By John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart Cournoyer | Axis of Logic

“[The ruling generals] have to go, they are traitors.”

–New resource site launched to commemorate December 6 and to support the struggle against violence against women.

By Gail Dines and Julia Long | Source: The Guardian

“Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn believes his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid was “consensual but stupid”

By Meghan Murphy | Rabble.ca

“Globally, women [continue to] earn 10-30% less than men. They are also concentrated in “women’s” jobs. Annoyingly, economic growth does not seem to narrow the gap.”

The Guardian | Victoria Bekiempis: Is it that female intellectuals are less rational and contrarian than male secularists? Or just that society prefers lionising men?

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/2011/09/22/pol-planned-parenthood-funding.html

– Not exactly diplaying the “Canadian value” of compassion here.

“The lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson, said he would take the extraordinary step on Monday because he believed that the office of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, had mishandled the case and treated his client, Nafissatou Diallo, more like a defendant than a victim. … Mr. Thompson’s motion will almost certainly fail, legal experts said, because under the law his client has no authority to ask for Mr. Vance’s office to be replaced by a special prosecutor.”

“[The] decision in the highly charged case, which ultimately became a credibility contest of sorts between Ms. Diallo and Mr. Strauss-Kahn … She is the only witness who could testify to the central allegation in the case: that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced her to perform oral sex. … From his first court hearing, Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers indicated that a sexual encounter did take place in the suite but suggested that whatever occurred was consensual.”

–The cost of childcare in Britain continues to increase, forcing working class mothers away from waged work.

“The detentions mark the first major backlash by authorities since a campaign was launched by Saudi women nearly two weeks ago to challenge the driving restrictions.”

– …. unbelievable.

It’s Okay to Praise “The Vagina Monologues” … But Vagina Jewellery is So-o-o Wrong | By Brendan O’Neill

Julie Bindel writes about liberalisms latest assault on feminism.

“As we now know, the definition of feminism has recently broadened somewhat and can now include celebrating the misogynist male invention of “slut”; the practice of women changing their second name to that of their husband; to baking cupcakes. How things change! When I cut my feminist teeth it was clearly understood that the women’s liberation movement (WLM) existed in order to overthrow male supremacy and bring about equality and freedom for women.”

“Sarah Benkirane, 15, said her Montreal-area soccer association informed her she could no longer referee games wearing her traditional Muslim head scarf after someone filed a complaint with the league.”

“Classic, the largest garment export factory in Jordan, sews clothing for Wal-Mart, Hanes, Kohl’s, Target and Macy’s. The garments enter the U.S. duty-free under the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement.”

See also: Supreme Court Justices Rule for Wal-Mart in Bias Case | The New York Times

“The suit, against Wal-Mart Stores, had sought to consolidate the claims of as many as 1.5 women on the theory that the company had discriminated against them in pay and promotion decisions.”

“The mass drive was the largest such action since 1980, when a group of 47 women were arrested for driving and severely punished – many lost their jobs.”

Saudi women are gearing to directly challenge some of the laws that keep them oppressed.

–Abortion access is like this in Canada for women living in the Maritimes.

“Women refusing to be trapped at home, and demanding that men not be trapped out of home, takes us immediately beyond the market, which only considers work that leads to profit for others, not to equity nor to happiness nor even to survival.”