Join NWL-NYC for a Fundraiser and Feminist Get-together
2018-07-18 19:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St, Brooklyn, NY
Join National Women’s Liberation NYC for an evening of live music, activist tabling, feminist swag, tarot card readings, and more!
Now’s the time to build a strong women’s liberation movement. To be successful, we need every day women—not corporations and their foundations—to fund it. As Redstockings wrote in 2000, “This means an independent financial base, for an independent women’s liberation movement … The power of “Sisterhood is Powerful” has always meant organized feminism…”
National Women’s Liberation is funded by dues-paying feminists, and we need your support. Help us fight back against male supremacy and win more freedom for women!
Admission: $10 at the door, all proceeds go to NWL. Cash only.

Medicare's Birthday
2018-07-28 17:00 - 19:30
The Alachua County Labor Coalition, and co-sponsors including National Women’s Liberation, celebrate one of the greatest public health triumphs of the 20th century with a Medicare Birthday Party. Please join us on Saturday, July 28th, for cake and shared testimony about improving and expanding Medicare to all residents. This year’s celebration will be at Working Food, 219 NW 10th Ave., in Gainesville from 5:00pm – 7:30pm. For more information, visit the Facebook event.

Campus Committee Meeting: Next Steps to Get a MAP Vending Machine
2018-08-30 19:00 - 20:30
When: Thursday, August 30th, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Where: Little Hall 119 (plenty of free parking behind Tigert Hall)
We are building momentum on getting the Morning After Pill (MAP) into a vending machine on the University of Florida campus. This win would mean that all students could access this birth control at ANY TIME- even when the UF pharmacy is closed- for the reduced student cost of $10.Join us to plan next steps on pressuring the administration to give students greater access to birth control.
For more information, please visit us on Facebook.

September Campaign Planning Meeting
2018-09-12 18:30 - 20:00
Join us Wednesday, September 12th, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
“Dr. Fuchs, why do you oppose a Morning After Pill vending machine on campus?”
Last week, our campus committee confronted UF administration about its refusal to provide 24-hour access to the Morning After Pill (MAP) on campus. We need to keep the pressure on!
September 12th, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
200 NE 1st St Suite 201 (enter through garage)
Join NWL to brainstorm ideas and develop next steps for fall actions on this campaign and others. This year marks the 50th anniversary of many women’s liberation milestones. Learn how you can help our archives committee plan events commemorating this anniversary. Find your place in the movement!

NWL-NYC September General Meeting: People Power!
2018-09-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Members of the Mountain States Women’s Abortion Coalition form a picket line in front of the State Capitol in January of 1972 (David Cupp, Post Archive/Getty Images).
Many people are moving to fight the appointment of Trump’s US Supreme Court Justice nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, under the belief that nine justices gave us the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision and five justices will keep Roe from being overturned. Join us to learn how it was actually serious grassroots organizing in the Women’s Liberation Movement—and not the courts—that won us access to legal abortion in 1973. We’ll also discuss strategies for preserving and expanding abortion access beyond SCOTUS and Roe.

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6th Annual Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show and NWL Benefit
2019-01-12 19:00 - 2019-01-13 00:00
Join National Women’s Liberation in an epic celebration of the power of organizing by celebrating the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision with bands, DJs, local community groups, guerilla theatre and a silent auction! Proceeds will benefit the organizing work of National Women’s Liberation.
DJs: Kelly Kochis & Mike Goston
Bands: Routines & Glitter Whiskey
All Ages Show!
Our right to reproductive justice has been consistently under attack ever since the Roe v. Wade decision. Many believe it was solely this decision (via the Supreme Court) that gave us the right to abortion in the U.S. when in reality it was the years of struggle and organizing and bold demands by ordinary people that won us the right to abortion.
Come learn more about why we need to keep fighting, not only to preserve Roe, but to push for free and full access to all forms of birth control. Enjoy great music, hear from other local groups fighting for justice, and bid on amazing silent auction prizes, all while financially supporting the movement! For more information, visit us on Facebook.

