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Female Valedictorian Speaks Out For Abortion
The movement is back! Attacking women's right to abortion is attacking the 51% of the population that is female. At a Dallas, TX high school graduation, a female high school valedictorian, Paxton Smith, scrapped her approved speech and gave an outstanding pro-abortion speech. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrfe27VDuRA&t=283s Her speech is at 4:48...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2021 8:09pm PDT
May First joins call for Free Software Foundation Board resignation
May First Movement Technology has joined free software organizations and activists in calling for the resignation of Richard Stallman and the rest of the Board of the Free Software Foundation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2021 7:01pm PDT
Fighting the "Immigrant Threat"
Milkman shows how the flux of low-wage immigrants into the U.S. workforce in recent decades is “not the cause either of the massive economic restructuring that began in the 1970s or the accompanying growth of economic inequality and labor degradation,” but precisely a consequence of these developments....
Posted: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 6:59am PST
48 Years After Landmark Ruling, Advocates Push to #ReimagineRoe and Build Abortion Justice
Nearly a half-century after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that access to safe, legal abortion is a constitutional right, advocates are now pushing the Biden administration and Congress to urgently and aggressively pursue a bold reproductive justice agenda.
Photo: On the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, members of the Raging Grannies mark the day in Menlo Park, California. Photo by Jim Colton, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer....
Posted: Fri, Jan 29, 2021 12:28am PST
Polish Women Resistance Video
Polish women and men are using animation, music and art to fight against the attacks on women...
Posted: Fri, Dec 25, 2020 1:00pm PST
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg 1933-2020
By now, we have seen the TV tributes and read the many thoughts on the Internet regarding Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg who died today at age 87. My favorite is from the ACLU at https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/in-memory-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-1933-2020/?initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=soc&utm_medium=soc&initms=200919_rbg_obit_tw&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=rbg&utm_content=200919_obit&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=soc&ms=200919_rbg_obit_tw...
Posted: Fri, Sep 18, 2020 8:38pm PDT
Día Internacional de las Mujeres Indígenas: 5 septiembre
Día Internacional de las Mujeres Indígenas: 5 septiembre
Bartolina Sisa Vargas - Guerrera Aymara
Bolivia 1750 -5 September- 1782....
Posted: Thu, Sep 3, 2020 2:57pm PDT
Convocatoria Jornadas Ecofeministas antiextractivistas
Convocatoria 4 y 5 de julio
JORNADAS ECOFEMINISTAS ANTIEXTRACTIVISTAS POR EL BUEN VIVIR...
Posted: Tue, Jun 30, 2020 12:14pm PDT
Save Social Security! (video/quicktime 223.4MB)
2 minute video by Lis Cox filmed on June 9, 2020....
Posted: Wed, Jun 17, 2020 4:39am PDT
International Women Day_8M in Mexico City
El 8M (8 de Marzo) del 2020, alrededor de 100000 mujeres tomaron las calles de la Ciudad de México para expresar su rabia y su fuerza al mundo....
Posted: Sun, May 31, 2020 10:23pm PDT
The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Sex Workers – We Need Resources!
Thousands of families in the US rely on the income from sex work to survive and have been thrown into a crisis by the coronavirus....
Posted: Sat, Apr 25, 2020 6:17am PDT
Interview with Charlotte Laws, a Warrior against Revenge Porn
When TV presenter and author Charlotte Laws battled “the most hated man on the Internet,” she was bombarded with computer viruses and death threats. A stalker even appeared at her home....
Posted: Tue, Feb 11, 2020 10:55am PST
Daiara Tukano: Europe must stop investing in the genocide industry
Daiara Tukano, Tukano of Brazil's Amazon, spoke in Paris at events of the Committee in Solidarity with Indigenous in the Americas, CSIA-Nitassinan. Denouncing colonialism and capitalism, she speaks out for Mother Earth....
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2019 11:50am PST
Don't Call Latest Abortion Bans 'Heartbeat Bills,' Doctors Say
Doctors warn of medically inaccurate right-wing talking points.
Via Common Dreams under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Photo of No Bans Demonstration in Palo Alto by Stephanie Stilwell, Stilwell Photography....
Posted: Thu, Jun 6, 2019 12:26am PDT
Report Finds Widespread Neglect and Abuse in Anaheim and Santa Ana Shelters
SANTA ANA, MARCH 14, 2019 — Orange County, in the midst of a dire homelessness crises, opened emergency shelters, giving hope to those who were living in punishing conditions on the streets. But what once was a symbol of hope has become a nightmare for many residents....
Posted: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 6:48pm PDT
U.N. Committee Urges UK Government to Consider “Comprehensive and Complete Ban” on Fracking
Geneva/London/Brussels/Washington, March 13, 2019 - In an extraordinary move, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) slammed the United Kingdom’s policies on fracking for failing to protect the rights of rural women, and urged the British Government to “consider introducing a comprehensive and complete ban on fracking.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 5:23pm PDT
#MeToo! Believing Women and Freud's Assault on the Truth
Over 100 years ago, Freud became aware that many patients had been sexually abused as children, but was forced to abandon this belief due to rejection by his professional peers. I interview author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson about this still-taboo subject....
Posted: Wed, Jan 23, 2019 11:39am PST
Statement on Women's March from Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party
Pro-police and racist forces have denounced the Women’s March for sending greetings to exiled Black revolutionary Assata Shakur. Undoubtedly, a mix of forces from the FBI to so-called men’s rights advocates are busy trying to prevent a multi-racial, grassroots feminist movement from consolidating and truly taking off....
Posted: Sun, Jan 20, 2019 12:33pm PST
800,000 Workers Unpaid by US Govt for Trump's Palm-Greasing Border Wall
We are now witnessing American "democracy" in action with an illegal, fascist, anti-labor, anti-abortion president forcing the government shut down as of 12/22/18, suspending the pay of at least 800,000 workers indefinitely, right before a major Christian holiday which most celebrate so that the president can blackmail Congress to give him $5.7 billion for a worthless border wall so he can reward his organized crime construction company cronies and we can be sure he will benefit, one way or a...
Posted: Sat, Dec 22, 2018 12:45am PST
Suspicious Letter by 65 Women in Support of Brett Kavanaugh and Related Attrocities
The letter released by Senate republicans from 65 women purporting to attest to the decency of Brett Kavanaugh reveals more problems than it solves. A number of other issues with Kavanaugh's integrity remain as well, and more continue to arise all the time. This is why republicans are hell bent on rushing his nomination through....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 12:40pm PDT