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<br />Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-30118222280932887172015-08-19T15:47:00.000-07:002015-08-19T15:47:38.257-07:00Recommended Article: "Alabama Case Illustrates Difficulties Women Behind Bars Face When Seeking Abortion" by Victoria Law<h4 style="text-align: justify;">
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"Margaret Atwood did not have a crystal ball when she wrote the gripped “TheHandmaid’s Tale”. She didn’t need one. She just used her brilliant creative mind to imagine women’s future in 30 years after U.S. legislators started making laws that make the fetus have more rights than the woman who carries it. We have now entered the “woman as incubator” in Alabama and Texas."</h4>
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-84891346299511481662015-08-11T16:51:00.000-07:002015-08-11T16:51:26.033-07:00Rain and Thunder publishes "Repoductive Sovereignty or Bust!" by Carol Downer<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-24205702119476062542015-06-15T12:45:00.000-07:002015-06-15T12:51:08.424-07:00What does a female condom have in common with a hip replacement?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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[<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6309/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1332966" target="_blank">Re-post from NWHN e-newsletter 6/11/15</a>]<br />
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What does a female condom have in common with a hip replacement? Not much, obviously. At least it’s obvious to us. But the FDA treats female condoms as if they need the same level of stringent regulatory oversight as hip replacements and other implanted devices. That’s just not right!<br />
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I’ve written to you before about how female condoms are a great option for safer sex. Despite being safe and effective at preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI's) and unintended pregnancy, the FDA has labeled female condoms as a Class III medical device, the highest level of regulation. Male condoms are treated as Class II devices, which means that the FDA ensures that good manufacturing practices are followed, and changes aren’t made that could compromise safety and effectiveness. But otherwise, the FDA doesn’t over-regulate male condom. Needlessly classifying female condoms in the highest regulatory category creates <b>barriers to female condom accessibility and affordability</b>. Only one female condom is FDA approved and available in the U.S. and permitted to be purchased with U.S. foreign aid. Women and men deserve to choose the method of family planning and STI prevention that is right for them without facing unnecessary obstacles.<br />
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Last week, Network Program Director Coco Jervis participated in this informative <a href="http://www.nationalfccoalition.org/webinar" target="_blank">webinar</a> about current FDA regulatory opportunities for removing barriers. We have been working with our coalition partners at the National Female Condom Coalition to urge the FDA to down-classify female condoms to enable new options for women in the U.S. and across the globe. To help us remove barriers to new female condom products, <b>take action today</b> and share some of these fantastic NFCC <a href="http://www.nationalfccoalition.org/resources/fact-sheets-and-reports" target="_blank">resources</a> and help spread the message that people need more options for safer sex.<br />
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The Network will continue working with our allies to ensure access to a <b>full range of preventive options for pregnancy and STI transmission</b>. Follow us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheNWHN" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/thenwhn" target="_blank">Twitter</a> to receive for the most up-to-date information on our advocacy!<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Cindy Pearson<br />
Executive Director Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-53144670599534181642015-06-12T11:33:00.000-07:002015-06-12T11:33:23.090-07:00Exclusive Q&A with Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, & Holly Grigg-Spall <iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/92756815/sweetening-the-pill-a-documentary/widget/video.html" width="480"> </iframe>
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Ricki: It really seemed like a very natural progression for us from ‘The Business of Being Born.’ Women spend more time trying to avoid pregnancy - a decade or more at the start, then they have babies, then they’re back to trying to avoid it for further decades. It’s an experience all women share. What we did for birth, we want to do for birth control, and empower women with more information and more choice. ‘The Business of Being Born’ was about body literacy and this project is the same - it’s about women knowing, understanding, and trusting their bodies. <b></b><br />
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Abby: We’ve both had our own negative experiences with different kinds of hormonal contraceptives over the years. We know other women who have experienced the same thing. Holly Grigg-Spall sent us her manuscript for ‘Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control’ and something just clicked when I was reading it. For the first time, I was connecting emotionally difficult periods in my life to the use of the pill and it just made so much sense to do this film. We could approach birth control with women’s empowerment in mind, too. <b></b><br />
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Holly: For me, I wrote the book because I had a pretty terrible personal experience with the Pill, which I used for ten years consistently. The book began as a blog that I wrote about coming off the Pill and my experience doing that, how it made me feel, finding alternative contraception, learning about my cycle and so on. That blog meant that lots of women got in touch to share their own stories. I realized the extent of this problem. I then soon realized it was really taboo almost to criticize the Pill or the culture around the Pill. That interested me. I saw ‘The Business of Being Born’ when I was actually writing the book and I made the connection right away. I wrote about the parallels between the birth and the birth control industries. I knew that the book could make the basis of a great documentary and that the absolute best people to do this would be Abby and Ricki. I set my sights on that. Of course, I am now over-the-moon about the film. A book is one thing, but a documentary like this can reach so many more women. <b></b><br />
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Abby: We spent a year going the traditional route and we met with a few networks and production companies. We had a lot of discussion and a lot of real interest. People were saying this film could be “the Food Inc. of birth control.” Everyone has a story or knows someone who has a story about this, it’s just that kind of subject. But, it doesn’t have that commercial pull. It seems, at first, a little scary even. Some people struggle to understand the perspective. We have to explain that it is not anti-birth control or anti-Pill. Instead it is pro-informed consent, pro-choice, and pro-knowledge. We want women to have more options for contraception, not less! We want them to have more access, not less! It’s a feminist film project. This topic is very politicized right now, so that takes a little time to explain. <b></b><br />
