Quote Of The Week
November 28, 2011 No CommentsI have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don’t need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice! ~ Mother Jones
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Rally For Abortion Access In PEI
November 21, 2011 No CommentsWe told you last week that there have been some rumbling in PEI about needing better access to abortion. It’s the only province that doesn’t offer them locally — two doctors need to give permission, and then a woman has to go to a different province. The only exception is women who have “serious medical ...
Female Postal Workers Win Unequal Pay Case
November 18, 2011 No CommentsJustice is served, although it took 28 years to get there. Women of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) were reinstated $150 million for unequal pay today after a long battle that began in 1983. The PSAC filed a complaint after they found that male clerical workers were getting paid more than female workers ...
Abortion Rights: New York To Prince Edward Island
November 18, 2011 No CommentsIn the United States, where abortion rights are under direct attack, The Doula Project is promoting services for women who are terminating their pregnancies. The remit of a doula is to provide non-medical support through the latter stages of pregnancy and birth. American States have passed over eighty laws this year restricting a woman’s right ...
Most Vulnerable Women Are Hurting From Cutbacks
November 17, 2011 No CommentsWomen are being disproportionately affected as governments make deep cuts to public service worldwide. In Canada, government cuts are taking away opportunities for change from some of the most disadvantaged women in society. In the UK, a plethora of cuts in local government are chipping away at almost every equality front you can imagine. In ...
Mountie Comes Forward After Years Of Abuse
November 9, 2011 No CommentsA Mountie has come forward after suffering years of sexual harassment while working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. After 16 years of service (and abuse) Catherine Galliford suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia, and has bouts of chemical dependency from all that she has endured. But why did she wait so long to come ...
Abortion Is A Human Right
October 28, 2011 No CommentsWe own our bodies, and the government cannot step in and tell us what to do with them. That doesn’t sound too outlandish, right? A recent United Nations report stood up for this idea, saying that a woman has a right to her own health and body. Although the idea seems simple it goes against ...
Yet Another Serial Killer Arrested In British Columbia
October 18, 2011 No CommentsIf you’ve read this headline and are wondering why it is that BC seems to have an unusually high number of serial killers, you might be right. The recent arrest of Cody Legebokoff is set to confirm your suspicions. Legebokoff, a 21 year old man, has been charged with the murders of four women — one as young as 15 ...
The Power Of Protest
October 14, 2011 1 CommentLet’s be real: the non-violent “mind yourself and be polite” types have not won anything yet. You have to be willing to lay in the street, ready to die, for that type of thing to work , and most are not willing to risk much. Not even a night in jail. We are nearing the ...
How Famine Leads To Rape
October 11, 2011 No CommentsMuch of Somalia has been in turmoil and civil war for over 20 years and during those years various groups have held power. One thing they have all had in common is that they have systematically used rape and other forms of sexual violence against women and girls as a weapon. Initially, power was in ...
