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A protest in San Francisco to fight violence against women.

Calif. Campus Rape Bill Goes Beyond ‘No Means No’

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The Student Safety: Sexual Assault, or “affirmative consent,” legislation, could reach Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk by the end of the summer. A legislator who supports the bill says it’s time to change the mindset of “boys just getting crazy and drunk, being irresponsible.” LOS ANGELES (WOMENSENEWS)– Like other campus sexual assault survivors, Sofie Karasek said her attack freshman year by a classmate at the University of California-Berkeley left her distraught at first, wondering whether she should “make a big deal of it,” then puzzled and angry at what she felt was her university’s inadequate response after she reported the incident.

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Blue-Slip Blues Keep Female Judges Stuck at 30%

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The Senate’s anti-filibuster vote in November does not guarantee that Obama will be able to appoint well-qualified women and minority men to the bench. Obstructionists are still up to their tricks and every bit of citizen involvement is needed.

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In Domestic Violence, No Incident Is Too Minor

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It starts with black eyes and broken fingers and moves up the ladder to the crimes that make the news. By prosecuting lower level crimes and addressing intimate partner violence before it escalates, we will save women’s lives around the world.