Women’s Rights

Freeing Marissa Alexander

After her arrest, Marissa Alexander's first husband, Lincoln Alexander, and her sister, Helena Jenkins, formed the Committee to Free Marissa Alexander. Shortly after her conviction, individuals in various states mobilized to form the Free Marissa Now campaign. Sumayya Fire had been working against domestic violence as an advocate, consultant, trainer and program builder for more than 20 years when she learned about Alexander's case. “It touched my heart as an advocate and survivor of violence, to make a decision about defending yourself and get 20 years in prison," she told Truthout. "It sends a message to women who fight back, who choose to save their lives. I could not not use my voice and my resources to help.”

One Billion Rising For A World Of Justice

October 8, 2013 Zillah Eisenstein, www.onebillionrising.org Organize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Police abuse, Women's Rights

ONE BILLION RISING FOR JUSTICE is a call to women, men, and youth around the world to gather safely on 14 February 2014 outside places where they are entitled to justice – court houses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not. Last year One Billion Rising was a “catalyst and a wind.” This year, come dance again. Come sing. Come imagine. And, come to reconfigure and begin to restructure the world with stronger winds. We are doing it for ourselves, and everyone. 2013 was the biggest mass global action to end violence against women and girls in the history of humankind. The further intersectional and coalitional commitments for justice of this new mobilization in 2014 are limitless in their radical effect. Ending violence against women just might be the truly revolutionary demand, for us all.

Welfare Reform Insanity: Banning Convicted Drug Offenders From Food Stamps

August 31, 2013 Sheila Bapat, www.alternet.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty, Women's Rights

Well before the current, direct attack on federal funding of food stamps—also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—there have been systemic, state-imposed barriers to accessing food stamps that have been in place for nearly two decades. Several states require fingerprinting of recipients and reams of paperwork, or are stalled by outdated technology. The Los Angeles Times recently reported on the onerous barriers food stamp recipients face in California. But the ban barring drug convicts from accessing food stamps is one of the most problematic state-imposed barriers faced by poor people like Sutherland. Twelve states still ban convicted drug offenders from accessing SNAP benefits. A relic of welfare reform, the food stamp ban is an example of the political interplay between the drug war and the movement to reform welfare which in reality became a double indictment of the poor: People of financial means who made mistakes with drugs would not be rendered vulnerable to hunger for the rest of their lives.

Zapatista Freedom School Day 2–Women and Revolution

August 15, 2013 andrea, www.interoccupy.net Resist! Democracy, Women's Rights, Zapatistas

We Zapatista women have conquered freedom through our effort ever since we started our organization” they said. “We conquered freedom to reach equality between male comrades and female comrades. Our organization taught us that we are worth it, that we can participate. We can fill positions in the governments at every level – Local, MAREZ (Autonomous Rebellious Zapatista Municipality), and Good Government Boards, we can be sheriffs, health promoters, health coordinators, education and agro-ecological coordinators and so on."

Moral Monday Movement—13 Weeks and 1,000 Arrests

August 13, 2013 Tanya Glover, www.occupy.comL Resist! Democracy, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Government, Moral Monday, Racism, Women's Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

"North Carolina was one of the first states in America to raise its voice against the immoral behavior of their state legislature[...]Each Moral Monday mobilized around a single issue. One week was for labor issues, another for women’s rights, another for voting rights, and so on. The beautiful thing was that no matter what the theme, people came out in droves. This is the meaning of intersectionality -- just because an issue may not affect us on a personal level, we’re still willing to speak up and fight for the fairness and freedom of others."

Pro-Choice 14 Year Old: Stop Calling Me A Whore

July 30, 2013 Tuesday Cain, www.xojane.com Organize! Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Women's Rights

I'm a 14-year-old girl who has lived in Austin, Texas, my whole life. I like art, music and talking on the phone with my friends. When I grow up, I'd like to become a science teacher. I also believe in the right to choose and the separation of church and state. Or to put it another way -- to put it the way I wrote it when I was protesting at the Capitol last week: "Jesus isn't a dick so keep him out of my vagina." Yes, that's my sign. I came up with it last week when my friend and I were trying to think of ideas for what would get people's attention to protest the scary restrictions that are happening in my state trying to take away a woman's right to safe and accessible abortions. It worked.

