The National Women's Law Center released a new report today entitled Slip-Sliding Away: The Erosion of Hard-Won Gains for Women Under the Bush Administration and an Agenda for Moving Forward. The report documents an extensive pattern of Administration policies and proposals that are rolling back women's opportunities to succeed in work and in school, their economic security, their health and reproductive rights. It shows that while the Administration has taken some positive steps for women, they are greatly overshadowed by the wide array of policies and proposals that are harmful to women. The report also sets forth a series of recommended steps that should be taken to expand and protect women's rights and opportunities.

Links to the full 73-page report as well as a 13-page Introduction and Executive Summary are provided below. We hope that you will find this report informative and useful, and that you will forward it to others in your networks as well.

PRESS RELEASE: Administration Rolling Back Progress for Women and Girls with Policies That Are Out of Sight & Out of Touch

REPORT: Slip Sliding Away: The Erosion of Hard-Won Gains for Women Under the Bush Administration and an Agenda for Moving Forward

Executive Summary

TV-Turnoff Network presents the 10th annual TV-Turnoff Week, April 19-25, 2004.

"V-Turnoff Network is a national nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities."

Yes folks - that's the tenth annual TV-Turnoff Week, and if this is the first time you've ever heard about it, it's not surprising. MTV and others won't air the ads created by Adbusters, citing policy regarding not accepting advertising for "controversial issues".

I don't think this is a big controversial issue for most people. The idea of trying to turn off the tube and get up and moving and doing others things - gardening, reading, walking, visiting, hobbies, whatever - for a few days is hardly something that incites the kind of acerbic and volatile discussions that things like, say, the war in Iraq does.

I wish the television and cable networks would just be HONEST, and say, "Look, we can't accept advertising that basically kills our business for a week." I'd think they'd be perfectly justified in such a position and I wouldn't hold it against them. But to say it's policy against "controversial issues" is laughable and hardly evokes my sympathy for their business position.

Anyway. I think it's a good idea. Fire up your VCRs, your TIVOs and pretend you're in the Victorian era and there's no such thing as TV for at least a few days, if not the whole week.

I hope this helps stir up some positive action toward domestic abuse in Saudi Arabia. She's a brave woman to put herself and her life on the spot like this: Saudi presenter shows beaten face
" A TV presenter who says she was beaten by her husband has allowed newspapers to show pictures of her swollen face to highlight domestic abuse. [...] Every morning for the past six years, Ms Baz has been the smiling face of a family programme on Saudi television. She is well-known and loved in the kingdom. The BBC's correspondent Kim Ghattas says this is probably the first time ever that a case of domestic violence has received media coverage in Saudi Arabia."

Yet another brave soul, fighting for his life after trying to do the right thing: Attack on activist shocks Russia
"A brutal assault on a Moscow student who tried to expose an alleged police rape ring on the city's metro seems to have stirred the country's youth like no other issue. German Galdetsky, 19, has been in a critical condition in hospital since he was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by an unidentified attacker near a city railway station on 25 March."

And among the news about the human capacity for evil is at least one for our capacity for compassion, even to the smallest of creatures: Goldfish rescued from drain death, and Goldfish revived after car crash

You're ever too old: Runner, 93, set for marathon race

And congratulations are in order: Web Inventor Berners-Lee Wins Big Technology Award

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