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Ricki: People might not realize, but we didn’t actually make any money from ‘The Business of Being Born’ - it was hugely successful in many great ways, but we lost money. Documentaries are really passion projects. We know a grassroots effort is right for this project, it spreads awareness and gets the conversation going. Women will share their stories and may even share their stories for the film. They will have their experiences validated by this, which is so important. The campaign is doing really well, but we have to keep going strong to reach our goal now. <b></b><br />
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<b>The Kickstarter campaign highlights Fertility Awareness Methods as a non-hormonal alternative, particularly when supported with apps and new technology. How did this area come to your attention?</b><br />
Ricki: We got introduced to Kindara first through Holly’s book and we have met with them and discussed their work with their app and new wireless basal body thermometer, Wink. They want to democratize this knowledge, make it part of every woman’s education. They really think it could change things for the better when it comes to women’s lives. We also spoke with the makers of Clue in Berlin. They’re helping women track every part of their monthly cycle. It’s great progress for women’s reproductive health. Just this week we saw that Apple finally decided to add menstrual cycles to their HealthKit app. This is wonderful. It means other apps can sync with the native technology on the iPhone and it means more women will come to realize they can track their cycles and benefit from being aware of this information. They will be made aware of that option. <b></b><br />
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Abby: Really the technology sector is leading the way here. We’re seeing them step up and help and support women who don’t want to or can’t use hormonal contraceptives. They’re making using Fertility Awareness Methods simpler, easier, less time-consuming and more approachable. They’re getting in the media and getting their message out there. And these people are also a wealth of knowledge because thousands of women are using their apps and talking to them about their cycles and experiences.<br />
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<b>A lot of women take the Pill for other issues these days, not just for contraception. Do you want to explore this?</b><br />
Abby: Absolutely. A couple of our film advisers work in this area - providing holistic, natural reproductive health support. They are working with women who have found the Pill hasn’t helped them long term. They’ve had side effects or the problems they had before have returned after coming off. They’re struggling to get pregnant. The Pill is prescribed for so many health problems these days and, although it’s definitely helpful and even essential for some women, it’s not the right treatment in all situations. In the Kickstarter video we highlight one part of this - how women are using it to regulate their cycles, even though they’re getting misleading information on that. <br />
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Holly: This is such an important area. More and more women are on the Pill for everything from acne to PCOS and yet the Pill doesn’t treat these problems, it only masks them. When women come off, most commonly the issue returns and might even be worse than before. We think that women have to suffer with PMS, like it’s our destiny, inevitable, when actually a lot of hormonal balance-related problems can be treated properly long term with alternative protocols. Women deserve better. They don’t have to put up with this stuff. And they don’t always have to use drugs that give them side effects to fix the problem. For some women, as Abby says, hormonal contraceptives are essential treatment. But we’re at a point now where it’s being doled out like a cure-all and it’s just not.<br />
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I'm writing to encourage you to contribute what you can to <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KW6TNHQGN9ZQY" target="_blank">Kathy Hodge's travel</a> to the upcoming <b><a href="http://menstruationresearch.org/" target="_blank">Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Conference</a></b>. I attended this conference in the 1970's to present research conducted by the FWHC. Our research was a grassroots effort to document our own menstrual cycles, in detail. While we were a bit nervous to be meeting with this group of "real" research scientists, our research was met with respect, enthusiasm and honest curiosity.<br />
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The 1970's marked the beginning of women in science investigating topics of concern to other women. Since then, research conducted by women in science has proliferated. <b>Kathy's attendance at the conference is important </b>for two reasons: <b>1) </b>She can represent the history of work done by the feminist health movement and the FWHC in particular and <b>2) </b>She can hear about current research related to women's health done by women in research and academia. These connections are invaluable in determining the direction of future research that benefits women's health.<br />
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<li>Keynote by Reproductive Justice Pioneer <u>Loretta Ross</u></li>
<li>Kick-Off Flash! Plenary showcasing several short diverse talks that make the menstrual connection</li>
<li>2015 Making Menstruation Matter award presentation to <u>Our Bodies, Ourselves</u></li>
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<li>“Mainstreaming the Flow”: (Still) Selling my Soul to Start the Conversation” with Tomi-Ann Roberts</li>
<li>“<u>Widening the Cycle</u>”, a menstrual art exhibit and plenary</li>
<li>Poetry Open Mic and Raffle hosted by <u>Dominique Christina</u></li>
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This breakthrough study exploded the medical myth that any variation from the 28-day cycle was “abnormal”. We also found that relying on the results of routine one-time, “snapshot”, readings of lab tests could result in grossly inappropriate and even harmful diagnoses and treatments. Mood changes during our cycles seemed more impacted by the environment.<br />
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-91600803084271600452015-04-08T14:53:00.000-07:002015-04-13T12:03:20.936-07:00SUPPORT PURVI PATEL’S RIGHT TO CONTROL HER OWN BODYBy Carol Downer<br />
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In our rush to support Purvi Patel, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on April 6, 2015 by an Indiana Judge on the charges of child neglect and feticide (inducing her own abortion) by adopting Patel’s claim that she miscarried, we risk implying that if it were a self-induced abortion, we might not support her. <br />
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The prosecution introduced evidence that Patel had told a friend about ordering pills to induce an abortion and about taking the medication, and had then texted her to say, “just lost the baby”. <br />
