Women’s Space

UPDATE: Mary Winkler has regained custody of her three daughters and has taken them home. Over the past two years the girls have been living with Matthew Winkler’s parents, their paternal grandparents, who have been attempting to get Mary Winkler’s parental rights terminated so that they could adopt the girls. For a time via various [...]

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UPDATE:  Terapon Adhahn, left, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without possibility of parole.  He was convicted of the following crimes:
• One count each of aggravated first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree rape in the July 2007 death of 12-year-old Zina Linnik.
 • Three counts of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree kidnapping in the rape of [...]

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On March 17, I (Heart) got an e-mail from Constance of William and Mary College which read in pertinent part:
My name is Constance.  I’m a student at the College of William & Mary.  I’m currently working with three other women to put together a panel on feminist perspectives on pornography at our school. 
This project is a direct response [...]

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I wrote the post which follows last May.  Today David Stang, Dorothy Stang’s brother, posted an update on the trials and sentencings of Dorothy’s murderers in a comment to another thread about Dorothy Stang.
Raifrans, the murderer, was tried ln October. Unanimously, the jurors, male and female voted for sentencing Raifrans to 27 years. The male [...]

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Last night on my way home from work I read an article in the Seattle Times entitled U.S. Under Widespread Attack in Cyberspace.  Some interesting excerpts:
WASHINGTON — While U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan engage the enemy with guns, tanks, airplanes and missiles, the Pentagon is quietly fighting a much different kind of war on [...]

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Note:  Following is a blog post I wrote last February after having received the press release which follows from the Karen Women’s Organization.  The situation has, of course, come to a head in Burma.  I am writing about it and wanted to provide this history, particularly of what has been happening to the women of Burma.  — Heart
February12, [...]

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A few people have e-mailed me to ask whether I knew of OJ’s arrest for armed robbery.  Yeah, I know.
I don’t care about it.  I don’t think it means anything, except that white supremacists and their henchmen love to arrest black men whenever they can.  So OJ used guns and thuggery and gangland tactics and brute force [...]

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I was wondering why I’d received over a thousand hits today on an old blog post I wrote about OJ’s murder of Nicole Simpson, so I googled and discovered that the Goldmans — the family of Ron Goldman, also killed by OJ Simpson — have published OJ’s book, If I Did It.  Judith Regan, the book’s original publisher, was fired [...]

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This young woman, 20, who stands 5 feet tall and weighs less than 100 pounds, was tortured for a week’s time by all of these people:

Based on what I have read, Megan had had some sort of relationship with Bobby Brewster, 24, one of the men above.  He was bad, bad news.  In the 90s, his mother, bottom row, left, [...]