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Women's Declaration International held their 2nd National Women's Convention, leading to verbal and physical clashes between trans rights activists and radical feminists.
You might also remember right around that same, time congress held its annual congressional baseball game. republicans and democrats faced off against each other for seven innings, nationals park. during this year's game activists dropped banners over the bleachers that said stuff, like our lives are not a game. past 3.5 tea, as, in 3.5 trillion dollars. which at that point was the price tag for the build back better bill. they also add another one that cut right to the point, that said, democrats don't f this up. the following month, october, we saw members of the disability right group attac...
Poor and low wealth. 50% of children who are poor and low wealth. 44% of women are poor and low wealth. and 689,000 white people who are poor and low wealth and the policies he is pushing trying to cut the economic investment bill and the way he is trying to water down voting rights will hurt those people. so we are doing that. we are launching a national call in tomorrow and we are making plans for sit-ins and other things, nonviolent direct action in his state, in his offices because people are saying he must see people who looks like him, who grew up like him. because he loves to act like h...
There have been a lot of people doing phone calls and text messages and doing social media outreach and all of that. but we are at a point with the attacks against voting rights are as serious as what president biden said they were a week ago in his speech, very passionate speech. if it's accurate that it's at risk the way that he says, that this is the biggest risk since the civil war, we're going to need to do more direct types of action. that's why, led by sisters, black women last week who took the action to the senate offices and had a protest and got arrested, we did the same thing today...
Eileen Flanagan and George Lakey 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Eileen Flanagan is the award-winning author of three books, most recently Renewable: One Woman's Search for Simplicity, Faithfulness, and Hope, the story of how she become a leader of nonviolent direct action. She has served as board clerk of Earth Quaker Action Team and Trainings Coordinator for Choose Democracy. She teaches online classes for those who want to make their activism more effective. Learn more at eileenflanagan.com. George L...