Women Angry At MA Governor For Sex Offender Board Policies

[From article]
Gov. Deval Patrick’s brother-in-law did not have to register as a sex offender because his hearing officer ruled that spousal rape is not considered rape in Massachusetts — a decision that has outraged victims’ advocates calling on the governor to disavow the claim and apologize.
“It’s insulting to all women,” said victims’ lawyer Wendy Murphy. “Gov. Deval Patrick knew this man was fighting to give his brother-in-law a discount for violence against women. You don’t get a discount from rape to a pat on the rear end because the victim was your wife.”
Patrick said he fired Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) Chairwoman Saundra Edwards and put executive director Jeanne L. Holmes on leave last week in part because they pressured a hearing officer to keep the governor’s brother-in-law, Bernard Sigh, on the registry. The hearing officer, Attilio “A.J.” Paglia, refused, quit and filed a lawsuit against the state in 2008.
Sigh was convicted in California in 1993 of raping his wife, the governor’s sister, then served four months in jail and was put on five years’ probation.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/advocates_livid_about_rape_ruling_on_gov_deval_patricks_brother

Advocates livid about rape ruling on Gov. Deval Patrick's brother-in-law
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
By: Erin Smith
Boston Herald

Police War On Black Women Continues

Women demanded equality. That is what police do to men all the time. 

[From article]
“The reason I’m talking to you right now is because you are walking in the middle of the street,” Officer Stewart Ferrin said in a video recording obtained by KTVK. “Let me see your ID or you will be arrested for failing to provide ID.”
“Are you serious?” Ore asked.
“Yes, I am serious. That is the law,” Ferrin replied.
The professor stated that she was trying to cross College Avenue like several other people around her in an attempt to avoid construction, a police report explained.
“I never once saw a single solitary individual get pulled over by a cop for walking across a street on a campus, in a campus location. Everybody has been doing this because it is all obstructed. That’s the reason why,” Ore told the officer. “But you stop me in the middle of the street to pull me over and ask me, ‘Do you know what this is? This is a street.’ ”
Ferrin asked her if she knew that it was street. Before Ore could finish her statement, he demanded that she put her hands behind her back.
“Don’t touch me,” Ore said. “Get your hands off me.”

http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/06/30/video-shows-officer-forcing-professor-to-ground-after-being-stopped-for-jaywalking/

Video Shows Officer Forcing Professor To Ground After Being Stopped For Jaywalking
June 30, 2014 8:43 AM

Brandeis University Shows Disrespect For Abused Women

Brandeis Unbecoming: A New Video Defending Hirsi Ali
by Chloe Valdary

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Published on May 19, 2014
Brandeis University's 2014 commencement ceremony was marred by Brandeis President Fred Lawrence's disgraceful decision to deny Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born fearless champion of Muslim women's rights an honorary degree. Hirsi Ali is one of the most prominent fighters against forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and honor killings in the Muslim world.
 Student activist Chloe Valdary expresses her outrage at Brandeis President Lawrence's hypocritical decision in a short video produced by Americans for Peace and Tolerance.
 Brandeis President Lawrence gave in to radical faculty who insisted that: "We cannot accept Ms. Hirsi Ali's triumphalist narrative of western civilization, rooted in a core belief of the cultural backwardness of non-western peoples."
 Lawrence has been severely criticized in the press and by Brandeis graduates and students for this decision. Chloe's powerful indictment provides the clearest contrast yet between Ayaan Hirsi Ali's moral courage and Fred Lawrence's lack of it.

And Justice For Some, by Wendy Murphy, Book Review

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And Justice For Some
by Wendy Murphy
Wild Birch Books
2013


[Until I get started this is a video clip of the author appearing on WGBH-TV PBS Boston discussing the book.]

Published on Jun 20, 2013
Author Wendy Murphy shares her take on the inequities in the American justice system.

Woman Fired for Being Too Hot

Woman banker in New York fired for being too hot.

Nancy Ryan Speaks to Cambridge City Council

Nancy Ryan, Former Executive Director of the Cambridge Women's Commission Speaks to the Cambridge City Council regarding the decision by the Cambridge Health Alliance to end Ob-Gyn services at the Windsor Street Neighborhood Clinic. She laments the need for women to take a taxi to the alternate clinics. She opposes the needs of men to the needs of women. She says men are being given better care than women.