This was Rodney King’s plea in 1992, when he was physically assaulted by the LA cops during that year’s race riots. Thirty-two...
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Women’s Rage is A Game Changer
I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore –Helen Reddy (1972) These classic words in Helen Reddy’s popular song were the battle cry for Second Wave Feminists of my generation whose rage fueled our protests for abortion rights, equal pay, justice for rape victims, equitable divorce laws and much more. During the [...]
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Guidelines for Trouble Makers
Cecile Richards’ memoir, Make Trouble couldn’t come at a better time. Women across the country are furious with the Trump administration’s attack on women. We can’t stop at being mad. We have to partner our outrage with effective strategies for change. Enter Cecile Richards’ advice honed from decades as an organizer for progressive [...]
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I WAS THERE! WASHINGTON, DC, 1/21/17
I was on my feet for seven hours; almost half of that time was standing in place waiting for the march to start. The massive crowd made it impossible to move in one direction or another. This was a small price to pay for being among the 500,000 marchers who had come to Washington to send a message to President Trump on his first day in office. [...]
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Modern Day Witch Hunts: Denying Women Abortions
From time to time, I will publish a post for “Flashback Friday” from my prior blog. The first in this series originally appeared on July 24, 2013. In this post, I attempted to place the Right-wing hysteria over abortion rights in an historical context. In my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined that two years down the road, [...]
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