Feminism

Left-Wing Populism And The Feminization Of Politics

January 16, 2017 Laura Roth and Kate Shea Baird, www.mareagranate.org Strategize! Feminism, Populism

By Laura Roth and Kate Shea Baird for ROAR Magazine - Two of the liveliest debates among activists on the European left these days relate to the strategy of left-wing populism on the one hand and the need to feminize politics on the other. Yet little has been said about the relationship between the two. What would a feminist reading of left-wing populism look like? How does left-wing populism fit in with the goal of feminizing politics? It is our view that populism is not only incompatible with the feminization of politics; it actually reinforces patriarchy. Faced with a choice between these essentially incompatible strategies, any hope of transformation will require us to abandon populism and make a genuine commitment to changing the way politics is done.

Staying On Battlefield: The Feminist Wire Statement On Election

December 14, 2016 Staff, www.english.thefeministwire.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Feminism

By Staff of The Feminist Wire - The Feminist Wire is an anti-racist, anti-imperial feminist media and publishing company whose vision of justice and equity centers those whose lives, well-being, and bodies are the first to be assaulted under conditions of hyper-militarization, capitalism, patriarchy, ableism, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism around the world. Our work is grounded in a long and rich tradition of Black feminist thought and organizing, which compels us to interpret and respond to the world through an intersectional lens.

The Hegemonic Harpies And World Domination

June 26, 2016 Dr. June Terpstra, www.21stcenturywire.com Educate! Feminism, Hegemony, Oppression, Wars and Militarism

By Dr. June Terpstra for 21st Century Wire. “This article is an update of the article I wrote in 2008 titled “Hollow Women of the Hegemon”. It is about the hollow women, the stuffed women, who help the hollow men who are devoted to profit, power, plunder and pollution. The word, hegemon, is used to identify the class, state or group with the most power that is responsible for the dissemination of dominant power group’s ideas, systems and practices that most benefit those in power and those who rule for them. Since WWII the US government and it’s corporate elites reached the top position in the world. Their ascendency was the result of being the most violent and aggressive military with the most weapons of mass destruction and hence The Hegemonic force in the world. The most fundamental mission that the US Hegemon faces is how to maintain power.

Anarchist And Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day

May 1, 2016 Laura Flanders, www.commondreams.org Educate! Anarchism, Feminism, May Day, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Laura Flanders for Commondreams. Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy parsons. Lifelong partner of Albert parsons, one of the American Labor Leaders, most associated with the founding of the American May Day tradition. lucy_parsonsLucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African American, and Native American Descent. She was born into slavery and she was an intersectional thinker and activist a century before the term was coined. Her work after emancipation led her directly into conflict with the Ku Klux Clan and into a lifelong partnership with radical typographer and organizer Albert Parsons.

Military Is Obliterating Feminist, Democratic Leftists

February 7, 2016 Debbie Bookchin, www.thenation.com Educate! Democracy, Feminism, Kurds, Türkiye, Wars and Militarism

By Debbie Bookchin for The Nation. Turkey - Right now, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is undertaking a massive assault on Kurdish communities in southeastern Turkey in an effort to wipe out the only truly democratic movement in the Middle East. In December, he unleashed a force of 10,000 soldiers, armed with tanks and mortars, who have cut water and electricity supplies, imposed draconian curfews, and razed buildings; they are following shoot-to-kill orders against local residents who venture from their homes to seek food, first aid, or alternative shelter. Already more than 200 Kurdish defenders, and 198 civilians, including children, teenagers, and the elderly, have been murdered. In photos, the areas under siege look like war zones, comparable in destruction to Syria and Bosnia.

