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Oklahoma IWW Statement of Solidarity with #YesAllDaughters
Students at Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma will walk out of their classes at 9:20 A.M. on Monday, November 24th, 2014 to be greeted by hundreds of activists and supporters boldly standing with them in solidarity. Why?
Throughout the semester, an 18-year-old senior at the school raped three female students, publicized the rapes and humiliated the survivors.
As a union committed to the abolition of patriarchy and all forms of exploitation, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 8:35pm PST
Shoot the Messenger: Blame the Victim
Victims of rape are often blamed for the assaults because of the lingering sexism in our society....
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 3:10pm PDT
Petition: Ban Greek Organizations from UCSC
Ban Greek Organizations from UC Santa Cruz. Petitioning Chancellor George Blumenthal. Sign petition here: https://www.change.org/p/george-blumenthal-ban-greek-organizations-from-ucsc...
Posted: Thu, Oct 2, 2014 2:06pm PDT
Who Cares? A Feminist Critique of the Care Economy
We live in an increasingly uncaring world. Patriarchal capitalism offers rich financial rewards
to those who pursue their individual self-interest and penalizes those committed to the care of others. Competition is more highly valued than cooperation, and individual rights trump social obligation. Family and community life are treated as leisure activities......
Posted: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 6:20am PDT
Sign Statement on Abortion Rights Emergency in Texas
Sign statement on EMERGENCY IN TEXAS. STOP FORCED MOTHERHOOD. ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 2:13pm PDT
Lesbians, Women and Equality
The struggle for pay equity and equality for women continues as lesbians are being buried by invisibility in our own community....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 11:20am PDT
2013 worst year in decades for abortion rights-what can be done?
The year 2013 nearly broke the all-time record for the most new restrictions on abortion passed in a single year. Some 22 states passed 70 different laws including late-abortion bans, doctor and clinic regulations, limits on medication abortions and bans on insurance coverage, according the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group. Twenty-four states have barred abortion coverage by the new health exchanges and nine of them forbid private insurance plans, as well, from covering most ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 12:07am PST
Dorothee Soelle: Teacher of God and Prophetess
Twenty years ago Dorothee Soelle warned of that totalitarian religion in North America that is in power today. She spoke of “Christo-fascism” and meant the “Christian” glossing over a capitalist system that goes along with murder, exploitation and destruction. The harsh words can be found in “Mysticism and Resistance” (NW 10/83)....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 5:25am PST
ACLU Sues Bishops on Behalf of Pregnant Woman Denied Care at Catholic Hospital
NEW YORK and DETROIT— The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Michigan have filed a lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman who miscarried and was denied appropriate medical treatment because the only hospital in her county is required to abide by religious directives. The directives, written by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, prohibited that hospital from complying with the applicable standard of care in this case....
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 12:09am PST
The Timid and Intimidated Nature of the Pro-Abortion Movement
Not only should abortion be legal but it also is well worth arguing that having children should be made illegal (as in a crime). Now here is a statement even most sleeping Americans would agree is a radical proposition (so radical in fact you almost never encounter it). And yet it is a very practical and sane proposition, even to its extreme, logical outcome, that is allowing our very own human species to become extinguished (as in extinct). After all the ecological system of this world doesn...
Posted: Sun, Nov 3, 2013 4:02pm PST
The Trust Act, Secure Communities and the Violence Against Women Act
Secure Communities Program Forces Minority Women to Live in Fear...
Posted: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 12:59pm PDT
Free All Filipina Political Prisoners!
Hundreds of women political prisoners in the Philippines have been tortured and detained without proper trial. Can we tolerate this situation?...
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 6:32pm PDT
Democrat Obama Opposes Emergency Birth Control for All, Appoints Reactionary Pritzker
Hardly a week passes when Democrat Obama gives us another reminder to register Peace & Freedom or Green. This week he proudly supports the appeal by his Justice Department FOR A SECOND TIME of a good court ruling that Emergency Birth Control be available without prescription to all women, regardless of age, who may have an unwanted pregnancy. He also appointed his financial sponsor, billionaire, anti-labor, banking crook, Penny Pritzker, to chair the Commerce Department....
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2013 8:24am PDT
Ding Dong! Thatcherism and sexism are alive
Margaret Thatcher is part of a system, not an individual deus ex machina, no matter how personally ambitious....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 10:25am PDT
Just say no to the rape pole tax: Stripping for the rape tax-Not!
Alameda County's state rape pole tax is a bad idea and ought to be rejected by the public and state legislators. Does Alameda County even have any strip clubs in their county? Just say NO to SB782....
Posted: Sun, Mar 31, 2013 4:43pm PDT
Anarchists play rough: Kerfuffle over radical book fair in the porn palace
The Armory Community Center: too sexy? Not sexy at all?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:01pm PST
Occupy Oakland: The Assault on Patriarchy Continues
At the GA on Sunday, 1/27, approximately 90% of those in attendance
expressed an interest in continuing a discussion on the harmful practices
of patriarchy at the GA next Sunday, 2/3. I take this to mean that we
don’t want these problems to be neglected any longer. Several agenda items
have been suggested for this work, and we hope others will critique this
list and contribute items of their own. Here are some agenda offerings:...
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 10:31am PST