Naomi Wolf

'Part Of Me' Slammed As Marine Propaganda By Feminist Author

Posted 03.29.2012

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Feminist author Naomi Wolf has a big problem with Katy Perry's lastest music video, "Part of Me." Wolf, who is best known for her book "The Beauty...

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The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 12/2/11

Bob Cesca | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Bob Cesca, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security, Progressives, Chez Pazienza, Glenn Greenwald, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Michael Moore, Naomi Wolf, Occupy Wall Street, Progressive Movement, Barack Obama, The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show, Media News

This week we discus Occupy Wall Street and the Homeland Security conspiracy theory; Michael Moore and Naomi Wolf rumor-mongering; progressive outrage; Twitter fights; and other issues.

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LAPD Made Sure the Whole World Ain't Watching

Ruth Fowler | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Naomi Wolf, Media, Occupy, Los Angeles, UK Media, Journalism, Lapd, Los Angeles News

As both a journalist who occasionally freelances for the mainstream media, and an Occupier, I find myself in a conflicted position regarding reporting on Occupy LA. The flipside of this is that rarely is the mainstream media itself impartial or unbiased.

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Which Post50 Activists Are Changing The World?

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Van Jones, Dan Savage, Michael Moore, Activism, Ingrid Newkirk, Occupy Wall Street, Protests, Naomi Wolf, Grover Norquist, Fifty News

In Man and Superman, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw famously stated, "the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persi...

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The Marriage and Motherhood Myths

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Workforce, Success, Marriage, Childfree, Infertility, Carrie Bradshaw, The Beauty Myth, Choices, Having It All, Naomi Wolf, Fertility, Egg Freezing, Kim Kardashian, Women News

I'm not saying that we don't -- or shouldn't -- want love and marriage and a baby carriage. But if we don't, the cultural forces at work sure do their best to change our minds.

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The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society

Naomi Wolf | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Naomi Wolf, Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Occupation, #Occupywallstreet, Michael Bloomberg, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street, Nypd Scandals, Politics News

Michael Bloomberg is flat wrong, and he doubtless knows it but hopes you won't notice: New Yorkers have no right to be free of any disruption from the peaceful but disruptive free-speech actions of their fellow citizens.

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Naomi Wolf Speaks Out About Her 'Unlawful' Arrest At OWS Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Game Changer of the Year, Zuccotti Park, New York City, Andrew Cuomo, Video, Nypd, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Protests, Permits, Soho, First Amendment Rights, Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post, Game Changers, New York Police Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Naomi Wolf is a permit nerd. In her recent book, "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries," she dedicated ample spa...

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#OccupyWallStreet: Essential Twitter Follows

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: College Students, Twitter, Brooklyn Bridge, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy La, Naomi Wolf, Zuccotti Park, Occupy Dc, Slidepollajax, Tweets, Business News

In just one month, the Occupy Wall Street protests have grown from a few discontented citizens to a movement sweeping the globe, but its rapid pace of...

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Feminist Author Naomi Wolf Detained At Occupy Wall Street Protest

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Andrew Cuomo, Gamechangers, Naomi Wolf Occupy Wall Street, Naomi Wolf, Skylight Studios, #Occupywallstreet, Business News

NEW YORK -- Feminist author Naomi Wolf has been taken into custody by police at an anti-corporate greed protest outside an award ceremony held to hono...

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Naomi Wolf Is Right That Rape Accusers Should Be Named, but...

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, Naomi Wolf, Witness Protection Program, Rape, Wikileaks, Politics News

Obviously, it's natural to stick up for rape victims. But we should remember that those who have been falsely accused are also victims.

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Jessica Valenti: Even progressive heroes can rape

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sexual Violence, Rape, Julian Assange Wikileaks, Naomi Klein, Keith Olbermann, Third Wave Feminism, Julian Assange Sweden, Feminism, Wikileaks, Sexual Assault, Julian Assange Rape, Michael Moore, Jessica Valenti, Rape Culture, Julian Assange, Rape Apologists, Naomi Wolf, Sweden, Politics News

Ever since sexual assault allegations surfaced against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Wikileaks supporters, many who consider themselves "progressi...

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Espionage Act: How the Government Can Engage in Serious Aggression Against the People of the United States

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, Espionage Act, Julian Assange Wikileaks, Free Speech, Dianne Feinstein, Julian Assange, Joe Lieberman, Naomi Wolf, Wikileaks, Espionage, Politics News

Activating the Espionage Act is an act of profound aggression against the American people because we are all Julian Assange. Under this act, anyone who publishes or discusses WikiLeaks material can be arrested.

