SisterSong

Race, Class, and Rights in Mississippi: How A Reproductive Justice Campaign Can Save the Pill and Save the Vote

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by Loretta Ross, SisterSong

October 29, 2011 - 10:25am (Print)

In Mississippi, two ballot initiatives threaten the health and lives of women across the state, and the disenfranchisement of the largest bloc of voters in the state. A campaign based on a reproductive justice model can defeat both.

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Reproductive Justice Organizations Denounce Anti-Choice "Freedom Rides," Plan Counter-Rally

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

July 21, 2010 - 6:26am (Print)

Three Atlanta-based women of color organizations say that a billboard campaign in Atlanta lanched by anti-choice organizations, along with so-called "freedom rides" scheduled this summer are "no more than a ploy to turn back the clock on Black women's right to reproductive freedom."

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Pro-Woman Victory: Georgia Abortion Restriction Bill Defeated

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

May 1, 2010 - 9:43am (Print)

Yesterday, SB 529, the so-called "OB/GYN Criminalization and Racial Discrimination Act," died in the Rules Committee of the Georgia House of Representatives on the last day of Georgia's legislative session.

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Live-Blogging NCRW's "Reproductive Rights" Panel

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reader diary by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

June 11, 2009 - 7:59am (Print)

I'm at the National Council for Research on  Women's annual conference,  live-blogging the Thursday morning panel on reproductive rights.

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Women of Color Need Human Rights, Not Concessions

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by Loretta Ross, SisterSong

January 29, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

If we are really entering a new phase of abortion politics, we have to stop selling out poor people to appease opponents of women’s human rights.
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Live From SisterSong: Reproductive Justice For All

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by Eesha Pandit, Feministing

June 4, 2007 - 5:30am (Print)

Youth leadership, global justice and sex-positivity are just some of the issues that power a broad-based reproductive justice movement envisioned and experienced at the Sistersong Conference.

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Live From SisterSong: Let’s Talk About Sex!

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by Eesha Pandit, Feministing

June 1, 2007 - 12:03pm (Print)

The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective's second national conference started yesterday; Eesha Pandit shares highlights from the four-day reproductive justice bonanza.

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