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Interview Authors Of ‘Black Girls Matter’ Report

March 1, 2015 Ahmad Greene-Hayes, www.thefeministwire.com ,
On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) released its groundbreaking report, “Black Girls Matter.” Ahmad Greene-Hayes, a guest writer for The Feminist Wire, interviews Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and Dr. Luke Harris, from AAPF, about this report’s impact on the Black Lives Matter movement. The report, executive summary, and social media guide are also available online for viewing.Black Girls Matter Report Ahmad: The African American Policy Forum has been an instrumental voice in the national dialogue centered on the inclusion of girls in racial justice policies and initiatives. Your work was pivotal in shaping the conversation on the limitations of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative. Outside of the work AAPF has been doing, what was the genesis of Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Over-policed, and Under-protected?

‘Captive Revolution’ Liberates Narratives Of Palestinian Women

February 2, 2015 Azeezah Kanji, www.rabble.ca , ,
"Among Palestinians, jail is a very normalized part of life -- as normal and as common as school, as babies, as olive oil and thyme," proclaimed Palestinian lawyer Noura Erakat at a recent discussion (with Angela Davis) on mass incarceration in the United States and Palestine. Indeed, since 1967, Israel has incarcerated around 800,000 Palestinians -- approximately 20 per cent of the Palestinian population of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. A significant number of those criminalized and imprisoned for their political activism have been women. According to Palestinian prisoner support association Addameer, there are currently 19 women political detainees in Israeli prisons. And yet, these women activists have been largely marginalized in both national histories and academic studies, invisibilizing them into ghosts or distorting them into monsters.

Remembering The Paris Commune: Workers, Women Arise

January 30, 2015 John Merriman, www.truth-out.org , , ,
Who were the Communards? British journalist Frederic Harrison assessed the Communards in Paris, writing, "The 'insurgents' ... are simply the people of Paris, mainly and at first working men, but now largely recruited from the trading and professional classes. The 'Commune' has been organized with extraordinary skill, the public services are efficiently carried on, and order has been for the most part preserved." In his view, the Commune, while being "one of the least cruel, has been perhaps the ablest revolutionary government of modern times." The average Communard was the average Parisian: young, between twenty-one and forty years of age, with the largest number men aged thirty-six to forty.

From Ferguson To New York, Women Are Leading Protests

December 17, 2014 Hannah Giorgis, www.theguardian.com , , ,
Saturday afternoon in New York, a diverse crowd of over 50,000 people marched through the city expressing frustration with a system that continues to let black die people without justice. The Millions March NYC, characterized as much by deep affirmation of black life as collective outrage over that injustice, brought together people of all backgrounds to protest ongoing state violence. But the latest successful moment of the post-Ferguson movement wasn’t the work of an established civil rights organization or well-funded non-profit: like the protests and organizing in Missouri and beyond, it was driven chiefly by the efforts of young black women and brought to fruition by a coalition of young multi-racial activists. Umaara Elliott and Synead Nichols, the lead organizers of Saturday’s march noted that they are part of a new generation of activists “willing to take up the torch” and “demand that action be taken at every level of government to ensure that these racist killings by the police cease.”

Report: When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger

November 30, 2014 Staff, http://hungerreport.org , ,
The 2015 Hunger Report, When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger, released today by Bread for the World Institute, identifies the empowerment of women and girls as essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the United States. “We have made great strides in reducing hunger and poverty at home and around the world, yet women continue to be treated like second-class citizens,” said Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. “Progress towards women’s empowerment has been slow due to discriminatory laws, unpaid work caring for the family, and traditions that demean their capacity as decision makers.” “Eliminating barriers and empowering women around the world is key to ending hunger in our time,” said Asma Lateef, director of Bread for the World Institute. “We must not tolerate discrimination against women and instead, demand a comprehensive approach to women’s empowerment that includes applying a gender lens to all programs and policies.”

Women On The Frontlines Of The Struggle In Ferguson

October 18, 2014 Michelle Zei, www.youngist.org , , ,
Women have always played integral roles in social movements and turning points in American history. For example, women in the Civil War revolutionized the nursing profession that we know today. Women were willing to get their hands dirty and fulfill an immense need that men alone couldn’t meet. Despite the contributions of fearless women throughout history like Eleanor Roosevelt, Angela Davis, and Dolores Huerta, women are often remembered in the margins as wives and supporting roles while history celebrates their male contemporaries with more distinction. The bravery of young women in St. Louis makes the powerful statement that women are resilient and fully capable of leadership – a statement that still receives skepticism in the United States, where we’ve yet to have a female president, and women only account for 99 of the 535 seats of the current 113th Congress, and women of color hold 30 seats (14 belong to Black women).
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