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2010-07-31: Headlines

Express Buzz: Kudumbashree to launch portal 2010-07-31
Kudumbashree, the State Government's poverty alleviation and women's empowerment initiative, is all set to launch a portal, to aid its Gender Self Learning Programme (GSLP). | To be launched next month, the portal project has been named Stree Sakthi, though the name of the portal might be changed later.
Independent: INM: Letters: The limits of multiculturalism 2010-07-31
At a time when to express any view condemning the practices of non-Western religions means you are lumped in the same category as nationalist bigots, I welcomed Christina Patterson's article, The limits of multiculturalism (28 July). It was thoughtful, intelligent, and politely furious; perhaps too polite.
Huffington Post: Evelyn Leopold: UN Removes Five Taliban From Its Blacklist (Two are Dead) 2010-07-31
The U.N. removed five Taliban members from its blacklist - one an author of a book on his life with the movement, another a former deputy health minister and a third who thought women the Soviet Union had "liberated" were spies. The other two are dead.
Collider.com: Director Brigitte Berman Interview HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL 2010-07-31
Director Brigitte Berman Exclusive Interview HUGH HEFNER: PLAYBOY, ACTIVIST AND REBEL. Talks about having access to Hefner's personal archives, mor...
Boston Globe: The stories of America 2010-07-31
Your article has been sent. | IN 1969 Gloria Steinem, then a young journalist, covered a "speak out" in a church basement, where women testified about their illegal abortions. She later said the experience ignited her lifelong fight for women's rights, and she too declared she had once obtained an illegal abortion.
Seattle Times: Afghan women fear peace may come at cost of rights 2010-07-31
Women's precarious rights in Afghanistan have begun seeping away. Girls' schools are closing; working women are threatened; advocates are attacked; and terrified families are increasingly confining their daughters to home. | Afghan women at the Afghan Women's Movement Council during a conference in Kabul. Women's advocates are concerned that they are increasingly being shut out of political decisions.

