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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – Declaration of the WFTU

Originally published by Labor Today – https://labortoday.luel.us/en/declaration-of-the-wftu-for-international-day-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women/ The 25th of November has been designated by the UN as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. WFTU (the World Federation of Trade Unions), on this occasion and under the slogan ‘Safe Country, safe Home, safe Workplace – STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN’ condemns violence […]

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Freda Brown, Women’s Leader

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Women for Racial and Economic Equality, WREE, was established in 1974 as a successor to the CAW, Congress of American Women, and as an affiliate of WIDF, Women’s International Democratic Federation, a UN-recognized NGO. doing much of what progressive women’s organizations did in the 1960s and 1970s in helping women gain greater equality. wreeusa.com International

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International Women’s Strike Demands Systemic Changes

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Originally published by Morning Star, an online publication expressing the views of the Communist Party of Great Britain https://morningstaronline.co.uk/ HUNDREDS of women and allies in Britain joined the International Women’s Strike today to demand systemic changes that “prioritize the survival and well-being over profit.” The strike, led by Global Women’s Strike (GWS) and the Women

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UE: Fifty Years Ago, Union Women Founded New Organization to Fight for Equality

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From Jonathan Kissam | Photo Courtesy of ueunion.org | UE News Reuse Policy Fifty years ago [March 22, 1974], 3,200 women gathered in Chicago to found the Coalition of Labor Union Women to fight for equality in their unions and in society. The UE NEWS, which dedicated a full two pages to coverage of the

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Women Communists: Then and Now – PSMLS Class

PSMLS, Women

This class is a presentation from the Women’s Commission of the PCUSA on Women Communists: Then and Now, looking at women primarily from the latter half of the 20th century and who were Communists, or fellow travelers heavily involved with the Communist movement. Some women that will be touched on are Claudia Jones, Anne Braden,

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

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By Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) Women for Racial and Economic Equality recognizes November 20th as Transgender Day of Remembrance, a memorial day for the growing number year after year of transgender people being killed in the United States and around the world. It is also a day to recognize the crisis of

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Women’s Issues and the Working Woman

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A Statement from Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE) The fate of the bodily security of over 150 million American women will be determined by nine unelected justices, less than half of whom are women. The Supreme Court established a women’s political right to abortion nearly half a century ago. Today, we are once

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – Declaration of the WFTU

Freda Brown, Women’s Leader

International Women’s Strike Demands Systemic Changes

UE: Fifty Years Ago, Union Women Founded New Organization to Fight for Equality

Women Communists: Then and Now – PSMLS Class

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Women’s Issues and the Working Woman

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