Jennifer Baumgardner speaks about women’s liberation, choice, and abortion.
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how do class issues impact women and their freedom to choose?
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GRITtv Daily Newsmaker, 03/09/09: Linda Martin Alcoff, Jennifer Baumgardner
Jennifer Baumgardner speaks about book ‘Abortion and Life’
Dan Savage and Amy Richards on Abortion Rights and Feminism
Amy Richards and Dan Savage discuss conceptions and misconceptions of abortion and feminism; includes the rhetoric of abortion and what constitutes pro-choice.
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In this clip, Amy Richards discusses the rhetoric and history of the abortion debate. Do you think that the debate has changed significantly as Richards believes? Is the rhetoric really outdated and in need of change?
Dan Savage and Amy Richards on Abstinence-Only Sex Education
Amy Richards and Dan Savage talk about their experiences with sex education and abstinence-only sex education, as well as discuss the resistance from teachers, schools, and colleges to providing accurate information about sex.
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Why are certain institutions so resistant to providing accurate sex education? What would have to change for these institutions to be more open to providing sex education?
“Our Bodies, Our Choices” by Indigenous Action Media :: Part 2 ::
A short documentary filmed at March for Women’s Lives 2004. This series includes interviews and commentary from participants and discussion of issues related to women’s rights to their bodies. This documentary features performances, including Radical Cheer. Some issues covered in this documentary—like the global gag rule and access to emergency contraception—have evolved and changed, but new aspects of the issues are still relevant to reproductive justice.
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As the past years have seen certain barriers to women’s choices knocked down, what should be focused on in the pro-choice movement
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“Our Bodies, Our Choices” by Indigenous Action Media :: Part 1 ::
A short documentary filmed at March for Women’s Lives 2004. This series includes interviews and commentary from participants and discussion of issues related to women’s rights to their bodies. This documentary features performances, including Radical Cheer. Some issues covered in this documentary—like the global gag rule and access to emergency contraception—have evolved and changed, but new aspects of the issues are still relevant to reproductive justice.
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As the past years have seen certain barriers to women’s choices knocked down, what should be focused on in the pro-choice movement?
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Eliza Karagezian Talks About Domestic Violence
Eliza Karagezian discusses the difficulties of getting women—especially immigrant and undocumented women—to report domestic violence because of fears of stigma, deportation, and breaking family values. By focusing on deportation of women and not on their safety, the country forces women to remain in abusive situations. Another essential aspect to ending domestic violence is involving men in the discussion.
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As mentioned in the video, one of the difficulties with getting immigrant and undocumented women to come forward about domestic violence is breaking family, cultural, and religious values. Where would women be able to find support if they act for their safety and happiness and break established cultural values?
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Beyond Prop. 8
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“California’s Supreme Court, in a decision yesterday, upheld Prop 8 and a ban on same sex marriage. At the same time, a host of states (Iowa, Vermont, and Maine) have legalized gay marriage in recent months. What’s next for the LGBT movement? And should efforts to expand civil rights focus on the states or the Federal level?”
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What are your opinions on whether the push for LGBT rights should be focused on the federal or state level? What are your thoughts on the opinion that there are “two classes of gay people” from state to state, and even within California?
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Out in the Silence
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“It’s popular on the right wing radio dial to pretend that homosexuality is something happening in San Francisco and other big city enclaves, but this week’s Got Doc is about the love, and hate, of small towns. When filmmaker Joe Wilson announced that he was going to marry another man, his small Pennsylvania hometown erupted. But beneath the controversy, a mother reached out to him about help with her teenage son coming out of the closet. A film is coming out of this experience, “Out In The Silence”, and the early buzz is overwhelmingly positive.”
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The boy in this film talks a lot about how he was perceived by his peers before and after he came out of the closet: he went from being respected to being harassed in a short time. However, high school homophobia is not found only in small towns. An increasing number of LGBT and ally groups are being founded in high schools to combat this problem, but what can be done in high schools small and conservative enough that efforts to found LGBT and ally groups are shut down? According to polls and surveys, each generation seems to be increasingly accepting of LGBT individuals, is this an issue that can be waited out? What is at stake if waiting is the only course of action pursued?
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The Sotomayor Selection
This video discusses Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the milestones that Sotomayor’s appointment marks, and what is expected from Sotomayor while serving.
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Sotomayor has been coined an “activist judge.” Little is known about her political views, but many women back her because they expect her decisions to be fair. While it is certainly exciting that a Latina has been appointed to the Supreme Court, is that reason enough to back her?
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