Tag: women’s rights
The war on women is still on
In Trumpistan, legislative attempts to ban abortion are a blatant sign that women are under attack.
‘Worst-of-its-kind:’ Alabama abortion ban could punish providers with 99 years in...
“It’s time to listen to women, not punish us for trying to make critical decisions about our own families and our own lives.”
Alabama passes near total ban on abortion as part of ‘Stealth...
Architects behind the legislation want to use it to challenge Roe v. Wade, which recognizes the constitutional right to an abortion.
New abortion law in Georgia criminalizes abortion after six weeks. Women...
"Bans like this have always been blocked by courts. We will be suing Georgia to make sure this law has the same fate."
#NotInvisible: Groundbreaking legislation tackles epidemic of violence against Indigenous women
"Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act."
Championing female voters as powerful ‘Supermajority,’ organizers launch movement to fight...
"In many ways, women have been doing all this work – whether it's running their PTA, or organizing around reproductive healthcare – but we haven't been doing it together."
Police body cam video shows officer shooting unarmed woman
According to videos of the incident, the officer ordered the man out of the vehicle before firing at him and shooting his passenger without provocation.
In the search for missing women, neighbors and family members pair...
Often, Indigenous communities don’t trust that police will act on reports of violence.
Underfunding labor & delivery: A national disgrace that discriminates against women’s...
Is getting born any less of a right than the “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” set piece that buttresses our opening national gambit?
Paycheck Fairness Act passes in the House
Seven Republicans voted with Democrats to close the wage gap and amend the Equal Pay Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.
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The winner at the DNC’s latest meeting? Israel, ethnic cleansing and genocide
Why did pro-Israel groups voice so much pleasure and praise—not only for the sidelining of pro-human-rights resolutions but also for the process that sidelined them?
UN experts demand halt to arms transfers as Israel’s Lebanon strikes intensify and Senate...
Human rights investigators warn attacks undermine international law while U.S. lawmakers reject another attempt to curb expanding regional conflict.
Big oil cashes in as Trump’s Iran war drives $30 million per hour windfall...
Analysis shows fossil fuel giants capturing massive gains as oil prices surge during conflict, intensifying scrutiny over war-driven economic impacts.
The deaf, dumb and blind cult still dazzled by the nastiest, most naked ‘emperor’...
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
The Trump/Newsom nuke war against renewables gets a Diablo push
Together Trump and Newsom are pushing nuclear power plants whose drastic deregulation may now rival the dangers posed by any bombs Iran could produce.