Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal announces
special New Jersey Campaign aimed at Hoechst Celanese in
effort to release RU 486. Hoechst Celanese is a 100%-owned subsidiary
of Hoechst AG which controls RU 486 patent rights.
Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal, Board
Chair Peg Yorkin, and Director of Policy and Research Jennifer
Jackman travel to Frankfurt, Germany to meet with officials at
Hoechst AG to urge U.S. introduction of RU 486. Hoechst AG,
which is the majority shareholder in Roussel Uclaf, has steadfastly
opposed distribution of RU 486.
| The Feminist Majority Foundation leads a postcard campaign
urging Stroh's Brewery to end an offensive advertising campaign
that created a hostile work environment for women employees
at the brewery. |
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GLOBAL VICTORY -- The Foundation's Campaign to Stop
Violence Against Women sets up an emergency Western Union Hotline
to flood the Kuwait Embassy and the State Department with letters,
urging assistance for women domestic workers from the Philippines,
India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh who were raped and beaten by
their Kuwaiti employers, police and the military. The women had
fled to embassies for safety but employers refused to return their
passports so the women could return to their homeland. Because
of the publicity and pressure of the campaign some 10,000 women
were allowed to return to their homeland.
| As a part of the Web of Influence Campaign to win introduction
of RU 486 to the United States, the Feminist Majority
Foundation held a demonstration in April at the Trevira Twosome
Race in New York City. The race was sponsored by Hoechst Celanese
and Nike. Hoechst Celanese is the 100%-owned subsidiary of
Hoechst AG, the German pharmaceutical company that controls
the RU 486 patent. Nike uses Hoechst-produced fibers in its
sports attire. |
Feminist Majority Foundation holds signs and distributes stickers
at Trevira Twosome Race to urge introduction of RU 486 to
the U.S. |
As a part of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Web of Influence
Campaign to release RU 486, New York City Comptroller Elizabeth
Holtzman led efforts to prevent New York City hospitals from purchasing
pharmaceutical products from Hoechst-Roussel Pharmaceuticals and
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, whose parent companies hold stock in
Roussel Uclaf.
Feminist Majority Foundation sponsors, with the National Woman
Abuse Prevention Center, a national conference of 48 state
domestic violence coalitions. The conference sought to develop
strategies to increase funding for programs and to implement the
Gender Balance in Police Force Project.
VICTORY -- The Feminist Majority Foundation's National
Clinic Defense Project keeps clinics open in Buffalo, New
York despite a planned extended siege by Operation Rescue.
Operation Rescue, after having been welcomed to Buffalo by the
mayor fails to close clinics and quits blockade efforts in Buffalo
after only one week. Next, we help to prevent siege of New
York City clinics during and after the l992 National Democratic
Convention.
Ellie Smeal and Patricia Ireland greet Larry Lader and Leona
Benten who traveled to Great Britian to secure RU 486. |
Abortion Rights Mobilization's President Larry Lader organizes
challenge to FDA import ban on RU 486. Lader and Leona
Benten traveled to Great Britian to bring back a dose of RU
486 so that Benten could end her pregnancy. The RU 486 supply
was confiscated at JFK airport, but Benten's story made front
page news and helped galvanize demands for bringing this medical
breakthrough to American women. |
Feminist Majority Foundation 1992 Feminists of the Year are
Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard,
and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez; Navy Lieutenant Paula Coughlin;
Minnesota High School Student Katy Lyle; Stroh Brewery Plantiffs
Dianna Chaves, Antonia Felipe, Beth Gruber, Lana Haston, Jean
Keopple, Lisa Meagher, Tammy Meyers, and Diane Novotny-Young;
Women's Rock Group L7; Science Teacher Doug Kirkpatrick; RU 486
Activist Leona Benten; Abortion Rights Mobilization President
Larry Lader; Former National Guard Nurse Margarethe Cammermeyer;
Author Blanche Weisen Cook; Diane English and Candice Bergen;
Third Wave Founders Rebecca Walker and Shannon Liss; Woman Who
Won Japan's First Sexual Harassment Case (whose name was withheld);
and Los Angeles City Council for Police Gender Balance Vote.
The Feminist Majority Foundation
1987-89 | 1990
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993
| 1994 | 1995
| 1996 | 1997
| 1998 | 1999
| 2000
The Feminist Majority
1987-88 | 1989
| 1990 | 1991
| 1992 | 1993
| 1994 | 1995-96
| 1997 | 1998
| 1999 | 2000
Chronology Index
