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Girls beat up Iran cleric over dress code By Ben Brumfield and Shirzad Bozorgmehr Tehran, Iran (CNN) — They may be a far cry from their Western counterparts fighting for the acceptance to breast-feed — or go topless — in public, but two girls clobbered a cleric recently in a small town in Iran when [...]
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Blamer in Chief Obama Obama Email to Supporters: If I Lose, It’s Your Fault by Ben Shapiro 26 Aug 2012 Today, President Obama sent out a campaign email essentially blaming his supporters if he loses. See, he’s supposedly being outspent. And because he’s supposedly being outspent, he’s losing. And he can’t spend more money unless [...]
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What’s missing from this picture? Egypt’s first “democratic” election. The Muslim Brotherhood Party candidate is the winner. No matter which party won, women are still the losers. By the way: Islam Sucks. “Until you do right by women, everything you even think about is gonna fail” — with apologies to Celie, The Color Purple, Alice [...]
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Michigan Wimminz Lawmakers Brown & Byrum silenced for saying “vagina” and attempting to regulate vasectomies. June 15, 2012 by Uppity Woman Do you remember when Florida State Rep Scott Randolph (D-Uterus) said the obscene word “Uterus” in front of all of Florida’s God and Vagina-Fearing Republicans, and all hell broke lose when the leadership declared that [...]
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via Kate Clinton Speaking of the Habit of Freedom… “We Are All Nuns” By Mary E. Hunt When it comes to the Vatican’s crackdown on women religious, I believe it’s time to declare that for the purpose of this struggle: we are all nuns. The mandate by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [...]
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Saudi women defy ban to take driver’s seat Several women drive around in kingdom in open defiance of rule that prohibits them from driving. A number of Saudi women have defied a ban on driving by getting behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom. Friday’s show of defiance came in response to calls on social [...]
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Whatever your political persuasion is– please VOTE and take advantage of the rights many women suffered to achieve. ‘Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.’ (see: Biden’s diagnosis of Anita Hill as just one example). This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not [...]
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It’s PROWL Wednesday here at Puma PAC. If you weren’t sure where you stood on health care “reform,” I think NOW you can rest assured that it is a VERY BAD IDEA. Basic health care services for women, from family planning, to breast cancer screening, to prenatal care, to reproductive choice are literally UNDER ATTACK. [...]
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As dozens, maybe thousands, of protesters of the recent Iranian election have been quietly arrested, many of whom, famously, are young women, the horrifying fate of youngsters in Iranian prisons is becoming news. In THIS horrific case, reported on at Huffington Post (not a place I normally link to), the family of disappeared 27 year [...]
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