Items of note.(DVD of Professor Bettina Aptheker's Introduction to Feminisms course; Millennium Development Goal website; papers on gender impacts of revenue collection in Uganda and India)

Professor Bettina Aptheker's INTRODUCTION TO FEMINISMS course at the University of California Santa Cruz was so popular that her seventeen class lectures--an entire academic quarter--were recorded in 2003 and are now available to the public on DVD. The topics covered include "Women and Honor"; "Anger, Lying, and Silence"; "Women, Immigration, and the Global Economy"; and "The Politics of Rape." The complete set of seventeen DVDs can be purchased for $20 via a link from http://www.introtofem.org.

A new website has been created to support the MDG3 GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION campaign for the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3): gender equality and economic empowerment for women. The site, at http://www.mdg3action.org, details the campaign's focus, explains why the campaign is necessary, and discusses the Millennium Declaration and some problems with the measures used in the Declaration. To help individuals and organizations become more involved in the fight for gender equality, the site provides film clips, downloadable items (such as a pamphlet), and links for further information.

GENDER IMPACTS OF REVENUE COLLECTION IN UGANDA and GENDER IMPACTS OF REVENUE COLLECTION IN INDIA are two new working papers in the Economic Paper Series (#84 and #81, respectively) from the Commonwealth Secretariat. In GENDER IMPACTS OF REVENUE COLLECTION IN UGANDA, Nite Tanzarn analyzes the revenue and tax system in Uganda in order to show policy makers "how government revenue collection practices affect men and women differently," and gives suggestions on including gender awareness in financial policy. GENDER IMPACTS OF REVENUE COLLECTION IN INDIA, by Nirmala Banerjee, is a similar case study of the revenue and tax system in India. The aim of the paper is to show the different effects of taxation on men and women to "those responsible for planning the tax system." These papers are available for [pounds sterling]15 each for the paperbound version, or [pounds sterling]12 for an e-book, at http://publications.thecommonwealth,org/gender-impacts-of-revenue-collection-in-uganda-661-p.aspx and http://publications.thecommonwealth.org/gender-impacts-of-revenue-collection-in-india-653-p.aspx.

ISIS INTERNATIONAL has released its 60-page 2007 ANNUAL REPORT, which summarizes that year's activities and publications in five parts. The section on Project Area 1, "Community and Independent Media," reports on publications and other media, such as Women in Action and Women Making Airwaves for Peace; the report for Project Area 2, the "Governance, Communications & Democracy" (GCD) program, summarizes feminist action research; research, training and documentation support services; and GCD feminist interventions, such as a workshop on "Feminist Political Ecology"; the Project Area 3 report summarizes efforts in "Feminist Movement Building"; and the Project Area 4 report summarizes the organizational development and administration of Isis. The last section of the annual report presents the organization's financial audit. Contact Isis International for information on obtaining the report: 3 Marunong Street, Bgy. Central, Quezon City, 1100 Philippines; email: info@isiswomen.org; website: www.isiswomen.org.

The AFRICAN WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK (FEMNET), with financial support from the HUMANIST INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (HIVOS), produced two booklets in 2007 concerning advocacy for sexual and reproductive health ...