Women

#VivasNosQueremos March Against Gender Violence & Femicides

April 25, 2016 Erin Gallagher, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Mexico, Violence, Women

By Erin Gallagher for Revolution News - Tens of thousands mobilized in Mexico for the #VivasNosQueremos #24A march against gender violence and femicides. People marched in over 40 cities in 27 states of the country to demand an end to gender violence. Leading up to today’s planned march, hashtag #MiPrimerAcoso (the first time I was harassed) was tweeted by thousands of Mexicans telling personal stories about attacks of all kinds against women from street harassment to rapes.

Inside The UK’s Women’s Equality Party

March 21, 2016 Catherine Anderson, www.aljazeera.com Create! United Kingdom (UK), Women

By Catherine Anderson for Aljazeera - London, United Kingdom - If women had access to the same employment opportunities and salaries as men, London's economy would gain approximately $55bn, according to the Women's Equality Party (WE). On the morning of February 18, party leader Sophie Walker stood before Her Majesty's Treasury, the finance ministry, with a cheque for this amount, representing the money lost due to "women's untapped earning potential". Walker is on the campaign trail, standing as the WE candidate in the 2016 London Mayoral election.

Women-Led Movements Redefine Power, From California To Nepal

March 20, 2016 Rucha Chitnis, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Domestic Workers, Environement, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Racism, Women

By Rucha Chitnis for YES! Magazine. In the face of growing corporate power, land grabs, economic injustice, and climate change, women’s movements offer a paradigm shift. They have redefined leadership and development models, connected the dots between issues and oppression, prioritized collective power and movement-building, and critically examined how issues of gender, race, caste, class, sexuality, and ability disproportionately exclude and marginalize. Women of color have unleashed powerful media campaigns and actions by connecting identity and its relationship with structural racism and institutional power. Whether it is indigenous women in the Amazon fighting corporate polluters and climate change or undocumented Latina domestic workers advocating for worker rights and dignity in California, women’s groups and networks are making links between unbridled capitalism, violence, and the erosion of human rights and destruction of the Earth.

The Socialist Origins Of International Working Women’s Day

March 9, 2016 Jennie Ernewein, www.marxist.ca Educate! International Working Womens Day, Socialism, Women

By Jennie Ernewein for Fightback - Over 100 years have passed since the first International Women’s Day was organized. Although International Women’s Day (IWD) has, in recent years, become an event that focuses on the celebration of women’s rights and achievements, the socialist origins of the IWD have become lesser known. Originally called International Working Women’s Day, it was proposed by Clara Zetkin of the International Women’s Conference that was linked to the Socialist Second International in 1910.

Turkey: Riot Police Break Up Women’s Day Protests

March 8, 2016 Adam Justice, www.truth-out.org Resist! Police, Protests, Women

By Adam Justice for IBT - Riot police forcibly broke up a rally of hundreds of women gathering in Istanbul to mark International Women's Day on 6 March. The women were mounting their demonstration two days before the official Women's Day on 8 March, despite a ban by the governor of Istanbul that cited security concerns. Footage shows a crowd of women fleeing from police armed with shields and firing rubber bullets. The female protesters had organised the protest in defiance of the ban, chanting slogans and filling the district of Kadikoy's streets with purple banners...

Women And The Arab Spring: A Dream Turned Nightmare

January 27, 2016 Abdalhadi Alijla, www.opendemocracy.net Resist! Arab Spring, Women

By Abdalhadi Alijla for Open Democracy - At first, opportunistically then pragmatically, a growing number of us thought that the Arab Spring would enhance women rights in the MENA region. Though we are acutely aware of the pace of such a development, the speed at which it has deteriorated is quite shocking. The dream of women being effective participants in political, economic and social life in the post-Arab Spring countries has been crushed.

Abortion Fight Is About Controlling Women

January 23, 2016 Dennis Trainor Jr., www.acronymtv.com Resistance Report Abortion, Women

By Dennis Trainor Jr. for Acronym Tv - As we near the 43rd anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court is getting ready to hear a case that could radically restrict the number of women’s health care facilities in the United States and may make abortion services inaccessible in many parts of the country. Before the Supreme Court will hear that case, radical religious extremists from all over the country will come to Washington, D.C. for the annual ‘March for Life’. Sunsara Taylor, the initiator behind the group Stop Patriarchy calls the march a “march for forced motherhood.” Taylor is leading the counter protests in Washington DC, and sat down with Dennis Trainor, Jr for this extended conversation just before the “March for Life.”

Stand Up For Abortion Rights

January 13, 2016 Stop Patriarchy, www.StopPatriarchy.org Resist! Abortion, Women, Women's Rights

By Stop Patriarchy. Abortion rights are in a state of emergency! Clinics across the country have been forced to close through unjust laws and anti-abortion violence. Women and staff are shamed, harassed, and threatened. Christian fascist politicians are fighting to shut down Planned Parenthood. Thousands of women are once again risking their lives and prison to self-induce their own abortions. Eleven people have been murdered by anti-abortion terrorists. And a looming major Supreme Court case will affect abortion rights for decades to come. Each year, tens of thousands of fanatics march against women's right to abortion and birth control on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Be part of standing up in counter-protest, letting the world and the powers that be feel our demand that abortion be available to every woman without shame, restriction, or stigma.

