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About Martha Coakley

By Diane Vacca
Attention, all candidates and wannabees: Learn a valuable lesson from Martha Coakley. If you want to win, don’t take anything for granted. Fight as if your political life depends on it, because it does. The electorate is fickle; just because you’re a Dem running in one of the bluest of blue states for the seat Ted Kennedy held for 47…
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October Kickoff News Mix: NFL Owner’s Wife Charges Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Rep. Baldwin “Hero” of GLBT History Month; Cambodia’s Mu Sochua Asks Clinton, All of Us for Help

By Women's Voices For Change
Whew! When fall  hits, so do a slew of official “months.” October is  now swathed in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month; less expected, however, is this sudden influx of pink National Football League merchandise. For the latter, it seems, we can thank Tanya Snyder, 47, whose husband Dan owns the Washington Redskins. She told The New York Times about…
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Roman Polanski, It’s Not the 1970′s Anymore. Thank God.

By Chris Lombardi
This week’s arrest of Roman Polanski felt weirdly unsurprising. It fit somehow with all the flashbacks to 1969 the media’s treated us to this year — as that TIME cover put it, “From the Moon to Charles Manson.” What will the 1970s reminiscences be like, one wondered? Maybe like this. But who really remembers 1977? And what does anyone really…
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Don’t Celebrate International Women’s Day, Make it Count

By Diane Vacca
by Diane Vacca It’s been a particularly trying day. After hours of wheedling and tweaking, my fancy electronic devices still refused to communicate civilly with each other. Tech support basically threw up its hands and advised me to reinstall the computer’s operating system, a last-ditch resort I’m not ready to adopt. Instead, I’ve turned the clock back more than 30…
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Extra! All-Gillibrand Newsmix

By Womens Voices for Change
WVFC is still buzzing about the choice of 42-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand to be the next Senator from New York. To accompany our interview of her, above, here are some links of commentary by others, as well as  the transcript of her remarks and those by New York Governor David Paterson. Time Magazine’s profile notes that “Rep. Kristen [sic] Gillibrand is…
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News Brief:Madonna Turns 50 By Coming Home; Will Clinton’s Convention Nom be Enough?; Weightlifting Can Dim Effects of Aging; Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet for Democracy

By Womens Voices for Change
Like a chameleon: Ever since the then-24-year-old Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone released her first album in 1984, part of the fun of following the “Queen of Pop” has been  following the shifting identities of the woman BBC nicknamed in 2002 “The Chameleon.” This week, as tomorrow’s 50th birthday for La Ciccone approaches, one British tabloid noted that she seems to…
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Tim Russert, a Fine Journalist, Had Mixed Record On Women

By Womens Voices for Change
We’ve just learned of the death of NBC’s Tim Russert. We offer condolences to his family. Much will be written about Russert’s stellar career. On women, we would direct our readers to the great blogger Taylor Marsh for a balanced look at Russert’s recent work during the presidential campaign. The debate last night was something else. I’ve never been prouder…
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I Want to Support Hillary – But She Won’t Let Me

By Womens Voices for Change
By Amy Bloom I know that Hillary Clinton will be a good president, and if she's the candidate, I will vote for her in November. Of course I will. For the same reason that many Dems who are voting for Hillary right now because of doubts about Obama will vote for Obama rather than McCain come fall. Unless they find…
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PA Primary Results Are Not In Yet! But Opinions and Speculation Are. What Do Women Think?

By Womens Voices for Change
Today it seems that everybody is a political junkie. Seems like the exit polls are all over the place. Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are spinning expectations, which some people like ABC’s Jake Tapper don’t buy.Rumors are swarming that a swarm of superdelegates will turn to Obama tomorrow. But matters like the cover of The New Republic are disturbing…
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