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July 2010

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Shave to Save

Im glad your reading this:) We can use as many support as possible.
We have started an initiative to help prevent as much suffering from the gulf of mexico oil spill as possible. They use hair to make hairbooms that soak and capture the oil.
For this I shaved my head and our pic could be in the newspaper if it has most votes.
So some have like 400 votes, I only have 50 so far

Here you can vote;
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/ugc/photospecial/detail.aspx?id=f2a110ce-8bb5-4...

Next to: "shave to save" you see "stem op deze foto".
Just click it and thats it:)

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Side Glance: Melanie Niethammer im Gespräch mit Rosa Reitsamer über ihre Motivationen ein Blog zum Thema Feminismus und Technik zu betreiben.

Topic: 
Activism
Internet & digital divide
Work and employment
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Melanie, kannst du dich bitte kurz vorstellen?

Interviewee: 
Melanie Niethammer
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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Feminist Memory (Blog)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

This blog will serve as a research platform for a doctoral project on feminist media and feminist memory at London South Bank University, supervised by Dr. Anna Reading.

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HerStoria (Magazine, 2009-)

Location

United Kingdom

"Look at history from a female perspective and everything changes. HerStoria magazine in print, and Discover Women's History Web online, will entertain, inform and create a community. We turn a kaleidoscope on the past to uncover a different history - women's history - and celebrate the women who made it.

What is women’s history?

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FAN: Feminist Art News (1980-1993)

Location

United Kingdom

A quarterly magazine produced around different themes and by a different production collective each time. Grew out of the Women Artists' Newsletter.

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Battleaxe: The New Labour Movement Paper for Women (1986-?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"We are a group of women in the Labour Movement fighting for Womens Liberation and Socialism. We see the two as inseparable. Women are not going to be liberated by an act of parliament, although this does not mean we do not fight to elect a Labour government committed to equal rights for women. But we do not think this is the way women will have true liberation, nor do we believe that the working class is white, heterosexual and male.

We cannot expect male members of parliament nor for that matter male revolutionaries to give us liberation.

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Al-Nisa (Magazine, 2000-)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

"It is clear that having a forum to speak about things that are kept silent, about the daily violation of women's rights, to defend women who have nobody to stand up for them, to discuss and work to change the rules, laws, and decrees which dominate women's lives, to stop the emotional and moral harassment committed by society, to raise awareness about women's human rights, to give women the hope that our lives can be better, is more needed: a forum, a journal, an organisation, to show that women have something to say, to express our views, to have our voices heard: a forum to show that women

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Achilles Heel (Magazine, 1978-1999?)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

An anti-sexist magazine that was produced by a working collective of socialist men and launched to coincide with the London Men's Conference in 1978. From the editorial of their first issue:

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“Reconstructing internet media”. An Interview with Evelin Stermitz from ArtFem.TV (Austria)

Topic: 
Art
Grassroots media in Europe
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When studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, media artist Evelin Stermitz also became interested in new media art. She started ArtFem.TV, “an artistic online television, platform and archive”, in 2008 as a way “to push more women in the arts and to raise the voices of women artists”. Red caught up with her at Rdece Zore festival to find out about her cyberfeminist projects.

Interviewee: 
Evelin Stermitz
Interviewer: 
Red Chidgey
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Ladyfest Northwest 2010 (Eureka)

Location

Eureka, CA
United States
40° 47' 19.896" N, 124° 11' 22.0308" W

"This is the first year of Ladyfest Northwest here in Humboldt County California. So far we have a line-up of great artists and hope to be able to achieve the goals of ,#1, having a great time and seeing some great musical performances #2 providing some awesome workshops/demonstrations such as filmmaking, clothpad making, and stilt-walking, for example, and #3 to be able to donate some $ to local women's organizations, like Women for Shelter. Many of these plans are tentative and in the works and much of it's success depends on people who care about these issues to get involved.