Indigenous Women Lead Fight Against Climate Change In Latin America

January 11, 2016 Raquel Reichard, www.latina.com Resist! Climate Change, indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Women

By Raquel Reichard for Latina - Why should U.S. Latinas care about this issue? It is having an effect on our lives right now. Our families in Central and South America and the Caribbean are becoming climate refugees. If we do nothing, we're giving up animals, forests, mountains and beaches that are rich with life and history. Ask yourself, what are you willing to lose to climate change? Your project looks specifically at indigenous women at the forefront of this movement across the Americas.

$8 Million For Women In Sex For Home Repair Scandal

January 10, 2016 Marie Lodi, www.jezebel.com Resist! Sexual Assault, Women, Women's Rights

By Marie Lodi for Jezebel. Twenty women who filed a lawsuit against the Housing Authority of Baltimore City are splitting a settlement worth almost $8 million. The lawsuit alleged that maintenance workers at various housing complexes had demanded sexual favors from the women in exchange for receiving badly needed repairs on their units. If the women did not agree, the maintenance requests would go ignored, exposing residents to unsafe conditions. A resident of the Gilmor Homes housing project said that Clinton Coleman, a maintenance supervisor, and Michael Robertson, another worker, demanded sex when the woman asked them to get rid of a bug infestation and fix her pipes. As punishment for her refusal, she had no heat in her apartment for two years. One young mother said she had sex with Coleman because she had feared for the safety of her daughter. “I was scared and ashamed,” the woman said. “I tried to forget about the incident.” Each time the woman needed something repaired, Coleman demanded sex.

African Women Organize To Reclaim Agriculture

January 9, 2016 Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Create! Africa, Food and Agriculture, Women

By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell for Other Worlds Are Possible - Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Everybody originated with indigenous ways of living and the way of Mother Earth. The real role of women is in the seed. It is the women who harvest, select, store, and plant seeds. Our seeds come from our mothers and our grandmothers. To us, the seed is the symbol of the continuity of life. Seed is not just about the crops. Seed is about the soil, about the water, and about the forest. Finger millet. Photo courtesy of Mphathe Makaulele. When we plant our seeds, we don’t just plant them anytime or anywhere. We listen to our elders, who teach us about the ecological calendar.

What Women Of Berlin’s Rosenstrasse Protest Can Teach About Trump

December 22, 2015 Rivera Sun, www.peacevoice.info Resist! Donald Trump, Women

By Rivera Sun for Peace Voice - “Many United States citizens are appalled at recent remarks by Donald Trump and other bigoted politicians advocating policies against Muslims that are eerily reminiscent of Nazi policies toward the Jews. The parallels between the 1930s-40s in Germany and the United States in 2015 are frightening. It is clear to many citizens that the rise of bigotry and fascism in our nation cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Organized resistance is essential. In this effort, revisiting the history of resistance to the Nazis offers us some tantalizing concepts.

‘Suffragette’ Foregrounds Working-Class Women

November 29, 2015 Linda Gordon, www.portside.org Educate! movie review, Suffragettes, Women, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Linda Gordon for Portside. Movie Review - An industrial laundry in 1912 London, the steam infusing the air, the sweat on the workers' faces so vivid the viewer herself feels the heat. These laundries were not only literal sweatshops, but surrounded workers with burning toxic lye. This opening scene in Sara Gavron's new film, Suffragette, is as powerful as any that follow. It is intended to surprise-not what one expects from a film about the British woman suffrage movement, because the history books have mainly told us about its elite leaders, Emmeline and her daughters Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst.

Hunger Strike At Texas Detention Center Swells Into The Hundreds

November 12, 2015 Kanya D'Almeida, www.rhrealitycheck.org Resist! Hunger Strikes, Immigration, Women

By Kanya D'Almeida for RH Reality Check - for The number of hunger strikers at a Texas immigrant detention facility has swelled to almost 500 since last Wednesday, an Austin-based advocacy group revealed in a phone call with RH Reality Check. When news of the protest action broke on October 28, about 27 women at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, 35 miles east of Austin, were reportedly refusing their meals. While grievances ranged from abusive treatment by guards to a lack of medical care, the women, hailing primarily from Central America, were unanimous in their one demand: immediate release.

The Suffragettes Who Learned Martial Arts To Fight For Votes

November 5, 2015 Tao Tao Holmes, www.atlasobscura.com Resist! Police, United Kingdom (UK), Women

By Tao Tao Holmes for Atlas Obscura - Beneath the folds of their Victorian dresses, the jujutsuffragettes concealed wooden clubs—preparation for hand-to-hand combat with the London police. The Indian clubs, shaped like bowling pins, were used in exercise classes of the era, flaunted in leg lunges, or alternatively, brandished against cops. When policemen heard that radical suffragettes were arming themselves, they began worrying about pistols and firearms; what they didn’t expect was to be met with an eclectic form of the Japanese martial art of jujutsu (also spelled jiujitsu or jujitsu). The women pulled out their clubs, the police pulled out their truncheons, and the sparring began.

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