Mel Packer: Is It Time To Be Outlaws Again?
Only large-scale civil disobedience will make our leaders address economic injustice. In 1989, Bob Dylan recorded a song titled “Everything Is Broken”. That song seemed to go largely ignored, perhaps … Continue reading
Video: Street Harassment of Women
“Street harassment is almost never about sex. It’s about power. Which is the same way we view rape. So saying street harassment is not a big deal is opening … Continue reading
Video: Michelle Obama calls on men to promote women’s rights
First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to a group of young Africans in the Mandela Washington Fellows on Wednesday, telling the men in the audience that they are vitally important to … Continue reading
Video: Violence against women—it’s a men’s issue: Jackson Katz
Jackson Katz is an anti-sexist activist and expert on violence, media and masculinities. An author, filmmaker, educator and social theorist, Katz has worked in gender violence prevention work with diverse … Continue reading
Looking Back At The Trial That Made Rape A War Crime
After the Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered over a hundred days in 1994, the U.N. created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with the goal … Continue reading
Judiciary Committee Examines the Effect of Gun Violence on Women in America
Washington, DC – Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing entitled “VAWA Next Steps: Protecting Women from Gun Violence.” With American women more than ten times more likely to … Continue reading
Michael Simms: Good Golly, Miss Molly
I’m a fifth generation Texan, and I’d like to offer an apology to the people of the United States for all the crooks and nitwits we’ve sent to Washington. On … Continue reading
Is the Supreme Court Out of Order?
The latest session of the US Supreme Court was especially contentious, with important decisions on the separation of church and state, organized labor, campaign finance reform, birth control and women’s … Continue reading
Federal Judge tells Supreme Court to STFU
Richard Kopf, a Federal judge in Nebraska appointed by George W. Bush, claims that the recent Hobby Lobby decision by the United States Supreme Court looks stupid, misogynistic, partisan, and … Continue reading
The GOP’s Long-term Problem: Millennials Hate Conservatives
Republicans were already destined for piecemeal decimation due to the declining numbers of their core constituency. But they don’t just have a demographic problem anymore; they have a stylistic one. … Continue reading →