Podcasts about women's strike

Women's Fightback 25, Winter/Spring 2021, part 1 of 2, pages 1 to 9. Articles include: Strajk! An interview with Ewa Pospieszynska Life under lockdown Working mums, paying the price Cut the working week Discrimination on the Tube Women of the Poplar rebellion More green space Can Biden kill off Trumpism? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-25-winterspring-2021

Mass protests against the abortion ruling in Poland continue. In this episode, Karolina Zbytniewska explains the nationwide demonstrations and why the red lighting bolt became a symbol of resistance. Katarzyna Suchanow the co-founder of the movement All-Poland Women's Strike presents the main motivations of the protests and explains why they should also be a European concern.

A majority of Americans polled by CSPAN last year couldn't name a Supreme Court case. Of those who could, Roe v. Wade was by far the most familiar, with 40 percent able to name it. (Only five percent could name Brown v. Board of Education.) And since it was decided in 1973, a majority — roughly 70 percent — have consistently said they want Roe upheld, albeit with some restrictions on legal abortion. But what do we really know about Roe? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has often said she wishes it had been another case that the Supreme Court heard as the first reproductive freedom case instead. It was Susan Struck v. Secretary of Defense, and it came to the high court during the same term as Roe.  The year was 1970, and the Air Force (like the other branches of the military) had a regulation banning female service members from having a family. If a servicewoman got pregnant, she would get discharged. Captain Susan Struck was a nurse serving in Vietnam, and she challenged the decision in court with Ginsburg as her lawyer. However, the court never heard the case because the Air Force changed their policy first. For this week's show, we partnered with The Guardian (read their story here) to learn more about Susan Struck’s fight and its bigger lessons for reproductive freedom and for women in the workplace.  Our producer Alana Casanova-Burgess and The Guardian's health reporter Jessica Glenza spoke to Struck about the difficult decision she made to give her baby up for adoption in order to fight the regulation. Plus, we hear why legal scholars think this case "deserves to be honored by collective memory," and how Ginsburg's arguments to the Supreme Court differed from what the justices decided in Roe.  Then: - Slate's Dahlia Lithwick explains the threats to reproductive rights in the court right now; - Neil Siegel of Duke Law School puts the Struck case in context and discusses what better questions we could be asking about women's equality; - activist and scholar Loretta Ross explains the tenets of reproductive justice and how they expand the frame beyond Roe and abortion; - and Reva Siegel of Yale Law School tells the story of how abortion was discussed before 1973, including during the Women's Strike of 1970. And she describes the framework of ProChoiceLife, which expands the idea of what pro-life policy is. She is also the co-editor of Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories.  Read The Guardian’s print version here, and share your story with Jessica Glenza if you were a woman serving in the military before 1976. Music by Nicola Cruz, Kronos Quartet, and Mark Henry Phillips

We reproduce highlights from interviews in our second season of Laborwave. More episodes from Laborwave will be released in the late summer of 2019. Highlights include clips from our interviews with: Marianne Garneau on the Women's Strike. Garneau explains why it is necessary to have specific targets tied to specific demands within a larger strategic plan in order to be effective in any struggle for working class improvements, and how all of these features are absent from the IWS, so far. Shane Burley on Lessons from the Burgerville Workers Union. In addition to lesson from BVWU's victories we discussed the need to rethink labor organizing under late capitalism, where workers no longer self-identify with particular forms of industry and precarious labor is the norm. BVWU's successes in some ways points to the need to re-embrace as Shane says, "19th century unionism" in the 21st century. Hillary Lazar on Border Politics and Antifascism. Our interview focused on Hillary Lazar's essay, Connecting Our Struggles: Border Politics, Antifascism, and Lessons from the Trials of Ferrero, Sallito, and Graham published in Perspectives on Anarchist Theory (n.30). The piece focuses on the lost history of anarchist editors and supporters of the periodical Man! who were swept up in an anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist political reaction during the early part of the 20th century in the United States. The piece uses this case study to explore connections and continuations of anti-immigrant policies of today and how such policies bolster the repression of political dissent. adrienne maree brown on Pleasure Activism. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us to rethink the ground rules of activism. Her mindset-altering essays are interwoven with conversations and insights from other feminist thinkers, including Audre Lorde, Joan Morgan, Cara Page, Sonya Renee Taylor, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Together they cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—building new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. AK Thompson on Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt. Our clip focuses on his essay discussing leftist critiques of Avatar and how they failed to also use the limitations of the movie and its popularity as opportunities for radical organizing. Bill Fletcher, Jr. on Social Justice Unionism.Fletcher Jr discusses the need for "social justice unionism" in a post-Janus United States. Workers are becoming increasingly atomized in the US, and the state continues to rollback any investments into the reproductive labor that stitches society together. The moment, as Fletcher Jr states, that organized labor can seize for victory is almost over. We might not get another moment. What role do teachers strikes, worker-owned businesses, and housing cooperatives play in seizing this current moment? How do the rank and file push labor leadership to understand that we cannot continue doing "business as usual" despite not being knocked out by Janus right away?

