Occoquan’s Nights of Terror
In this week of International Women’s Day, poet Philip C. Kolin remembers the courage of US women in demanding the right to vote.
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The Feminist History of “Child Allowances”
JSTOR DAILY
The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - Focus on the Terrorist Right
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The violent right’s influence in intelligence, police, conservatism - and how to fight it
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Labor Rights Mobilized Women During Suffrage — and Now
The 19th*
"The manufacturer has a vote; the bosses have votes; the foremen have votes; the inspectors have votes. The working girl has no vote. When she asks to have the building in which she must work made clean and safe, the officials do not have to listen.”
Suffrage Comes with Obligations. Voting is Only the First.
The Forward
The need for safe, accessible, regular neighborhood childcare — already taken for granted in many European cities — is a COVID-19 lesson that American women who vote can and should demand.
Tidbits - July 30, 2020 - Reader Comments: Democracy Threatened by Trump's Occupation Army; Chicago's Broad Opposition; Labor's Boycott Strategy; Health Effects of Tear Gas; What We Can Learn from Vietnam; No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!; more
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Reader Comments: Democracy Threatened by Trump's Occupation Army; Chicago's Broad Opposition; Labor's Boycott Strategy; Health Effects of Tear Gas; What We Can Learn from Vietnam; No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki!; Women’s Suffrage; more....
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