Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice = June 21 @ 12:16 CDT The first day of summer - the summer solstice - is the longest day of the year.
The word solstice comes from the Latin words for "sun" and "to stop," due to the fact
that the Sun appears to stop in the sky. The Sun is directly overhead at its most northern
point at "high-noon" on the summer solstice, creating more sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere
on this day then any other.
On the solstice, we also hit the longest day of the year.
From here on out, the days begin to get shorter.
First Indian American Woman to Command This is a really
cool San Diego Union-Tribune profile on Commander Shanti Sethi,
one of only a handful of female skippers in the entire U.S. Navy, and
the first Indian American woman to command a warship:
Decatur commander relishes 'firsts;' with video .
Sethi has a uniquely American story.
A
39-year-old, 4-foot-11 Indian American woman from Silicon Valley --
definitely not the first person you'd imagine commanding a Navy warship.
Feminists helped defeat the Republican attempt to narrow the definition
of rape to "forcible rape" in their recent efforts to put new
restrictions on abortion. But as Ms. writer Stephanie Hallett reports in
the forthcoming issue of Ms. ,
the FBI—in its Uniform Crime Report—still uses an impossibly narrow and
outmoded definition of "forcible" rape to gather its statistics.
The FBI needs a modern definition of rape that reflects
a popular understanding of the crime and doesn't exclude the vast
majority of rapes. Rape is rape. Period.
Without an accurate definition we won't have accurate
statistics about rape, and without accurate statistics we will never
have adequate funding for law enforcement to solve these crimes and stop
violence against women.
We also need to make sure that police departments
swiftly test rape-evidence kits. The backlog of untested kits around the
country is outrageous, as it leaves serial rapists—and the vast majority
of rapes are committed by serial rapists—free to rape again.
So we need your help. Join the No
More Excuses! campaign of
the Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. magazine
and demand that:
1. The FBI must change its outmoded definition of rape.
Go to our online
campaign headquarters where
you'll be directed to letters you can send to U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder. You can also order a local take-action package that includes a
dramatic video about the rape-kit backlog by Lorraine Sheinberg and
Susan Rubin and ideas for making a difference in your community on this
vital issue. Together, we can make our communities a safer place for all
women!
For more hard-hitting feminist news and commentary, join
the Ms. community .
Other
Feminist National News
Honoring Women Who Served
June is...
National Safety Month Adopt-a
-Shelter-Cat Month Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Month Gay & Lesbian Pride Month
TAKE ACTION -
Help end anti-abortion terrorism .
Why don't you quit