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution A Source Of Hope

November 23, 2015 Tony Iltis and Stuart Munckton, www.telesurtv.net Create! Feminism, Revolution, Syria

By Tony Iltis and Stuart Munckton for Tele SUR - Syria can seem an endless black hole of misery, but in the northern, largely Kurdish region of Rojava, it is also the scene of a profoundly democratic and humanist revolution, which places the rights of ethnic minorities and women's liberation at its centre. Ironically, given the horror that surrounds it, Rojava is the site of the most profound experiments on grassroots, participatory democracy outside of the revolutionary projects in Latin America. Like in Venezuela, the ideal of "the commune" is at the heart of Rojava's burgeoning democracy.

Sentence Extended After Jailed Female Cartoonist Shakes Lawyer’s Hand

September 12, 2015 Kieron Curtis, www.unilad.co.uk Resist! Feminism, Iran

By Kieron Curtis in Unilad - An Iranian artist and cartoonist, who is already serving a 12 year prison sentence, faces having her jail time extending for shaking the hand of the man who defended her. Atena Farghadani received her original sentence after she published a cartoon online criticising the nations government, a practice officials in the likes of Britain, Europe, and the USA face on a daily basis. In the cartoon Farghadani depicted members of the nation’s leadership as goats and monkeys. Naturally she was then charged with “colluding against national security”, “spreading propaganda against the system” and “insulting members of the parliament”. And that is just not on. A goat wouldn’t even know how to quash the rights of an entire country’s citizenship.

Year Of The Woman

July 31, 2015 Rebecca Traister, www.highline.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Feminism, Film, History, Media

By Rebecca Traister in Huffington Post - For only five nights in the fall of 1973, a documentary called “Year of the Woman” played at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in Greenwich Village. Crowds lined up around the block. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., described it as “the greatest combination of sex and politics ever seen in a film.” And then “Year of the Woman” all but vanished for 42 years, robbing us of a movie that captures–in its raucous, weird, unmistakably ’70s style–one of the most pivotal moments in feminist history. The setting is the Democratic convention in Miami Beach. The time is July 1972. New York Rep. Shirley Chisholm has just completed a groundbreaking campaign for the presidency (“I ran because someone had to do it first,” she would later write), and the National Women’s Political Caucus, founded by icons including Betty Friedan, Dorothy Height and Gloria Steinem, is trying to leverage women’s power at a political convention for the first time.

Argentina: Columbus Statue Replaced By Female Freedom Fighter

July 24, 2015 TeleSurTV, www.telesurtv.net Create! Argentina, Colonialism, Feminism, Latin America, Social Change

By TeleSurTV - Juana Azurduy was a South America guerrilla military leader and critical figure in the South American struggle for independence. Bolivian President Evo Morales' visit to his Argentina counterpart Cristina Fernandez Wednesday will focus not only on bilateral agreements between the two nations, but also South America's independence history, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported. The two South American leaders will inaugurate a monument to independence heroine and South American guerrilla military leader Juana Azurduy. The 15-meter high (52 feet) bronze statue has been erected outside the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in the place that a monument to Christopher Columbus once stood. “Bye Columbus, see you never. Hello Juana Azurduy, UNTIL VICTORY, ALWAYS… Long live Patria Grande.”

Act Out! [19] – 5 Reasons To End Death Penalty; Yes We Need Feminism

July 10, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Death Penalty, Feminism, Media

By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - Hey guys, lose the catcalls, it’s O.K. to just say hi. Activists celebrate the good, the bad and the ugly for America’s 239th. We will take a good look at how activists relate to this day while keeping up the good fight. The episode features art, images, and messages for this past 'independence day'. SCOTUS doesn’t mind burning people alive, but here are five reasons why the death penalty should be abolished. Supporters of the death penalty blame activists of why the current torture of inmates on death row occurs due to limited options on how to kill people and make them suffer. The death penalty is a symptom of the culture of violence. Get an update on the #ShellNo actions and what’s next for the brave kayaktivists. Femicide is a hate crime and Dr. Heidi Lewis explains what feminism really is and how the personal is political.

