Women

What A Century-Old Press Service Teaches Us About Worker Power

December 12, 2025 Victoria Grieve, Power At Work. Educate! History, Journalism, Labor Movement, Media, Women, Worker Rights and Jobs

This won’t come as a surprise to union activists, but the mainstream press doesn’t always fairly represent the labor movement. That was true in 1919, the year the Federated Press (FP) was founded, and it remains true today. The FP was created to counteract the anti-labor bias in the mainstream press during the post-World War I strike wave. At the first convention of the Farmer-Labor Party, a coalition of labor activists, editors, and socialists hatched the idea for a cooperative, labor-oriented press service that would provide national and international news to subscribing labor newspapers. Imagine the Associated Press, but written by and for labor.

Reimagining NGO Relationships With Cooperatives

August 22, 2025 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Economic Security, Nepal, Women

On her last commute, she sprained her ankle. Still, every morning in the beginning of the month, Lalmaya—the president of Milijuli cooperative—walks two hours down steep hills to reach its office. Halfway there, she pauses to rest, smiles through the pain, and says, “See, we have to have love, you know?” Behind her face, I see the resilience of enduring a lifetime of gender- and caste-based oppression as a Dalit in Nepal, yet continues to pour her passion into transforming the economic lives of women in her village through the collective power of the Milijuli Cooperative. In Nepal, more than 34,000 cooperatives—known locally as sahakari—have sprung up over the past few decades. With principles democratic member control and economic participation, the cooperative stands apart from similarly ubiquitous organizations in Nepal: NGOs.

Challenging The Media Myth Of Latino Machismo

July 12, 2025 Roger D. Harris, Becca Renk and John Perry, Popular Resistance. Educate! Gender Parity, Latin America, Machismo, Mexico, Nicaragua, Women

Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying machismo as a particularly Latin American malady, all the while overlooking significant feminist gains made in the region. Take, for instance, the entry under “machismo” in the latest edition of Britannica which asserts: “It has for centuries been a strong current in Latin American politics and society.” But the encyclopedia makes no such recognition for its own Anglo society. An article in the AP on sexual bias in Mexico blames “Mexico’s ‘machismo’ culture and strong Catholic roots,” calling out patriarchy as a defining and harmful feature for the whole of Latin American culture.

Unilateral Coercive Measures And The War On Women

March 21, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! International Women's Day, Sanctions, Wars and Militarism, Women

In 1945, when the United Nations Charter was drafted, its authors and those who first adopted it carefully crafted language on how to deal with armed conflict in the world. Between the signing of the charter in June and its coming into force in October, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities: Hiroshima, on 6 August, and Nagasaki, on 9 August. It is hard to digest the fact that as the charter’s solemn preamble was being formalised, setting out to ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind’, the United States armed forces were preparing to destroy two civilian cities in a country already on the brink of surrender.

Transit Stations Aren’t Designed For Women And Caregivers

March 9, 2025 Maylin Tu, Next City. Create! Caregivers, Trains, Transportation, Women

A new report takes mobility hubs (traditionally, transit stations) and asks: How can planners design these spaces around the needs of women and caregivers? Imagine a centralized place in your neighborhood where you can chat with your friends over coffee, buy a few carrots for dinner, fill a prescription or watch your kids play on a playground – all while accessing the train, bus, bikeshare or rideshare. “Part of the feedback that we’ve gotten from practitioners is that it seems a bit utopian,” says Natalia Perez-Bobadilla, Research Communications Specialist at the Shared-Use Mobility Center (SUMC) and one of the authors.

Sewing Network Shows How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive In Place

January 27, 2025 Ilana Preuss, Next City. Create! entrepreneurship, Pittsburgh, Women, Worker Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

Despite no formal sewing training and few successful entrepreneurship examples in her neighborhood, Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur Nisha Blackwell has spent the last 10 years using her love of sewing to show her community that successful entrepreneurship is possible. Her boutique bowtie company Knotzland, upcycling rescued textiles and materials into high-quality bows through a distributed production model, shows how small-scale manufacturing can bring new life to struggling neighborhoods.

Women In The Biden Administration Complicit In Israeli Genocide Of Gaza

December 1, 2024 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, US Government, Women

As we in the United States sat down to Thanksgiving dinners, Palestinians in Gaza on Day 419 of the Israeli genocide of Gaza and U.S. complicity in that genocide are facing starvation, lack of water, tents purposefully destroyed by U.S. bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes and drones and rain and cold from the winter storms. Here in the U.S. families are enjoying meals prepared by mothers and wives. Yet, many mothers and wives and aunties of these families have day jobs with the Biden administration and have been key participants in the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of the 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza whom we known have been killed by U.S. weapons, the hundreds of thousands who have been injured and perhaps 100,000 who are still buried underneath the rubble.

