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The House on Thursday passed a plan to increase military spending while slashing funding for food and child care programs, as well as Medicaid and federal employees' benefits. The budget proposal, written by House Budget Committee chairman Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI1), was an attempt to avoid the cuts to defense spending mandated in last summer's budget deal. The plan passed with the minimum 218 votes, with 16 Republicans and all Democrats voting no.
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The epidemic of military sexual assault is at a crisis point in this country. And Fox News has spent just 19 minutes talking about our women and men and women facing sexual assault at an unprecedented rate.
Join EMILY’s List and demand Fox News give more coverage to military sexual assault.
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As a revered feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women through her iconic book The Color Purple. But one woman didn't buy in to Alice's beliefs - her daughter. (RT @StevieJWest: This moved me to tears.
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by TARA CULP-RESSLER
(Credit: Change.org)
On Friday afternoon, the Associated Press ran a story about a young woman in Washington state who alleges that her high school’s officials failed to protect her from a 16-year-old boy who raped her on school property, and even allowed the boy to remain in the same classroom with her after her guardian reported she was being harassed by him. The school continues to deny most of her claims, and she is seeking at least $400,000 in damages.
In its headline about the story, the AP chose to characterize the encounter — which took place in a bathroom at the high school — as “restroom sex”:
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Shame on you, AP.
The substitution implies "consentual". The AP should be ashamed.
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As my four-year-old is busy arguing with me about why she should be able to color on her breakfast cereal and I’m busy trying not to kill her, it can be hard to remember that Mother’s Day began as a call for world peace.
Yes, Mother's Day started as a call for World Peace.
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Thanks to Lorraine Schneider for her artistic reaction to the Vietnam War
Political activism seems a world removed from the hearts-and-flowers sentiments of Mother’s Day. But if 19th century poet and feminist Julia Ward Howe had had her way, the mothers of the world would not be spending the second Sunday in May being pampered and feted, but rather joining with other mothers in a global call for peace.
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http://www.salon.com/2010/05/07/mothers_day_origin_open2010/ ;
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We celebrate the Rock Stars of Aging because they show us all what's possible. Ceramic artist Beatrice Wood worked on a potter's wheel every day until she was 103. Wood who said "My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road," died at age 105.
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I wish I knew who to credit for this graphic. Whoever it is, THANK YOU.
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If you are interested in becoming a part of an international group of girls who come together to fight against negative depictions of women in media, SPARK is the place for you. SPARK has been the force behind massive nationwide petitions against Seventeen Magazine and LEGO, as well as bringing our voice to the national conversation on sexual assault on high school and college campuses. These petitions have brought in a combined total of over 200,000 signatures, in addition to coverage across nearly all the major news outlets, including CNN, ABC News, Huffington Post, and NPR.
We’re looking for enthusiastic activists who:
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The teenage son of Washington state Sen. Brian Hatfield (D) pleaded guilty this week to raping and molesting a younger boy at the lawmaker's homes, incidents that Hatfield had reportedly been aware of but failed to report.
This only makes the papers when it is a family in the public view. Rather than be shocked, we must ask ourselves why crimes like this are on the rise.
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Our annual snapshot of the top 100 women in business, politics, celebrity, philanthropy, billionaires, media and technology.
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The Ninth Circuit has struck down Arizona's law that would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation. The court said what we have been saying all along: this law is unconstitutional.
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Minnesota's state Senate on Monday approved a bill that would make Minnesota the 12th U.S.
MINNESOTA ROCKS!
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by JESSICA MASON PIEKLO, Senior Legal Analyst, RH Reality Check
Nevada's largest public school district has resolved a civil rights complaint that it was discriminating against girls by failing to provide equal opportunities in athletics. (Young female basketball player via Shutterstock)
In 2010 Clark County, Nevada, the largest public school district in the state, faced allegations that it was failing to provide the educational opportunities required by law for girls enrolled in its high schools. Now, thanks to an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), that should change.
The Clark County School District is among 12 public school districts across the country, including Chicago Public Schools and Houston Public Schools, to have a double-digit disparity between the percentage of girls who are students and girls who participate in sports. According to a 2010 complaint filed with the OCR by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), that disparity means girls in the state are not receiving equal opportunities to play sports, in violation of Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded schools.
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On Friday rescuers in Dhaka, Bangladesh saved a woman who is still alive after the eight story building collapsed on April 24. The woman was discovered as a rescuer was cutting away iron rods and heard her cries for help.
Tears of joy, and so over anything not made in America. Thousands are dead so we can have bargains. It is not a bargain if humanity and dignity are factored in to the cold hard cash conversation.
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Thanks to United Humanists Facebook page.
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For Mother's Day, House Republicans pushed the "More Work, Less Pay" Act. See what House Democratic Women had to say.
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Wow, did she just name-drop 22 different dudes?
Sorry I did not see it until now, but it is too good to not share.
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