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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 …

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 …

What do the United States, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Nauru, Palau and Tonga have in common?
They are the only countries that have failed to ratify the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) into law. Adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, at present 185 countries are party to the Convention. There are eight holdouts, of which the U.S. is one.
But one of these things is not like the others. Compared to Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Qatar, Nauru, Palau and Tonga, the U.S. is a …

The New Agenda will be hosting a Violence Against Women Forum on April 18th from 3-5 p.m. at the Benjamin Hotel in New York City. A cocktail hour will follow from 5-6 p.m. RSVP to tnavawforum@yahoo.com
The Violence Against Women Forum will feature four of the New York area’s preeminent experts on domestic violence. Each expert will speak about a specific topic that she feels is currently noteworthy.
One of the four panelists, Irene Weiser, President and Executive Director of stopfamilyviolence.org will speak on “The family court crisis – what’s happening, why, …

Monserrate’s History of Mental Health Problems

A former marine and NYC police officer, in 1999, Monserrate filed for a disability pension from the NYPD, “citing mental problems, including post-traumatic stress syndrome”, as well as depression and anxiety;
Police seized Monserrate’s guns after a psychological assessment, ordered as a result of the claim, was completed;
On Sept. 10, 2001, Monserrate was reportedly arrested for running over the leg of a tow-truck driver who was attempting to tow his vehicle;
Perhaps owing to the date of the incident, the case was never processed.

Facts Surrounding the Indictment …

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As the MSM collapses under the burden of its sins and the public increasingly hunts its news down on the information superhighway, the blogosphere suddenly finds itself in pole position on the issues that matter today — able to frame the discourse in a way and with a voice it never could have anticipated.
If ever Feminism had a chance to make its concerns known to a wider audience, to get them out there where they will be heard and to …

We are the New Media.
Not The New Agenda, specifically, but bloggers, and particularly feminist bloggers, who have a powerful set of common interests and common goals. As print media shambles toward increasing obsolescence, eclipsed by the rapidly evolving world of electronic information, we who communicate in this medium have an opportunity to come together and speak in a single, booming voice that will reverberate all the way into the precincts of power.
Make no mistake: we will be heard. Which is why the choice of Valerie Jarrett as Chair of the …

In “Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller,” the New York Times has graphed earnings for men and women in the same occupations. It won’t surprise you to learn that the women come out substantially below the men.
The graph reflects the weekly earnings of subjects working full-time who are 16 years-of-age and older. Only occupations that had a minimum of 50,000 respondents were included in the study. In each occupation, women did the same job as men.
Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of …

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Yesterday, NY State Senator Hiram Monserrate had another preliminary court appearance, where his lawyer, Irving Seidman, requested that the judge remove the order of protection prohibiting Monserrate from contacting or seeing his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. Seidman also demanded that the prosecutor, Scott Kessler, described by a colleague as a “nationally recognized expert in domestic violence prosecutions,” be removed from the case. The judge refused both requests.
The defense is claiming that the charges against Monserrate are being driven by a political agenda, rather than a quest for justice. Karla Giraldo made …