Women

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.

‘If We Stop, The World Stops!’: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Spanish Women Take To Streets For Feminist Strike

March 9, 2019 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Resist! International Working Womens Day, Sexism, Women

Hundreds of thousands of people across Spain marked International Women's Day on Friday with a "feminist strike." The strike, in its second consecutive year, demanded stronger efforts to combat gender-based discrimination, pay gaps, and violence. Last year's strike drew global attention as more than 5 million women took to Spain's streets to shine a light on such issues. On Friday, unions, feminist groups, and left-wing political parties planned 1,400marches and rallies in Madrid, Barcelona, and cities throughout the country, guided by the slogan, "If we stop, the world stops."

Draft Registration Will Be Either Ended Or Imposed On Women

February 28, 2019 Staff, Davidswanson.org Create! Military Draft, Women

A choice must now be made. It is officially unconstitutional to discriminate against 18-year-old women by not forcing them to sign up to be forced against their will to kill and die for Venezuela’s oil or some other noble cause. Yes, the fine U.S. judiciary has declared for-men-only Selective Service registration to be verboten. That’s not to say there isn’t debate on the matter. One side holds that women should be treasured as the delicate witless pieces of property they are because the Bible says so, and therefore they must be kept out of war entirely.

Chile’s Feminists Inspire A New Era Of Social Struggle

January 30, 2019 By Bree Busk, Roarmag.org Resist! Chile, Class Struggle, Women

It is May 2018 and as winter descends on Santiago, Chile, a new wave of feminist activity is exploding into life. Anti-patriarchal graffiti covers the city walls and streets are littered with the evidence of recent marches. Tension is rising in the universities and social media are flooded with posts ranging from cautious inquiries to joyous declarations: “Is the downtown campus of PUC occupied?” “Was UCEN taken over?” “Instituto Arcos on feminist strike!” Almost every day, a new selection of feminist banners can be spotted hanging from the fences of Santiago’s most prominent institutions.

Yellow Vest Women’s March Against Austerity Responds To Government Violence

January 7, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! France, Protests, Women, Yellow Vest

Over 50,000 yellow vest women protest in Paris and hundreds more protest across the country against gov't austerity, demanding peaceful ways to reforms. Women "yellow jackets" all across France are mobilizing on Sunday to present the peaceful parts of the movement to the media that only reports violent events, they say. Over 50,000 women gathered in front of the Place de la Bastille and in the Place de la République, in Paris, and others came together in Caen, Montceau-les-Mines, and Toulouse to demonstrate against President Emmanuel Macron’s austerity measures, including an increase in gas prices that the president eventually backed down after months of previous street demonstrations.

Strong, Defiant Women Changed Ireland Forever – But Our Fight’s Not Done

December 28, 2018 By Sarah Monaghan, Huffingtonpost.co.uk Create! Abortion, Health Care, Ireland, Women

As I wrote this we learned the President of Ireland has just signed the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 into law. We did it. We repealed the eighth amendment and abortion services will be free, safe and legal from January 2019. It was an incredible day for all who have worked tirelessly on this issue, social change implemented from the ground up. It has been a long journey: an often torturous movement carried by the grassroots, the far from ‘ordinary’ women and men of Ireland, for months, years and decades. There were times when it appeared impossible, the odds insurmountable, the task of driving an appetite for change amid apathy threatened to swallow us whole.

Status Of Women In Cooperatives

December 20, 2018 Nandani Azad, Indiancooperative.com Educate! Cooperatives, India, New Economy, Women

Women and cooperation play a significant role in the Indian economy especially as no other country in the world has a co-operative movement as large and as diverse as India. Even prior to the current day cooperatives, the concept of cooperation & its activities prevailed in several parts of India known differently i.e., Devarai or Vanarai, Chit funds, Kuries, Bhishis, Phads (some of these were utilized by women solely). The co-operative movement can be defined as a “Voluntary movement of the people carried out democratically by pooling together their resources on the given activity, with the purpose of achieving certain benefits or advantage, which are given to people that cannot get it individually and with the purpose of promoting certain virtue and values such as self help, mutual help...

“Women On Death Row: Invisible Subjects Of Gender Discrimination”

November 8, 2018 Death Penalty Focus, Portside.org Educate! discrimination, Sexism, Women

California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893. California has the largest female death row in the U.S., with 23 condemned women imprisoned at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Four women have been executed in the state since 1893, with the last, Elizabeth Duncan, killed in 1962.* Texas is second with six women on its death row. There are 54 condemned women in the U.S. as of October 2017, about two percent of the total death row population. Since 1973, 181 women have been sentenced to death in the United States.

How Capitalism Has Screwed Women Over

November 3, 2018 Richard D. Wolff, Huffingtonpost.com Educate! Capitalism, New Economy, Sexism, Women

It’s been one year since the explosion of the Me Too movement that followed allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Since then, the #metoo hashtag has been used around 19 million times to expose and discuss workplace sexual harassment. Women are raising their voices. The struggle is multifaceted, but at its heart, women want economic and political equality with men. They also are increasingly questioning capitalism, the system that has allowed and maintained their subordination. To understand how women have been systematically denied so much of what capitalism has provided to their male peers, we need to go back to a pre-capitalist age.

Cops Sexually Assault At Least 100 Women Every Year And No One Talks About It

November 1, 2018 Michael Harriot, Theroot.com Educate! Police, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Women

When discussing America’s police state, we often talk about “black bodies.” The conversation is peppered with words like “brutality” and “police violence.” But no one talks about another brutal act of violence committed by law enforcement figures. We have known about it for years but have mostly overlooked it. Everyone—including this writer—has the information but rarely report it. According to CNN and one of the most widely-used research databases on police criminality, police in the U.S. received 1260 sexual assault charges in a nine-year period, including 405 rapes, 636 acts of sexual fondling and 219 acts of forcible sodomy. That’s only what we know of. While this sounds detestable, these are just the reported cases that resulted in an officer being charged.

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