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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Practitioner:
Unite Against the War on Women
Date:
Apr 28 2012

By Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog

“I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Velez told me her feminist views are often met with hostility in her “typical Bible Belt” state.
But today, she’ll know she’s not alone.

Can 'Caring Across Generations' Change the World?
Practitioner:
Caring Across Generations
Date:
Apr 11 2012

From The Nation
By Laura Flanders

A new campaign calling itself Caring Across Generations has in mind
nothing less than a 180-degree turn in the way that Americans think
about themselves, one another, the economy and workers. This group aims
to create 2 million quality jobs in the process and put us all on track
for a happy, healthy old age too. But first we need to talk, out loud,
about care.

Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Practitioner:
We are all Amina Filali
Date:
Mar 17 2012

By Nora Fakim, BBC News

Several hundred women's rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco's parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence.

Morocco's penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor as a way of avoiding prosecution.

A 16-year-old girl, Amina Filali, killed herself a week ago after being severely beaten during a forced marriage to her rapist.

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