Minimum Wage Doesn’t Apply To Everyone

July 26, 2013 John Light, www.billmoyers.com Educate! Poverty, Women's Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

But there’s another problem: Millions of working Americans make less than minimum wage. In fact, more Americans are exempt from it than actually earn it. The Pew Research Center examined Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that about one and a half million Americans earned the minimum wage in 2012, but nearly two million people earned an hourly wage that was even less than $7.25 an hour. These workers, for one reason or another, areexempted from the part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) that requires employers to pay at least the minimum wage, and include tipped workers and many domestic workers, as well as workers on small farms, some seasonal workers and some disabled workers.

Nationwide Abortion Rights Freedom Ride

July 18, 2013 Staff, www.revcom.us Organize! Abortion Rights, Women's Rights

Abortion rights in this country right now are in an absolute state of emergency. There is an all-sided, many-fronted assault on women's right to abortion and even birth control. There are the violence, terror, and threats against abortion providers. There is the avalanche of legal restrictions.The last two years have seen record restrictions on abortion access, and this year has already seen 278 new restrictions introduced around the country. Abortion has been marginalized and stigmatized within medicine, taken out of most primary care; it's not taught in medical schools unless students fight for it. Ninety-seven percent of rural counties don't have an abortion provider.

Moral Monday: United for Women, United for Trayvon

July 17, 2013 Lucia Brown, www.commondreams.org Organize! Racism, Women's Rights

North Carolinians met this week for the 11th consecutive anti-GOP action known as "Moral Mondays." Demonstrations were originally intended to focus on women's issues, highlighting a recent anti-choice measure working its way through the legislature, but expanded to express outrage over the not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman. "The sisters are here, the sisters have been here and the sisters are here to stay."- Rev. William Barber Approximately 100 people were arrested, two-thirds of them women, for protesting in the House. This brings the total arrests to 800 since the Moral Monday protests began in April.

Grass Roots Movement Grows to Protect Abortion Rights

July 13, 2013 Amy Goodman, www.DemocracyNow.org Organize! Abortion Rights, Women's Rights

. . . talking about the tipping point that’s come in terms of the reaction to these laws, because that is what I see. We’ve certainly seen it in Texas, and we’ve certainly seen it in North Carolina, that this has just lit a fuse in the supporters of a woman’s right to choose and all the other issues that are connected with this, including prenatal care and Medicaid expansion, which our state also cut off, which means that half a million people in the state will not have access to insurance under the Affordable Care Act. So, I think that all of these issues are connected, and they are infuriating the majority of North Carolinians.

Texas March to Stand with Women July 8

July 7, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Women's Rights

Concerning the anti-abortion omnibus bill and the perversion of politics within our Texas Legislature, I call for another march. This is an opportunity to move the masses, mobilize, and bring further awareness to the general public. We need to build stronger opposition to this bill before it hits the Senate floor on July 9th. Make it known that we will not stand for a flawed system that prematurely pushes legislation to a vote without following due process, especially when it violates a fundamental and constitutional right.

Abortion Rights Under Fire: Why Wendy Davis’ Filibuster Matters

June 26, 2013 Jessica Mason Pieklo, www.rollingstone.com Educate! Women's Rights

Confusion ruled as police began streaming through the Capitol to arrest protesters and clear the crowd. The Texas Senate website released a statement announcing that SB5 had passed – even as the Texas Tribune's Becca Aaronson reported that an official Senate timestamp showed the final vote approving SB5 was taken at 12:02 A.M., two full minutes past the deadline. As the dust settled, evidence emerged that Republicans had resorted to changing the timestamp in an attempt to fake the bill's passage. But with a gallery still packed with Democratic lawmakers and supporters – and upwards of 180,000 people around the country watching a livestream of events online – Republicans could sustain the fiction only so long.

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