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We have seen abortion rights curtailed in recent years. The desperation of females who have denied a way to solve their problem of unwanted pregnancy and the availability of abortion-inducing pills, and female’s dependence on medical help if complications of miscarriage or induced abortion will continue to produce these horrific outcomes. We’d better think this through and take a position that doesn’t embroil us in factual evidentiary disputes or place us in the position of accepting the legitimacy of the State punishing a female for trying to control her own body.<br />
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Given the evidence that Patel induced an abortion, many of her supporters have shifted to the question of whether the fetus was viable and if so, whether it was a stillborn. Viability is not determined by whether a particular fetus of a certain age will live, it is determined by the statistical probability that it will live, based on whether any fetuses born at that stage of development who were cared for in a well-equipped neo-natal unit have lived. Whether the defense’s estimate of the fetus’ age was correct or the prosecutor’s estimate of a later fetal age, the fetus was very premature and its chances of survival under the best conditions were problematic. <br />
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But why are feminists basing our support on whether the fetus was viable? And, why are we challenging the tests for whether the fetus managed to take a breath? Don’t we support Patel in her right to rid herself of an unwanted fetus. It is her body, after all, and when a female is forced to maintain a pregnancy, it is reproductive slavery. Just because the Supreme Court decided that there was a point during pregnancy when the fetus’ rights trumped the female’s rights, why do we accept that? Of course, her attorney should and must present every defense, but unless we agree that the State has the right to control our reproductive organs under some circumstances, we must uphold Patel whether she had a miscarriage or expelled a premature fetus.<br />
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If the authorities pay attention to our Petitions, it will be because they see how outraged the females of America are at this prosecution and sentence and because they feel compelled to respect the national outcry. They will not be swayed by the fact that we’ve believed the defense’s version of the facts, or that we’ve presented a legal argument.<br />
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As a female and as a feminist, I support Patel unequivocally. FREE PURVI PATEL!Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-46095084577998905462015-03-16T14:00:00.001-07:002015-03-16T14:00:39.088-07:00Report of discussion with Max Dashu January 27, 2015<br />
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<a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2015/03/report-trip-to-san-francisco-to-protest.html" target="_blank">Before I left Oakland</a> for home, I stopped by <a href="http://www.suppressedhistories.net/" target="_blank">Max</a>’s archives.<br />
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My goal in the meeting was to learn from Max about the Witch Hunts. I achieved my goal; I learned so much. It was in reading <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/10/important-new-book-caliban-and-witch.html" target="_blank">Caliban and the Witch</a> that I saw that the motivation of the Witch Hunters went beyond their desire to suppress women’s sexuality and their activities which were competitive with the developing medical profession, and by reading <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Riddle" target="_blank">John Riddle</a>’s book, I also realized the existence of and the significance of a widespread knowledge and use of contraception and abortion. This was the real power of women-the power to decide whether or not to create the next generation. This was the power that those who were in control could not abide.<br />
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I originally learned about the Witch Hunts from <b>Witches, Midwives and Nurses</b> by Ehrenreich and English and I knew that women who were burned as witches were many times healers. I definitely saw that what we were doing represented a revival of women’s knowledge around healing. <br />
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Max became irritated with me because she said I wasn’t listening. It is true that I sometimes interrupted her (as she did me), and also I sometimes didn’t get the full import of what she was trying to communicate. <br />
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Despite certain differences, mostly in emphasis, it was clear that we profoundly agree about the origin and nature of women’s oppression. We both see that the development of patriarchy resulted in the lowering of women’s power and status. We both see capitalism as an “advanced form” of patriarchy. We both think that ethnicity and class have to be taken into consideration in any historical explanation. We both think that the causation of the Witch Hunts and other attacks on women as being multi-causal. Both of us distinguish between capitalistic or imperialistic patriarchy and the patriarchy found in non-capitalistic or imperialistic societies, and agree that patriarchal capitalism and imperialism is worse for women. In other words, “all capitalistic societies are patriarchal, but not all patriarchal societies are capitalistic.”<br />
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Both of us kept the free-ranging discussion from turning into an argument; neither of us were there to convince the other, so we kept bringing the conversation back to a discussion where each of us would have the opportunity to explain our points more fully, etc.<br />
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We talked about <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/10/important-new-book-caliban-and-witch.html" target="_blank">Caliban and the Witch</a>. Max was critical of Federici’s mischaracterization of the era prior to the 14th century. Federici said that Witch Hunting had started then; that before there was no Witch Hunting. She has the references to show that in fact, there was Witch Hunting several centuries prior. <br />
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I don’t think that Federici’s definite assertion that there was no history of Witch Hunts in the preceding era, negated the value of her insight that the crime of Witchcraft, which focused on contraception and abortion, was invalid. In reading the whole sentence that Federici had stated, she left room for at least some of the facts that Max had alluded to. Perhaps I’m conflating the explanation of Heinsohn and Steiger with Federici’s, but I recall that she emphasized that the crime of Witchcraft (as compared to Sorcery) was invented in the 14th century.<br />
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Max feels that everything flows from the establishment of patriarchy, and we should not focus on some of the subsequent developments, but rather fight against patriarchy in all of its manifestations. I feel that a quantum leap happened as a result of the Witch Hunts (as well as the enclosures) that helped the feudal lords to accumulate capital, that this enabled them to launch a campaign of conquest and pillage and colonialization that would result in the establishment of capitalism in Europe and in the huge expanse of territory in the colonies.<br />
