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Showing videos filed under: jill filipovic
Megan Carpentier, Fighting Foreclosure, and Bradley Manning
December 16, 2010Congress is passing tax cuts for the rich as well as everyone else this week, while Don't Ask Don't Tell is headed for a stand-alone vote in the Senate. Is gridlock over, or are these just issues that actually have some bipartisan support? Meanwhile, Julian Assange may be out on bail, but the debate over the charges against him still rages, and Megan Carpentier of TPM reminds us that it's possible for the arrest to be politically motivated and the charges still not be false.The F Word: Forgetting Bradley Manning
December 16, 2010Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is out on bail—apparently headed for the 10-bedroom home of British former army officer Vaughan Smith, described by the Guardian as a rightwing libertarian. Assange's lawyer joked that it would not be so much “house arrest as manor arrest” while he fights extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges.Jill Filipovic: "Tips From the Other Side" Indeed
January 27, 2010Next week, the New York State Bar Association will hold its annual meeting. The Committee on Women in the Law decided to sponsor a day-long program for female lawyers, beginning with a panel titled “What’s Our Problem: Current Issues Facing Women,” wherein a group of female attorneys will discuss practicing law in a changing legal market. Immediately afterward, female lawyers are treated to “Their Point of View: Tips From the Other Side,” in which a “distinguished panel of gentlemen” opine on the strengths and weaknesses of women’s legal work.Jay Smooth: The Hyde Amendment
January 26, 2010Jay Smooth of Ill Doctrine teamed up with the Center for Reproductive Rights and several of our favorite bloggers and activists to bring you this video on the Hyde Amendment, its restrictions for women's rights, and how Stupak and Nelson would restruct those rights even further. Think about it: if they don't want their tax dollars spent on abortion, what don't YOU want your tax dollars spent on?Adoptions from Haiti, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, and Afghanistan
January 25, 2010In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, we've seen many solutions posed around the world (and even suggested a few of our own). One option that has been raised is allowing more adoptions from Haiti; Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell even got involved in bringing orphans into the U.S., managing to land a plane when relief planes were unable to get in.Week in Review: Stupak Amendment Step Back For Women
November 15, 2009The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the health care bill passed in the House on Saturday represents a huge step backward for women's rights advocates, limiting abortion access in unprecedented ways.Compromise On Women's Backs Again
November 11, 2009The passage of the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers, but it's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get. Now that the amendment is in the House bill, progressives have to fight twice as hard to make sure it stays out of the final bill, and with some of the allies we've got, that's going to be an uphill slog--after all, Rep. Stupak is a Democrat.Compromise on Women's Backs, Sarah and Emily Kunstler, and the Middle East
November 10, 2009The health care bill passing the house with a public option should've been cause for celebration, but the Stupak-Pitts amendment came as a shock to many prochoice activists and writers. It's not a secret that "pro-lifers" would like to roll back the right to abortion at any chance they get, but most of us didn't think that we'd see a move like this supported by 64 Democrats.
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