Feminists Fight Back!
2019-01-16 18:30 - 20:00
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019 from 6:30-8pm
200 NE 1st St. Suite 201 (enter through garage), downtown Gainesville
National Women’s Liberation is launching a national campaign for 2019. We refuse to accept the ways our economic system relies on women’s unpaid work and are fighting for the social wage programs we all need! Join us for this first meeting of the new year where we will break into working groups to plan next steps. For more information, visit this event on Facebook.

Gainesville, A Flashpoint of Feminist Revolution
2019-03-25 16:30 - 18:30 | Ustler Hall, University of Florida, 162 Fletcher Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32611
Carol Giardina’s talk, Gainesville, a Flashpoint of Feminist Revolution, will reveal Gainesville’s hidden history in the movement’s cutting edge breakthroughs. This free event in Ustler Hall on UF campus opens with a reception and book signing with the author at 4:30pm. Carol’s book, Freedom for Women, Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement 1959-1970 will be on sale there. Her talk follows at 5:30pm.

Carol began making referrals for then-illegal abortions in 1963 from her freshman dormitory at UF. By 1968, with Judith Brown, she co-founded Gainesville Women’s Liberation (GWL), the first women’s liberation group in the South and was representing GWL in the Miss America Pageant Protest in Atlantic City, NJ – the demonstration that put the movement on the world’s radar as beauty contest protests swept small towns and world capitals. Fired her from State job and blacklisted as “unemployable,” she was told that the protest had been entered on her “permanent record.” She joined a core of movement founders that developed and spread radical feminist theory. Carol continues to work for the feminist revolution today in the uncompromising “go for what we really want” spirit of the Sixties.

Carol Giardina is the author of Freedom for Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement (2010), and one of the founding organizers of National Women’s Liberation.

1968 Miss America Pageant Protest. Carol Giardina is picketing with the placard that reads, “Can Make-Up Cover the Wounds of Our Oppression?” Image courtesy of the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action. redstockings.org

Birth Strike book talk at Strand with Liza Featherstone
2019-04-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Strand Bookstore, New York, NY
Join us as feminist organizer Jenny Brown discusses her new book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, with Nation and Jacobin columnist Liza Featherstone. (Video here.)
When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “dependency ratio,” and “entitlement crisis,” establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don’t get busy having more children, we’ll face an aging workforce, slack consumer demand, and a stagnant economy. Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the protracted fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S. and that politicians only attack abortion and birth control to appeal to those “values voters.”
But hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women’s reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women’s work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike.
In other countries, panic over low birth rates has led governments to underwrite childbearing and childrearing with generous universal programs, but in the U.S., women have not yet realized the potential of our bargaining position. When we do, it will lead to new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children.
Recorded April 1, 2019

Birth Strike Book Release in Gainesville
2019-04-26 19:30 - 21:30
Join us to celebrate the release of “Birth Strike; The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work” with the author, Jenny Brown. Brown will give a brief talk, which will be followed by food, music, and a book signing.

Birth Strike Monthly Book Club – Tues, July 9th
2019-07-09 18:30 - 20:30
200 NE 1st Street Suite 200 (enter through garage)
Childcare Provided

Chapters for Discussion:

Comstockery to the Baby Boom (Ch. 4)
Population Panic to the Baby Bust (Ch. 5)
Longevity: Crisis or Blessing? (Ch. 6)

Join us for our next book club meeting as we continue to discuss Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work. You are welcome to join at any time, regardless of whether you can attend all of the meetings.

The meeting will include a Consciousness-Raising. Please prepare answers to the consciousness-raising question, “Do you expect to be able to retire” and also to at least one of the additional questions below:

If your parents, grandparents, or other relatives need care, who provides it? If you need care, who provides it?
Does anyone in your family (or you) get a Social Security check? What portion of their (your) income is it?
If you or your family member were without Social Security, how would that person support themselves?