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We didn’t talk about it too much, but I agree with Max that the viewing the earth as a resource to exploit, and starting with seeing women as resources to dominate and exploit is the root of the problem. I just think that we need to apply that insight into the current manifestations of this patriarchal/capitalist/imperialist/industrialist outlook. <br />
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Max recognized a lot of the components of the creation of capitalism, bringing precious metals to Europe to enable monetarism, raw materials, slaves, etc. But, if she sees that these developments forced women into the modern mold, the housewife who recreates the labor force and recreates the worker too, she didn’t say so. She did say that her criticisms of C&W are “additive”, meaning she doesn’t criticize what Federici said, but thinks she omitted significant information.<br />
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My impression is that Max thinks that I over-generalize to pinpoint a particular point in history. She sees the evolutionary aspect of patriarchy and how it leads to capitalism. How men in patriarchy saw women as a resource, the same as other natural resources. I agree with that, but I think that the Witch Hunts had the effect of terrorizing women, resulting in seeing their reproductive activities as resources to enable the modern work force to arise.<br />
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We also differed on whether the reason they went after the Witches was to control their sexuality. To me, patriarchy wants to control women’s sexuality as a means to control their reproduction. <br /><br />Max has devoted her life to studying and gathering together the information to support her view of history, and the result is awesome. She allowed me to read her manuscripts. (Much of the original material that she viewed at the local San Francisco Library was right on the shelves. She said they’ve now been placed in less accessible sections.) The wealth of detail that she has gathered brings home the reality of how the Witch Hunt played out all over Europe over four centuries.<br />
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I agree with her that the concrete detail is necessary to prevent us from romanticizing the Witches and seeing the Witch Hunts as some kind of medieval aberration.<br />
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As to the Witch’s costumes. She said that women accused of witchcraft were forced to march through town wearing the pointed hats. Also, she said that much of the details, like the shoes and the dress come from the everyday wear of poor women, especially older poor women. She mentioned Belgium, in particular.<br /><br />We both are worried about what may happen in this country if the depression gets worse and people are turned against each other. Some modern version of the Witch Hunts are possible.<br /><b><br />Academic Women:</b> Our discussion of the role of academic women is illustrative of how Max and I both agree and still go a different place with the significance for action. She sees the way that the academic world influences academic women to look at their goal as getting prestige, seeing who can get their papers published, etc. I focus more on the power relationships and the way that patriarchal academia uses its control of jobs and the prestige that goes with it to derail young feminists who seek a career in women’s studies. I think that we see the cause and effect differently, but we both see how empty and irrelevant most of their work is. I, in addition, believe that they are being manipulated by academia to spin their wheels, or even worse, to attack the second wave of feminism with their emphasis of personal liberation and changing society by changing labels and self-definitions.Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-16892457148634565602015-03-12T17:51:00.000-07:002015-03-20T12:52:55.455-07:00REPORT OF TRIP TO BERKELEY TO ATTEND BAY AREA DOULA PROJECT’S MEETING<b>GUEST: MOLLY DUTTON-KENNY REGARDING HOME ABORTION</b><br />
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I went to Berkeley on March 3rd to hear Molly Dutton-Kenny speak on home abortion. She spoke regarding medical abortion, herbal abortion, menstrual extraction and vacuum aspiration abortion, all of which she is advocating being done at home.<br />
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Molly has observed women receiving vacuum aspiration abortions in a home setting in other countries. She travelled to Mali to learn about female health care. She has worked with IPAS for a time. She learned about menstrual extraction from reading “<a href="http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/Library.htm#awomansbookofchoices" target="_blank">A Woman’s Book of Choices</a>”, and she learned about vacuum aspiration abortion from WHO informational material. She has personal experience with taking herbal abortafacients. She is presently a midwife and is based in California and Canada. <br />
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She was delighted that I was at the meeting, and turned it over to me to speak about <a href="http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/OurPeriods.html" target="_blank">Menstrual Extraction</a>. The group showed great interest in all the types of home abortion that she talked about. There was a member of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/shodhini" target="_blank">Shodhini</a> who lives in the bay area at the meeting, and she was approached about starting a <a href="http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/SelfHelpInGroups.htm" target="_blank">self-help group</a> there.<br />
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believe that Washington State’s abortion law, which was voted on by the people
before Roe v. Wade, could be interpreted to permit home abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Medical abortion, taking mifepristone and
then expelling the embryo at home, offers a opportunity for a doula to provide
information and support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Herbal abortion
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</span>In all of the above situations, including vacuum aspiration, it is an
experienced person either providing information and support or actual hands-on
assistance, however menstrual extraction as developed by the Feminist Women's Health Centers requires a
group of minimally-trained women who have learned through vaginal
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Molly’s
ideas are very provocative, and I hope to hear more about it from her in the
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Molly’s website is <a href="http://doulamatch.net/profile/4859/molly-dutton-kenny">http://doulamatch.net/profile/4859/molly-dutton-kenny</a>Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-56032715882668101802015-03-12T17:07:00.001-07:002015-03-12T17:07:40.354-07:00REPORT: Trip to San Francisco to Protest Against Walk for Life on January 24, 2015By Carol Downer<br />