The International Women's Strike (IWS) is now in its third year of operation, and the feminist thinkers Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser have developed the ideas of IWS in their recent book Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, published by Verso Books. But what is the actual strategy for launching a strike at the level of reproductive labor, as the authors claim is necessary for revitalizing working class struggle? This question and more animates the conversation we had with Marianne Garneau, editor of Organizing Work and a labor organizer based in New York. In this episode Garneau elaborates her critique of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto first appearing in the article The Women's Strike, Reconsidered which she wrote for Organizing Work. Garneau explains why it is necessary to have specific targets tied to specific demands within a larger strategic plan in order to be effective in any struggle for working class improvements, and how all of these features are absent from the IWS, so far. Check out the article here: http://organizing.work/2019/03/the-womens-strike-reconsidered/ Be sure to read the excellent articles and features on Organizing Work: https://organizing.work You can purchase a copy of Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto at https://www.versobooks.com/books/2924-feminism-for-the-99 Songs on this episode by John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees: Peanut Butter Oven Mega-Feast If I Stay Too Long

Nick, Julia, Ciarán and Rob discuss how prison labor targeting women is the chic new look this season. Follow us on Twitter at @cornerspaeti Some stuff we discussed this episode: Playing the Whore Half the Sky Caliban and the Witch Article about Call Centers in El Salvador Gefangenen-Gewerkschaft (Prisoners Union) Women's Strike in Berlin

In the centenary year of the "Representation of the People Act", which extended the franchise to certain, propertied, women, Labour Days looks at the question of working-class and labour movement involvement in the women's suffrage movement, and introduces listeners to the activity of labour-movement suffrage fighters like Julia Varley, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Ada Nield Chew. The reccommended reading for this episode is Jill Norris and Jill Liddington's book 'One Hand Tied Behind Us', which looks at the radical roots of the suffrage movement in the activity of working-class and socialist women organisers. You can buy a copy here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Hand-Tied-Behind-Us/dp/1854891111 At the top of the show we mention four strikes of education workers, which you can read more about here: University lecturers' strikes against pension cuts in the UK: https://theclarionmag.org/2018/02/26/ucu-strike-channel-anger-against-management/ (and http://twitter.com/occupation_hub for updates on student sit-ins in solidarity with the strikes) Teachers' strikes for decent pay in West Virginia, USA: http://www.labornotes.org/2018/03/west-virginia-option University lecturers' strikes in Kenya: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-strike/kenyan-university-lecturers-strike-again-over-low-pay-idUSKCN1GE0NW Non-academic university workers' strikes in Nigeria: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/260287-three-months-strike-action-university-workers-set-nationwide-protest.html We also reccommended LabourStart as a good starting point for all your international labour movement news: http://www.labourstart.org We also mentioned the Picturehouse cinema workers' International Women's Day strike, which you can read about here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/03/if-picturehouse-strikers-demands-were-met-women-would-benefit The strike linked up with other IWD events via the Women's Strike initiative, which you can read about here: https://womenstrike.org.uk/ and here: https://theclarionmag.org/2018/03/04/8-march-womens-strike-collectivising-our-fight/ All the usual copyright disclaimers apply about the music used here, which we don't own. The post-credits music was a snippet from Joan Baez and Mimi Farina's version of 'Bread And Roses', James Oppenheim's 1911 poem about the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile workers' strike. The slogan "bread and roses" originates with sweatshop worker organiser Rose Schneidermann ("the worker must have bread, but she must have roses too"), who used it to assert the idea that the labour movement should fight for workers' right to a rich and fulfilling life rather than just mere economic subsistence.

On this episode of LabourWave, Andrea Anarchy and Person X discussed the recent groundswell of strike activity in the US and abroad including the General Strike of West Virginia teachers and the International Women's Day strike where 5.3 million women in Spain participated. We did not note the 3-day strike waged by Burgerville workers or the two-week strike by University of Illinois graduate workers, but we wish to acknowledge these activities here. We also played an audio clip from Marxist-feminist scholar, Silvia Federici, from her talk given at Oregon State University on February 14 titled "Wages for Housework and #MeToo." In this clip, Federici discusses the wages for housework campaign spearheaded in the 1970s and how it responded to the varying trends predominant within the feminist movement of the day. We ended our episode by discussing the continuing wave of high school and middle school student walkouts protesting gun violence in schools and congressional inaction on the matter. For more info on local actions protesting gun violence, check out these links: https://www.facebook.com/events/1418030631639542 https://www.facebook.com/events/2122186094669979/ We recommend the following articles and books for further references to this episode: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz "Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment" http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100460830 Joe Burns "There Is No Illegal Strike, Just An Unsuccessful One" https://jacobinmag.com/2018/03/public-sector-unions-history-west-virginia-teachers-strike

Chris Browne and Emily Orford are joined by special guests Camille Barbagallo and Tithi Bhattacharya, national organisers for the Women's Strike in the UK and US respectively.  Focusing on the upcoming International Women's Strike - which takes place on International Women's Day (8th March) - the episode's discussion covers everything from the limitations of 'Lean In' feminism and the January 21st Women's March, to social reproduction theory and #MeToo. For more information about the International Women's Strike go to: https://womenstrike.org.uk/ https://www.womenstrikeus.org/  

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the complicated politics of the women's strike, the rise of anti-Semitism in America, and humanity's relationship to robots.

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