Digby, the Assault on Women

March 6, 2012

Hullabaloo blogger and Majority Report favorite Digby (@digby56) joins Sam to talk about the unrelenting attacks on women and women’s rights. Click thru for links and a show UPDATE.  Use this post as today’s thread.

American ranks behind Bangladesh, Sudan, the UAE in female legislative representation worldwide.  Here’s a link to Leslie Bennett’s article from the Daily Beast on “Women and the Leadership Gap”.

Read about Griswold v. Connecticut

Chris Matthews to Erin Burnett, “You’re a knock-out!”

Click here to support the legal defense fund of hacker Jeremy Hammond.

Past Episodes

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