On Our Radar: Feminist News Roundup

by Catherine Gonzalez
Published on July 16, 2015 at 9:48am

Good morning! Here’s the news on our radar today.

•  In a speech before the NAACP, President Obama calls for criminal justice reform, including reviewing the use of solitary confinement and eliminating mandatory minimum sentencing. [Time]

• A woman from Chicago was found dead in a Texas jail. As heightened awareness grows on police brutality towards Black women’s bodies, speculation builds on what happened to Sandra Bland. [The Root]

• Investigations reveal the harsh mistreatment of detained immigrants in Texas. And a new study tells horror stories from a medical ward at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where about 2,000 mothers and children fleeing from violence are being held. [Houston Press & Fusion]

• HERStory is a new project that educates young Pakistani women on Pakistan’s feminist history. [NY Times]

•  Today is the birthday of crusading journalist Ida B. Wells—Google honored her her brilliance and civil rights legacy this morning. [Huffington Post]

• Google also accidentally leaked data from people wishing to be “forgotten” from the Internet. It turns out that over 200,000 of these individual requests were made by regular people hoping to protect themselves—not politicians, high-profile public figures, and people who have committed crimes. [The Guardian]

• How gentrification guised as “urban renewal projects” relates to white flight and police surveillance of Black and Brown bodies. [NY Times]

• Caitlyn Jenner received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs last night and used her time onstage to call for an end to bullying of trans kids.

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Catherine Lizette Gonzalez is a writer from Miami living in New York. You can find them on Twitter and Tagvverk.

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4 Comments Have Been Posted

Guardian says the exact opposite

Anonymus replied on

The linked article in The Guardian states that about 95% of the requests are from private persons questing the removal of private information (like their address or HIV status).
From the data, it remains unclear if the petitions for removal of crime related information comes from perpetrators, witnesses or victims.
Please correct your summary

Guardian says the exact opposite

Anonymus replied on

The linked article in The Guardian states that about 95% of the requests are from private persons questing the removal of private information (like their address or HIV status).
From the data, it remains unclear if the petitions for removal of crime related information comes from perpetrators, witnesses or victims.
Please correct your summary

Thanks!

Sarah Mirk replied on

The writer left out a crucial "not" in that sentence. It is corrected now.

Thanks!

Sarah Mirk replied on

The writer left out a crucial "not" in that sentence. It is corrected now.

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