2010-07-30: Headlines

GLTNewsNow: Press Release: Homophobic fringe group NOM backs Fiorina in CA Senate race 2010-07-30
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Cuba Headlines: Cuban Women Show Significant Achievements 2010-07-30
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Central Asia Online: Targeted Karachi killings lead to calls to disarm city 2010-07-30
Keywords: a restive area of Karachi. [Zia Ur Rehman] | rate of assassinations, analysts say. | increasing job opportunities, to curb the violence. | from January 2010 until the present. | instead denounced the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). | achieve their dirty motives,€ Malik said. | failed to control them. | of Pakistan (HRCP) data indicate. | provincial co-ordinator of the HRCP, told Central Asia Online. | Central Asia Online.
LifeNews.com: Planned Parenthood Plans to Spend $1 Million to Save Pro-Abortion Barbara Boxer 2010-07-30
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DigitalJournal.com: Fatwas and the burka ban 2010-07-30
Commentary on the contentious issue of burkas in Western, secular states is often contentious and divisive.
Foothills Media Group: The Good News: Volunteerism 2010-07-30
44 percent of adults in the United States volunteer with a formal organization. Of these, 63 percent volunteer on a regular basis.€€œAmerican volunteers donate over 24 hours per month.€€œCollectively, volunteers contribute about 15.5 billion hours a year.€€œNo differences are found in the number of hours spent volunteering based on age, gender, race, ethnicity or religious affiliation.
Religion Dispatches: Immigration As A Progressive Game Changer -- Without Evangelical Support 2010-07-30
In the current issue of The Nation, Greg Grandin argues that Democrats should pursue immigration reform because it's a "progressive game changer," a "wedge issue to call their own." In part, he says, it would drive constituencies that have been leaning to the Republicans, like Catholics and evangelicals, into the Democratic camp. | Immigration has the potential, Grandin maintains, "to trump abortion as a wedge issue"
Calcutta Telegraph: Unity, only for women 2010-07-30
America into an episode of The Simpsons. | move into a different place." He then asked, "What does that mean?" | contrast to shows "before the 1960s" where "the dad is the smart one" | our history and our traditions. What does that mean? | capable. You're a stay-at-home mom." | have Rice Krispies back then" -- but look at the difference. | this show. But dad's a schlub. How about Everybody Loves Raymond?"
Huffington Post: Sen. Fritz Hollings: The Bottom Line in Afghanistan 2010-07-30
There is a better way to influence people than employing the military to spread freedom and democracy. Spreading democracy in Afghanistan, we have created as much terrorism and as many terrorists as we have eliminated.
Lez Get Real: Lambda Legal, ACLU Files Suit In Hawaii Over Civil Unions Citing Sexual Discrimination 2010-07-30
Lingle has been dogged by credible, if unproven, rumors that she is lesbian. She took the cowardly way out of passing the civil unions bill by claiming that it was up to the voters to decide whether to reserve marriage for couples of a man and a woman. She did this in her last term in office, and is likely seeking to drum up support from homophobic elements in Hawaii for a run for the House or the Senate.
San Jose Mercury News: Boxer tries to highlight differences on abortion 2010-07-30
California voters may have jobs on their minds, but Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is quick to remind them of her support for abortion rights. | Her opponent, Republican Carly Fiorina, is a conservative candidate whose anti-abortion stance runs counter to most California voters. A recent Field Poll found that seven of 10 California voters are pro-choice.
El Paso Times: Two members of well-known families shot in Juárez 2010-07-30
Two members of prominent borderland families were killed yesterday in JuÃ¡rez. | Roberto Urrea Caraveo, 37, and Fernando Alberto GarcÃa Urrutia, 39, were shot dead outside a plaza in the Country Club neighborhood. | Urrea's mother, Rosario Caraveo, is from an affluent family of bankers in JuÃ¡rez. He was the nephew of a well-known women's rights advocate Vicky Caraveo.
Newsweek: Hugh Hefner, The Hero? Not So Fast 2010-07-30
A new documentary about the founder of €˜Playboy€™ positions Hef as a catalyst for social change. Really? | Hefner is certainly an enigma, but that doesn€™t make him particularly interesting, at least not through the lens of this film.
Lewiston Sun Journal: Laugh in November 2010-07-30
What an enlightening and informative letter from William R. Rice Jr. of Wilton (July 23) for letting the world know that the Gulf oil spill was the fault of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Halliburton. I wonder if Rice is aware that the same unholy trio was also responsible for another oil...
Common Dreams: Time Magazine, US Government Using Afghan Women to Sell War? 2010-07-30
For further information or to comment on this press release, please contact the organization directly. | WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the 'War Logs': 'I Enjoy Crushing Bastards' | Tell us how we're doing. | Time Magazine, U.S. Government Using Afghan Women to Sell War? | Washington, D.C. She is also vice president of the group Afghan Education for a Better Tomorrow.
Huffington Post: Afghan President Karzai Blasts Irresponsible WikiLeaks 2010-07-30
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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Fascinating tales of future Rochester 2010-07-30
Eighteen area writers, including some nationally known science-fiction authors, have come together to predict what Rochester will be like when it celebrates its bicentennial in 2034.
Media Matters for America: Glenn Becks DOh! Ex Machina 2010-07-30
America into an episode of The Simpsons. | move into a different place." He then asked, "What does that mean?" | contrast to shows "before the 1960s" where "the dad is the smart one" | our history and our traditions. What does that mean? | capable. You're a stay-at-home mom." | have Rice Krispies back then" -- but look at the difference. | this show. But dad's a schlub. How about Everybody Loves Raymond?"
iBerkshires.com: BCC Announces Release of ZINE Magazine 2010-07-30
Berkshire Community College (BCC) has released Volume 10 of the ZINE, a student literary magazine. ZINE, designed by Leila Di-Girolamo, a fine arts student at BCC, provides public...
The Associated Press: Hawaii lawsuit seeks equal rights for gay couples 2010-07-30
Six gay couples in Hawaii are filing a lawsuit Thursday asking for the same rights as married couples, three weeks after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed a same-sex civil unions measure. | The lawsuit doesn't seek the titles of "marriage" or "civil unions" for gay partners.
California Independent Voter Network: Despite Boxers popular pro-choice stance, Fiorina still within striking distance 2010-07-30
Barbara Boxer has a powerful weapon in her Senate battle against Carly Fiorina — and she has already begun to use it. That weapon is the abortion issue. | According to the latest Field Poll, some 70 percent of Californians support a woman's right to choose. Fiorina had to take a more conservative "pro-life" position in order to win the Republican primary.
Press-Enterprise: Boxer tries to highlight differences on abortion 2010-07-30
California voters may have jobs on their minds, but Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is quick to remind them of her support for abortion rights. | Her opponent, Republican Carly Fiorina, is a conservative candidate whose anti-abortion stance runs counter to most California voters. A recent Field Poll found that seven of 10 California voters are pro-choice.
gov.jm: Exhibition on Womens Contribution to National Development Opens at PIOJ 2010-07-30
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Politico: Sarah Kliff : Abortion groups caught off guard 2010-07-30
For reproductive rights advocates, the HHS episode was both a reminder of the health reform battle they lost and a warning about the risks ahead. | The Politico 44 / Click Story Widget Requires Adobe Flash Player. | Anti-abortion groups leapt into action last month when the National Right to Life Committee warned that elective abortions would be covered under a Pennsylvania insurance program created by the health care reform law.

