M uch media attention has focused on genetic causes of breast cancer, and the best diet and exercise program to prevent breast cancer. WEDO's Action for Cancer Prevention Campaign sponsored a World Conference on Breast Cancer, July 13-17, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. One day of the conference was devoted to ecological links to breast cancer.
Most sweatshop workers are women and many are underpaid and work in unsafe conditions.
The statue of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony was presented to Congress in 1921. After years of pressure, and after raising private funds to move the statue, the Woman Suffrage Statue Campaign succeeded in having the statue moved on Mother's Day. However, Congress only agreed to the move for one year, during which time they are supposed to decide where else to move it. Bartlett said he believed segregated training would address the problem of sexual harassment and assault in the military. But spokespeople for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines testified against mandatory segregated training.