The Birth Strike Book Club will meet the second Tuesday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. until October of 2019. Meetings are open to all self-identified women.

Birth Strike Book Club in St. Petersburg, FL
2019-07-11 18:00 - 20:00
Pinella Democratic Socialists of America are hosting a book club series on Birth Strike, and we hope you can join them!

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Part 1 of 4 Birth Strike Book Club

Thurs, July 11th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Allendale’s Family Life Center (Stage Side)
3803 Haines Road North, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33703

Join Pinellas DSA for a discussion of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work. Chapters for Discussion are Ch. 1 – 3.

Discussion Questions:

Who is the power structure? What are some terms people use to describe these individuals? Which terms do you prefer? Why?
To what do you attribute the continuing battle over abortion and birth control in the U.S.? Did the reading change your view? How?
What caused other countries to develop universal programs such as childcare, healthcare, paid family leave, and family allowances?
What do “pro-family” conservatives mean by family? What is their ideal of family life? Who would benefit from that?

For more information, please contact Pinellas Democratic Socialists of America.

July General Meeting
2019-07-16 19:30 - 21:30
NWL General Meeting: Bitch, Sisters, Bitch!
Tuesday, July 16, 7:30-9:30PM
Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn

As a feminist, which current events or issues have you concerned, angry, optimistic, or inspired? For our July meeting, NWL will host a casual meeting and happy hour for new and old members to come together and discuss current events and news items from a feminist angle.

Please bring a news article of your choice and be ready to share why the topic has you fired up. We’ll put our heads together and discuss over drinks.

Blue Light Protest!
2019-09-17 16:30 - 18:00
Frat Row on UF Campus

In April, the UF Student Government Senate had the opportunity to support a resolution that could have facilitated the implementation of blue lights along Frat Row. The resolution did not pass, mostly because the Judiciary Committee refused to approve the bill for consideration before the whole Senate. They cited their belief that the fraternity presidents should have been consulted with about the legislation. However, we believe a blue light would be a benefit to all residents of the area.

The bill was then considered under special rules on the Senate floor, and shockingly, the vote culminated in a tie. The Senate President, who was listed as a sponsor on the bill, cast the tie-breaking vote to fail this resolution.

Join us on September 17th at 5 pm as we demand the expansion of campus safety by protesting for the installation of blue lights along Frat Row.

NWL-NYC General Meeting
2019-09-17 19:30 - 21:30
Tuesday, September 17, 7:30-9:30PM
*New Location*
Working Families Party HQ, 1 Metrotech Center North, 11 fl, Brooklyn (entrance near Au Bon Pain)

At September’s meeting, we’ll work on our upcoming campaign focused on the recently ratified New York Reproductive Health Act.

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Women of Color Caucus Meeting
2019-09-19 19:00 - 21:00
Join the Women of Color Caucus of NWL for a consciousness-raising meeting September 19, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. where we will examine our experiences with racism and our stake in working in mixed race groups. We will be answering the following questions:

Have you ever seen something racist or experienced racism and opposed it? What motivated you? Have you ever seen something racist or experienced racism and not opposed it? Give examples.
How has racism influenced your choices/decisions when interacting with white people? (For example, in the workplace, in public, social circles, etc.)
Do I have a stake as a woman of color in organizing with white women?

This meeting is open to women of color only. To RSVP for the meeting and receive details about the meeting’s location, please email us at nwl@womensliberation.org.

Suggested Readings:

For more on organizing in mixed race groups, see We Started From Different Ends of the Spectrum by Cynthia Washington
For more information on consciousness-raising, see Feminist Consciousness Raising and “Organizing” by Kathie Sarachild

NWL New Activist Orientation
2019-09-29 13:00 - 15:00
Whether you are a current member or brand new to the group, learn more about the history and guiding principles of National Women’s Liberation and how you can get involved at our New Activist Orientation! Our quarterly orientation meetings are open to new activists, current members or women interested in learning more about NWL.

