Professor Anita Faye Hill, Esq.

This brilliant attorney and legal scholar was smeared and slandered by a wealthy, white male politician in order to protect an arch-reactionary SCOTUS candidate with a sordid history of sexual harassment/abuse.

That politician’s name? Joe Biden. #joebiden

Professor Anita Faye Hill, Esq.

Los Angeles Clinic Defense - Family Planning Associates

I was able to stop by and visit the brave women and men defending the Family Planning Associates women's clinic from reactionary right wingers this morning on the way to the office. I say brave since there's always the chance of violent right wing extremists, like murderer Scott Roeder might show up.

There were members of the International Socialist Organization, Radical Women, and other groups and individuals on hand. Their courageous and principled stand to protect the clinic and its patients is beyond admirable. Free abortion on demand was the call!

Please show up and support those protecting women's rights against the barbaric misogynistic reactionaries. Access to legal and safe abortion is an important health care issue and a basic issue for women’s equality.

Los Angeles Clinic Defense
Family Planning Associates
601 S. Westmoreland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90005
[map]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 6:30am to 6:00pm
Saturday, September 26, 2009 6:30am to 6:00pm
more info: lacityiso@yahoo.com

Los Angeles Clinic Defense - Family Planning Associates

PR: Overhill Farms’ Workers Launch Consumer Campaign Against Panda Express

HERMANDAD MEXICANA LATINOAMERICANA
HERMANDAD GENERAL DE TRABAJADORES UNION INTERNACIONAL

PRESS RELEASE
June 11, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Person:  Nativo V. Lopez                                 
(714) 423-4800

OVERHILL FARMS’ WORKERS LAUNCH CONSUMER CAMPAIGN
PANDA EXPRESS IS THE FIRST TARGET

What:  Protest by workers of Overhill Farms

Where:  PANDA EXPRESS food outlet on the corner of Alameda and Florence in the city of Huntington Park

When:  Thursday, June 11, 2009

Time:  4:30 p.m.

Terminated workers of the Overhill Farms company announce their consumer education campaign in response to the racist and discriminatory abuse and mass firings by company President Jim Rudis.

PANDA EXPRESS is the first target of the consumer education campaign.  Panda Express is a major purchaser of pre-packaged food product manufactured by Overhill Farms.  Others include Jenny Craig, El Pollo Loco, Jack-in-the-Box, Costco, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and other companies.

“We will call on these companies to communicate with Overhill Farms management to cease its discriminatory treatment of its employees and return the terminated workers to their jobs.  Consumers of product from these companies have the right to know the truth about Overhill Farms.  And, we intend to make sure they know,” stated Teresa  Cortez, leader of the Worker’s Council of Overhill Farms.

Most of the dismissed workers have been with the company between five and twenty years, and those with the greatest seniority are women.  Overhill Farms is the powerhouse publicly-traded multi-million dollar food processing and pre-packaged food manufacturing and distribution company of southern California – thanks to its immigrant work-force.

PR: Overhill Farms’ Workers Launch Consumer Campaign Against Panda Express

Sherry Wolf: Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul

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Why is Imus back in the game?

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Bush Administration Renews Offensive Against Title IX

Bush has stated his disdain for Title IX on various occasions and even mentioned changing the law which has been in place since 1972. Women's groups and concerned parents forced the administration to reconsider drastic changes in 2003 to satisfy Bush's stated position of being "opposed [to] quotas or strict proportionality." A recent Department of Education Title IX policy under the guise of a clarification now threatens the very foundation of Title IX.

The Bush administration's new policy allows schools to skirt previous requirements of gauging interest in programs through serious research by merely sending out a mass email survey. School can then take non-replies as a lack of interest and not have to commit to "equal" funding. As the Save Title IX site says: "Given the notoriously low response rates to surveys in general and this era of excessive e-mail spam, the Department's new policy undermines the law and its intent to provide more opportunities for women and girls."

Title IX, while still not providing real equality, has been a major factor in advancing academic, athletic, and other opportunities for women over the past thirty years. As Ralph Nader wrote once: "The law gave women access to classes, facilities and opportunities that had historically been male-only." Decades of Title IX opportunities have produced myriad advances for women in various fields and even created conditions for professional women's sports leagues like the WNBA. The current attack on Title IX is part of a broad attack on women in general by the Bush administration. From reproductive rights to educational opportunities, it is time for a movement that fights back unapologetically against Bush's misogynistic policies!

Some Resources for Title IX
Save Title IX
League of Fans - Title IX Action!
Join the Fight for Title IX by Ralph Nader

Bush Administration Renews Offensive Against Title IX