Scenes From Domestic Worker Organizing

June 30, 2015 Rucha Chitnis, www.reimaginerpe.org Resist! California, Feminism, Women of Color, Women's Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Rucha Chitnis in ReImagine - “There is an entrenched devaluation of immigrant women workers. Domestic workers are breadwinners of their families throughout Latin America and Asia. In so many ways they are uplifting the economies of their countries through remittances,” said Katie Joaquin, campaign director of the California Domestic Workers Coalition. “We see this as an international struggle that is critical to the leadership of women,” she said. There are nearly two million domestic workers in the United States, more than 90 percent of them women, mostly low-income immigrant women from diverse ethnicities. Over the past 25 years, MUA has built a worker-center model of sharing power and harnessing workers’ collective bargaining rights.

Why I Let My Son Wear A Dress

June 29, 2015 Frida Berrigan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Feminism, LGBTQ, Patriarchy

Research shows that a strict gender education for girls and boys starts at birth. Terrence Real, a family therapist and author of “I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression,” cites a study in which 204 parents watch a video of an infant crying and are asked to react. When told the baby is a girl, mothers and fathers both say that the child is frightened. When told they are watching a boy infant cry, they label the emotion as anger. The researchers, John and Sandra Cundry, concluded by writing, “It would seem reasonable to assume that a child who is thought to be afraid is held and cuddled more than a child who is thought to be angry.” Little boys who cry are told to “man up.” Aggressive and even violent little boy behavior is not corrected or redirected.

Thousands March Against Femicide In Argentina

June 13, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Argentina, Femicide, Feminism

Thousands of protesters marched on June 3 in Buenos Aires and dozens of other cities across Argentina against violence towards women. Shortly before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, massive crowds of protesters gathered in the Dos Congresos square outside of the National Congress in Buenos Aires. Almost 200,000 people, according to Argentine news agency Telam, participated in the march. The protesters demanded an end to gender violence in the country, and the organizers asked politicians in attendance to sign a five-point promise to put an end to femicide. “Femicide is the most extreme form of violence that crosses every social class, beliefs or ideas,” organizers read from a statement on stage outside of Argentina’s Congressaccording to the Buenos Aires Herald.

A Review Of Hilary Klein’s Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories

May 30, 2015 Charlotte Maria Sáenz, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Chiapas, Feminism, Patriarchy, Zapatistas

Volumes have been written about the Mayan indigenous Zapatista social movement of Chiapas, Mexico since they made their first public appearance on January 1, 1994. There have been detailed histories, political analysis, academic theorization, movement studies, activist ethnographies, non-fiction novels, attempts at cultural and symbolic translation, etc. The movement’s primary spokesman, the prolific Subcomandante Marcos, has also contributed numerous communiqués, satires, children’s stories, erotica, pop culture commentary, political and philosophical ruminations. However, until now, we were missing the direct voices of women from the communities themselves. Hilary Klein’s Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories(Seven Stories Press) reveals their perspectives as contemporary indigenous women who are active subjects together with men in shared processes of change and liberation.

Ugandan Peasant Grandmother Terrifies Her President

May 22, 2015 Phil Wilmot, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Dictatorship, Feminism, Patriarchy, Solidarity, Uganda

Keromela Anek tossed her naked body back and forth in the roadway, blocking a government convoy in the remote village of Apaa, Uganda. Lands Minister Daudi Migereko and Minister of Internal Affairs General Nyakairima Aronda had just traveled to the village that day, April 16, with the plan of redistricting it. That would place Apaa in a new region and help facilitate the sale of the peoples’ land to South African investor Bruce Martin, who hoped to use the heavily forested, currently-populated area for sports game hunting. Upon reaching a roadblock and witnessing Anek and some other women naked and in tears, chanting insults toward the ministerial delegation, Migereko began crying, while Aronda tried his best to avoid looking at the women. Local witnesses claim that Aronda then called Ugandan President Yoweri K. Museveni — a dictator who has been in power for three decades — and received instructions to have his security personnel open fire on the women.

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