Haters & Trolls: Safe Spaces Online
Join us for “Haters & Trolls: Safe Spaces Online,” a webinar for teens on cyberbullying led by the Women’s Media Center on May 30 at 4pm. Register now!
Are you the next Soledad O’brien? The Women’s Media Center is holding Progressive Girls’ Voices training this July.
Here is a quick breakdown of what these trainings are all about.
The NYC Reproductive Justice Coalition, in collaboration with Women’s eNews, is hosting a media conference on reproductive justice this weekend! They will be reframing the discussions about what reproductive justice means, especially considering how some politicians and pundits are, in so many ways, declaring war against it—on the Right and on the Left.
WMC’s VP of Programs Jamia Wilson will be speaking. Tickets available here!
Progressive Girls Voices Applications are Open!
Girls and young women ages 14-22: Do you want to become a political commentator and strong progressive thought leader in the media? Apply for Progressive Girl’s Voices today by visiting us here: http://bit.ly/I1mQwS
Progressive Girl’s Voices (PGV) is the premier media and leadership-training program for girls in the country. Representing a range of expertise and diversity across race, class, geography, and generation, participants receive advanced, comprehensive training and tools to position themselves as media spokespeople in their fields, thereby changing the conversation on issues that fill the headlines.
Are you a young woman age 15-19? Are you passionate about cross-cultural connections and wish to develop your leadership skills?
In an effort to promote and engage young women leaders, Empower Peace launched the Women2Women International Leadership Program (W2W) in 2006—now an annual event held in Boston, Massachusetts. The W2W program brings together young women, ages 15-19, from around the world for a week of intense leadership training.
W2W 2012 will be held from Saturday, July 7 - Sunday, July 15. To apply, visit their website.
In the United States, the radio airways are owned by the citizens and broadcasters must apply to the Federal Communications Commission for licenses in order to use them. In order to receive a license, the station must prove their programming is in the “public interest.”
Hate speech is never in the public interest.
Sign the new WMC petition—FCC: Investigate Whether Stations Airing Limbaugh Are Violating “Public Interest” Mandate
#BulliedByRush
The Women’s Media Center is launching the #BulliedByRush campaign in response to the long history of offensive comments and attacks made by Rush Limbaugh, most recently about Georgetown University Law student Sandra Fluke.
For 20 years Rush Limbaugh has been using offensive language to dehumanize woman and other marginalized groups. It’s time to call it what it is: Bullying. We encourage anyone who has ever felt bullied, harmed, or intimidated by Rush Limbaugh to submit their stories. Whether directly or indirectly, personally or collectively, if you feel you have been targeted by Rush, please share your story in solidarity with Fluke and all the other people he has bullied before her.
Submit your story on bulliedbyrush.com.
SPEAK OUT ON TWITTER with #BULLIEDBYRUSH.
The Women’s Media Center held a media training for Women Occupy last week. Check out their discussion of what they learned!
XXL Magazine has published a video of 45-year-old rapper Too $hort encouraging teenage boys to force themselves on underage girls.
The graphic monologue is disturbing and so is the willingness of Harris Publications, which owns XXL, to give this kind of dangerous rhetoric a platform.
Join Color of Change in calling on Harris Publications to fire XXL Editor-in-Chief Vanessa Satten.
Join NOW and women across the country in support of reproductive rights and access to birth control. Change you Facebook profile picture tomorrow to the #IHeartBC logo, then ask you friends to do the same!
