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NEWSFLASH: University of California Creates New Guidelines After Facing...
The University of California has created new guidelines for campus administrators to report sexual assault. They are now required to report more types of violence and harassment, provide more support...
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NEWSFLASH: Fast-Food Workers Protest Wage Theft
Fast-food workers nationwide have come together this week to protest wage theft at chains including McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s. Protesters report having been pressured to work while off the...
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NEWSFLASH: Congresswoman Announces Plan for New Campus Rape Legislation
Sexual assault is rampant on college campuses across the U.S. As we wrote in the winter/spring 2014 issue of Ms., one in five women students will be assaulted during her post-secondary career. The good...
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NEWSFLASH: Supreme Court Says “No” to Kansas Abortion-Rights Foe
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fellow. Phill Kline, the former attorney general of Kansas, won’t be getting back his license to practice law for at least three years, thanks to a ruling...
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NEWSFLASH: Fast-Food Workers to Strike Worldwide!
Ms. magazine cover, Fall 2013 At a press conference outside a Manhattan McDonald’s this morning, the group Fast Food Forward announced that workers around the globe will undertake a one-day strike on...
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NEWSFLASH: Beverly Hills Condemns Sultan of Brunei; More Groups Boycott Hotels
International outrage surged this week over the Sultan of Brunei’s new Taliban-like laws, which will see gay men and lesbians stoned to death and women who have abortions publicly flogged. The Beverly...
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NEWSFLASH: 101 McDonald’s Workers Arrested in Huge Protest
Between 1,000 and 2,000 McDonald’s employees and labor rights supporters flooded McDonald’s headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., on Wednesday, just hours before the company’s annual shareholders meeting....
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NEWSFLASH: One More Reason Why Military Women Need More Protection from...
Though lawmakers such as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have done much in the past year to bring the issue of military rape to the forefront of the U.S. Congress, a recent case of sexual assault in...
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Dorchester Collection Fashion Prize Cancelled in Wake of Brunei Protests
Looks like the Dorchester Collection of hotels, owned by the Sultan of Brunei, is being reminded that homophobia and misogyny is never en vogue. The Dorchester Collection had to cancel the fashion...
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Seattle Goes to the Mat for Minimum Wage
The Seattle City Council last week unanimously approved an increase in the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the highest in the nation. That’s more than double the current federal minimum of $7.25....
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NEWSFLASH: Obama Eases Student Debt, But Senate Blocks Loan Bill
In an effort to help combat the nationwide student debt crisis, President Obama on Monday signed an executive order to help ease the burden of student loan payments. Seventy-one percent of those...
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NEWSFLASH: Obama Plans to Sign Executive Order Prohibiting LGBT Job...
The White House announced today that President Obama plans to sign an executive order that prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. This...
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NEWSFLASH: Abortion Providers’ Privileges Reinstated
Two Texas doctors—Lamar Robinson and Jasbir Ahluwalia—had their admitting privileges reinstated last week at the University General Hospital in Dallas (UGHD). Their privileges were revoked in late...
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NEWSFLASH: Supreme Court Upholds Temporary Ban on Wisconsin Anti-Abortion Law
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal today by Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to overturn the temporary injunction against a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to have...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH: Supreme Court Strikes Down Clinic Buffer Zones
In a deeply disappointing decision this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law that allowed reproductive-health clinics to maintain a 35-foot buffer zone for...
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NEWSFLASH: Worldwide Protest Against Sultan of Brunei on Friday
The Sultan of Brunei announced his plan this past May to impose a hateful and deadly Taliban-like penal code that includes the stoning to death of gay men and lesbians and the public flogging of women...
View ArticleNEWSFLASH: Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Against Birth Control Coverage
In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in the combined case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood v. Burwell that, as The Washington Post reports, ”...
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NEWSFLASH: Nationwide Survey Finds Colleges are Failing Sexual Assault Survivors
Hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation are in violation of federal law by not responding adequately to allegations of on-campus sexual assault, a new report has found. The report,...
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NEWSFLASH: Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Struck Down
In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond upheld a ruling that said Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional. This is the first decision of its kind in a...
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NEWSFLASH: Federal Judge Blocks Alabama Anti-Abortion Law
U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson ruled on Monday that a recently passed law requiring abortion providers to obtain staff privileges at local hospitals places an unconstitutional, undue burden...
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