Cross-post from LBN - Nationwide women's strike expected on Monday

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Nationwide women's strike expected on Monday


By: Stephanie Liebergen
Posted at 2:09 PM, Jun 21, 2024

On Monday, the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, women and allies are planning a nationwide women's strike.

It all started with an April 18 TikTok post. Thousands of people saw that call, and subsequent posts. Within a few weeks, millions were responding. Rachel O'Leary Carmona is the executive director of theWomen's March, and that organization is serving as a communication portal to help people around the world organize. "We woke up one day that week and we found 60 actions on our map," Carmona said.

The organizers are calling for supporters to wear red, stay home from work and school, and not spend any money unless it's at a women-owned business. The movement is calling for equal rights, reproductive freedom and the end of gender-based violence. "What we can really understand and measure by Monday, is the strength of the grassroots and how angry people are. And so I think that we will continue to see these organic, grassroots uprisings all the way until our rights are restored," explained Carmona.

The strikes, walkouts and protests are being organized on a variety of digital platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Eventbrite and more. And while the calls to action can vary, the overarching message is clear.

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https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/womens-issues/nationwide-womens-strike-expected-on-monday

Link to Women's March "We Won't Go Back" site (includes announcements for events nationwide) - https://wewontgoback.com/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I recall when my dad's old boys network corporate comrades were in huff over women hires

to do the *same* job as they did. Horrors! They were called every B-phrase in the book - on wheels included.

That boycott and financial muscle is learning to be flexed does not bode well should Orange Bird's Nest Cheeto Jesus resume the helm on the Ship of State. People are learning to adapt and make their case.

[marble falls]

2. To coin a phrase: don't iron while the strike is hot.

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Women Strike for Equality in 1970

https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-iron-while-strike-170005774.html

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/UKleztVOhIWUBiDm2RQkZw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD05ODk7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/time_72/2ebabd011254da47c4f1110edf37db42

Sponsored by the National Organization for Women and organized largely by Betty Friedan, the march put forth a feminist agenda that included access to free abortion, round-the-clock childcare centers and equal opportunities in work and education. Organized around the slogan, “Don’t iron while the strike is hot,” the march was originally intended to result in a national work stoppage among women, as Friedan aimed to demonstrate the unequal burden of domestic labor.

“No one knows how many shirts lay wrinkling in laundry baskets last week as thousands of women across the country turned out for the first big demonstration of the Women‘s Liberation movement,” TIME wrote in its Sept. 7, 1970 issue. “The strike, on the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the women‘s suffrage amendment, drew small crowds by antiwar or civil rights standards, yet was easily the largest women‘s rights rally since the suffrage protests.”

The strike — which took place at the end of the working day in an effort to boost participation — “made the women’s movement a household word,” Ruth Rosen, author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America, told the New York Times in 2006. As TIME noted in 1970, the march “won new support and undoubtedly new awareness among both men and women of the case for female rights.”

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[niyad]

3. Thank you for this very important piece of HERSTORY!

[niyad]

4. Thank you so much for bringing this here. I wish them every success!

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Most welcome!