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<b>Background: </b><a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">StopPatriarchy.org</a> counter-demonstrated against the Catholic Church’s annual Walk for Life. As a member of the Advisory Committee and because I love to join in with like-minded people and yell myself hoarse at anti-abortionists, I went.<br />
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<a href="http://stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisunWwfi7d1M6w_MkAWexGvgWM1Wr_qytB-CR2q7pw_zVhHJGGgqLbBxIZRzLZowsmaOuikdzrldw7KduRLzkM8fNP0vZCdJCn5r0R7CEaFG2lvNpTW6saiT8KnQf5YTqoyfUCDoCEV8U/s1600/ReportRoevWade.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><b>The Report:</b> I took the train to Oakland the day before the event and enjoyed the opportunity to look out the window and work on my computer and read. I stayed at a low-cost motel, and went by BART to meet <a href="http://patmaginnis.com/" target="_blank">Pat Maginnis</a> at Powell and Market Street where Stop Patriarchy had set up large signs and banners, wearing T-shirts “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!”<br />
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Many thousands of “good” Catholics marched by. They had come by bus from all the western states and their priests shepherded them. Their mood was festive, even though their signs were disgusting. There were lots and lots of kids, even babies in strollers. They looked over at us like we were monsters. The adults mostly ignored us or smiled. The marchers filled the street, curb to curb, and the march went on for more than an hour. Most of the Stop Patriarchy protestors marched alongside them, leaving the banners, the bullhorn, a few protestors and Pat and me.<br />
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Pat and I went to dinner at a vegetarian restaurant. Pat recounted some of the arrests of the “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/patmaginnisandthearmyofthree" target="_blank">Army of Three</a>” for holding classes in self-abortion, which consisted of herself, <b>Lana Phelan</b> and <b>Rowena Gurner</b>. I wrote a quick summary when I got home. Pat’s storytelling is very droll. The self-abortion method was a digital abortion. Pat, a nurse, had aborted a later pregnancy by inserting a gloved, lubricated finger into her cervix on a daily basis until bleeding started and the fetus was expelled. So the self-abortion kit consisted of a hairnet (to keep the hair out of your eyes), a glove, lubrication, a nail clipper to cut your nails, a page of instructions and another item we couldn’t remember. <br />
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The next day I drove to Chico to visit my grandchildren, Carmen and Joe, and my 2-year-old great-grandchild, Vanessa.<br />
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I stayed with <b>Thora DeLey Cox </b>(a former director of the Feminist Women's Health Center and an author of <a href="http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/Library.htm#ANV" target="_blank">A New View of a Woman’s Body</a>). <br />
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Thora and Jim Cox, her husband, are doing well, as are her daughters, Vanessa and Rosalind, who are now grown females (note the new terminology). Thora and I walked in Bidwell Park and discussed the Mexican situation (the killing of 43 students who had expressed opposition to the ruling politician and the drug cartels who totally run Mexico). <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I met
with <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/who-is-sunsara-taylor.html" target="_blank">Sunsara Taylor</a>. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pat
Maginnis is a gifted cartoonist. She has poked fun at the enemies of
women’s reproductive rights, such as the Catholic Church (she is an
ex-Catholic). Also, she has been active in the peace movements, the
Occupy Movement and every other progressive movement in the bay area.<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pat’s
political strategy is to take her cartoons and her leaflets with her at
all times, distributing them to the waitress, to the person sitting
next to her on the bus, or to passers-by at demonstrations. She also
speaks out for animals’ rights and childrens’ rights.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
wish we could put together a book of her cartoons, each with a brief
paragraph explaining the political situation that provoked the cartoon.
It would be good to have a brief biography in the front. She has also
written some auto-biographical accounts of her childhood in Oklahoma.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Laurie McConnell </b>has assisted Pat to have a <a href="http://patmaginnis.com/" target="_blank">website</a>,
which is excellent. Pat has a circle of friends also who stop in from
time to time or go with her to events. But Pat lives on a fixed income,
and without support, even a relatively modest project such as a cartoon
booklet can’t happen. Laurie has offered to help put the book together,
but she would need some assistance to reimburse her for travel (she
lives in Redding, CA which is a few hours’ drive from Oakland, CA) and
some compensation for her time. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Any ideas?</b>
I would love to hear from anyone who can get this project together, or
at least connect me up with someone who could do a kickstarter campaign
or some other fund-raising event. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With Pat’s permission, I’m putting in my favorite cartoon (although she has many that ran a close second).</span></span><br />
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-46000609956642866402014-12-02T13:00:00.000-08:002014-12-02T13:00:08.286-08:00Earth At Risk Conference, Pat Maginnis, Barbara Hoke, Molly Arthur, and Mary Lou Singleton<b>MEMORANDUM </b><br />
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NOVEMBER 25, 2014<br />
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TO: <b>FRIENDS OF <a href="http://www.womenshealthinwomenshands.org/" target="_blank">WOMEN’S HEALTH IN WOMEN’S HANDS</a></b><br />
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FROM: <b>CAROL DOWNER</b><br />
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RE: <b>TRIP TO <a href="http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/" target="_blank">EARTH AT RISK CONFERENCE</a>, SAN FRANCISCO, 11-22 & 23-2014</b><br />
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<b>BACKGROUND:</b> <a href="http://enchantedfamilymedicine.com/" target="_blank">MARY LOU SINGLETON</a> INVITED ME TO GO TO THE EARTH AT RISK CONFERENCE TO MEET MEMBERS OF THE <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/" target="_blank">WOMEN’S LIBERATION FRONT (WoLF)</a>.<br />
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<b>SUMMARY: </b> DURING AND AFTER THE 2-DAY CONFERENCE, I VISITED THE WoLF TABLE. I MET WITH <a href="http://ecobirth.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">MOLLY ARTHUR</a>, MARY LOU SINGLETON, AND <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">STOPPATRIARCHY.ORG</a>. I VISITED <a href="http://patmaginnis.com/" target="_blank">PAT MAGINNIS</a> AND BARBARA HOKE IN OAKLAND, AND PAT AND I ATTENDED A HEARING TO PROTEST CHILD ENDANGERMENT AND ANIMAL CRUELTY BY A LOCAL HAYWARD RODEO GROUP.<br />
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<b>SUMMARY OF PROGRAM:</b><br />
