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Reproductive Justice Conference Report

Submitted by Chloe on May 9, 2010 - 6:46pm

This year, Hampshire College’s annual reproductive justice conference --held from April 9 to 11-- seemed to come at a ripe moment. Just two weeks earlier, President Obama had signed an executive order affirming that the new health insurance exchanges would have to conform to the existing rule prohibiting federal funding from being used for abortion. Feminists -- from those who had advocated compromise to others who were continuing to fight for single payer -- were debating the worth of the healthcare reform bill.

In the opening plenary, Marlene Fried, Director of Hampshire’s Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, which hosted the conference, called for activists to “demand that President Obama rescind the executive order…[and to] demand that we get a Justice [to replace Supreme Court Justice Stevens] who stands for justice,” but for the most part Obama’s policies and the right in the US figured far less prominently than they might have.

Instead, the conference focused broadly on the ongoing struggles that simultaneously confront intersecting oppressions, such as better treatment for women prisoners, health justice for immigrant communities and reproductive self-determination for teenagers.

Not quite Stonewall: 40 years later the cops haven't changed, but we have

Submitted by giselda on September 15, 2009 - 10:26am

"Hey, Red Dog: Bored with Grandmothers?" Those words, scribbled with marker on a makeshift sign, lingered above a crowd mostly confused by their meaning.

Setback for Marriage Equality in California, Next Steps for LGBTQ Rights?

Submitted by Kate G on May 26, 2009 - 4:31pm

The California Supreme Court decided to uphold Proposition 8 as a legal amendment to the s

Thoughts on same sex marriage: Can’t You Just Be Happ[il]y [Ever After]?

Submitted by Kate G on June 5, 2008 - 10:00am
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    • Out of the Closets, Into the Streets! The Many Lives of Bob Kohler

    Submitted by BradDuncan on January 2, 2008 - 11:52am
    Liberation movements in the United States lost a brave and vibrant participant in the death of Bob Kohler, a leading figure of the American Gay Liberation Movement.

    Bob Kohler, 1926-2007
    Bob lived dozens of lives in his 81 years on the planet. Although Bob was best known as an early leader of the Gay Liberation Front he was also a talent representative for mostly Black artists in the early 1960’s, a vintage clothing store owner, World War II veteran, a talented and empathetic listener, bath house proprietor, peoples’ historian, Stonewall uprising participant, and a link between the gay struggle and other liberation struggles.