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In December 2022, an intentional attack on the electrical grid in Moore County, North Carolina, caused a widespread blackout that lasted for five days. The attack, which involved high-powered firearms at two electrical substations, resulted in significant disruptions to daily life, including school closures and the death of an elderly woman who relied on an oxygen machine. Despite a state of emergency being declared and a reward offered for information leading to an arrest, no suspects have been named and there have been no arrests. The incident occurred in the context of a debate surrounding a drag show in the area, which faced opposition and threats from anti-LGBTQ groups. The attack on the grid is part of a larger trend of white supremacist groups advocating for attacks on critical infrastructure. [Extracted from the article]

It's hard to think of a better example of doing what you can with what you've got than Naomi Dix when the lights went out. When Dix, the producer and [...]

In other words, Democrats in Minnesota learned the lesson that Democrats nationally should have learned from the Sen. Mansion experience. Minnesota Democrats have held majorities before, but acted cautiously - carefully conducting partisan calculus - in the style of, if you don't mind me saying - Obama. Minnesota Democrats Codify Abortion Rights, Pass LGBTQ Protections and More. [Extracted from the article]

Still, she turned up for the grand opening of Jubilee Justice's Rice and Grain Mill this May. The Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice project is already magic. They did everything they could to take the land away from us ..." Sherrod told me of her experiences starting New Communities land trust - the first in the nation. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses present economic and environmental crisis is closely related with and is a part and parcel of the capitalist economic system, as of August 2018. It explores how British Labour Party is planning to transform the economy. It reports that how, Across the world, capitalist and socialist practices and policies vary, from land trusts and community gardens to local-first contracting and public takeovers of private utilities.

The ideological right, people who used to be regarded as conservatives, have started to forge links with people of colour, women and those on the margins of society in order to present themselves as anti-establishment. The right has become the legal focus of right-wing groups which have been able to work with the left and then adopt its views.

United Nations declarations on women's rights are far from enactment in most of the signatory nations. Excerpts from the report of Beijing +5 Review Process, a followup to the 1995 international women's conference, are followed with instructions on where letter-writers can campaign for reforms in each nation.

The Roman Catholic Church, represented by the Vatican's Holy See, is the only nongovernmental organization that has nonmember state permanent observer status in the United Nations. Unlike other observing organizations, the Holy See observer is allowed to speak, lobby, and negotiate at UN gatherings. A group of women's, religious, and reproductive rights groups united under the name See Change are campaigning for the UN to downgrade the Vatican from nonmember state to traditional nongovernmental organization.

If you look at the whole country during this time period, the murder rate is 40 percent higher in red states, which comes from a couple things. - Laura Flanders LF: Homicide rates are higher than they've been in decades in Philadelphia. Q&A On the last day of business before the 2022 midterms, Martina White, a Republican state representative, filed articles for Krasner's impeachment. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the Irish political party Sinn Féin within the context of the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin, Ireland, Sinn Féin's policy on austerity, an election in Northern Ireland and the Troubles of Northern Ireland from the late 1960s through 1998. An overview of Belfast, Northern Ireland politics, including the image of Irish independence leader James Connolly on building facades in the city, is provided.

The Tutsis survivors of the atrocities of the 1994 Rwandan civil war did manage to come out alive from the war but it would take a long time for them to recover after the unspeakable crimes waged against them by the Hutus. The Clinic of Hope provides medical treatment and counseling to the women survivors who were raped and mutilated.

Catherine MacKinnon fit in perfectly at the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights this June. The historic gathering in Vienna cultivated precisely the kind of panic-mode polemics in which [...]

Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life By Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith New York: PublicAffairs, 2009, 368 pp., $26.95, hardcover In this era of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Rand [...]

'Now that the U.S. and the Taliban are on two opposite sides in a war, you've probably heard a lot about how the Taliban treat women,' said Tahmeena. A member [...]

The article discusses initiatives to improve the labor conditions of workers in the restaurant industry as of September 2013, focusing on the initiatives of the advocate Saru Jayaraman and the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) organization. Topics include lawsuits, Jayaraman's book "Behind the Kitchen Door," and the National Restaurant Association in the U.S.

A profile of activist playwright Eve Ensler is presented, who wrote the play "The Vagina Monologues" and who sponsors anti-violence protests and the organization V-Day. Violence against women, a 2002 profile of Ensler that ran in "The New York Times" newspaper, and a speech she gave for Amnesty International are discussed. Ensler's 2012 play "Emotional Creature," based on her book "I Am an Emotional Creature," was produced by Carole Black and Pat Mitchell, and the rehearsals for the play are described. Ensler's goal to encourage one billion women to protest on February 14, 2013, titled One Billion Rising (OBR), is also mentioned.

The article focuses on the provision of care at home to elderly, ill, or disabled people, which it notes is a rapidly growing industry. As the U.S. population ages, the demand for home care workers will rise, offering the potential to create millions of new jobs. It profiles the activist organization Caring Across Generations, which is organizing both home care workers and consumers to improve the training, working conditions, and wages of home care workers, along with the organization's co-director Ai-jen Poo. A campaign to extend federal minimum-wage and overtime rules to home care workers is noted. Others working on the issue are discussed, including Ellen Bravo of Family Values @ Work, Deepak Bhargava of the Center for Community Change, and Sarita Gupta of Jobs With Justice.

Female speakers on talk radio defend feminist beliefs that are challenged or criticized by bigots. Female talk show hosts belong to different specialities such as psychologists or psychotherapists who provide expert counselling on feminine issues.

