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A 22 year old woman was violently attacked and raped in a New York City subway station in 2005, and city employees who witnessed the incident, which went on for over twenty minutes, did nothing to intervene.
The Today Show reports:
Now, after nearly four years of constant nightmares, bouts of depression and anxiety, the woman has been told by a judge that two transit workers who saw her being attacked had no obligation to do anything to help her other …

Taxpayer money….
While the country was busy being distracted by conversations about our President’s trip abroad and Wall Street bonuses, another $167 billion of taxpayer money quietly slipped out the door.
I must say that this has been one of the greatest orchestrated Houdini Acts with taxpayer monies that I have ever seen. Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner have managed to have the country transfixed on $165 million of AIG bonuses, while – POOF – $30 billion of taxpayers funds given to AIG goes out the door to domestic AND foreign …

Meet-Up Announcement!
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Saturday, April 18th at 2 pm.

The New Agenda invites you to a Meet-Up in Santa Fe!
Enjoy great food, meet like-minded women and men,
and learn more about The New Agenda and what you
can do to help better the future for women.
Santa Fe Bar & Grill
187 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Email  newagendateamcaptain@yahoo.com for more information.
Don’t Miss It! Women’s Art to See While Visiting Santa Fe New Mexico
While you are visiting Santa Fe, don’t miss a chance to visit the New Mexico Museum of Art.   One of …

So here are two thousand words, all about the state of gender equality in the 21st century. Both courtesy of Tennessee Guerilla Women:
The G20 Wives — not husbands
Well, there are only two husbands anyway. Funny, that.
They let women in the room?
That’s Hillary at one of the G20 meetings — Hillary and a whole bunch of dudes. Wonder if she’s carrying her jar?*

*Jar: At an unnamed university several years ago, one female professor got so fed up with the sexism that at the next department meeting, she …

Ophelia's nemesis!
Poor Ophelia.  She took the whole Larry Summers thing quite hard:  A man taking $8 million of bonuses while most of her friends were deciding between paying for food, healthcare or their mortgage.
Ophelia’s way of dealing with this crisis:  watch tv and eat packages of pork rinds.  Several packages for several days on end.  This morning, Ophelia was rushed to the ER and the doctors diagnosed the problem:  acute pork rind intoxication.  Very rare here in the United States, and fortunately not life threatening.
Ophelia has been advised to avoid …

Silence is consent
Indicted last week on six counts of felony assault, and prohibited from having any contact with his alleged victim until December 2009, NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate has inexplicably not been forced to relinquish his senate seat as he goes to trial.
He’s a state legislator charged with a serious felony, and until that issue is resolved, he cannot be trusted to serve the public good.
Every time this story gets some traction in the press, Monseratte’s PR firm contacts the publication and attempts to intimidate them, as they did …

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Did This Senator Beat Up His Girlfriend?

by Amy Siskind
A New York state senator faces felony charges for allegedly slashing up his girlfriend’s face—and some of the assault was caught on camera. So why is he still welcome in the Senate—and why are Democrats still holding fundraisers for him?
Mike Groll / AP Photo
Which is worse: political leaders remaining silent about a colleague who slashes his girlfriend’s face, or political leaders actively funding and supporting the criminal slasher? Well, …

The New Agenda is sponsoring a Violence Against Women forum on April 18, 2009.
Keira Knightley is appearing in a new ad campaign about domestic violence for the British charity Women’s Aid.
In the shocking two-minute film, Knightley is shown being brutally assaulted by her partner (warning! violent content):

At the end of the clip, you’ll notice that the tagline says “2 women die from domestic violence every week.” That’s the figure in the U.K. In the United States, it’s ten times that number: at least 20 women …

To viewers that have been with us since 2008, you will recall that The New Agenda was the only national women’s rights group to speak out loudly and boldly when President Obama was considering Larry Summers for the post of Treasury Secretary.  We issued a press release saying that Summers would put our economy in peril. Dr. Nancy Hopkins, who is a co-founder of The New Agenda was actually in the room at Harvard when Larry gave his famous speech about girls’ lower aptitude in mathematics and science.  The …

Meet-Up Announcement!
Dayton, OH
Tuesday, April 14th at 6 pm.

Join us for coffee and learn about The New Agenda!
Everyone is welcome, and we’re saving you a seat!
Starbucks
2765 Miamisburg-Centerville Rd.
Dayton, OH 45459
Contact cynthiaruccia@thenewagenda.net for more information about the Meet-Up!
Don’t Miss it!  Women’s History to See While Visiting Dayton Ohio
While you are in Dayton, swing by the National Museum of the Air Force and see the fantastic exhibits honoring Women Airforce Service Pilots.  In August 1943 all women pilots flying for the USAAF were consolidated into the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program …