Thursday, March 28, 2024

Tag: rape

Celebrities, activists and women’s groups respond to Weinstein guilty verdict

“While the fight to stop the pervasive effects of rape culture is far from over, today is a good day.”

In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments

During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he "love[s]" the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape.

Bread, circuses, and duct tape

There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.

‘Untouchable:’ Women testify to Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual abuse in...

The film “Untouchable” takes on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of predatory behavior and the system that allowed it to happen, through the stories of survivors of his abuse, from his time as a young music promoter in Buffalo in the 1970s all the way until a series of investigations toppled Weinstein in 2017.

‘Horrific:’ Sessions says survivors of domestic and gang violence will no...

"In what world does the United States turn its back on people who have suffered persecution, trauma, and extreme distress from domestic or gang violence?"

March demands justice for teen who accuses NYPD officers of rape

“When you’re under arrest and you’re handcuffed, you’re put into a police minivan and you’re with two officers over 6-feet tall and over 200 pounds, there can’t be consent.”

Good guys and bad guys

If we decide not to talk about patriarchy because it’s too challenging, then let’s stop pretending we are going to stop sexual violence and harassment.

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Desperation and danger: Gaza’s aid crisis turns tragic with 12 Palestinians drowned in airdrop...

Amidst a blockade and escalating starvation in Gaza, a misguided attempt to deliver aid results in unforeseen tragedy, spotlighting the dire need for secure and dignified humanitarian access.

Cori Bush calls for repeal of antiquated Comstock law amid rising anti-abortion tactics

With the U.S. Supreme Court's current review of mifepristone access—a drug fundamental to over 60% of abortions in the U.S.—the urgency of Bush's demand is palpable.

The vexing Biden-Trump rematch could purge an era of broken, bipartisan dynamics—or not

That a shameless, dimwit outlaw like Trump can humiliate both state and federal justice confirms its own devastating “conviction" as failed legal systems.

What’s so green about burning trees? The false promise of biomass energy

Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.

Inside the historic suit that the gun industry and Republicans are on the verge...

Gunmakers have repeatedly tried to end one city’s lawsuit over illegal gun sales. Meanwhile, illicit purchases of firearms continued at an unrelenting and hazardous pace.