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...whose writings--against pornography in particular--dramatically influenced and often polarized the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken person, she repeatedly said...
COULTER: God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...
Many activists have said that the Burmese military, which provided security for the project, committed human rights abuses—including forced labor, rape, torture, murder, and forced relocation—against peasants in the pipeline area...
...coming to share their experiences. Ask yourself what it would mean to attend a vigil, an all-male event about common unasked and unanswered questions about sexual violence, a discussion on violence in the BGLTQ community, or a benefit concert that will donate funds to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Transition House. We think that it would say a lot. We spend 51 weeks of the year in a culture that silences survivors and shies away from confronting sexual violence. Take Ba ck the Night is one week where we hope that members of the community will make...