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marmar

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Tue May 29, 2012, 04:00 PM May 2012

Women's Center In New Orleans Destroyed By Arson, Third Incident in the South [View all]



Women's Center In New Orleans Destroyed By Arson, Third Incident in the South


From the website of New Orleans Women's Health Clinic which specifically helped "marginalized women," poor women, women of color, and transgender women as well as HIV/AIDS patients:

Thanks to the fast response of all of our supporters across the country, many of you have already heard that our office was broken into last night and set on fire. The worst damage was concentrated in our community organizing and outreach office where we store all of the resources we use to educate our community. We lost everything. We do not have an office to operate out of right now. Most of our office equipment and all of our educational resources were destroyed. Because of the targeted nature, we can only assume that this was intentional.
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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/935926/women%27s_center_in_new_orleans_destroyed_by_arson%2C_third_incident_in_the_south/



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The crime that dare not speak its name.... Liberal Veteran May 2012 #1
What war on women???? longship May 2012 #2
No words... ceile May 2012 #3
I used to defend clinics in NOLA KamaAina May 2012 #4
Somewhat OT MountainLaurel May 2012 #5
This was in the early '90s KamaAina May 2012 #7
Here's how you can help MountainLaurel May 2012 #6
Donation page is here... The Wielding Truth May 2012 #8
K & R for more exposure cbayer May 2012 #9
This is terrorism. n/t DLevine May 2012 #10
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