Feminist Summer Camp Begins This June!

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This coming June will mark the second year of Soapbox’s Feminist Summer Camp. The name, Feminist Summer Camp, can certainly be misleading. This is not a camp where counselors skip scary stories, opting instead to read The Feminine Mystique, nor is it a camp where the s’mores are toasted over a pit of burning bras. What Feminist Summer Camp is is an intensive, weeklong program designed by Soapbox to help college students get their foot in the door of New York’s activism scene.

Soapbox is led by Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, co-writers …

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Death Stops Elderly Father from Death Penalty Activism

Photo of Death Penalty Activist George Cullins

In situations of murder, those affected ripple outward from the victim like rings in water.  The closest of those proverbial rings is almost always the immediate family of the victim, and the savage 1984 strangling of 24-year-old Janette Cullins is no exception.

The perpetrator, Dean Carter, was a real gem.   Strangling Janette Cullins and sticking her body into a closet in her San Diego home,  was not his first crime.  In fact, he’d killed three women just the day before in L.A. and had a history of raping women who didn’t exactly think he was Rico Suave.  Sick.

Anyway, this douchebag went to trial in 1991 and was convicted of all four murders and two rapes.  He was sentenced to death for his desecration of Janette …

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A Rethink on Pink Toys for Girls’ Christmas Presents in 2010?

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Viv Groksop writes an interesting article in this morning’s Guardian, regarding pink toys for girls and how, with Christmas 2010 swiftly approaching, it appears that toymakers may finally be changing their assumptions about what little boys and girls really want from Santa.

The article comes on the back of a report this week from campaign group Pink Stinks, who reported that, one year on …

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Rand Paul Supporters Tackle and Stomp on Woman’s Head

It appears that a couple of Rand Paul supporters in Kentucky have completely lost their minds.   The video footage of the events that transpired during Monday night’s political debate between Rand Paul and Jack Conway  plays like a hysterical Saturday Night Live skit—only it’s not pretend, and it’s not all that funny. A group of people actually tackled a woman, who was there to protest Rand Paul, and allowed a man to stomp …

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