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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

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

Posted on March 13, 2014 by franklindmitryev

While experiences in the squares of the Arab Spring, in Turkey’s Gezi Park, in the streets of Spain and Greece, and in the U.S. Occupy Movements have revealed moments of what new human relations between women and men could look like, those moments of hope and exhilaration have been followed by devastating reaction and retrogression. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abortion, Afghan Women's Network, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, African Americans, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, Black liberation, Burma, Contraception, Dina van der Zalm, Egypt, feminism, food stamps, Gezi Park, Greece, Hamid Karzai, Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan, Kachin, Latinas, Lebanon, Louisiana, Middle East revolutions, Missouri, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Myanmar, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuba Mountains, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, poverty, racism, Rape, Raqqa, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual harassment, Shan, Sima Samar, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Suraya Pakzad, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Texas, Turkey, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Unemployment, United States, Violence against women, Virginia, Wendy Davis, Women's League of Burma, women's liberation | Leave a comment

BART workers forced to strike

Posted on December 2, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the November-December 2013 issue of News & Letters: BART workers forced to strike Oakland, Cal.—“One day longer, one day stronger!” shouted a transit worker to kick off a noon rally on Oct. 18 at Oakland’s Lake Merritt BART (Bay … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Amalgamated Transit Union, BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, California, labor, Lake Merritt, Oakland California, occupational safety, Service Employees International Union, sexual harassment, Strike action, transit workers, working conditions | Leave a comment

Women Worldwide, September-October 2013

Posted on September 26, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Women Worldwide: Turkey anti-fundamentalist demonstrations; Egypt sexual violence; California in vitro fertilization; Saudi Arabia segregation. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged California, Center for Genetics and Society, Contraception, Egypt, feminism, in vitro fertilization, informed consent, Islamism, IVF, Jerry Brown, Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment, patriarchy, Pregnancy, Princess Nora bin Abdulraham University, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, sexism, sexual harassment, Susan Bonilla, Turkey, UN Entity for Gender Equity, Women in Egypt, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Egypt: Dual fascisms test women

Posted on September 8, 2013 by franklindmitryev

For Egyptian women to experience freedom, the revolution has to continue, and for that to happen the revolutionaries have to oppose both Morsi and Sisi’s bloodthirsty military and fight for the vision of a new society that sustained them in Tahrir Square. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Arab spring, Egypt, fascism, feminism, Hosni Mubarak, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, patriarchy, sexism, sexual harassment, Tahrir Square, Women in Arab societies, women's liberation | Leave a comment

From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom

Posted on March 17, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Lead From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom by Terry Moon Two recent events have shown the deep and seemingly intractable worldwide oppression of women and, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Abortion, Addis Ababa, All India Progressive Women's Association, Arab spring, Bangladesh, birth control, Chokri Belaid, City of Joy, Congo, Contraception, Delhi, Egypt, Ennahda Party, Ethiopia, feminism, Hosni Mubarak, I Am One, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kavita Krishnan, Military rape, Mogadishu, Native American women, One Billion Rising, Opantish, Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, patriarchy, Rape, Reproductive rights, revolution, Roman Catholic Church, sexism, sexual harassment, Somalia, Syria, Tahrir Square, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Tunisia, VAWA, Violence Against Women Act, women's liberation movement | Leave a comment

Walmart workers strike

Posted on February 18, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Walmart workers strike Workers struck at Walmart in Pico Rivera, Calif., on Nov. 20, demanding an end to retaliation against workers who speak out. On Nov. 23, the day after Thanksgiving, … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Elwood, labor unions, Mira Loma, Occupational safety and health, OUR Walmart, Pico Rivera California, sexual harassment, Strike action, Wage, Walmart, workers, workplace retaliation | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: sexual harassment

Women Worldwide, May-June 2014

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

BART workers forced to strike

Egypt: Dual fascisms test women

From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom

Walmart workers strike

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