Women

Swedish Government Belittles Trump With This All-Woman Photo

February 6, 2017 Stefanie Spear, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Sweden, Women

By Stefanie Spear for Eco Watch - "You can interpret it as you want," Lovin's spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. "It's more that Sweden is a feminist government and this is a very important law that we just decided on ... And to make the Paris agreement happen we need climate leadership." The legislation will "bind all future governments to net zero emissions by 2045," Lovin said, and require Swedish governments to provide updates on climate change efforts and whether the country is on track to meet its target. The new Swedish law was developed after agreement from seven out of the eight political parties in parliament. It takes effect on Jan. 1, 2018.

Women On The Verge: The Essence Of Feminist Struggle

January 28, 2017 Ana C. Dinerstein and Sarah Amsler, www.roarmag.org Resist! Feminism, Women

By Ana C. Dinerstein and Sarah Amsler for ROAR Magazine - On January 21, hundreds of thousands of women marched on Washington against Donald Trump — a nobody in the history of resistance who will nevertheless make a contribution to the history of oppression. A nobody whose archaic rhetoric and retrograde policy we must now fight against. This impressive demonstration of women’s resistance to power is not an exception. It signals a tendency that has been emerging in recent years and hints at what will come in the following decades. We foresee another future of resistance where women will feature prominently. Another because women have been at the forefront of revolutionary resistance many times already...

Signs Of Sisterhood: Inside The Women’s March In Chicago

January 25, 2017 Joan Brunwasser, www.opednews.com Resist! Chicago, Women

By Joan Brunwasser for Op Ed News - Yael Brunwasser: It was important for me to stand in solidarity with women all over the country (and world!) who refuse to be plunged back in time with our rights revoked. Trump has been so blatantly disrespectful and misogynistic, it's appalling. It was incredibly empowering to be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of marchers in Chicago who stand for equality and human rights. The march was started by women, but came to represent all minorities and discriminated groups that Trump has targeted with hateful rhetoric. This is what democracy is about and it was truly energizing to take that power back and express our frustrations and demands of this new administration.

The Rebel Girl

January 24, 2017 Mary Anne Trasciatti, www.jacobinmag.com Strategize! Communism, History, Women

By Mary Anne Trasciatti for Jacobin - In 1976, Life magazine marked the US bicentennial with a special report on “Remarkable American Women.” I was thirteen years old at the time and I remember thumbing eagerly through the pages of the magazine, a gift from my mother to nurture my budding feminism. Among the 166 women profiled was the Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (also known as the IWW or the Wobblies), free speech fighter, co-founder of the ACLU, and first female secretary of the Communist Party USA. Her bio and photo appeared in the section titled “Noble Causes,” along with seventeen other “Crusaders for the Sick, Poor and Oppressed,”

When Women Revolted

January 19, 2017 Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Revolt, Women

By Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler for Waging Nonviolence - Fifty years ago, feminist organizing in the United States entered a vibrant new phase of activity. While pinning down an exact starting date is a controversial endeavor, several major events in the late 1960s heralded the birth of what is often called second-wave feminism. The year 1966 saw the establishment of the National Organization of Women, or NOW, while 1967 featured both the introduction of the Equal Rights Amendment into the Senate and groundbreaking pickets at the New York Times opposing sex-segregated job ads. Then, in 1968, protests at the Miss America pageant set off a whirlwind period that marked the movement’s most intensive use of direct action.

What Grassroots Organizing By Women During Reagan Teach For Trump

January 16, 2017 Elizabeth Schulte, www.socialistworker.org Organize! Donald Trump, Grassroots, Ronald Reagan, Women

By Elizabeth Schulte for Socialist Worker - AN ANTI-abortion Republican in the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court within one vote of overturning Roe v. Wade, and anti-choice zealots attacking women's clinics--in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the stakes were high for women's right to choose abortion. And the battle was taking place in the streets of many U.S. cities, after hundreds of anti-abortion protesters descended on clinic facilities, determined to shut them down. Randall Terry, leader of the extremist anti-choice organization Operation Rescue, claimed the crusade used the peaceful disobedience tactics of the civil rights movement in the interest of "saving unborn children."

Thousands Of Women Will Strike To Protest Inauguration

January 14, 2017 Bryce Covert, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Donald Trump, Strikes, Women

By Bryce Covert for Think Progress - As a working mother who is also a first-generation Muslim immigrant — and who declined to give her full name for fear of President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to create a Muslim registry — she has much to be concerned about. “The recent election and just all the negative commentary and hateful remarks around immigration, immigrants, and Muslims and people of color really has impacted me,” she said. “All the rhetoric around taking away women’s reproductive freedoms, even such basic freedoms as access to contraception, the thought of not having that is frightening.” “Even the thought of the Muslim registry…the thought of registering my child, it gives me goosebumps even just saying it,” she added.

