An Interview with Carol Hanisch by Ksenija Kordic and other members of Femrevolt in Croatia In the past two years, interview requests and articles have come from radical feminist writers and actitivist groups in Brazil, Portugal, Croatia and Chile. From the exchanges…
Category: Taking Action
Theory and Practice Within the WLM in Portugal
by Aline Rossi Aline Rossi is a Brazilian radical feminist living and organizing in Portugal. We have faced similar challenges in our own organizing in the WLM. We invite you to share yours in the comments section. — The Editors…
An Invitation to Commemorate the 1968 Miss America Protest
50 years ago Women’s Liberation protested the Miss America Pageant and threw “items of female torture” into a Freedom Trash Can What do YOU want to toss into the 2018 Freedom Trash Can? On September 7, 1968, more than…
The “Burial of Traditional Womanhood” • January 15, 1968
Commemorating 50 Years of “Sisterhood Is Powerful” by Carol Hanisch Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War was raging and so were protests against it, the intensity and scope of which would increase multifold in 1968. On the opening day of…
Black Feminist’s Critique of the January Women’s March
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…
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…
A Call for Women to Pledge to Strike
Below is a news release from National Women’s Liberation calling for a women’s strike against “all work, both paid and unpaid,” during the presidential inauguration weekend in January. They are setting a target of 20,000 strike pledges before making the…
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…
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…
When Women Strike…
By Carol Hanisch They call us Nazis and say that we are no better than Hitler because we think a woman should have be able to choose whether she gives birth to a seriously sick child – but we are…