This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Talking ourselves into war The Flying Squirrel will show the documentary “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” for its Monday Mayhem event on May 7. Actor Sean […]
women’s rights
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The church inside the Catholic Church
Jamie Manson’s efforts to bring about a more inclusive Catholic Church, one that includes women priests and same-sex marriage, have not endeared her to the church’s hierarchy. But she said that she remains committed to Catholicism and of what she called Catholics’ “sacramental” view of the world. “In the Catholic imagination, every experience we have, […]
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Feedback 7/3
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Women’s rights advocates vouch for O’Brien
Linda Stephens, president of the Rochester chapter of the National Association of Women, says she’s disgusted by a set of ads that attack Democrat state Senate candidate Ted O’Brien. Stephens, along with City Council President Lovely Warren and County Legislator Carrie Andrews, pushed back against the ads during a press conference this afternoon. The ads […]
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The incomplete revolution
She’s been dead 100 years. She belonged to a time of petticoats and whalebone, stagecoaches, “women of a certain age,” the Abolitionist and Temperance movements, our Civil War. But Susan B. Anthony refuses to go away. She was a radical, with radical ideas, even by today’s standards. She was full of fire. To her critics: […]
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The war on women
At 15, Andrea Lipomi found herself pregnant and — she thought — alone. “As a depressed suburban teenager with very religious parents, I figured the best thing to do would be to take matters into my own hands,” she says. “So I basically stopped eating for over two months, hoping that my body couldn’t […]
