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Clyde Fights Back

Clyde Fights Back

[bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_S1_GODIN_CLYDEFIGHTSBACK[/bbrvideo] Governon Kasich’s signed Health Budget 59  into action last year. The budget included an unlikely attack on reproductive rights in the form of multiple amendments that, according to Adrienne Gavula, regional office director for the American Civil Rights Union of Ohio, set women’s rights back nearly 40 years. One amendment caused major uproar by de-funding Planned Parenthood and reallocating funds  to many faith-based pregnancy centers who are trained to actively encourage women to carry unviable pregnancy’s to term, even in cases…

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Clyde Fights Back

Clyde Fights Back

The trickle down effect is proving to be true. Reporter Rachel Godin has the story on how one state-wide issue is being dealt with locally. [bbrvideo]BBR_P5_GODIN_CLYDEFIGHTSBACK[/bbrvideo] Women’s reproductive rights are making headlines and making waves. Some of the most radical attacks on women’s reproductive rights are rolling out of the moderate state of Ohio,  but state representative Kathleen Clyde is pushing back with two acts she introduced this summer. These bills ensure patients receive  the best possible care by taking politicians and bosses out…

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Women Lose Rights

Women Lose Rights

[/bbrvideo width=”475″]BBR_P4_GODIN_WOMENLOSERIGHTS [bbrvideo]   While states in the American south are definitely doing their part to restrict women’s reproductive rights, some of the most radical attacks on reproductive rights are rolling our of the moderate, Midwestern state of Ohio. For more than a decade the state has quietly and aggressively advanced regulations that put women in harms way. Ohio legislature is currently considering a measure to ban insurance coverage of abortion care even in cases of incest, rape and life-threatening pregnancy….

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Diversity and Inclusion Flourishes at KSU

Diversity and Inclusion Flourishes at KSU

The diversity and inclusion beat focuses on Kent State University’s professional goal of representing and engaging all sexes, orientations, races and ethnicities equally and consistently on campus and within the larger KSU community. Media focuses on development of campus initiatives, student groups and  involvement, campus safety, special events whose primarily target are at-risk groups such as LGBTQ, women and other ethnic/racial minorities and exploring how KSU’s proficiencies and lack relate to diversity and inclusion issues on a broader (state and national)…

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Passion Takes You Far

Passion Takes You Far

Kent Interhall Council is Kent State’s second largest organization on campus. Throughout the years students have served as general member and executive board members. But for the first time, the executive board with be comprised of all women. [bbrvideo width=”350″ float=”left” caption=”For this first time at Kent State University, a board of all women will lead Kent Interhall Council.”]BBR_06_Klein_KIC2014[/bbrvideo] Women have staved for change all throughout world in history. From 1920, when women gained their right to vote into 2014 when…

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