Monthly Archives: March 2012

UW-Milwaukee, March 8: Women in the Academy: Celebrating International Women’s Day

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Thursday, March 8, 2012, 1-2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

UW-Milwaukee Bolton Hall 196 at 1pm, moving to Maryland Avenue bridge north of Kenwood Boulevard at 2:30pm

Dr. Debora B. Wisneski, UWM Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Education discusses her role as scholar and activist as she leads UWM’s Join Me on the Bridge campaign in celebration of International Women’s Day. Time will be dedicated during the workshop to create banners and gain signatures in support of International Women’s Day. The workshop will conclude at 2:30pm on the bridge over Maryland Avenue for our participation in Join Me on the Bridge, a global action for world peace event. Sponsored by the UWM Women’s Resource Center.
Free Event

For more information, contact the UWM Women’s Resource Center at 414-229-2852.

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Israel Raids Palestinian TV Stations

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Israel Raids Palestinian TV Stations

The Israeli military has raided two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank. Employees of Watan TV and another station affiliated with Al-Quds University say Israeli troops seized broadcast equipment and computers in overnight raids. Israel says the stations were interfering with air traffic control frequencies, but Palestinians say Israel is committing blatant censorship.

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NOW Calls for Clear Channel to Pull the Plug on Limbaugh

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Latoya Veal, 202-628-8669, ext. 116

http://now.org/

March 2, 2012

Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill

Bigoted bully Rush Limbaugh has been rewarded for his hostile, hate-filled speech for far too long. The National Organization for Women calls on Clear Channel Communications to pull the plug on Limbaugh’s gilded microphone immediately. In addition, we call on Limbaugh’s conservative comrades in the media to fully denounce, with no excuses, his derogatory comments.

Limbaugh’s targeting of Sandra Fluke was way out of line, even for him. Limbaugh is free to disagree all he wants with Fluke — a Georgetown Law student who testified before a congressional committee in support of health care coverage for birth control — but calling her a ‘slut’ and a ‘prostitute’ on air is unacceptable. After sparking outrage, Limbaugh took to the airwaves again yesterday to suggest that if Fluke wants contraception to be fully covered, she should post videos of herself having sex online so Limbaugh and others can watch.

Clearly, Limbaugh is not just having fun here. He is trying to shame a young woman for coming forward, speaking her mind and standing up for women’s rights. This is how bullies try to chase all women from the public square.

Isn’t the GOP embarrassed by this man by now? Remember, Limbaugh is not some fringe right-winger — he has been identified time and time again as a lead strategist in the Republican party, not to mention a king-maker and an enforcer. The fact that this man has so much power in one of the two dominant political parties in the United States is shameful.

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