From Guantanamo To Abu Ghraib: Female Participation In Prisoner Abuses

November 18, 2024 Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Guantanamo, Legal System, Torture, US military, Women

As a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel with 13 years on active duty and 16 in the Reserves, I became interested in the topic of women involved in prisoner abuses when so many U.S. women at all levels were linked to the prisons or prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Cuba, and Iraq. In reading press articles about detentions, incarcerations, and the abuse and torture of prisoners identified as threats to national security, I was struck by the number of women who had some role in the detentions -- women in the U.S. military, civilian women in various U.S. government agencies and civilian women contractors.

Labor For A Permanent Ceasefire Now!

January 5, 2024 Virginia Rodino and Kathy Black, Coalition of Labor Union Women. Resist! Anti-War, Israel, Labor Movement, Palestine, Unions, Women

The Coalition of Labor Union Women president Elise Bryant and Executive Director Virginia Rodino recently spoke at a press conference for a Permanent Ceasefire. President Bryant told the crowd in front of the White House, "When armed conflict erupts, it is women and girls who pay the highest price. "We in CLUW and the entire labor movement are relieved to see Israeli civilian hostages and Palestinian political prisoners returning home to their families. We are fighting for a world in which all families can be together. The only way to actually achieve that—to stop this violence—is through a permanent ceasefire now.

Ukraine Mobilizes Women, Elderly Amid Failed Counteroffensive

October 15, 2023 Dmitri Kovalevich, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Elderly, Military Recruitment, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism, Women

The month of October 2023 marks four months since the beginning of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The counteroffensive was widely publicized in the West at its beginning. U.S. and British generals pinned high hopes on it, stepping up their weapons supply and training of the Ukraine Armed Forces. But after four months, the counteroffensive has yielded no results. Ukrainian forces are stuck before the Russian defense lines with no way to break through. Huge losses during Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive are behind the first attempts to formally mobilize women for military service. Of note is that Ukrainian authorities are looking favorably at “Israel’s” experience with female military personnel.

Project Provides Housing And Tech Training For Young Women Of Color

September 10, 2023 Punnya Kalapurakkel, Next City. Create! Boston, Employment, Technology, Women

The quaint, Victorian-style house where social entrepreneur Bridgette Wallace chose to bring her vision to life looks like any other home in Boston’s historic Garrison Trotter neighborhood. Built in 1900 and nestled in the heart of Roxbury, this unassuming property on Boston’s Hutchings Street houses an innovative co-living and co-learning model to curb the effects of tech industry-driven gentrification. Welcome to G{Code} House, a place where women and nonbinary people of color ages 18-24 can reside as they complete a two year coding course that prepares them to enter the workforce.

Black Brazilian Movement Leaders Lead Delegation To The US

June 11, 2023 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Organize! Black Liberation, Brazil, Racism, Violence, Women

From May 29 to June 8, 19 Brazilian Black movement leaders traveled to the US to meet with major international organizations to fight for an end to racist violence. These leaders, all of whom are women or people with diverse gender identities, have over 30 years of experience in Brazilian social movements. The delegates are all part of various groups within the Black Women Alliance to End Violence (Aliança Negra Pelo Fim da Violência), which aims to support “the strengthening of the national and international actions of cis and transgender Black women in their fight to end violence towards Black people.”

Report On Incarceration And Women Outlines The Gender Disparities

March 19, 2023 Candice Norwood, The 19th. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Gender Disparities, Women, Women's Rights

Women represent about 9 percent of all incarcerated people in the United States, but data about their circumstances is spotty at best. We do know that in recent decades, imprisonment rates for women have increased dramatically, growing at twice the pace of men’s incarceration. A report published this month by the nonprofit think tank Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) provides one of the most comprehensive recent assessments of the realities facing women and girls held in the country’s prisons and jails. PPI teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to pull data from several government agencies, which can often be fragmented or out of date.

Transit Agencies Are Taking Small Steps Toward Family-Friendly Systems

February 28, 2023 H. Jiahong Pan, Next City. Create! Buses, Immigrants, Transportation, Women

In 2006, a transit agency serving the communities adjacent the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta claimed to be the first in the U.S. to provide a dedicated space for people to park strollers as they rode a bus. Tri Delta Transit, which serves northeastern Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area, created the zone because it noticed more families riding with strollers. “We recognized the difficulty they encounter when required to fold their strollers and felt there was more we could do to make their experience easier and more enjoyable,” said the agency’s outgoing CEO Jeanne Krieg, herself a parent, in a press release issued that year.

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