Millions of women have been standing up to fight, but now, all women are needed to engage in the movement. Organize, support women, strike, protect our freedoms, our rights, our mutual vision of health, peace, and love.
For International Women’s Month we honor Dora Rodriguez, migrant survivor and Director of Salvavision, an organization providing support to asylum seekers and migrants. Dora exemplifies women’s contribution to peace and a better world.
Brittany Watts, 33, was charged with a felony in Ohio after police searched her toilet after she suffered a miscarriage. Doctors are pushing the prosecutor to drop charges.
By a decisive 56.6% to 43.4% margin, Ohio voters won the constitutional right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions." This victory for reproductive rights was one of several won in November.
Attacks are intensifying around issues of reproduction, healthcare, maternal care, and now gender identity. Women, trans people and children’s lives are at stake. Poor women and youth are particularly hurt, but the laws potentially threaten all pregnant and gender-diverse people.
Texas’ abortion laws are some of the most restrictive in the country. Now new laws criminalizing supporters of the fight for women’s rights are being passed. At the same time, people from all walks of life are joining the fight for women’s rights, and democracy itself.
On National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day speakers at Minnesota State University Moorhead join panel discussion to help raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and violence against Native women and girls.
People are horrified and outraged that our rights are being stripped by dangerous new laws in Texas and other states. Medical professionals and women’s organizations are discussing law, morality and whether to treat women where it may be illegal and there’s a serious threat to life or health. This is about more than abortion rights. A broad movement for freedom and democracy is underway.
A woman in South Carolina was arrested and charged this month for allegedly taking abortion pills in 2021. Police didn’t obtain the warrant for her arrest until after “Dobbs.”
The press conference revealed that Black women and women of color in leadership positions, especially those who challenge existing centers of wealth and power in support of the needs of the impoverished, receive far more threats than other public figures.
“there is SO MUCH power and brilliance in femme bodies and brains. we are power despite what they try to strip from us . . . our future sees femme energy as our liberator. that there is hope.”
The Supreme Court’s grim decision in the Dobbs case overturning Roe signals the validation of a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation. The multi-decade campaign to reverse Roe v. Wade has always been about building a political movement to seize and wield political power.
If anyone doubted that American democracy – however partial and imperfect – is in danger, the stunning revelations of the Jan. 6 hearings and the recent series of court rulings are a loud wake-up call.
Women, men and huge numbers of youth are in the streets across the country in uncompromising fight for women’s rights and for government to act in the people’s interests. After centuries of oppression and fighting for equal rights, women are letting the powerful know: “We won’t go back.”
The assault on women’s rights is part and parcel of the wholesale assault on democracy that has been under way for years and has reached a crescendo in the last two years with the attack on the right to vote.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, here are the voices of some of the many women leaders standing for a true democracy in America and against the encroachment of a corporate-run dictatorship of billionaires.
Women have been fighting for equality on so many levels. How long has it been since women’s lib first opened doors to Women’s Rights? And now the attack on voting rights! We have to keep up the fight!
Women's liberation is humanity'sInternational Women’s Day March 8
We are women always. We take care of humanity. We are called to serve again. We learn...
Women asylum seekers in ICE custody at the for-profit jail in the small rural town of Jena, LA are desperate due to the Coronavirus. “We are afraid because we ...
Lifting up the names of loved ones lost to violence, Indigenous women are leading a powerful international coalition to stop violence against Indigenous women. ...
Women of all backgrounds and trades have been fighting for equality in the workplace for generations. Much progress has been made, but as we say, the ...
Women and Children in the Age of Welfare ‘Reform’—It’s Time to Redefine Our Values!
Grand Rapids, Michigan - Sarah Reames helps two toddlers with lunch...
