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Women of Color Health Organizations:

Agrupacion Tutor Medica - website created by a medical group from Barcelona, Spain, provides information on abortion, tubal ligation, and vasectomy in Spanish, Catalan, English, and French

Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Oakland, CA

Babes Network in Seattle, a sisterhood of women facing HIV together

Casa Atabex Ache
Bronx, NY 10454

Chaya - a community-based nonprofit organization in Seattle to serve South Asian women in times of crisis and need, and to raise awareness of domestic violence issues. While many excellent agencies provide services for Southeast Asians in Seattle, Chaya is the only organization to specifically address the needs of South Asian women.

COLOR
COLOR approaches reproductive health and rights from a holistic perspective, embracing the cultural values and history of the Latino community. COLOR believes that if the mind, body and spirit of a Latina are strong, she will be empowered to make healthy decisions concerning her body and, ultimately, her life. To explain the mysterious term 'reproductive health' COLOR adapted the following definition from the U.N. International Conference on Population Development

  • includes mind, body and spirit
  • right of Latinas to have a satisfying and safe sex life
  • capability to have children and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so
  • right to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable methods of family planning of choice
  • right of access to culturally proficient health care services
  • freedom to have and take control of our bodies.

Moon Lodge Native American Women's Outreach Project
3645 Locust Street Riverside, CA 92501
Office Phone: (909) 682-1637
Fax: (909) 788-4925
Contact Persons: Barbara "Skytears" Moore - Executive Director

National Asian Women's Health Organization
ph: 415-989-9747 

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Seattle Chapter
offices in NYC and Washington DC

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
offices in NYC and Washington DC

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center
Lake Andes, South Dakota

National Black Women's Health Imperative

National Women's Health Network

SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Atlanta, GA

Sister Love, Inc.
A reproductive justice organization for women with a Focus on HIV/AIDS
Atlanta, GA

Sisters Network a national African American breast cancer survivorship organization

 

"African-American Women’s Maternal Health"
- Surveys have long since established disparities in maternal healthcare for African-American women - that they are three times more likely to die  than white women to die from pregnancy-related complications and that  their babies are half as likely to live out their first year. But the causes of this disparity are not fully understood, despite the existing data. A new study out of the University of Michigan is examining African-American women's maternal health, but from a variety of angles, including  socioeconomic disparities, bias and discrimination. An interdisciplinary approach to the problem may be the start of an effective solution. Read more here: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2113/context/archive

"Racial Disparities in Medicine Have Lethal Consequences" (December 2004) Advances in medicine happen every day, and these advances save lives. But a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health examines how these advances do not reach all populations equally, and mortality rates have decreased among white people at a greater rate than for African-Americans. The study’s conclusion: racial disparities in healthcare resulted in nearly 900,000 preventable deaths for African-Americans in the period between 1991-2001. According to one of the researchers, "five times as many lives can be saved by correcting the disparities ... than in developing new treatments." Read more about this important study here: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=27349 or read the abstract here: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/12/2078

 

RADIO

  • Voices and Choices - a weekly pro-choice and progressive radio program dedicated to educating and sharing, through our research and activism, what we have learned.

 

WEBCASTS

  • University of California, San Francisco Center for Gender Equity and National Center of Excellence in Women's Health present Women's Health at Twelve (WHAT), a free noon-time lecture series. Tune in to UCTV every month for a live talk with a UCSF health science expert who will discuss important women's health topics and answer your e-mail questions in real time. Watch previously recorded programs on women's health, including menopause and current events.

 

NEWS

  • Calyz, a Journal of Art and Literature by Women - 503-753-9384
  • Colorlines - national newsmagazine on race and politics.
  • ColorsNW - monthly multicultural publication about Seattle and surrounding areas, illuminating issues relevant to communities of color.
  • Conscience - A Newsjournal of ProChoice Catholic Opinion - 202-986-6093 published by Catholics For a Free Choice
  • The Global Abortion News Updates covers the status of women's reproductive health and rights around the world - from IPAS.
  • Ms Magazine - A paper magazine with Feminist news from around the world.
  • New Moon - A Magazine for Girls
  • On The Issues Magazine - outstanding feminist journal online
  • RH Reality Check - extensive reproductive health news, analysis, opinion
  • Sojourner: The Women's Forum - The oldest feminist newspaper in the country which today is in financial difficulty. It needs your support.
  • Women's E-News - providing a professional e-news service to the public and the media, policy makers and opinion shapers, covering the news about issues of importance to women. It's the best!

 

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FILMS & VIDEOS:

  • Rosita
    The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle over whose life has precedence.

  • Produced and directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, NO! explores the international reality of rape, other forms of sexual assault and healing through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism, and cultural work of African-Americans. This groundbreaking, award-winning documentary also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.

  • Defending A Choice for Women
    a documentary about the ongoing clinic defense project in Miami. A clinic, aptly titled A Choice for Women, is under attack by pro-life fanatics. Miami Clinic Access Project was established to defend such clinics. This movie chronicles six months in the struggle to defend one American clinic.

Independent filmmaker, Dorothy Fadiman's important trilogy of documentaries called trilogy "From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond."

When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories

From Danger to Dignity: The Fight for Safe Abortion

The Fragile Promise of Choice: Abortion in the U.S. Today

Dear Dr. Spencer: Abortion in a Small Town

  • Paradise Productions / Cine Qua Non documentary films

    "Help Wanted"  -- a documentary about the increasingly urgent need to train and protect abortion providers.

    "The Abortion Pill" -- 1997 PBS. 1-hour primetime special.

    "Fatherhood, USA" -- 1998 PBS, 2-Hour nationally televised mini-series.

  • "Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women." - by Jean Kilbourne author of Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising. 2000.

  • Lake of Fire by Tony Keye. 2007

  • In honor of the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, Women Make Movies is proud to announce the availability of the documentary THE PILL by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone.

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