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Women for peace bicycle ride continues in Syria
The Associated Press
Published: May 6, 2008

DAMASCUS, Syria: Some 300 women activists from 28 countries have begun the second leg of a 12-day bicycle ride in what has become a yearly event to campaign for peace and highlight the plight of Arab women.

The riders from the "Follow the Women" organization left Damascus on Tuesday and will travel to Jordan before ending in the Palestinian territories on May 14. The women began their journey in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on May 3.

Three women testified on Monday at a military hearing against US Air Force Colonel Samuel Lofton III. According to the Associated Press, one woman testified to Lofton raping her, and another woman testified to repeated sexual assault. A third woman testified to verbal harassment from Lofton that went as far as calling her at her home. Two of the three women did not report Lofton's behavior. The woman who did report the incident said that no action had been taken to punish Lofton.

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing September 28, Salt of the Earth (1953)

Directed collaboratively by the infamous blacklisted "Hollywood Ten," this film -- the only blacklisted American film -- was made in spite of tremendous political pressure from the US government and major film studios.