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Women
The centennial anniversary of International Women’s Day was
commemorated throughout the world by marches, rallies and meetings. Though
themes differed, the activities showed women expressing their rights,
protesting injustices and demonstrating solidarity with their sisters in
struggle....
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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A long-standing tactic that oppressors use to stop the struggle for liberation is
repression. It mainly backfires on them. As the age-old but accurate slogan
declares, “Repression breeds resistance.”
This is exactly how to describe the case of Melissa Roxas....
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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International Women’s Day was celebrated at a Workers World Party
forum in Detroit on March 6....
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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An excerpt from “Low-Wage Capitalism,” by Fred
Goldstein, recalls the importance of a little-known eight-day sit-down strike
by women workers that swept the country and organized the Wal-Mart of the 1930s
and other service companies....
Posted Mar 11, 2010
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Working mothers and their children, unionized day care workers and community
supporters, outraged by slashed day care subsidies, marched and rallied in
protest Feb. 9 in downtown Buffalo, mobilized by the religious group
VOICE-Buffalo and an outspoken county government representative from the inner
city, Betty Jean Grant....
Posted Feb 18, 2010
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Anti-abortion zealot Scott Roeder was convicted in Wichita, Kan., on Jan. 29 of
the cold-blooded murder of Dr. George R. Tiller, a fearless, caring physician
who performed abortions for women in desperate circumstances, while enduring
great personal risk and paying the ultimate sacrifice....
Posted Feb 6, 2010
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Excerpts from a talk given by Ellen Catalinotto at the WWP National
Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Dec 13, 2009
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Two recent conferences held on the African continent reaffirmed the
determination of women to achieve genuine equality and political empowerment....
Posted Dec 6, 2009
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Coalitions are forming in several Cleveland communities to address the murders
of 11 Black women whose bodies were found in and around a house on Imperial
Avenue in late October. Activists are holding rallies and vigils, meeting with
public officials to present demands, developing better resources for women and
the families of missing persons, and taking care of all the funeral
arrangements for the 10 women whose remains have been identified....
Posted Dec 3, 2009
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Excerpts from a talk by Phebe Eckfeldt from Boston at the WWP National Conference, Nov. 14....
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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The National Women’s Fightback Network stands in solidarity with all of
our Honduran sisters who are in the resistance movement in opposition to the
illegal Micheletti government....
Posted Oct 7, 2009
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Mokgadi Caster Semenya is a South African runner who won the
women’s 800-meter gold medal at the 2009 World Championships. She was
subsequently challenged by competitors to prove her gender and subjected to sex
tests by the International Association of Athletics Federations. South African gender and political analyst Nomboniso Gasa responds....
Posted Sep 9, 2009
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“When I was 15, my friends started going to jail,” says Victoria
Law, a native New Yorker. “Chinatown’s gangs were recruiting in the
high schools in Queens, and faced with the choice of stultifying days learning
nothing in overcrowded classrooms or easy money, many of my friends dropped out
to join a gang.”...
Posted Aug 13, 2009
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Over the last two years Africa has been severely affected by the downturn in
the world economy, resulting in 53 million more people being thrust into
poverty. As a result of the legacy of colonialism and neocolonialism, the
prices of exports from the continent have gone down while the cost of food,
fuel and other commodities imported into Africa has increased drastically....
Posted Jul 5, 2009
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Holding a banner calling for “Jobs & Human Needs, Freedom,
Equality, Peace,” a multinational group of women led a spirited march
through downtown Providence, R.I., on June 12 to the site of the National
Mayors Conference....
Posted Jun 19, 2009
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When asked why he continued to provide midpregnancy abortions after decades of
the most brutal attacks by the right wing, Dr. George Tiller replied, “Where
else can women go?” Indeed, the loss of Dr. Tiller means there are less
than a half-dozen doctors left in the U.S. who specialize in the vital,
life-saving services he provided....
