A Black feminist, Ree Walker, got in a whole lot of trouble for a frank critique of the message communicated by the organizers and platform speakers in Washington, D.C.. Published on the Daily Kos website, her article, headed “The…
Category: Elections
Women’s Strike, Women’s March, and Pink Pussy Hats
By Carol Hanisch The blatant sexism of Donald Trump is reinvigorating a moribund feminist movement. When National Women’s Liberation advertised that its November monthly chapter meeting would be a consciousness-raising and action-planning meeting about the election results, about 500…
Organizing ALL Women!
Whatever else Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election may do, it has certainly stirred many out of the stupor that has gripped the country for decades. When National Women’s Liberation (NWL) posted an invitation on their Facebook page to…
Responses to the Election
Thoughts the Morning After by Sinead • Random, angry thoughts. Yesterday and today were write-offs as far as work is concerned. • Trump was the FUCK THOSE GUYS candidate. The Democrats were stupid and irresponsible to run an Establishment candidate whose…
Clinton, Trump and Feminism
by Carol Hanisch It’s not easy or simple being a feminist during this election. Not that it ever is. But this has been a mind-boggler. First there was the Bernie Sanders phenomenon. Although he held forth the possibility of someone…
Leaving “Democracyland”
The following is a Facebook post from a Bernie Sanders delegate about her experience at the National Democratic Convention. It captures some of what it was like on the inside and what delegates endured and learned—that the reality of this…
Beyond Bernie: Three Takes
We offer some thoughts here on the Democratic National Convention, Bernie’s complete capitulation and the nomination of Hillary Clinton for President. It has been an unusual election season so far, perhaps leaving us with more possibilities than before. You may…
Bernie Could Still Win the Presidency!
by Pete Healey, independent Leftist Bernie Sanders spent the last couple months of his primary campaign talking about having “a clear path to the nomination“, and fighting for it to the bitter end. But here’s the thing: when Jill Stein…
Backdraft from the U.S. Military Budget
By Carol Hanisch Absent from most of the debate in the presidential primaries is the discussion of the military budget and the wars that have secured profits for the rich while carrying out killing fields abroad and dying fields at…
It’s What You’re PAID, Not What You EARN!
by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…