Tonight on ABC: Selling American Girls Into Sexual Slavery
Tonight's ABC News Primetime Live will air a domestic trafficking story about American girls sold into sexual slavery here in the United States. The piece features Norma Hotaling, founder of SAGE, a...
View ArticleHow America Lost Iraq
Cross posted at Stories in America:How America Lost Iraq is a compelling book written by Aaron Glantz, a reporter covering the war for KPFA, a lefty radio station in San Francisco. Glantz, one of the...
View ArticleSunday Talk Shows: Liberal or Conservative?
For photos of all your favorite liberal talk show hosts, visit: StoriesinAmerica."I admit it -- the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by...
View ArticleIraqi Women Denied Visas to Enter the US
On March 8th, International Women's Day and March 20th, the three-year anniversary of the Iraq war, Global Exchange and CODEPINK plan to highlight the issue of women and war:
View ArticleWomen's Issues News Roundup
With all eyes still on Dick and his gun, a lot of stories are falling thru the cracks. Unfortunately, stories about women's issues (I know they aren't just women's issues) are often ignored altogether....
View ArticleInnocent Casualties of the Iraq War - Where's the Intervention, Mr. Bush?
The following articles illustrate the woefully inadequate treatment of returning veterans. With all the money being spent on the war, surely the government has the funds to hire more than one...
View ArticleOutlawing Abortion Does Not End Abortion
Cross-posted at StoriesinAmerica: South Dakota's governor is expected to sign a law banning all abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. Abortion is also illegal in Ghana, except for cases involving...
View ArticleTuesday's Undercovered Stories (Mostly Women's Issues)
Cross posted at StoriesinAmerica and BooMan Grab a drink, this compilation is depressing...
View ArticleAbortion Ban in MS: No Exceptions for Rape or Incest
Cross posted at StoriesinAmerica and BooMan Anti-women, anti-life lawmakers in Mississippi are upset that they will no longer go down in history as the first state in the country to force women who are...
View ArticleNew Abortion Bills in Georgia (they're on a rampage)
And other undercovered news (mostly women's issues) of the day. I compile this list daily at StoriesinAmerica
View ArticleThis Weekend's Undercovered News
I compile this list daily at StoriesinAmerica:"As a Pennsylvanian, I am particularly appalled that local and national Democrats would hand our Senate nomination to someone who openly supports giving...
View ArticleIraqi Women Visit US to Discuss Realities of War
(Cross posted at StoriesinAmerica, where women's issues receive attention) Five Iraqi women arrived in New York City over the weekend to tell Americans what life is like under occupation and to meet...
View ArticleBush's Anti-Choice Policies Are KILLING Women
Happy International Women's Day. I wish there was more to celebrate. At today's White House International Women's Day 'celebration,' Laura Bush said, "There are encouraging signs for progress for women...
View ArticleTime to Raise Minimum Wage & Make it An Issue
Forty years ago, CEOs earned $24 for each $1 workers got; in 2004, CEOs got $431 for every worker dollar. In 2004, total CEO compensation averaged $12 million, according to the Institute for Policy...
View ArticleA Conversation With a Progressive South Dakotan
The entire interview is at StoriesinAmerica Their numbers may be small, but South Dakota, like every so-called "red state" state in this country, has a strong progressive community and they're outraged...
View ArticleUndercovered News (Mostly Women's Issues)
There's a lot going on in the world of women's issues...I compile this list daily at StoriesinAmericaRemember, 20 million single women didn't vote in 2004
View ArticleQ&A with Afghan Activist Visiting the U.S.
The original Q&A is at StoriesinAmerica At the ripe age of 25, Afghan activist Malalai Joya received international attention and acclaim for speaking out at the December 2003 Loya Jirga (Grand...
View ArticleBush's Budget is Screwing the Poor - Real Stories
I just wrote a piece for AlterNet focusing on how Bush's budget is impacting organizations serving the elderly, children, poor, mothers, etc... The point of the story was to get past the numbers (how...
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Protesting Bush's Budget (offline)
MoveOn.org members filled the offices of over 100 swing vote Republican members of Congress yesterday to express their concerns about Bush's budget and tell real stories about how the cuts have...
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Life on American Bases in Iraq (Burger King, Anyone?)
U.S. soldiers eat meals from Burger King, in al-Asad air base, 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq, March 4, 2006. As the construction work goes on in full scale in Balad U.S. air base and...
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