FEMINISM! What? Yeah.

thepeoplesrecord:

SOLIDARITY to all Walmart workers on strike!

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motherjones:

The Progressive’s Guide to the Republican National Convention

Heading down to Tampa to raise some hell? Knowledge it up.

abortionassistanceblog:

The Abortion Assistance Blog is picking up speed, with offers now from 37 states and 5 Canadian provinces! According to my updated spreadsheet, here are the tallies:

• California is in the lead with 6 offers of transportation to/from the clinic
• Texas is leading with 5 offers of somewhere to stay for people traveling overnight
• California and Montana are tied with 2 offers for child care

Go California!

Here are the areas that are still waiting for help:

United States

• Alaska
• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Vermont
• Wyoming

Canada

• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Northwest Territories
• Nunavut
• Nova Scotia
• Prince Edward Island
• Yukon

Of course, just because your area isn’t on the list doesn’t mean there aren’t people there who need your help. If you or someone you know can offer transportation, lodging, child care, or funding for someone’s abortion or travel costs, please contact the Abortion Assistance Blog through the Ask or Submit boxes, email, or Twitter.

Thanks to everyone who has participated so far!

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jessicavalenti:

From the always-brilliant Zohra Moosa.

activistopher:

Next Wednesday, April 25th, 2012, is the 14th annual National Denim Day.

The event stems from the overturn of an accused rapist’s conviction in Italy in the 1990s, in which the court stated that “because the victim wore very, very tight jeans, she had to help him remove them, and by removing the jeans it was no longer rape but consensual sex.” Denim Day is a response to the outrageous ideology that wearing tight jeans is an invitation to sexually assault someone.

Each Denim Day, as part of an ongoing rape prevention education campaign, community members and leaders alike are asked to make a social statement and to wear jeans as a visible means of protest against misconceptions that surround sexual assault.

If you would like to participate, please wear jeans on this day!

Though the most visible arms of the movement will likely be in New York and Los Angeles, that does not mean that you will not be seen or heard. Additionally, if you would like to participate more actively, you can purchase buttons, shirts, and other items that can help you bring awareness to this issue and cause. You can also download posters and infographics that highlight the importance of this event for FREE! All of this can be done at Peace Over Violence’s shop here, as they are the agency that spearheads Denim Day in the U.S.

For more information, check out the Denim Day website at http://denimdayusa.org/

rhrealitycheck:

From Robin Marty’s piece at RH Reality Check:

Despite strongly stated aversion to government intrusion and the health care mandage in the Affordable Care Act, the Idaho Senate today voted nearly two to one to pass a bill to require women to pay out-of-pocket for expensive, medically-unnecessary ultrasounds in order to terminate a pregnancy.

The bill seems likely to pass the House, where Republican legislators outnumber Democratic legislators 57 to 13. Without a veto from Republican Governor Butch Otter, women in the state will be provided with a list of “free ultrasounds” at pregnancy centers that will attempt to talk them out of having abortions, then still be forced to undergo expensive ultrasounds performed at an actual clinic before terminating a pregnancy.

Take one minute to contact Governor Butch Otter and tell him to VETO this bill when it reaches his desk. Let him know THE ENTIRE COUNTRY is watching. 

Facebook (his wall, as of this posting, is open and you can comment to it directly)

Twitter: @ButchOtter (hashtag: #NoForcedUltrasounds)

Email

Phone: (208) 334-2100

YOUR voices helped remove the transvaginal part of Virginia’s forced ultrasound bill. It caused the Alabama legislature to kill their bill and Pennsylvania to shelve theirs.

PLEASE USE YOUR VOICE NOW TO HELP WOMEN IN IDAHO.

*this measure will not just impact women in Idaho. 

SIGNAL BOOST!

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rhrealitycheck:

patchesthegreat:

thecranium:

rhrealitycheck:

Brownback’s Facebook page.

Brownback’s Twitter: @GovSamBrownback. If you take the fight to Twitter, please use hashtag: #mybodyyourchoice so we can see all the responses (use that hashtag no matter which anti-choicer you are tweeting at, in fact).

You can also call Brownback’s office at 877-579-6757 or 785-296-3232. 

Or you can send him an official message through his contact page.

His Wall is full of rebellious ladies! I hope this behavior spreads to other GOPers’ Walls.

Can we please do this to Rick Perry like right now?

YES.

Rick Perry and his administration has recently defunded the Women’s Health Program and then said it was the Obama administration’s fault. Texas also is the only state that currently has, in practice, mandatory forced transvaginal ultrasounds. These are two instances among many of the rollbacks in reproductive health and rights in the state of Texas.

Feel free to leave messages like this for Governor Rick Perry letting him know how you and your body are doing since apparently he fancies himself an expert:

Facebook

Twitter (again, please use #mybodyyourchoice hashtag when leaving these comments - Rick Perry and his administration used this exact Twitter account to shirk responsibility for the defunding of the WHP)

Phone: (800) 252-9600 and (512) 463-1782

Email

SIGNAL BOOST! LETS LET RICK PERRY KNOW JUST HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE HIS CONCERN! 

(via bebinn)

tickledbylemons:

Hey guys my university’s feminist organization is trying to raise money to cover transportation costs to this reproductive justice conference up in Massachusetts. Any little bit of money helps, this is a super exciting, informative conference and we really really need help. Reblogging helps! If you follow the link there is more information regarding where the money would go and information about the conference. 

Signal Boost!

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A rally of 35,000 demonstrators organized by Britain’s Trades Union Congress marched peacefully in Manchester, UK on Sunday to protest the opening of the Conservative Party’s annual conference.

A statement from the TUC had announced that it was “organising a march and rally to show opposition to the coalition government’s disastrous policies of pay freezes, cuts and attacks on public services that are producing rising unemployment, cuts in living standards and stagnation.” The march included both left-wing activists and members of public sector unions.

Several trade unions have called for a general strike on November 30. “If you never fight you lose every time,” union leader Mark Serwotka told the crowd. “Now’s the time to fight, now’s the time to defeat the government.”

Meanwhile, inside the Conservative Party conference, Britain’s foreign secretary was blaming the country’s economic problems on the previous Labour Party government and criticizing the current Labour leadership for being “too frightened” to tell the unions “it is not in the national interest for them to strike.”

(Source: theamericanbear, via socialistexan)

Don’t you know you’re talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don’t you know they’re talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don’t you know you’re talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

Poor people are gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people are gonna rise up 
And take what’s theirs

Don’t you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution 
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no

While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don’t you know you’re talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no

I absolutely love this song. I listen to it when I’m down. I’m glad it showed up on my dash. <3 Tracy Chapman. Talking Bout A Revolution. 

(Source: fuckyeahfeminists)