DON’T FORGET TO VOTE TOMORROW – NOV. 4! Depending on how the ballots roll, tomorrow will be a day to celebrate or drown our sorrows. Either ways, there’s some parties afoot: The Democratic Party is throwing down at the Rio after polls close at 7 p.m. I think you have to RSVP. The Women’s Empowerment…
The UNLV Women’s Studies Department and the Womens Research Institute of Nevada are cohosting an event with local hero and welfare rights activist Ruby Duncan on Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. Anyone who wants to hear a black, feminist, activist hero should attend. For more info contact Gay at 895-0837 or e-mail: gay.sessums@unlv.edu.
Enough hating on each other and ourselves! Love your body!
The deadline to register to vote in Nevada is Saturday, Oct. 4. That’s tomorrow! After that, the only option you have is to get in your car/on the bus/ride your bike/walk over to the Clark County Elections Department (or elections department in your county if you’re outside SoNV) and register to vote IN PERSON. You…
All I can say is WTF?! And if you don’t why, here’s some examples. I’ll meet you in the fall-out shelter… The House rejects $700 billion bailout and the stock market has record drop — larger than the last record drop on Sept. 11 — in mere seconds. So do we start keeping our money…
I’ve been sick as a dog, but my oh my there’s news, news everywhere you look: I missed the Obama fun yesterday but you can read all about it on the local campaign blog. But there’s still lots of canvassing and fun stuff to do. Including a house party on Sunday sponsored by MoveOn.org. UNLV’s…
Times are tough all over and being a former journo (as well as a recent lay-off-ee), I know that you have to support what you want to stick around. Third-wave feminist magazine Bitch may have to close it’s doors (and cease production) if it can’t scrounge up $40K by Oct. 15. If you believe in…
Last week was quite the week! I don’t know if it was just the 88th anniversary of suffrage in the air, but it was quite the week for women in politics! As the Democratic National Convention started, the story was about how the Hillary Clinton loyalists would react and move within the party as Obama…
When are we going to get through to legislators and conservatives: Women should have autonomy over their own bodies, including their uterus’ and the decision when and to/if have children! The latest stop in the uterus wars? A potentially damaging federal Health and Human Services regulation could be interpreted to mean that contraceptives are the…
My how the news piles up when you’ve got your nose to the grindstone … my apologies, chickadees: More interesting news regarding Nevada’s energy issues: Nevada Power announced today that it and its parent company Sierra Pacific Power are going to expand renewable energy programs to include rebates on certain residential and agricultural alternative energy…
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