As women comrades of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement, we salute with joy this conference in support of People’s War in India and bring also the warm greetings of women workers, precarious, unemployed, young people that struggle in the Italian cities where we are present. At the international level, we dedicated the 8 March of [...]
There are some stories that are hard to cover – the death of Savita Halappanavar, a pregnant women, from septicemia whose life might have been saved if an abortion was not delayed is a hard as they come. According to the Irish Times Praveen Halappanavar, the husband of Savita said she had asked for a [...]
A New York Magazine cover story (October 30, 2011) recently proclaimed the ‘Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto’ through feminist blogs. In the article, 20-something feminist blogger, Shelby Knox, described the blogs as her generations’ “version of consciousness-raising groups.” The emergence of digital media, and particularly blogs, represents a crucial new force for civic participation that [...]
On September 15, hundreds of women, trans people, kids and men supporters gathered in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto for the 30th annual Take Back the Night (TBTN) community fair, rally and march. The march was loud and spirited, marching on both major streets and quieter residential ones. The chants and music brought some residents [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard, by now, about Violentacrez. He was doxxed by Gawker and in the process called one of the Internet’s most notorious trolls. Indeed, his vile contributions to racist, misogynist, violent, generally offensive, degrading and depraved subreddits should give him the right to own that label. This supertroll lost his job upon being doxxed [...]
The three singers of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to two years in a penal colony on charges of “hooliganism due to religious hatred” have met with a groundswell of support from Western politicians and media. The philosophy student Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (22), Greenpeace campaigner Mary Aljochina (24) and the programmer Jelena Samutsewich (30) [...]
Imagine, if you need to imagine, growing up in a home with an alcoholic mother, one who swallows pills while you’re right in the room. Rather than ask for help, she encourages your young, teenage self, to go out clubbing, so she, unbeknownst to you, can commit suicide. This is the world in which Rachel [...]
Though racist stop-and-frisk policies have been framed as primarily police violence against men of color (black and Latino men account for 40% of the stops from last year), women and transgender people are also subject to the violence of random police frisks on the street. The New York Times recently profiled several women who have experienced stop-and-frisk [...]
When the whole scandal recently flared up again, I said I wasn’t going to talk about Assange. After numerous Facebook arguments with people on all sides, I said I wasn’t going to talk about Assange. After being screamed at for daring not to flock down to the Ecuador embassy in uncritical support of an alleged [...]
There will be a panel entitled Women Political Prisoners, Repression and Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex on Tuesday, August 7 at 7 p.m. at the MacNabb Community Centre, 180 Percy St. in Ottawa. Speakers will include Ann Hansen, Amanda Hiscocks and others to be announced. This panel will focus on the experiences of these women [...]
Last week, I was privileged to organize an event for a project that I am affiliated with called Girl Talk. As part of the event, my friend, the brilliantDr. Beth Richie spoke about her new book “Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation.” I can’t recommend the book any more highly. Beth suggested on Thursday [...]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has the honour to invite you to the 30th Anniversary Commemoration Event of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, (CEDAW) which will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 9th, 2012 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm [...]
An extensive criticism of anti-oppression politics, their relation to non-profits, capitalism and the state, as well as how they play out in movements such as Occupy. This pamphlet – written collaboratively by a group of people of color, women, and queers – is offered in deep solidarity with anyone committed to ending oppression and exploitation [...]
“Wives” were an almost unrecognized entity in the first decade and a half after the revolution. An emancipated woman did not define herself by her status vis-à-vis her husband but by her work and activity outside the home. Educated revolutionary women despised housework and tended to consider the upbringing of children as a community rather [...]
In the summer of 2004, while working as a producer for CBC News Sunday, I undertook a road trip to research Traces of Missing Women. My intent was to gather memories of Indigenous women who had been murdered or disappeared and create a video collage of images and words spoken by mothers, daughters, aunties, sisters and other [...]
In their 1972 pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa presented an original and influential analysis of “unwaged work.” This concept, which identified the care work that women do in the home as an essential element of the reproduction of capitalism, opened the door to powerful [...]
On Tuesday April 10th, I went to the parking lot of Time Market in Tucson, Arizona for a community Take Back The Night march against sexual assault and violence. When the first handful of people with signs and a banner gathered, I approached. I was a little stressed out and disappointed that I was the [...]
Pieces on the impact of pornography and prostitution on communities of color have been a part of an anti-capitalist analysis at People Of Color Organize! for quite awhile. From issues such as human trafficking in Third World women to the sex industry’s anti-woman, anti-feminist pretensions that should be fought against, these matters require continuous examination. [...]
On Wednesday, April 4, at 7:00 p.m, a community based event located in Saint Paul, MN is intended to create awareness and education about violence toward Women of Color. Very little news, research, and community outrage occurs when Women of Color are survivors of violence or die at the hands of domestic, institutional, and community [...]
International Women’s Month is a special time to celebrate the lives of women whose lives have bettered humanity and have advanced the causes of peace, social justice and the cause of working people. The early women’s rights advocates were also fighters against slavery, for the betterment of the working classes, and for the freedom of [...]
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