2010-07-29: Headlines

Rochester City Newspaper: RECREATION: Mt. Hope Hikes (7/31) 2010-07-29
RECREATION: Mt. Hope Hikes (7/31) | Total Recommendations (0) | With a history as rich as Rochester's, and names like Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass gracing its tombstones, Mt. | Hope Cemetery offers a look back at the heyday of our city. But the above mentioned civil rights crusaders aren't the only historic names to have their final resting place in the hilly graveyard;
Washington Post: Pro-life movement and GOP politics: an unholy alliance 2010-07-29
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Los Angeles Daily News: Hugh Hefner: More than just pretty faces 2010-07-29
Questions and answers on Daily News stories from readers like you. | At an age when many men are content to be couch potatoes, Hugh Hefner is saving the Hollywood sign, launching Internet initiatives and trying to take his Playboy company private. | And he's also the subject of "Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel,"
Chelsea Now: Carly Has a Friend in NOM 2010-07-29
The National Organization for Marriage, currently engaged in a 23-city "Summer for Marriage Tour" of the East and Midwest as part of its war on the rights of same-sex couples, took time out to endorse Carly Fiorina, the Republican nominee for the US Senate seat currently held by Democrat Barbara Boxer, who is seeking reelection.
Lewiston Sun Journal: Laugh in November 2010-07-29
What an enlightening and informative letter from William R. Rice Jr. of Wilton (July 23) for letting the world know that the Gulf oil spill was the fault of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Halliburton. I wonder if Rice is aware that the same unholy trio was also responsible for another oil...
GLTNewsNow: Press Release: Homophobic fringe group NOM backs Fiorina in CA Senate race 2010-07-29
Amidst its anti-gay bus tour across 23 eastern and midwestern cities, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has joined a $1 million independent ex...
Royal Oak Daily Tribune: Conservative commentator under fire 2010-07-29
Oakland County Michigan daily newspaper covering local, regional, and national news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and classified advertising.
buffalonews.com: The Buffalo News 2010-07-29
Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco has announced they will be holding a tour of artwork curated and created by current and previous participants o...
Register Pajaronian: Is Guatemala a toxic place for women to live? 2010-07-29
About 15 years ago, when I was running the United Nations Association in San Francisco, I was asked by women immigration lawyers to address their legal society to convince the male lawyers that women could qualify as a category suffering state persecution. This would make them eligible for U.S. immigration and such eligibility would lead to a flood.
LifeNews.com: Mary Fallin Wins Oklahoma Governor Primary, Another Pro-Life Woman Advances 2010-07-29
Keywords: momentum that is making 2010 ‘the year of the pro-life woman,’”
RH Reality Check: A Post-College Road Trip Leads to a Career Protecting Womens Rights 2010-07-29
A post-college road trip in 1999 led to my commitment to reproductive health, access and justice issues. Now we're on the road again in Illinois to interview providers and clients, and I am sure I will be getting another education.
Superior Telegram: Women continue to move ahead 2010-07-29
Some men are definitely worried. Women are moving ahead of them in a number of ways.
firedoglake.com: Delaware Senate Race Shows Conservatives Candidate Calculus 2010-07-29
Staunch conservative Christine O'Donnell is challenging Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE at large) for the Republican nomination for the Delaware Senate seat formerly held by Joe Biden.
GLTNewsNow: Press Release: Homophobic fringe group NOM backs Fiorina in CA Senate race 2010-07-29
Amidst its anti-gay bus tour across 23 eastern and midwestern cities, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has joined a $1 million independent ex...
iBerkshires.com: BCC Announces Release of ZINE Magazine 2010-07-29
Berkshire Community College (BCC) has released Volume 10 of the ZINE, a student literary magazine. ZINE, designed by Leila Di-Girolamo, a fine arts student at BCC, provides public...
Bloomberg: Duvalls Hermit Attends His Own Funeral; Hefners Legacy: Film 2010-07-29
In 1938, an eccentric 74-year-old Tennessee farmer named Felix €œBush€ Breazeale decided he wanted to attend his own funeral. So he planned a pre-emptive service that attracted national publicity and drew 12,000 people, including reporters, photographers and hot dog vendors.
Texas A The Battalion: France fights feminism 2010-07-29
Recently, France's lower house of parliament passed a ban on top of the burqa, requiring women caught wearing the Islamic face veil to pay a 150 Euro fine. Although French government claims this bill will extend rights to Muslim women, the legislature restricts basic religious freedoms under the guise of feminism.
StarkSilverCreek: Regeneration: Intersection for the Arts Intern Artwalk 2010 2010-07-29
Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco has announced they will be holding a tour of artwork curated and created by current and previous participants o...

2010-07-27: Headlines

Washington Post: Best course for dealing with the Taliban: Win, then negotiate 2010-07-27
America is pursuing a new strategy that may succeed in Afghanistan, so why settle for less?
Stanford University News: Hoover fellow: New revelations in Afghanistan are same old, same old 2010-07-27
A Soviet-born political analyst says that revelations of treachery and double-dealing in Afghanistan are an old story – and that the U.S.S.R.'s war in the region has lessons to teach us still. Some of America's top military brass are listening. | Katya Drozdova is a native Russian speaker who specializes in U.S. national and international security and counter-terrorism strategies.
irishemigrant.com: Irish group in Chicago to hold fundraiser for McShane 2010-07-27
Your Irish Community Newspaper - Featuring more Irish News & Sports than any newspaper published in America - Is your Pub...
Inquirer.net: At Large : Political realities / Rina Jimenez-David 2010-07-27
Keywords: addthis_logo= 'http:/ / images.inquirer.net/ images/ inquirerlogo150x45.jpg'; | ContentSlider("newslistbox", "", linktext) | Filed Under: Inquirer Politics, Congress, Benigno Aquino III, State of the Nation Address (SONA) | As I write this, protesters have gathered along Commonwealth Avenue (6,000 was the latest police count)