Women Activism

The Quiet Resistance Of Working-Class Women In Egypt

May 24, 2026 Farah Awadalla, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Egypt, Mutual Aid, Women Activism, Working Class

When public dissent is risky or impossible, resistance does not disappear. It often becomes quieter, more practical and harder to recognize. For many working-class women in Egypt, it takes shape not in slogans or demonstrations, but in the daily tactics they use to protect income, reduce dependence, share care work and move more safely through public space. Samah, a worker in Cairo, offers one example. (The women featured in this article are identified by their first names only, with surnames omitted to protect their privacy.) On her way to work, she buys vegetables for dinner and carries them with her in a plastic bag.

Iranian Women Lead Resistance To US-Israeli War

April 22, 2026 Mnar Adley, Mintpress News. Resistance Report Antiwar Movement, Iran, Wars and Militarism, Women Activism

In the latest episode of MintCast, MintPress director and host Mnar Adley is joined by Dr. Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor at the University of Tehran, to examine how the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is unfolding on the ground as Iranian Women lead massive rallies defying US imperialism and orientalist narratives about “oppressed” Iranian women needing American freedom — and how it is reshaping both Iranian society and the global economy. Western leaders have framed the war as a mission to “liberate” Iranian women. But according to Sadeqi, that narrative is collapsing in the face of reality.

Action Alert: Stop And Defund ICE, Restore Benefits For Immigrants!

February 22, 2026 A Coalition, Popular Resistance. Resist! Abolish ICE, Congress, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Mothers, Women Activism

As mothers and other caregivers, we are furious and deeply upset at the reign of terror being imposed on immigrants, our families and those standing with us. We are outraged at ICE’s cruel and brutal separations of children from their mothers and fathers. We have seen this tactic of breaking up families used in Black, Native American and other poor communities by the child “welfare” system which tears families apart. African, Asian, Caribbean, Latin American and other communities of color are being criminalized and our children traumatized.

Andrée Blouin Is Our Kind Of Pan-African Revolutionary

April 4, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Africa, History, Women Activism, Writers

In 1962, Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (1931–1993), mostly known as Flora Nwapa, sent a book manuscript to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (1930–2013). Four years earlier, Achebe, at the tender age of twenty-eight, had published his landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Heinemann. The novel arrived in Heinemann’s London office as the decolonisation movement began to change the shape of the African continent (Ghana won its independence in 1957, three years after Nigeria – both countries with an English-speaking population, however small, that used Heinemann’s science and English books in their education system).

Appeal From Brazilian Women On Peace Mission In the Middle East

May 5, 2024 Workers World. Organize! Brazil, Gaza, International Solidarity, Palestine, Peace, Women Activism

Responding to the calls for active listening by “Palestinian Women, the Pillar of Resistance” and the outcry of statements from Palestinian institutions and intellectuals, we are making some necessary propositions for immediate and forceful action with the Brazilian government, as well as urging entities and leaders of communities in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), with the leading role in the “Lula tem Razão!” [Lula is Correct] movement, from the Global South.

Black Women Blast Atlanta City Hall; Demand Stop To Cop City Buildout

March 25, 2024 John Zangas, DCMediaGroup. Resist! Atlanta, Cop City, Georgia, Police, Women Activism

Atlanta, Georgia - A collective of Black Women of the Movement for Black Lives dropped a 30-foot banner under the atrium of City Hall and demanded Mayor Andre Dickens allow Atlanta residents to vote on whether or not construction of Cop City should proceed in DeKalb County. Outside Atlanta City Hall they displayed banners sewn with samples of over one hundred thousand petitions of Atlanta area residents opposed to Cop City. Several city employees watched the demonstration inside City Hall as the women chanted “Stop Cop City!” and “Black Women Oppose Cop City!”

Mountain Mamas Resistance To Mountain Valley Pipeline Continues

February 1, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. Resist! climate crisis, Legal System, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Virginia, Women Activism

Early this morning Mama Julz, an Ogala Lakota land defender and water protector, locked herself to a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) helicopter to prevent the transportation of pipeline workers onto a remote work site on Poor Mountain, where MVP is causing an immense amount of damage pushing the pipeline through rugged lands. Mama Julz prevented MVP's use of the helicopter for multiple hours before she was extracted from her blockade and arrested, along with one other person who supported Mama Julz' action this morning. Both Mama Julz and the supporter were charged with one misdemeanor; both were denied bond and are being held in jail unjustly.

Women In Pakistan Are Fighting Enforced Disappearances And Killings

January 21, 2024 Esha Mitra, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Disappearance, Pakistan, State Repression, Women Activism

As hundreds took to the streets of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, on Jan. 12, a sea of mostly female protesters continued screaming “Balochistan wants justice,” even as they were met with a heavy police presence. Meanwhile, back in the restive but beautiful southwestern province of Balochistan, thousands more swarmed the streets. Their protest against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in their province was just the latest mobilization for a movement that has grown exponentially over the past month. Following the November killing of 22-year-old Balaach Mola Baksh, hundreds of women — along with some of their children — began a roughly thousand-mile march from his hometown of Turbat to Islamabad on Dec. 6.

Women-Led Groups In Chicago Spearhead Response To Migrant Influx

September 12, 2023 Rebekah Barber, Scheer Post. Organize! Chicago, Housing, Migrant Rights, Sanctuary, Women Activism

Over the past year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused more than 13,000 migrants to Chicago. Many entered the city with next to nothing — and some didn’t even make it safely. Last month, the Texas Department of Emergency Management announced that a 3-year-old girl had died en route to Chicago from Texas — the first known fatality of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. For years, Chicago has declared itself a sanctuary city, and substantial state and local resources have been allocated, helping many of the new arrivals tomove into more permanent housing. Still, about 6,500 of these migrants are spread out across 15 shelters, and about 1,500 are sleeping at airports and police stations.

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