Women

"The War Drums Beating Against Bradley Manning, Iran and Women"

Marjorie Cohn, Law Professor/ Author, explores the impending court martial of Bradley Manning and poses the question of whether he is a hero or a traitor. Cohn declares him a hero and points to the hypocrisy of Manning facing charges while bona fide war criminals go free.

Speech delivered Nov. 5, 2011
Noam Chomsky - 7th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture: Unpeople

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(MELBOURNE, Aust.) - The ESML is AFOPA’s showpiece event. This year’s guest speaker, Noam Chomsky, is a world renowned linguist, philosopher, and human rights activist. ....

Standing Up Against Christian Fascists and the Inquisitors of the Catholic Church:

Debra Sweet, National Director of The World Can't Wait, talks about what happened during the Summer of Trust, the nationwide mobilization to defend Dr. LeRoy Carhart and his new abortion clinic in Germantown, MD, from the Christian fascists mobilized against him by Operation Rescue.

"Does Perpetual War Mean the End of Truth, Does Working as a Hotel Maid Mean Inviting Rape and Does Prison Mean You're No Longer Human?"

Robert Parry, Journalist and Author, Consortiumnews.com,talks about the neo-con political agenda deeply embedded in the mainstream media and what that means for digging out the truth.

Gail Dines, Author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, dissects the assault on the immigrant African hotel maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her and concludes this is a story hatched in Pornland.

"The Importance of Using Facts to the Truth & the Stigma of Abortion, Chain of Torture Chambers across the US and Update on the Hunger Strike in the SHU at Pelican Bay State Prison in California"

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check, talks about the importance of using facts to take on and expose the extremism of the anti-abortion movement.

Lance Tapley, Journalist and Author, talks about the nature of the Super-Max prisons that the torture inside their walls.

"Cruel & Unusual Punishment in California's Torture Chambers and Racist Anti-Abortion Billboards Driven out of Los Angeles"

Li Onesto, journalist, Revolution Newspaper, digs into what's in and behind the US Supreme Court ruling that conditions in California prisons constitute cruel & unusual punishment.

Tonight's show featured a stimulating interview about Texas Statewide Walk for Choice, happening in Austin on 5/28/11, as well as audio of the protest against Pakistani nukes which was held earlier today (5/27) in Houston outside the Consulate of Pakistan.

A new initiative to spotlight women and girls as leaders across the world plans to promote 50 documentaries over a 3-year-span, showcasing women and girls fighting for social justice and equal rights. And the OpenCourt project hopes to make the wheels of justice more accessible to the public.

Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Past President of National Lawyers Guild and editor of The United States and Torture, digs into the issue of torture in the US and carried out by the US around the world. She presents an enraging picture including laying bare the brutal nature of torture, the American lies and cover-ups and how the Obama regime is not just continuing the Bush Torture Plan but is taking it even further than Bush ever dreamed.

Gloria Feldt, Past President of Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, digs into the attempt to slash Title X funding and decimate Planned Parenthood's ability to provide family planning services, including abortion, as well as other health care services to women.

Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst, member of Veterans for Peace and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, talks about why he stood up to show his opposition to Hillary Clinton as a War Criminal only to be beaten, dragged out of the theater and thrown in jail.