<b>INFORMATIVE ABOUT</b> <b>1)</b> the extreme risk of ecological collapse: <b>2)</b> the cause of collapse: capitalist system and its attendant -isms, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, militarism, masculinity; <b>3)</b> power structure research about the way capitalism pathologizes our social relations, how the U.S. Constitution protects property rights over the people’s rights, <b>4)</b> what to expect if and when the people challenge capitalist’s corporate rule.<br />
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<b>THOUGHT-PROVOKING</b> in presenting legal strategies to expose and force show-downs on basic legal protections of eco-cidal capitalistic behavior; in suggesting projects to directly transform our consciousness, our immediate environment, and the control of our lives.<br />
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<b>INSPIRATIONAL</b> in sharing indigenous culture’s example of how people can successfully live in cooperative, communal society that is earth-loving, in poetry performance to express our anger and sorrow; in exhorting us to build: <b>1)</b> human connections with friendship, <b>2)</b> human connections with nature “gardens of hope”, solidarity in defending and befriending mountains, rivers, insects, trees and other plants.<br />
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The 200-300 people that attended the conference all agreed that capitalism cannot be reformed and must be replaced with ways of organizing society that recognize the necessity of living in harmony with the earth and all its creatures. They also all agreed that the strategy of influencing our elected officials and other governmental or business leaders is almost useless; that instead we have to build communities that take direct, dynamic and creative political action.<br />
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<b>26 SPEAKERS PUT ON INDIVIDUAL OR PANEL PRESENTATIONS:</b><br />
<u>Keynote speakers:</u> <b> </b><br />
<a href="http://www.navdanya.org/" target="_blank"><b>Vandana Shiva</b></a>, (leader, author) <br />
<a href="http://alicewalkersgarden.com/" target="_blank"><b>Alice Walker</b></a>, (author) <br />
<a href="http://www.derrickjensen.org/" target="_blank"><b>Derrick Jensen</b></a>, (author) <br />
<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges" target="_blank"><b>Chris Hedges</b></a>, (author)<br />
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<u>Panelists: </u><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dinize.toghestiy" target="_blank"><b>Dini ze Toghestiy</b></a>, indigenous speaker<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/unistoten" target="_blank"><b>Freda Hudson</b></a>, resistance leader, Tar Sands. Fracking <br />
<a href="http://www.winnememwintu.us/" target="_blank"><b>Caleen Sisk</b></a>, Tribal Chief<br />
<a href="http://dahrjamail.net/" target="_blank"><b>Dahr Jamail</b></a>, Journalist<br />
<a href="http://awcep.org/" target="_blank"><b>Sarah M. Mah</b></a>, anti-rape feminist <br />
<a href="http://awcep.org/" target="_blank"><b>Yuly Chan</b></a>, anti-rape, anti-prostitution feminist <br />
<a href="http://www.nohohewa.com/" target="_blank"><b>Anne Keala Kelly</b></a>, Hawaiian journalist, filmmaker<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Wilson" target="_blank"><b>Diane Wilson</b></a>, author, eco-warrior, fisherwoman<br />
<b><a href="http://www.dominiquechristina.com/" target="_blank">Dominique Christina</a></b>, slam poet <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Armstrong" target="_blank"><b>Jeannette Armstrong</b></a>, Okanagan Nation Knowledge Keeper<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sakej.ward" target="_blank"><b>Sakej (James) Ward</b></a>, teaches warrior societies<br />
<a href="http://veteransunplugged.com/about/vince" target="_blank"><b>Vince Emanuele</b></a>, Veterans for Peace organizer and spokesperson <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indigenous-Women-Against-the-Sex-Industry/402934106468517" target="_blank"><b>Cherry Smiley</b></a>, Indigenous Women Against Prostitution<br />
<a href="http://www.celdf.org/" target="_blank"><b>Thomas Linzey</b></a>, Attorney, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund <br />
<a href="http://gaildines.com/" target="_blank"><b>Gail Dines</b></a>, Professor, Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wheelock College <br />
<a href="http://www.richardmanning.net/" target="_blank"><b>Richard Manning</b></a>, environmental author and journalist<br />
<a href="http://stephaniemcmillan.org/" target="_blank"><b>Stephanie McMillan</b></a>, author, Why Capitalism Must Die, cartoonist<br />
<a href="http://www.fertilegroundinstitute.org/" target="_blank"><b>Saba Malik</b></a>, activist on racism, peak oil and anti-civilization<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Derber" target="_blank"><b>Charles Derber</b></a>, environment, power structure author<br />
<a href="http://deepgreenresistance.org/en/" target="_blank"><b>Kourtney Mitchell</b></a>, activist, anti-violence and pro-feminist<br />
<a href="http://guymcpherson.com/" target="_blank"><b>Guy McPherson</b></a>, ex-professor, environment author<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Goff" target="_blank"><b>Stan Goff</b></a>, ex-military, author anti-sexism, anti-capitalism<br />
<a href="http://www.vowvop.org/" target="_blank"><b>Doug Zachary</b></a>, Veterans for Peace fund-raiser<br />
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<b>FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS:</b> <a href="http://awcep.org/" target="_blank">Asian Women Coalition Ending Prostitution</a>, <a href="http://www.codepink.org/" target="_blank">Code Pink</a>, <a href="http://www.celdf.org/" target="_blank">Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund</a>, <a href="http://deepgreenresistance.org/en/" target="_blank">Deep Green Resistance</a>, <a href="http://www.eldercreek.org/" target="_blank">Elder Creek Center for the Land</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indigenous-Women-Against-the-Sex-Industry/402934106468517" target="_blank">Indigenous Women Against the Sex Industry</a>, <a href="http://www.ivaw.org/" target="_blank">Iraq Veterans Against the War</a>, <a href="http://onestruggle.net/" target="_blank">One Struggle</a>, <a href="http://aplaceforsustainableliving.org/" target="_blank">Place for Sustainable Living</a>, <a href="http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php" target="_blank">PM Press</a>, <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">Stop Patriarchy</a>, <a href="http://stoppornculture.org/" target="_blank">Stop Porn Culture</a>, <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/" target="_blank">Survival International</a>, <a href="http://unistotencamp.com/" target="_blank">Unis’tot’en Clan</a>, <a href="http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/" target="_blank">Vancouver Rape Relief</a>, <a href="http://www.veteransforpeace.org/" target="_blank">Veterans for Peace</a>, <a href="http://womens-selfdefense.org/" target="_blank">Warrior Sisters</a>, <a href="http://www.winnememwintu.us/" target="_blank">Winnemem Wintu Tribe</a>, <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/" target="_blank">Women’s Liberation Front</a><br />
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<b>FERTILE GROUND ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE</b> <b>(FGEI)</b>, organized and sponsored conference. Founded in 2008 in Bellingham, Washington, national organization.<br />
