Women

Women Protest Raping Spree By Burning Police Station In Mexico

August 22, 2019 Johnny Hazard, Counterpunch.org Resist! History, Mexico, Protests, Rape, Sexism, Women

About two thousand people, mostly young women (many of whom identify themselves as anarcofeministas), marched and rampaged through the Zona Rosa area of Mexico City on Friday, August 16. This was the second such action in less than a week. The first, on Monday, was in direct reaction to a young woman’s accusation against four police officers whom she says raped her and to the new López Obrador-linked city administration’s inaction. (The district attorney had announced that she would close the case because the accuser did not identify the suspects on time.)

Women Lead Struggle To Preserve Indian Democracy In Face Of Rising Hindu Nationalism

August 17, 2019 Yamuna Matheswaran, Wagingnonviolence.org Resist! India, Nationalism, Women

After the Indian government’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, people across India answered a nationwide call for protests issued by left-wing parties on Aug. 7. Article 370 had provided the state with considerable autonomy and was one of the conditions for its accession to the Indian union in 1947. Shabnam Hashmi, social activist and co-founder of the non-governmental organization Act Now for Harmony and Democracy, or ANHAD, livestreamed the protests from New Delhi.

‘Value’ Of Unpaid Work By Women

June 22, 2019 By Sheshu Babu, Countercurrents.org Create! Labor, Sexism, Women

In an article ( Women’s unpaid work:some statistics, 7 March 2000, theguardian.com), compiled by Global Women’s Strike campaign, ‘….. unwaged work contributes as much as £ 739 bn to the British economy (Office of National Statistics (ONS), October, 1997). Two thirds of women working out of the home full time do most of the housework. (Red Magazine , Jan 2000) . Women in waged work with young children do 46 hours a week of housework ( childcare, cooking, laundry, shopping, gardening, etc ) compared to 25 hours by men(Omnibus Survey ,ONS, 1995).

The Victories – And Continuing Struggles – Of Women In Sudan

June 21, 2019 Nada Mustafa Ali, Theconversation.com Resist! Protests, Sudan, Women

One of the most popular images from Sudan’s protests that led to the overthrow of Omar al-Bashir is that of Alaa Salah – a young, female university student. The image of her speaking to a crowd highlighted the presence and role women had in the uprising. While the video challenged narratives prevalent in global media – which sometimes portray African and Muslim women as victims who lack agency – Alaa Salah’s courage is but an extension of the roles that women have played throughout Sudan’s history. Warrior queens and queen mothers had crucial power in Sudan’s ancient kingdom of Kush and its metropolis, Meroe (circa 1069 BCE to 350 CE).

A (Real) Strike To Fight For Abortion Rights

June 6, 2019 Tatiana Cozzarelli, Ezra Brain and Olivia Wood, Leftvoice.org Resist! Abortion, Reform, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Women

In recent weeks, several states have passed incredibly restrictive laws against abortion. The specifics of these laws vary, but the end result is the same: abortion is becoming illegal again. In many cases, these laws threaten anyone who gets or performs an abortion with prison time. The Alabama bill (HB 314) reclassifies performing an abortion at any stage of the pregnancy as a Class A felony, meaning that doctors will face a minimum of 10 years and up to 99 years in prison. The law states that people who seek or attain abortions will not face criminal or civil liability.

Abortion Rights And The Power Of Protest

May 27, 2019 Margaret Kimberley, Blackagendareport.com Resist! Abortion, Electoral Politics, Protests, Reproductive Rights, Women

Americans do not know how to protest. Even on those occasions when they take to the streets they also waste time with nonsense. Props like pink hats or costumes from the Handmaids Taletelevision show are poor substitutes for effective politics. It has been nearly 50 years since mass action has been coordinated into coherent political demands. Now the right to abortion is at risk and the lack of effective protest is partly the cause. The states of Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Iowa, Kentucky, and Arkansas have passed so-called fetal heart beat laws which ban the procedure before many women even realize they are pregnant.