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"Blowback" and "Baseworld": Remembering Chalmers Johnson

Mark Engler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Asian Tigers, Chalmers Johnson, Baseworld, Military Spending, Neoliberalism, State Capitalism, Naomi Wolf, Blowback, Politics News

On November 20, Chalmers Johnson, scholar of East Asian development and critic of American empire, died at age seventy-nine.

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Banks Siding Against the Customer in Fraud Cases

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Bank Fraud, Naomi Wolf, Washington Mutual, Third World America, Business News

Like most consumers, I had always assumed that banks and customers are united in wanting to curtail bank fraud. Unfortunately, I have learned that in fact bank fraud is a big and profitable business -- for the banks themselves.

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Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J. Courtney Sullivan, Marilyn French, Book Reviews, Deborah Siegel, Chandra Mohanty, Courtney E. Martin, Sexism, Naomi Wolf, Books, Feminism, Books News, Anital Hill, Books News

A number of years ago, I had a part-time gig at an elementary school where I taught afterschool classes in art and film classics. One warm June day,...

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Getting After the Devil: Obama and Civil Liberties

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miranda Rights, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, President Barack Obama, Surveillance, Naomi Wolf, U.S. Constitution, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Totalitarianism, Politics News

if Congress gives the Obama administration the green light to scale back the Miranda rule, it would be yet another dangerous expansion of government power at the expense of citizens' civil rights.

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Democracy 911: Calling Women to Media and the Public Debate

Madeline Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Activism, Catherine Orenstein, Writing, Political Activism, Matthis Chiroux, The Op-Ed Project, Naomi Wolf, Democracy, Women in Media and News, Women in the Op-Ed Pages, The Woodhull Institute of Ethical Leadership, Gender Equality, Gender Discrimination, Media News

As a woman, mother and activist, to me, one week in American life and politics is like seven dog years. Women don't need to worry about keeping up wit...

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On The Road

Joy Preble | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dreaming Anastasia, Advice-to-New-Authors, Debut Authors, Book Publishing, Michael Chabon, Chicago, Larry Day, Author, Writing, 57th-Street-Books, Book Promotion, Borders, Book Publicity, Naomi Wolf, Sarah Palin, Books News

These are the humbling moments in the debut author journey. The ones that remind you to hang onto that day job.

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What Do Muslim Women Want?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Women, Queen Rania, Muslim Women, Women's Issues, Women and Politics, Muslims, Naomi Wolf, Muslim Womens Rights, Muslim, World News

The Muslim women leaders I've spoken to do not say, "Please tell the West to save us." They are too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.

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Naomi Wolf To Write History Of The Vagina

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naomi Wolf, History of the Vagina, Naomi Wolf Vagina, Books, Journalism, Ecco Press, A Cultural History of the Vagina, Media News

Naomi Wolf is going back to her roots. The journalist and author, who has seemingly been on a break for the past couple of years from writing books on...

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Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?

Dan Goleman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mayer, Leadership, Empathy, Peter Salovey, Emotional-Intelligence, Naomi Wolf, Emotional Intelligence, Paul Ekman, Business News

By the year 2018, the workplace will be one where the demand for "female" management skills will be far stronger than today.

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Fake Patriotism

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naomi Wolf's New Book, Naomi Wolf, Naomi Wolf Book, Politics News

What are we supposed to do to reclaim freedom? We need to understand that we are bombarded with both fake patriotism and fake democracy. Only then can we get to the real American mandate.

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Does Palin Have The Spine to Face Down McCain?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vice President, First Dude, Naomi Wolf, Time, Mccain, Troopergate, Sarah Palin, Palin and the Press, Palin and the Media, Neocons, Alaska, Bridge to Nowhere, Hiding Palin, Palin, McCain Campaign, Politics News

Palin is taking it on the chin, in my odd judgment. Here's a uniformly negative collection of links, but hardly unrepresentative. What else can be ...

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The Battle Plan II: Sarah "Evita" Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karl Rove, John McCain, Naomi Wolf, George W. Bush, The End of America, Sarah Palin, Republican National Convention, Dick Cheney, Politics News

How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?

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The Battle Plan

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Naomi Wolf Give Me Liberty, American Revolution, The Constitution, Liberty, Revolution, American, Naomi Wolf's New Book, Naomi Wolf, Politics News

History shows that when an army of citizens, supported by even a vestige of civil society, believes in liberty -- in the psychological space that is "America" -- no power on earth can ultimately suppress them.

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