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NEWS & LETTERS,
January-February 2002
by Mary Jo Grey Poor, unemployed and homeless
people from across the U.S. plan to March for Our Lives on Feb. 8, the opening
day of the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Organized by the Kensington Welfare
Rights Union and JEDI Women of Salt Lake City, the march is an effort to break
the invisiblity of the poor in the U.S. and demand "decent health care,
education, food, housing and living wage jobs as an American priority." *** The Center for Reproductive Law
and Policy is suing the state of Florida for denying medical coverage for
abortion. The state is charged with "engaging in outright sex
discrimination" for denying medical funding for abortion for low-income
women, while at the same time providing men with funds for drugs like Viagra. —Information from off our
backs ** * As many as 80% of women in
Rwanda are HIV-positive according to the Rwandan Association of Trauma
Counselors. Most of those infected were raped by members of the Rwandan military
during the 1994 genocide of one million Tutsi and moderate Hutu. —Information from off our
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