Not One More! An Action to Defend Abortion
2019-10-05 08:15 - 10:30
Join us at an action in memory of and anger for everyone who has suffered and died due to lack of abortion access—because their lives are the only lives that really matter in the abortion debate.

We’re taking their names and their stories straight to the bigots who support inhumane abortion bans: the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Little Italy. Each month the church hosts a “pro-life mass” that concludes with a protest outside the Bleecker Street Planned Parenthood. The event draws over a hundred participants who attempt to shame and intimidate patients trying to get through the clinic’s doors. We say: no more! Not another Saturday of stigma and harassment from abortion opponents who think they know what’s best for us. And not another life stolen in the name of being “pro-life.”

These are some of the people we’re honoring:
Rosaura Almonte, a Dominican teenager who was diagnosed with leukemia while seven weeks pregnant. She died while waiting for doctors to decide whether they could give her life-saving treatment that might harm the fetus.
The teenage migrants held in detention and denied abortion access by our government.
Savita Halappanavar, who asked for an abortion to save her own life and was refused one by doctors afraid of violating Irish law. She died of sepsis.
People across the US—a country with skyrocketing rates of maternal morbidity and mortality—who will suffer and die from pregnancy itself.
The untold numbers whose names we’ll never know, whose futures were decided for them by unjust laws and a ruling class that puts profit and control over people, always.
Not one more!

*NB: small location change!* We’re now meeting at 8:15 am at the CORNER OF E HOUSTON ST AND ELIZABETH ST. Then we’ll walk from there over to the church together. Please be on time!

Birth Strike Book Club
2019-10-08 18:30 - 20:30
The Gainesville chapter of National Women’s Liberation (NWL) is hosting a Birth Strike Book Club, which will meet the second Tuesday of the month from 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. starting in May and and ending in October of 2019:

May 14
June 11
July 9
August 13
September 10
October 8

Join us to study and discuss NWL organizer Jenny Brown’s newest book, Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work, which is born of many years of feminist research, organizing by both NWL and Redstockings, and dues-paying NWL members who made the writing possible.

Feminists generally believe that a prudish religious bloc is responsible for the protracted fight over reproductive freedom in the U.S. and that politicians only attack abortion and birth control to appeal to those “values voters.” But hidden behind this conventional explanation is a dramatic fight over women’s reproductive labor. On one side, elite policymakers want an expanding workforce reared with a minimum of employer spending and a maximum of unpaid women’s work. On the other side, women are refusing to produce children at levels desired by economic planners. By some measures, our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. With little access to childcare, family leave, and health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike.

Visit the Facebook event at http://bit.ly/birthstrikebookclub and RSVP to get your study guide and join National Women’s Liberation! Together, not only will we read and discuss these important theories behind the connection between the feminist fight for reproductive rights and our demand for better conditions when we do have children, but we will also analyze how these ideas hold up against our own experiences. (RSVP not required but encouraged)

Visit pmpress.org to get your copy of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work!

*Childcare will be provided upon request.*
**Meetings are open to all self-identified women.**

Protest: Say NO to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle
2019-10-10 17:00 - 19:30
No Nazis at UF, Dream Defenders, #ChompTrump, GAU and many other groups are protesting UF’s financial support of white supremacists.

New Location: Meet NWLers, Oct 10th starting at 5:00pm in Turlington Plaza (at “The Potato” landmark) to march with other community activists to the event venue.