The article discusses public participation by Democratic voters in U.S. presidential elections. The author states that former president Bill Clinton won the election through television advertising and direct mail. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has several new sources for the 2008 election including a functioning computerized voter file accessible through a single online tool. How candidate Barack Obama is benefiting from this is also discussed.

The article discusses the grassroots organizers behind the candidates that have been elected to office in Montana. The author visits with founders of the Montana Women Vote coalition and organizers of Native American voter turnout organizations to discover the political strategies that brought their issues and candidates to voters. The author attributes the success of the "Montana Miracle" to the progressive movement that worked hard to get votes throughout the state.

The author claims that the Bush administration is trying to soften its hard-core conservative image by employing supposedly moderate women such as Condoleezza Rice, Elaine Chao, Ann Veneman and Laura Bush. The Bushwomen are the Administration's way of sending two contradictory messages at once. Even as her husband courts social conservatives, Laura Bush lulls moderate voters into believing that the White House is not really in the clutches of the extreme right. Likewise, when the President declared the University of Michigan law school's affirmative action policy unconstitutional, Rice came out with a different line: "I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body." As election 2004 approaches, the Bushwomen are on the march. The President's re-election requires appealing to as many constituencies as possible. On the campaign trail, the Bushwomen's mission is to help the GOP solve its female problem. For twenty years, a smaller percentage of women than men have cast their votes for Republicans for President. As the President's promises on job creation fall flat, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao fronts the Administration line that the economy is full of opportunity. Who better for that job than a self-described Chinese immigrant who is perceived to have risen to high office by dint of family determination, smarts and hard work alone? As US fatalities crossed the 500 mark this January, Chao turned up in Baghdad with a message for Iraqi women. "In a democracy the most important factor is energy," she said.

Crouched on the bayshore of northern Donegal, the entry to Buncrana is marked by a municipal welcome sign which boasts that this small Irish town is twinned with Campbellsville, Kentucky. [...]

New York City; Minneapolis Aw, come on Janet. We'd be the last to undervalue the intelligence and courage of Iraqi women living under US occupation. (A cursory listen to Laura [...]

As the right wing's antifeminist front, the sisters of the Independent Women's Forum have been such a hit in this country that they're now getting taxpayer money to take their [...]

You can tell when the Bush Administration is rattled. George W. chats up Tim Russert on NBC and Bush's women sit down for a talk with Elizabeth Bumiller of the [...]

This article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S., as of March 8, 1999. Within hours of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's announcement of the U.S. President Bill Clinton's acquittal, a multilateral chorus announced it was time to move on. With the impeachment slogfest over, Congressional Democrats, particularly the liberals, once again face the ever-aggravating matter of theft thorny relationship with Clinton. For months Clinton's most generous supporters have been left-leaning House Democrats, including Barney Frank and the Congressional Black Caucus.

The article presents information related to political situation in the U.S., as of December 22, 1997. Attorney General Janet Reno opted against appointing an independent counsel to investigate U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Albert Gore for phoning for funds from the White House. In the narrowest sense, Reno was correct. The murderous Thanksgiving Day assault that left crusading Tijuana editor Jesus Blancornelas gravely wounded and cost the life of a valued assistant should come as no surprise. Three Mexican journalists have met violent deaths this year and a score more have been beaten, bullied or otherwise intimidated a consequence of the diligent practice of their profession.

This article presents several socio-political developments in the U.S. and at international level, as of March 17, 1997. It is by now a commonplace to point out that the centrifugal forces in publishing that created the juggernauts depicted, also created opportunities for publishers not in the mainstream. Of course, "independent" publishing is no more independent of the economic and political climate than anything else. Literary houses have frequently become nonprofit and supplicant to outside funding. Another development focuses on the effects of economic transition of China from Maoism to free market. In the countryside, land and water shortages brought on by rapid urbanization have created 100 million "surplus farm workers," an economically desperate army of displaced transient laborers whose numbers are sure to grow as China follows its plan to build 600 new cities in the next fourteen years.

It used to be a matter of flashing a badge and appealing to patriotism, but these days federal agents are finding it a little harder to get librarians to spy. [...]

A Promise of a Dream by Sheila Rowbotham Verso. 280 pages. $25.00. Political people talk a lot about what they think. Far more rarely do they get to tell us [...]

Amber Hollibaugh kicked off her book tour last fall at a large Barnes & Noble store in Manhattan. The polite, male store manager who introduced her to the crowd read [...]

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen Viking. $34.95. 480 pages. Feminism has never had a single voice, strategy, or unifying tactic, but [...]

Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $15.00. 240 pages. Feminism has never had a single voice, strategy, or unifying [...]

How a quiet earthquake is destroying our rights A comment from professor Judith Resnik of Yale Law School made me nervous. Speaking of the Supreme Court's ruling that threw out [...]

Sarah Caudwell's niece remembers the mystery writer who died last January Sarah Caudwell died on January 28 of this year, in London, in the act of completing the Times crossword. [...]

Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi William Morrow & Company. 416 pages. $26.00. I had the luck this summer to spend a weekend with my relatives [...]

Mary Daly is a radical feminist star. A professor and philosopher with seven degrees, the author of seven books, Daly has challenged just about every assumption in patriarchal theology. It [...]

The article discusses the women's rights movement in the U.S. as of 2013, with information on collective bargaining for gender equality. Topics include pay equity; sex discrimination against women; reproductive rights; premiums for women's healthcare; and the extreme poverty rate among women in the U.S. The proposed updates to the Violence Against Women Act are discussed, with information on law and legislation related to abortion, the rights of pregnant women, and women in labor union leadership positions at the Chicago Teachers Union.