Dr. Jennifer Jackman of the Feminist Majority Foundation (far
right) leads a panel discussion in Cairo on RU 486 with (from
left): Agnete Strom of the Norway Women's Front; Dr. Allan
Rosenfield, Dean of the Columbia School of Public Health,
and Dr. Rosemarie Thau of the Population Council. |
The Feminist Majority Foundation helps provide leadership
to make women's empowerment and reproductive rights central
to the United Nations International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt. The Foundation
was represented at the Cairo conference by a five-member delegation
including Jennifer Jackman, Christine Onyango, Colleen
Dermondy, Kathleen McLean and Maria Elena Chavez.
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Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal with
Dr. Edouard Sakiz |
VICTORY -- Patent rights for RU
486 are transferred from Roussel Uclaf to the Population
Council in response to the outpouring of public support for
bringing the drug to the United States. Dr. Edouard Sakiz,
then Chair of Roussel Uclaf's Board of Supervisors, acknowledges
the Feminist Majority Foundation's key role in generating
public support for RU 486 introduction. |
| VICTORY -- Dr. Heidi Weissman wins $900,000 sex
discrimination settlement from Albert Einstein College
of Medicine and the Montefoire Medical Center in New York
City, with the help of the Feminist Majority Foundation. |
Dr. Heidi Weissman and Feminist Majority President Eleanor
Smeal |
Princeton Review rates FMF Internship
Program in the Top 100. The program has ranked in the
Top 100 every year since.
Dr. Maureen Polsby, Feminist Majority Foundation President
Eleanor Smeal, and Caroline Tesche |
The Foundation supports Dr. Maureen Polsby's sex discrimination
case against the National Institutes of Health. |
VICTORY -- The Feminist Majority Foundation wins Los
Angeles City Council vote ratifying policy requiring Los
Angeles Police Academy classes to be at least 43.4% women.
NEW INITIATIVE -- Feminist Majority Foundation creates
Women's Trust Fund to help fund clinical trials on RU 486.
| VICTORY -- Foundation wins landmark U.S. Supreme
Court case upholding constitutionality of court-ordered clinic
buffer safety zones in Madsen v. Women's Health
Center. Case originates in Melbourne, Florida to protect
the Aware Woman Clinic. As a result, about 30% of all abortion
clinics are protected by buffer safety-zones today. |
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Attorney Sandy D'Alemberte speaks at a Feminist Majority Foundation
press briefing before a Madsen hearing. |
Pro-choice activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court
before the Madsen verdict is handed down. |
Feminist Majority Foundation conducts second annual National Clinic Violence
Survey, revealing that anti-abortion extremists are turning
from blockade strategies to stalking and death threats.
Dr. Britton and volunteer clinic escort James Barrett are
murdered outside of Pensacola, Florida clinics. June Barrett
is injured in the attack. National Clinic Defense staff work out
of the Pensacola clinic for months to assist clinics during the
crisis.
BREAKTHROUGH -- The Feminist Majority Foundation plays
a key role in securing US Marshals for some 30 of the most
severely targeted clinics and, with a professional security
firm, conducts professional security assessments for beseiged
clinics nationwide.
| GLOBAL VICTORY -- The Feminist Majority Foundation
organizes demonstration outside the Bangladesh embassy in
support of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin. Nasrin left
Bangladesh to escape death threats from Muslim fundamentalists
opposed to her outspoken views on women's rights. Nasrin
is later granted political asylum in Sweden. |
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Second Annual Feminist Majority Foundation "Choose to Laugh,
Laugh to Choose" event in Los Angeles features Roseanne
and raises additional funds for National
Clinic Defense Project.
National Clinic Defense Project
alerts scores of clinics up and down East Coast after the
shootings and murders of Shannon Lowney and Nichols at two Brookline
women's clinics. The Brookline murderer is thwarted as he tries
to enter the Norfolk clinic. Just ten days before our National
Clinic Defense security team had conducted a security assessment
for the clinic.
The Feminist Majority Foundation awarded 1994 Feminist of the
Year Awards to Author Isabel Allende; Asian Immigrant WOmen
Advocates; Dandy Barrett-Witty and Bruce Barrett, daughter and
son of slain volunteer clinic escort James Barrett; Congressman
Don Edwards; Atlanta Police Chief Beverly Harvard; National Women's
Health Organization President Susan Hill; Assemblywoman Sheila
James Kuehl, first openly gay member of the California Legislature;
Bangladesh Feminist Writer Taslima Nasrin; Attorney Winn Newman;
United Nations Population Fund Director Nafis Sadik; and Drs.
Edouard Sakiz and Catherine Euvrard of Roussel Uclaf.
The Feminist Majority Foundation
1987-89 | 1990
| 1991 | 1992
| 1993 | 1994 | 1995
| 1996 | 1997
| 1998 | 1999
| 2000
The Feminist Majority
1987-88 | 1989
| 1990 | 1991
| 1992 | 1993
| 1994 | 1995-96
| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000
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