Primary focus is organizing and hosting events with focus on hard-hitting analysis of our current predicament and strategic planning for real victories. <br />
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<b>FGEI position:</b> Every successful social movement in history has used force to achieve its goals. There is a continuum of tactics that range from boycotts, strikes, and civil disobedience to sabotage and outright revolution. A serious ecological movement is based around communities that embrace and promote dynamic, creative political action. <br />
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<b>HIGHLIGHTS OF PROGRAM</b> (If there are few [or no] notes about a speaker or workshop, it means I couldn’t hear what was said).</div>
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<b>COLONIZATION AND INDIGENOUS LIFE</b><br />
<ul>
<li>Women are leading the movement to save the earth. Have to change water system. “We can live without electricity; we can’t live without clean water”. Indigenous can teach us “what it means to be human”. “It’s how you respond to living things; protect them”. “Don’t have to be colonizer; come live with us, re-indigenize planet”.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Many mountains losing water. Mt Shasta, main spring going dry 2 months last 3 summers. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Other culprit: <b>RELIGION</b>. We’re regressing. Things they say take us forward are taking us backward. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Hawaii is an “illegal occupation” as per UN. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Hawaiians (natural, not people of color from other places) are fighting about it.” Country under arrest (50-70% indigenous people incarcerated). Economic terrorism and cultural genocide. American Empire is spreading throughout Micronesia. Overwhelmed with tourism-prostitution, pornography. Largest U.S. Military command.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Hawaii like woman being raped continuously. “Aloha is a philosophy, not a tourist slogan” It’s a way of sharing, valuing each other and the earth.</li>
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<b>KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DERRICK JENSEN</b><br />
Has written 20+ books. <br />
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<li><b>BAD NEWS: </b>Oceans are dying; there’s no more fish. People being murdered. Movement being infiltrated, people are disappearing. 158 species going extinct every day.</li>
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<li><b>WHAT TO DO:</b> “If you’re going to say the prayer, you have to be part of making the prayed for thing happening.”</li>
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<b>INDICATORS OF ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE</b><br />
Stages of Grief on Planet Dying: acceptance, rage, depression. We need new consciousness.<br />
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<b>Diane Wilson</b>: fisher-woman in Texas. “Texans love tar sands”. Texans lost faith, “You can’t fight city hall”. You have to get involved when your home is destroyed in front of you. Never say you’re not for progress. It’s time to put yourself out there. You have to work outside the box. I kept waiting for someone with a better education, more abilities, more connections than me, to come along. Finally, I realized I was the right person. Need hope, have to get out of the box.<br />
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Green revolution a disaster for agriculture. Destroying bio-diversity. 1/3 of world suffering from “Hidden Hunger”. People have enough calories, but deficient in nutrition.<br />
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<i>“no way to grow food in monoculture and be sustainable.”</i><br />
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<b>BUILDING RESISTANT COMMUNITIES</b><br />
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<li>“We (indigenous speaker) decolonized ourselves. We refused to accept or comply and prevent destruction.” We had to support the inherent ability of every organism to protect itself from harm.</li>
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<li>“Now is the time to do battle.” We need hundreds and hundreds of groups, working together, to face down power.</li>
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<li>We must have structure, leadership, rules and norms.</li>
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<li>We must eliminate horizontal hostility.</li>
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<li>Women are the protectors of the higher nature.</li>
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<li>“We put the ‘Indian’ back in our children. We decolonized their minds.”</li>
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<li>We changed our beliefs, and how we live. We went to our homelands, wintered there. We put away fish. We kicked out a mining company, others. We started managing our land.</li>
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<li>We need the warrior arts. Daily practice to develop skill sets of self-defense. We need to fall in love with earth again. We need our ceremonies; we need to respect each other and earth.</li>
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<li>Present system designed to separate us from natural world. We must teach our children to fall in love with trees, soil; that every living being has spirit; the mountains have spirit.</li>
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<li>We may have to defend our land, but we’re not going to encourage that, but, if necessary, we will fight for all that we love. If does result in violence, so be it.</li>
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<li>We reject the idea that the state can dictate whether or not we can defend ourselves.</li>
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<li>Resistance may mean hierarchy-different forms of leadership-persuasion rather than orders-structure is action-based.</li>
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<b>LINZEY-KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b><br />
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<li>The problem is the U.S. government, not the corporations. The environmental laws are good, but it’s a waste of time trying to enforce the law, because, under the Constitution, it’s not permissible for a governing body (usually municipal) to pass laws to restrict legal uses (factory farms, fracking). </li>
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<li>The only thing environmental regulations regulate are the environmentalists.</li>
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<li>“Taking amendment says you can’t ban corporate business for doing something legal without being sued for loss of business.</li>
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<li>Constitution establishes property rights above people’s rights. Constitution not necessarily democratic.</li>
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<li>Example: community laws banned corporations from factory farming, Then corporations went to State legislators to enforce corporate rights.. Ultimately lost at federal level.</li>