The Most Dangerous Time For Women’s Rights In Decades

May 21, 2019 By Martha Burk, Otherwords.org Educate! Abortion, Sexism, Women

We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. While some erosion of abortion rights has occurred over the decades — parental consent laws, waiting periods, procedure curtailment — the fundamental right has largely been by ruled by the courts, and viewed by the public, as guaranteed under Roe. Around 60 percent of Americans support a legal right to the procedure. Now state legislatures are escalating their assault on that right — and on the women who attempt to exercise it.

America’s Reproductive Slaves

May 21, 2019 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Abortion, Birth control, Reproductive Rights, Sexism, Women

On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at the same time could not have been more revelatory. The ruling elites are acutely aware that the steadily declining American birthrate is the result of a de facto “birth strike” by women who, unable to afford adequate health insurance and exorbitant medical bills and denied access to paid parental leave, child care and job protection, find it financially punitive to have children.

‘For The Love Of Our Children’: Mothers Rise Up In Global March For Climate Action

May 13, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, March, Mothers, Women

Marking International Mother's Day, thousands of moms took to the streets in London and across the world Sunday to demand transformative action on behalf of Mother Earth and their children, whose futures are under threat from the global climate crisis. "We need to do everything necessary to clean up our air and create a safer future for all our children." —Rosamund Kissi-Debra "Business as usual—toxic pollution in our streets and our schools—is fueling a crisis that is making our kids sick and it is families in the deprived areas that are paying the heaviest price," Rosamund Kissi-Debra, whose daughter died from an asthma attack linked to air pollution, said during a rally on Sunday.

US Military Sees Dramatic Rise in Sexual Assaults

May 4, 2019 By Ilana Novick, Truthout Educate! Military, Sexual Assault, Women

There were 20,500 reported sexual assaults in the military in 2018, according to a new Pentagon report, a 38% increase in the number of assaults since 2016. The results, as ABC News reports, represent “a setback for the U.S. military’s efforts to reduce sexual assault in the military.” These numbers come from an anonymous survey the Pentagon conducts every two years. Respondents include Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine personnel. The survey defines assault as “rape, sexual assault, forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual contact, abusive sexual contact and attempts to commit those offenses,” according to ABC News. Over 85% of the victims reported knowing the perpetrators.

Looking Back At 1919: Immigration, Race, And Women’s Rights, Then And Now

April 17, 2019 By Arnold R. Isaacs, Tomdispatch.com Educate! History, Immigration, Policy, Race, Sexism, Women

The blend isn’t exact. Bigotry was expressed much more explicitly a century ago, not in code as it usually is now. Jim Crow laws in the South and other forms of racial segregation in the rest of the country were seen by most white Americans as the normal state of affairs. In the national debate on immigration, the most inflammatory rhetoric was largely aimed at immigrants from Asia, not Latin America or the Middle East; Slavs, southern Europeans, and Jews from Eastern Europe also faced widespread hostility.

MA – Mothers Out Front Launches “Beyond Gas” Campaign Team And 2-Year Campaign

April 11, 2019 Anne Wright, Mothersoutfront.org Resist! Gas, Massachusetts, Women

We started the Launch Meeting with a celebration of all that has been done in past years to limit the use of dangerous fracked gas, and to stop the build-out of gas infrastructure in Massachusetts. Attendees wrote our successes out on a timeline on the wall, and then added our visions for the future: the wins we hope to have in this two-year campaign. Members were hopeful that we would stop the Weymouth Compressor Station, join the fight in Western Mass.

No Right To Privacy If You’re Poor?

March 13, 2019 Don Lash, Socialistworker.org Organize! Black Working Class, Books, Women

Institutional racism places Black women with gross disproportionality in the position of being disenfranchised of privacy rights as poor women, and the moral construction of poverty gives the cover of colorblindness to some manifestations of racism. Nor does Bridges make the claim that poor men have or don’t have privacy rights. She limits her claim to poor women because The Poverty of Privacy Rights is based in large part on research she did in her first book in 2011, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as s Site of Racialization. She makes no claim about poor men simply because she lacks ethnographic data on which to base such claims.

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