Twenty-Six Arrested At Sessions Confirmation Hearing

January 10, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Donald Trump, Immigration, Jeff Sessions, LGBTQ, Marijuana, Racism, Women

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. A total of 26 protesters were arrested today in opposition to Jeff Sessions, including members of Refuse Fascism, the NAACP, Democracy Spring, Code Pink, and Howard University, according to Refuse Fascism. The group is calling for millions to pour into the streets of DC to prevent Trump and Pence from assuming power. The protests began even before confirmation hearings officially began. Two CODE PINK members dressed in KKK costumes stood up before the hearing was gaveled to express their support for Sessions. They praised "Jefferson Beauregard" and as they were taken from the room they yelled mockingly "you can't arrest me, I am white!" and "white people own this government." In the hall as they were being detained they explained that Sessions history on racism, immigration, LGBTQ rights and sexism made him inappropriate to serve as attorney general.

Nearly 700 ‘Nasty Women’ Artists Team Up To Protest Trump

January 6, 2017 Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Donald Trump, Protests, Women

By Priscilla Frank for The Huffington Post - ”I thought we were headed on a different trajectory,” New York-based artist Roxanne Jackson sighed in an interview with The Huffington Post. “I just really didn’t anticipate ... this.” Jackson was referring to the events of Nov. 9, 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. In the days that followed, Jackson’s emotional state shifted from utter shock to a foggy depression as she struggled to come to terms with the fact that our nation’s foremost leader will soon be a man who has publicly objectified, demeaned, humiliated, threatened and bragged about assaulting women without recourse.

‘Massive Fleet’ Of Buses Now Taking New Yorkers To Women’s March

December 24, 2016 Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! D.C., March, New York (NY), Washington, Washington D.C., Women

By Catherine Pearson for The Huffington Post - The Women’s March on Washington is happening. It has permits. It has a starting location. More than 150,000 people have indicated on Facebook that they will be there ― a number that grows by the day. Now march organizers are helping attendees get from New York City to Washington D.C., running what the New York City chapter of the Women’s March described in a statement as a “massive fleet of buses.” The buses will pick up marchers in 56 neighborhoods, traveling 70 distinct routes, and return to the city the same day. Tickets cost $62 (plus tax) round-trip. “It is our highest priority to ensure that this march is accessible for people from every demographic in New York.

A Note To My Fellow White Women About The Barred Inauguration March

December 15, 2016 Cayce D. Utley, www.theestablishment.co Resist! Inauguration, Women

By Cayce D. Utley for The Establishment - I love that you’re coming. I love that you’re mad enough about this horror show to show up, maybe for the first time. But let’s dive into our frustration about this . . .First, let’s sit with what it means to ask permission from the state and actually feel disappointment at being told “no.” We’re hip-deep in privilege if we thought a large gathering of women (now helmed by women of color) would be able to dissent with state approval. Are we used to getting our way a little? You betcha. Now is a good time to look around and re-center women of color in our thinking. How does the state respond to them? What is our response to all THAT?

Yes, The Women’s March Is Still On — And It Has A Starting Location

December 13, 2016 Catherine Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! March, Washington DC, Women

By Catherine Pearson for The Huffington Post - The Women’s March on Washington is still due to take place the day after DonaldTrump’s inauguration next month ― despite media claims that it’s been barred from nearly all of the capital’s major public protest spaces, rally organizers say. And they’ve secured a starting location. “People from across the nation will gather” at the intersection of Independence Avenue and Third Street SW, near the U.S. Capitol, at 10:00am” on Jan. 21, march organizers said in a statement on Friday. Planning would continue right up to the march and for security reasons, organizers would not release more logistical details until a later date, the statement added.

Women’s March On Washington Barred From Lincoln Memorial

December 12, 2016 Amber Jamieson and Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com Organize! March, Washington DC, Women

By Amber Jamieson and Jessica Glenza for The Guardian - For the thousands hoping to echo the civil rights and anti-Vietnam rallies at Lincoln Memorial by joining the women’s march on Washington the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration: time to readjust your expectations. The Women’s March won’t be held at the Lincoln Memorial. That’s because the National Park Service, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, filed documents securing large swaths of the national mall and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial for the inauguration festivities. None of these spots will be open for protesters.

For Women’s Reproductive Freedom, A Chill Wind Blows

December 1, 2016 Dorothy Samuels, www.brennancenter.org Educate! Reproductive Rights, Women

By Dorothy Samuels for Brennen Center for Justice and The American Prospect - Donald Trump’s plans for an extreme misogynistic makeover of reproductive health care received way too little scrutiny during his noxious, anti-woman campaign. Now, the damage a hard-right Trump administration could inflict on abortion rights and women’s health services more broadly has become impossible to ignore. Trump lost the popular vote and received no mandate to roll back or eliminate a fundamental right that the Supreme Court has recognized as integral to women’s autonomy and equality, but since Election Day, he has made even plainer his commitment to doing exactly that.

Why I Do Not Support The Women’s March On Washington

November 30, 2016 Brittany T. Oliver, www.brittanytoliver.com Resist! Washington DC, Women, Women of Color

By Brittany T. Oliver for Brittany T. Oliver - My name is Brittany Oliver and I'm a women's rights activist in Baltimore, MD. As a Black woman, I am once again let down by people who call themselves feminists. I have been marginalized by the movement and now, my guard is up. Despite my posts being deleted from the national Facebook event page, I've continued to be very vocal in my disappointment in the political co-optation of the "One Million Women," now known as the "March on Washington" which is scheduled for January 21, 2017 at Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

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