This article over at mute magazine is a really good read.

In the context of the recent abortion debates in the UK - and in anticipation of further, much tougher ones as we contemplate an incoming right-wing government - I thought this is a really useful article. Basically it places the immediacy of the usual quite simplified (and very bourgeois) ( Read more... )

First post, and english is my second language, first this influence my ability of making nice sentence, so be kind, but even given that, if there's something that i write that you don't get or are unsure, feel free to ask ( Read more... )

The Michael Moore movie 'SiCKO' might for some be spearheading the issue of universal health care coverage in the United States, but it is an issue that has been an been building momentum for decades. After all, When Hilary Clinton was the 'first lady' she introduced a plan for universal health care coverage. The labor movement in the United ( Read more... )

I just watched the most interesting program on PBS about women in poor, rural areas of Asia and Africa (they may have covered other areas but I turned it on late ( Read more... )