Women and oppressed genders

Jailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

Women prisoners in the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, Calif., are on hunger strike in solidarity with detained immigrants. In…

December 18, 2015

Police terror, sexual violence against Black women

On Dec. 11, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was convicted of 18 counts of rape and other…

December 15, 2015

Terror and abortion rights

Before the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion in 1973, many women died of bleeding, tetanus or infections…

December 10, 2015

Terrorist attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado

Nov. 30 -- A second terrorist attack in the same week occurred in the United States on Nov. 27, just…

December 1, 2015

Texas strikes blow at poor women

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission stripped Planned Parenthood of its Medicaid contracts on Oct. 19. Defunding was based…

October 28, 2015

Defend Planned Parenthood from right-wing attacks!

Planned Parenthood — one of the country’s major health care providers – is under attack by reactionaries inside and outside…

October 9, 2015

Stand with Planned Parenthood

After vicious attacks by right-wing, anti-abortion politicians seeking to shut the federal government down on Sept. 30 if Planned Parenthood…

October 1, 2015

Stop the war on poor women!

A wholesale racist, sexist, anti-worker, anti-poor assault on Planned Parenthood is going on. This is outright warfare against millions of…

September 17, 2015

Lynne Stewart’s message for Women’s Equality Day

The following statement from the people’s lawyer and former political prisoner, Lynne Stewart, was read by Betty Davis, a longtime…

September 3, 2015

Women’s Equality Day speak-out on today’s struggles

August 26 was the 95th anniversary of U.S. women’s hard-won right to vote, fought for by a fierce national suffragist…

September 3, 2015