Tag Archives: patriarchy

Özgecan Aslan: Sexual assault and murder in Turkey spark widespread outrage, demonstrations

Posted on February 20, 2015 by franklindmitryev

Preview of article on women’s oppression and freedom struggles worldwide for March-April issue. Comment now so that your thoughts can be taken into account in the finished article. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, Ahmet Suphi Altindöke, AKP, Ankara, Özgecan Aslan, Berlin, Cyprus, feminism, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Germany, Hamburg, India, Istanbul, Justice and Development Party, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Mersin, patriarchy, Rape, rape culture, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual assault, students, Taksim Square, Taliban, Terry Moon, Turkey, Violence against women, women's liberation, youth, İzmir | Leave a comment

Women WorldWide September-October 2014

Posted on September 24, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Protect Aminetou Mint El-Moctar in Mauritania; female genital mutilation in the U.S.; Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win “Nobel Prize of mathematics.” Read more: Women WorldWide

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Aminetou Mint El-Moctar, Artemis, Barack Obama, Cheikh Ould Mkheitir, Fahma Mohamed, female genital mutilation, feminism, FGM, Fields Medal, Friends of the Prophet, Human rights, International Mathematics Olympiad, Iran, Jaha Dukureh, Maryam Mirzakhani, Mauritania, Nobel prize of mathematics, patriarchy, Safe Hands for Girls, sexism, sexual violence, women's liberation movement | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, May-June 2014

Posted on May 25, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the May-June 2014 issue of News & Letters: Readers’ Views LABOR AND IMMIGRATION On April 8, about 100 people, the majority young Latinas/os, gathered in front of Los Angeles City Hall to protest the deportation of immigrants. Obama’s administration … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged abortion rights, Arab spring, criminal injustice system, disability rights, Egypt, feminism, immigrant labor, Iranian Revolution of 1979, labor, Middle East revolutions, patriarchy, Pelican Bay hunger strikers, people with disabilities, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Russia, sexism, Tahrir Square, Ukraine, undocumented workers, women's liberation, workers | Leave a comment

Women Worldwide, May-June 2014

Posted on May 16, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Women’s Memorial March in Canada, and Save Wiyabi Project; premiere of docudrama film “¡PODER!” on girls in Concepcion Chiquirichapa, Guatemala; Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s “Stop Telling Me to Smile” project. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Atlanta, ¡PODER!, Canada, Concepcion Chiquirichapa, domestic violence, Elba Velasquez, Emelin Cabrera, feminism, Georgia State University, Guatemala, Indigenous women, Laura M. Madison, Lauren Chief Elk, Let Girls Lead, Lisa Russell, Maya, Municipal Office of Childhood and Adolescence, patriarchy, Rape, Save Wiyabi Project, sexism, sexual harassment, Stop Telling Me to Smile, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Vancouver, women's liberation, Women's Memorial March | Leave a comment

Godless Americana

Posted on May 15, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Review by Adele of “Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels,” by Sikivu Hutchinson (Infidel Books, 2013). Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged African Amer, Black church, Black dimension, Black Skeptics Los Angeles, Black women, education, feminism, Godless Americana, Humanism, Institute for Humanist Studies, LGBTQ rights, Moral Combat: Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values War, New Atheist movement, patriarchy, Prosperity Gospel, queer liberation, racism, religious Right, sexism, Sikivu Hutchinson, United States, women's liberation | Leave a comment

India’s Modi: ‘free market’ authoritarian

Posted on May 14, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Narendra Modi states openly that his program will be to unleash “free market” reform coupled with authoritarianism in government. Modi’s history tells us what his authority portends: the massacre of 2,000 Muslims in Gujarat. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Amrit Wilson, Bangalore, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bidadi, BJP, capitalism, Communist Party, Congress Party, domestic violence, feminism, Gujarat, Hindutva, India, Indian National Congress, labor, Maharashtra, Mohandas Gandhi, Narendra Modi, National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, Nokia, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, patriarchy, Rahul Gandhi, Rape, religious fundamentalism, religious Right, Sangh Parivar, sexism, Tamil Nadu, Toyota, West Bengal, women's liberation, workers | Leave a comment

Birth control and being human

Posted on May 12, 2014 by franklindmitryev

The war against birth control is a war against the idea that women are actually human beings who have a right to control their fertility and plan when and if to have a child. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged abortion rights, ACA, Affordable Care Act, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, birth control, Catholic Church, Conestoga Wood Specialties, Contraception, Ella, feminism, Hobby Lobby, Intrauterine device, Marco Rubio, patriarchy, Plan B, Roy Blunt, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, March-April 2014, Part 2

Posted on April 9, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views from the March-April 2014 issue of News & Letters, part 2. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged anti-abortion, Charles Denby, Ciudad Juárez, climate change, clinic escorts, criminal injustice system, Elie Wiesel, environment, Escuelita Zapatista, femicido, feminicido, feminism, fossil fuels, global warming, Indignant Heart: A Black Worker's Journal, labor, Nuclear power, patriarchy, Pelican Bay State Prison, philosophy, Primo Levi, prison industrial complex, prisoners, sexism, Walter Benjamin, women's liberation, workers, Yeyetzi Cardiel, Zapatistas | Leave a comment

Women Worldwide, March-April 2014

Posted on March 25, 2014 by franklindmitryev

Women worldwide, March-April 2014: Sexism in chemistry profession; Shulamit Aloni; Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Amnesty International, Anna Krylov, anti-Gay, Emily A. Carter, feminism, International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Israel, Israeli occupation of Palestine, Laura Gagliardi, lgbt, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, patriarchy, Pussy Riot, Russia, sexism, Shulamit Aloni, Sochi Olympics, Vladimir Putin, Women in Theoretical Chemistry, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Court, fanatics besiege clinics

Posted on March 22, 2014 by franklindmitryev

In June the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if buffer zones around clinics that offer abortion are a violation of freedom of speech. Court watchers say they look ready to rule the zones illegal. That would be a tragedy. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged abortion access, Abortion clinic, Antonin Scalia, feminism, Freedom of speech, New York Times, Operation Save America, patriarchy, Reproductive rights, sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, women's liberation | Leave a comment