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The Democrats Have Been Embarrassingly Useless on Abortion
For months, the Democratic Party leadership knew the Supreme Court was preparing to gut Roe v. Wade. When it happened, they sprang into action and immediately did nothing
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Top US Nurses Union Urges Senators to Suspend Filibuster to Protect Abortion Rights
"Reproductive health services," says National Nurses United, are "fundamental to ensuring economic justice for women across the country."
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18 days of resistance in Ecuador
Women leaders of the National Strike explain its context
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Feminism Hasn’t Failed. Here’s the Evidence.
You can take away a right through legal means, but it is harder to take away the belief in that right. The uproar over the court’s hideous abortion decision is a reminder of how unpopular it is
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How the Trump Supreme Court became King George III
Depriving us of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
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Don’t Mourn—Organize for Reproductive Justice
Socialist feminists don’t want “choice”—we demand full abortion rights for all, without exception
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We Need Racial Solidarity to Restore Abortion Rights
Fascism is definitely in our future unless we work together in these tumultuous times
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Democrats Don’t Have a Plan, but Abortion Rights Activists Do
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More Republicans in Office will Not Save Abortion Rights, but History has Shown, Neither Will More Democrats
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Overturn of “Roe” Shows How Extreme an Outlier the US Has Become
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Labor Condemns Supreme Court Decision Overturning Roe v. Wade
Numerous unions condemned the Supreme Court's decision to end the constitutional right to an abortion
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The Lessons From the Right’s 50-Year-Long Crusade to Limit the Freedom of Women
And why the culture war may never end
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The Abortion Rights Movement Must Now Turn to Grassroots Organizing and Direct Action
Millions of people are pissed off and ready to fight for reproductive freedom — and they aren’t looking to the Democrats to save them
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Progressives Launch ‘Four More’ Campaign to Demand Supreme Court Expansion
"In a true democracy, power rests with the people," one campaigner asserted. "And the only way to take our power back is to take back the court."
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The Feminist Response to RIMPAC and the U.S. War Against China
From Hawai’i to Okinawa, women leaders across the Asia and the Pacific offer an alternative to great power competition
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Facebook Labels Abortion Rights Vandals as Terrorists Following Roe Reversal
Any discussion of Jane’s Revenge, which is responsible for a series of vandalism attacks and threatening statements, is now subject to Facebook’s most stringent restrictions
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Self-Determination Has Been Wrenched Away From Half the US Population
For the first time in U.S. history, the Supreme Court has retracted a fundamental constitutional right
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The Activist Offering: We Need You in the Movement for Abortion Rights
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the fight for reproductive freedom has never been more dire. Here are some actions you can take right now
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Coalition of Leftists, Activists, and Unions Bring 20,000 Out for Abortion Rights
Tens of thousands of people took their rage to the streets against the overturning of the constitutional right to an abortion
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Right-Wing Justices Should Be Impeached for Lying Under Oath, Says Ocasio-Cortez
"We have a responsibility to protect our democracy," said the New York Democrat. "That includes holding those in power who violate the law accountable."
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Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should
Democrats have reneged on their longtime promise to codify Roe v. Wade every time they’ve held power
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Voting Harder Won’t Bring Back Roe
We need an abortion rights movement that organizes beyond individual elections and fights for reproductive freedom as part of a federal universal health plan
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Biden, Democrats Urged to Protect Abortion Access in Post-Roe US
"The Supreme Court doesn't get the final say on abortion"
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The Supreme Court Is Waging a Full-Scale War on Modern Life
The project that the conservative majority has undertaken is far more extreme than just going back to pre-Roe
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A Feminist Blueprint for Saving Democracy in the U.S.—and Beyond
Feminists know that building transnational solidarity is often crucial when trying to counter domestic oppression
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There’s No Such Thing As Legitimate Rape, Because There’s No Such Thing As Rape
For weeks on end, we heard about no pregnancy rape, bad weather rape, no rape in marriage, forced rape, gray rape—sex that falls between consent and denial—and date rape.
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Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul’s immediate and unconditional release
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Millions of Women in Mexico Join “Day Without Us” Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
“In Mexico it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed”
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United States rises up in fight for abortion rights
Interview on the ongoing protests, the legacy of the right for abortion movement in the US and the path ahead for the struggle
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women's March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration
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Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival
Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
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In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
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Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
Blogs
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Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
Books
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Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
About the Book Palestinian Women is the first book to...
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Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues...
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Century of Women: The History of Women in Britain and the United States in the Twentieth Century
As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert...