Demands released by No Nazis at UF include:

Cancel the event and refuse a platform to any future speakers who will not publicly acknowledge the link between the Trump administration and far-right terrorism. Specifically, the University must do its job to vet speakers who are part of this linkage.
ACCENT Speakers Bureau no longer serves the majority of the UF community in a constructive way. We demand the defunding of ACCENT Speakers Bureau, who have continuously sponsored right-wing speakers such as Ben Shapiro.1 The misallocation of funds is emblematic of a much larger problem at UF whereby students do not have democratic control over their fees and tuition. The allocation of student government funds must do more than reflect the diversity of UF’s student body; it must actively repair and amend the on-campus conditions which resulted in an “F” from the USC Race Equity Center and which contribute to the marginalization of students of color and queer students…. (see full demands on their Facebook page)

Conversation with Liza Featherstone of The Nation and Jacobin at the Strand bookstore in New York
2019-10-10 19:30 - 22:30 | Strand Bookstore, New York, NY
With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases. How did we get here and how do we build a fighting movement for abortion rights and full reproductive justice?
In her new book Without Apology, Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the United States until 1873, recalls women’s experiences in the illegal days, and shows how the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s really won abortion rights. She draws inspiration and lessons from the radicals of Redstockings, the Army of Three, and the Jane Collective, putting together a road map for today’s organizers from the black feminist argument for reproductive justice, the successful fight to make the morning-after pill available over the counter, and the recent mass movement to repeal Ireland’s abortion ban. It’s time to return to the fundamental ideas that won legal abortion in the first place: Women publicly telling the full truth of their own experience, demanding repeal of all abortion restrictions, and showing how abortion and birth control are the key demands in the struggle for women’s freedom.

Join us on the Strand’s second floor as Jenny discusses Without Apology with The Nation’s Liza Featherstone.

Jenny Brown was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press).

Liza Featherstone is a journalist based in New York City and a contributing editor to Jacobin and The Nation, where she also writes the advice column “Asking for a Friend.” Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Ms., and Rolling Stone, among many other outlets. She is the co-author of Students Against Sweatshops: The Making of a Movement (Verso, 2002) and author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic, 2004). She is the editor of False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Clinton (Verso, 2016)

Jenny Brown presents Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
2019-10-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC, 28801
From Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe :
With an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases. This spirited book shows how feminism can start winning again. Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the United States until 1873, recalls women’s experiences in the illegal days, and shows how the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s really won abortion rights. She draws inspiration and lessons from the radicals of Redstockings, the Army of Three, and the Jane Collective, putting together a road map for today’s organizers from the black feminist argument for reproductive justice, the successful fight to make the morning-after pill available over the counter, and the recent mass movement to repeal Ireland’s abortion ban. Brown argues that politically conservative nonprofits have been setting the agenda, emphasizing rare tragic cases and relying on the rhetoric of choice and privacy. Instead, it is time to return to the fundamental ideas that won legal abortion in the first place: Women publicly telling the full truth of their own experience, demanding repeal of all abortion restrictions, and showing how abortion and birth control are the key demands in the struggle for women’s freedom.
Jenny Brown was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work.
This event is free and open to the public. We ask that you purchase the books you want to be signed at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Can’t make it to the store for the event? Call us or order the book on our website in advance, and we’ll get it signed for you. Make sure you write your preferences in the comments if you purchase online.

NWL-NYC October General Meeting
2019-10-22 19:00 - 20:30
Join National Women’s Liberation NYC for our monthly general meeting, October 22, 2019 at 7:00pm. At our General Meetings, we lead learn the history of the Women’s Liberation Movement, hold consciousness-raisings to guide our activism, discuss NWL’s ongoing campaigns, and work together to fight male supremacy and win more freedom for women.
This month we’ll work on our upcoming action on abortion law repeal and the New York Reproductive Health Act.

Without Apology Book Tour
2019-10-24 18:30 - 20:00
NWL organizer Jenny Brown will discuss her new book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso/Jacobin, October 2019).

When: Thursday, October 24, 6:30 pm
Where: Avid Books, 493 Prince Ave, Athens, GA

More info here

Jenny Brown on Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work
2019-10-30 15:00 - 16:30
Wed., Oct. 30th, 3pm to 4:30pm
Santa Fe College, S-29, Gainesville, FL

Come to Santa Fe College to hear Birth Strike author Jenny Brown’s new strategies for winning full access to abortion and birth control, and for improving the difficult working conditions U.S. parents now face when raising children. For more information, visit the event page.

