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SUMMARY:Not One More! An Action to Defend Abortion
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nWe’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.”\n\nThese are some of the people we’re honoring:\nRosaura 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.\nThe teenage migrants held in detention and denied abortion access by our government.\nSavita 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.\nPeople across the US—a country with skyrocketing rates of maternal morbidity and mortality—who will suffer and die from pregnancy itself.\nThe 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.\nNot one more!\n\n*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!
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/not-one-more-an-action-to-defend-abortion/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:NYC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T183000
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SUMMARY:Birth Strike Book Club
DESCRIPTION: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: \n\nMay 14\nJune 11\nJuly 9\nAugust 13\nSeptember 10\nOctober 8\n\nJoin 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. \n\nFeminists 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. \n\nVisit 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) \n\nVisit pmpress.org to get your copy of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work! \n\n*Childcare will be provided upon request.* \n**Meetings are open to all self-identified women.**
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/birth-strike-book-club/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:GNV
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T193000
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SUMMARY:Protest: Say NO to Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle
DESCRIPTION:No Nazis at UF\, Dream Defenders\, #ChompTrump\, GAU and many other groups are protesting UF’s financial support of white supremacists.\n\nNew 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.\n\nDemands released by No Nazis at UF include:\n\nCancel 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.\nACCENT 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)
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/protest-say-no-to-donald-trump-jr-and-kimberly-guilfoyle/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:GNV
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T223000
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Liza Featherstone of The Nation and Jacobin at the Strand bookstore in New York
DESCRIPTION: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?\nIn 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.\n\nJoin us on the Strand’s second floor as Jenny discusses Without Apology with The Nation’s Liza Featherstone.\n\nJenny 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).\n\nLiza 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)
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/conversation-with-liza-featherstone-of-the-nation-and-jacobin-at-the-strand-bookstore-in-new-york/
LOCATION:Strand Bookstore\, New York\, NY
CATEGORIES:NYC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191021T180000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Brown presents Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now
DESCRIPTION:From Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe : \nWith 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. \nJenny 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. \nThis 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.
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/jenny-brown-presents-without-apology-the-abortion-struggle-now/
LOCATION:Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe\, 55 Haywood St\, Asheville\, NC\, 28801
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191022T190000
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SUMMARY:NWL-NYC October General Meeting
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis month we’ll work on our upcoming action on abortion law repeal and the New York Reproductive Health Act.
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/nwl-nyc-october-general-meeting/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:NYC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T200000
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SUMMARY:Without Apology Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:NWL organizer Jenny Brown will discuss her new book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso/Jacobin\, October 2019).\n\nWhen: Thursday\, October 24\, 6:30 pm\nWhere: Avid Books\, 493 Prince Ave\, Athens\, GA\n\nMore info here
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/without-apology-book-tour/
LOCATION:FL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191030T163000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Brown on Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work
DESCRIPTION:Wed.\, Oct. 30th\, 3pm to 4:30pm \nSanta Fe College\, S-29\, Gainesville\, FL \n\nCome 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.
URL:https://womensliberation.org/event/jenny-brown-on-birth-strike-the-hidden-fight-over-womens-work/
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