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by RACHAEL COMBE, Elle
Secretary of State Clinton has won over her harshest critics and become so popular that some Democrats are envisioning a future in which she replaces Joe Biden as vice president on the 2012 ticket and then—dare they imagine it—takes the top job in 2016. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay 
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Princess Basma Bint Saud Bin Abdulaziz, the daughter of Saudi Arabia's former ruler King Saud, says there are many things about the country she would like to change - but now is not the time for women to be given the right to drive.
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by ELENA SHORE, New America Media
2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence?
Maybe not.
In 2011, U.S. states enacted 135 new reproductive health provisions, 92 of them seeking to restrict abortion.
In 2000, 13 states were considered “hostile” to reproductive rights; by 2011, that number had doubled to 26 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Last year, more than half of women of reproductive age (15-44) were living in states that were hostile to abortion, up from less than one-third in 2000.
But 2011 was also a record year for anti-immigrant legislation. Five states (Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, and Utah) passed anti-immigrant bills modeled after Arizona’s 2010 law, SB 1070. An analysis by Mother Jones found that 164 anti-immigration laws were passed by state legislatures in 2010 and 2011.
Here’s a look at five states where anti-immigrant and anti-choice efforts converge: [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by CATHERINE SCOTT, Ms. Magazine Blog
Fifty-eight percent of Facebook users are women. Sixty-two percent of shares on Facebook are done by female users. How many women are on Facebook’s board of directors?
Zero.
For such an innovative brand, Facebook is distinctly behind the times when it comes to gender equity. Only 11.3 percent of Fortune 500 companies had male-only boards last year. Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn each have at least one woman on their boards. A recent survey of Fortune 500 companies found that those with three or more women board members outperformed those with fewer or none, achieving an average of 53 percent greater return on equity. Why wouldn’t a man as intelligent as Mark Zuckerberg adopt a business strategy that could increase his profits by half?
[MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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The ACLU won a round this week in its court challenge to a Kansas law passed during the 2011 legislative session. There are a few court challenges being waged in Kansas and the cost of these challenges continues to rise. ...
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Rachel Maddow reviews recent headlines of violence and intimidation at Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin and traces the extremist anti-abortion, anti-contraception roots of unpopular Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. ...
[One reason why I love Rachel Maddow; she talks about issues that most do not.]
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Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by ALEX SEITZ-WALD, Think Progress
Defending her party after some of its members spent months going after contraception, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said today that birth control isn’t very important to women. “Women don’t care about contraception,” she said on The View.
[Read the article.] Via Lynda Park
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While not a new concept, creative activism does seem to be having a "moment" right now as activists look for ways to draw attention to the recent attacks on our rights.
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Bill Moyers talks with activists about an initiative to open Americans' eyes about income inequality.
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Twenty years of training women to run -- why so little to show for it? Because it's still the guys' game.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feminist Daily News
A federal appeals court upheld California's statewide ban on using affirmative action in admissions decisions at public universities yesterday. Proposition 209, approved by California voters in 1996, bans public colleges and universities from considering gender, ethnicity, or race in the admissions process. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the ban once before. The court wrote in its decision that it had already established precedent in this earlier case. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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RH Reality Check Jay Bookman, journalist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, talks with Rachel Maddow about the radical extremism of a Georgia anti-choice group that has taken the "Tea Party" name to push its socially conservative agenda. [MORE]
[Perhaps the most brilliant 9:45 you will spend today. "Women will remember in November." jkl] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay, Deanna Dahlsad
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Topless activists of the Ukrainian women movement Femen hold placards as they protest against anti women's politic of Islam on March 31, 2012 in front of the Eiffel tower at the Trocadero in Paris. The idea of protest is to call muslim women to fight againsts Sharia laws.
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“OUR GOD IS WOMAN, OUR MISSION IS PROTEST, OUR WEAPONS ARE BARE BREASTS!” – FEMEN Ukraine’s depressed economy and ease of entry into the country have fuelled the rise of sex tourism in recent years. There are approximately twelve thousand prostitutes in Ukraine and in the capital, Kiev, it is estimated that up to sixty percent of the total number of sex workers are university students. Femen, a Kiev-based women’s rights organization, was formed in 2008 in an effort to fight against prostitution and the growing sex tourism industry. Femen now protests on a range of issues: from women’s rights in the Middle East to Internet censorship. The group consists mostly of young, female university students, and much of the media attention surrounding Femen has focused on the fact that its members protest topless. Threats from the Ukrainian Secret Services, multiple arrests, Facebook censorship, and a lack of money, have failed to deter Femen from staging their almost weekly protests. Sitting in Café Cupid, the basement bar that Femen uses as their headquarters, Inna Shevchenko, one of the key members of the group, chatted to us about what it’s like to be a member of Femen and the future of the organisation.
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The UN Commission on Population and Development is considering “sexual and reproductive health and rights” for children as young as ten. Even the Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon agrees. In a statement recently released he said, “Young people, as much as all people, share the human right to health, including sexual and reproductive health.”
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RH Reality Check
As Republicans shut down the vote on the proposal, Franson explained that she was “embarrassed” that contraception was even being talked about by the House. [MORE]
[Adults -- legislators, yet -- should be more embarrassed by being unable to discuss grown-up things.] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by DAVID FRUM, The Daily Beast
There is no significant gender gap at all on abortion, for example, according to Pew Research.
No, men and women are divided on economic issues. (Also on issues of war and peace, but that is less pertinent today.) To simplify: American men (and especially white men) respond positively to the language of economic individualism. American women–not so much. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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by PETULA DVORAK, The Washington Post
Todd Stave, the landlord of a Germantown abortion clinic, has been the target of harassing phone calls and ugly fliers handed out to his neighbors. But he’s come up with a novel way to fight back. [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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I had these buttons / pinbacks made back in the day — the early days of the gross ineptitude, racism, and misogyny of the political money-grubbing beast that is Newt...
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The Wisconsin recall election is fixing to get ugly.
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This is just atrocious. Why would anyone want to punish women in such a way?
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Barack Obama's advantages among women voters over his GOP rivals are striking, with women favoring Obama over Mitt Romney by 20 points and over Rick Santorum by 26 points. Via Lynda Park
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Colorful Prism Of Racism
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Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
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Sexuality as a human right.
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It's as easy to romanticize the past as it is to demonize it; instead, let's learn from it. More than living simply, more than living 'green', thrifty grandmas knew the importance of the 'economics' in Home Economics. The history of home ec, lessons in thrift, practical tips and ideas from the past focused on sustainability for families and out planet. Companion to http://www.thingsyourgrandmotherknew.com/
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Any human Being with decency should have shame of this individual. Any decent Woman knows how rotten Grotesque is to have this individual as a Popular face of the female gender.
If we lived in a decent World this individual will spend the end of her days is Prison. How many Libyan children her Murdered by her Rotten criminal perception of Life? Her face is a expression of Infamy and insult to MANKIND!