NWL Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Redstockings
2019-11-19 19:00 - 21:30
*Special Event*
Tuesday, November 19, 7-9:30PM
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 5th Ave, Room C197 (Manhattan)

On Tuesday, November 19, 2019, NWL will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Redstockings.

NWL and Redstockings members will read key pieces of Redstockings’ work, share their impact on our thinking and activism, and invite the audience to testify. Join us!

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NWL General Meeting: Redstockings Anniversary
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:30
When: December 5th, 6:30PM-8:30PM
Where: 200 NE 1st St., Suite 201, Gainesville FL

2019 is the 50th anniversary of Redstockings. Using materials from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action, join NWL to celebrate the rebirth of the feminist movement in the 1960s and talk about how this past work continues to influence us today. We’ll be discussing the following readings:

Redstockings Manifesto
Interview with Kathleen Cleaver in Women’s World (page 20)
Resistances to Consciousness

Celebrating 50 years of Redstockings
2019-12-05 18:30 - 20:30 | NWL-Gainesville Office, 200 NE 1st St, suite 201, Gainesville, FL, 32601
When: December 5th, 6:30PM-8:30PM
Where: 200 NE 1st St., Suite 201, Gainesville FL
2019 is the 50th anniversary of Redstockings. Using materials from the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives for Action, join NWL to celebrate the rebirth of the feminist movement in the 1960s and talk about how this past work continues to influence us today. We’ll be discussing the following readings:

Redstockings Manifesto
Interview with Kathleen Cleaver in Women’s World (page 20)
Resistances to Consciousness

For more information, visit the Facebook event.

Book talk on Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
2019-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 | East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94618
Book talk on Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now with Allie Lahey of East Bay DSA and Meagan Day of Jacobin, at East Bay Booksellers in Oakland.
From East Bay Booksellers:

EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Jenny Brown to read from her new book, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now on Friday, December 6th at 7pm. She will be joined in conversation by Meagan Day and Allie Lahey.
With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and cases. How did we get here and how do we build a fighting movement for abortion rights and full reproductive justice?
In her new book Without Apology, Jenny Brown uncovers a century of legal abortion in the United States until 1873, recalls women’s experiences in the illegal days, and shows how the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s really won abortion rights. She draws inspiration and lessons from the radicals of Redstockings, the Army of Three, and the Jane Collective, putting together a road map for today’s organizers from the black feminist argument for reproductive justice, the successful fight to make the morning-after pill available over the counter, and the recent mass movement to repeal Ireland’s abortion ban. It’s time to return to the fundamental ideas that won legal abortion in the first place: Women publicly telling the full truth of their own experience, demanding repeal of all abortion restrictions, and showing how abortion and birth control are the key demands in the struggle for women’s freedom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenny Brown was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the US and a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is co-author of the Redstockings book Women’s Liberation and National Health Care: Confronting the Myth of America. While editor at Labor Notes magazine, she coauthored How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers. She writes, teaches, and organizes with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation and is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work.
Allie Lahey has been organizing with reproductive rights and justice organizations for the last 7 years in Ohio and California, including leading campaigns to fight abortion bans, overturn the Hyde Amendment, and expand abortion access onto college campuses. She is also on the Steering Committee for the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America, and has been a part of campaigns for rent control, socialist candidates running for office, and the Oakland Teachers strike.
Meagan Day is the author of MAXIMUM SUNLIGHT (Wolfman Books 2016). She is a Ben Bagdikian editorial fellow at Mother Jones and a features editor at Full Stop . She’s a former staff writer for Timeline, and her work has also appeared in n+1, The New Inquiry, The Believer, The Towner and elsewhere. She has worked at Aeon Magazine, McSweeney’s Publishing and Time Out Istanbul, and interned at Granta Magazine. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a Master’s in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.