Posted Jun 11, 2009
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The response of reproductive rights organizations was swift and unequivocal
when women’s health care provider Dr. George R. Tiller was assassinated
in Wichita, Kan., May 31. All the national women’s rights and
women’s health care groups denounced the murder and hailed Dr. Tiller as
a hero in the fight for reproductive justice. ...
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a stunning blow to women workers,
overturned lower courts’ decisions and ruled that AT&T, the
seventh-largest corporation in the world, could exclude maternity leaves when
calculating pension benefits....
Posted May 29, 2009
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On May 9, three members of the Georgia Detention Watch made a second solidarity
trip to the Etowah Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., to deliver hundreds of
pairs of cotton underwear to women immigrant detainees....
Posted May 17, 2009
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Another success has been achieved in the campaign to make emergency
contraceptive (EC) available to all women who need it...
Posted Apr 30, 2009
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Hundreds of angry Afghan women demonstrated in Kabul on April 15. Led by young
activists, they marched to Parliament to demand the repeal of a new law denying
women basic rights....
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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Since 1996 mothers on public assistance have been subject to a
five-year limit on benefits. In Ohio the state limit is only three years,
during which time recipients must work 30 hours per week for a below-minimum
wage. Prisscilla Cooper, CEO and President of Family Connection Center, is
leading a fight for a moratorium on time limits....
Posted Apr 16, 2009
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Women’s unemployment rate is rising quickly. ...
Posted Apr 5, 2009
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On International Women’s Day this year, we express our solidarity with our
heroic sisters in Gaza who have endured the horrific U.S.-backed Israeli siege
and who are standing up with courage and resilience. We hail our Palestinian
sisters in the occupied West Bank who face the Israeli Defense Forces and
hostile settlements daily. We hail our sisters in Iraq, Afghanistan and
everywhere who face U.S. war and occupation....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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Celebrations, commemorations and protests were held worldwide on International Women’s Day (IWD) this year
from Lima, Peru, to Lahore, Pakistan....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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International Women’s Day and International Working Women’s Month
were celebrated in Detroit on March 14 at a forum hosted by Workers World Party....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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A thoroughly multinational crowd filled the
cafeteria of Roxbury Community College on the afternoon of March 14 for an
International Women’s Day “Sistah Summit—Women Rise Up”
event organized by the Women’s Fightback Network (WFN)....
Posted Mar 19, 2009
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Hundreds of women, along with male supporters, rallied at New York’s Union Square and then
marched together on March 8 to commemorate International Women’s Day.
They called for “a bailout of women and our communities,” not the
banks, in the U.S. and worldwide....
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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The Solidarity Center hosted a meeting and reception on March 4 to welcome
two revolutionary women who traveled to New York City from socialist Cuba to
participate in International Working Women’s Month activities at the
United Nations....
Posted Mar 11, 2009
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The racist, sexist subprime mortgage industry and the crisis it created has
especially affected women and their families, so it is no surprise that women
are active in the forefront of struggles around the country to stop
foreclosures and evictions....
Posted Mar 8, 2009
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March 8, International Women’s Day, is not only an important time to
reflect on women’s resistance to all forms of injustice and oppression
from the past, but also to help inspire a fightback for the important struggles
that lie ahead. And inspiration is needed now more than ever as women bear a
significant burden with the deepening capitalist economic crisis....
Posted Mar 4, 2009
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Kris Hamel, organizer with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions and a co-founder of DANFORR, Detroit Area Network for Reproductive Rights.
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Posted Dec 6, 2008
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Phebe Eckfeldt, a founder of the Women's Fightback Network and an organizer of the struggle against utility shutoffs.
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Posted Dec 6, 2008
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Carlene Balderrama’s suicide epitomizes the extreme desperation that
women in particular are feeling as a result of the capitalist economic crisis....
Posted Aug 11, 2008
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International Women's Day has a long, proud history....
Posted Mar 27, 2008
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