statement comes to us from the independent radio and TV news program Democracy Now! — we are reposting it here, in its entirety. WIMN urges everyone who is concerned with the press freedom to call for these journalists’ immediate release, as per below.
Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the […]
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