Women and oppressed genders

Attacks on abortion rights spiked in 2015Attacks on abortion rights spiked in 2015

Attacks on abortion rights spiked in 2015

Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in 1973, took a beating in 2015. Yet despite all…

January 13, 2016
Jailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrantsJailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

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 22, 2015
Jailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrantsJailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

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 womenPolice terror, sexual violence against Black women

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 rightsTerror and abortion rights

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 ColoradoTerrorist attack on Planned Parenthood in Colorado

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 womenTexas strikes blow at poor women

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!Defend Planned Parenthood from right-wing attacks!

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 ParenthoodStand with Planned Parenthood

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!Stop the war on poor women!

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