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<li>Still thinks this process can be useful because it forces corporations to show how unfair the law is to the community-“the system illuminates itself!”</li>
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<li>How to force change: now 200 municipalities are going up against the federal government. People are beginning to see that the Constitution doesn’t protect peoples’ rights.</li>
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<b>ECO SYSTEM RIGHTS</b> are not property, but have rights to exist on their own. In Ecuador, wrote new constitution giving eco system rights. The River is the Plaintiff. A Watershed can be a plaintiff.<br />
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<li>In Nepal, there’s a Right of Nature Network.</li>
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<li>The problem of liberal politics is that it’s “pressure politics”. The real problem is the government itself.</li>
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<b>CAPITALISM AND SOCIOPATHOLOGY</b><br />
7 Pillars of Capitalism: Anti-social values & practices created by ruling elites.<br />
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<li>Individualism</li>
<li>Competition</li>
<li>Ecoside-violence against nature</li>
<li>Militarism</li>
<li>Class violence, inequality</li>
<li>Profits over usefulness</li>
<li>Fictive democracy</li>
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<b>Carol’s note:</b> He asked audience how many of them were sociopaths. Nearly all raised their hands. I did not, because I believe that mental health comes from battling one’s oppression every day, and, whether or not I am lessening my oppression, I am somewhat protected from falling into being sociopathic.<br />
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<b>Stephanie McMillan:</b> People need a collective organized class struggle. Capitalism comes from surplus value. Proletariat class needs to take over. Capital treats living things as objects.<br />
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<li>95% of environmentalists think solution is more capitalism. They believe that it’s FATHER CAPITAL PLUS MOTHER EARTH</li>
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<li>Capitalists do cooperate. They just have antagonistic relations with the rest of us. The antagonism is between 1% of us and 99% of us.</li>
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<li>We, (the revolutionary working class) need to organize collectively, get rid of system and the new system will be developed in the revolutionary struggle.</li>
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<li>We need to find a way to speak to people on visceral level about the discontent people have about their lives. </li>
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<li>Example: abused child will cling to abusive parent; it can’t leave parent unless there is an alternative.</li>
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<li>To win, one must destroy enemy’s ability to wage war.</li>
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(<b>Carol:</b> In Iranian revolution, even though Shah had world’s 5th largest army, he couldn’t stop revolution, because the army refused to attack its own people.)<br />
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<b>CHRIS HEDGES: KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b><br />
Capitalism has no internal check.<br />
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<li>Crushing the Occupy movement is a danger sign. Means rulers can only speak through force. They are preparing. They’ve already passed Draconian regulations. They can now hold someone indefinitely, including at offshore prisons.</li>
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<li>Inverted totalitarianism. Corporate state has all the levers of power.</li>
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<li>We must go back to mass movements and fight the fascists.</li>
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<li>Resistance is a way to affirm life.</li>
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<li>Greatest evil isn’t radical—it has no roots. It asks no questions. It can spread over the whole world. </li>
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<b>RAPE, MILITARISM AND MASCULINITY</b><br />
Masculinity sees female body as permeable-coitus, lactation, menstruation, birth. Transgression of female boundaries is thrilling.<br />
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<li>Can lead to mass incarceration, genocide, and mass addiction.</li>
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<li>Many vets are dying from suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction and CANCER.</li>
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<li>Masculinity is a script, and a performance.</li>
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Question from audience: Are men victims? Panelist answer: No, they’re damaged, but not victims.<br />
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<b>CONFRONTING MISOGYNY</b><br />
Third Wave Feminism: Example: Jennifer Baumgardner “What is feminism is individual to each woman”. Does not see structural inequality within a racist/sexist global capitalist economy. Men are missing as a class.<br />
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<li>This is all coming from the Academy.</li>
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<li>Post-modernism meets Post-Structuralism.</li>
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“There’s no such thing as It”, Feona Attwood 2012-example<br />
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<u>Pornography facts:</u><br />
36% of the internet is porn. She listed all the features of the internet, including privacy, payment online, etc. as having been developed by pornography industry.<br />
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<li>Porn has driven the net.</li>
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<li>In January, they’ll have a Pornography meeting in Las Vegas.</li>
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<li>We need to go from “empowerment” to “liberation”.</li>
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<li>We are not living in the same world. But, as Gramse said in 1929, we need a Pessimism of Intellect and a Optimism of Will.</li>
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<li>Indigenous, Asian Women Against Pornography (Canada) are fighting a Global system of imperialism. Patriarchy is part of national oppression. Sexual conquest is part of war. Involves World Bank, International Monetary Fund. Part of privatization, tourist industry.</li>
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<li>Under Mao, China had no prostitution. Now, in the 1980’s, prostitution is in every city.</li>
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<li>Prostitution undermines indigenous communities.</li>
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<b>VANDANA SHIVA-KEYNOTE SPEAKER</b><br />
The world economy, organized as it is, has become a <b>CATASTROPHE</b>!<br />
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<li>GNP is the only measure, meaning the measure of that which is commodified, is all that counts.</li>
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<li>The commodification of women, prostitution and porn, is now counted in the GNP.</li>
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<li>Environmental damage is not measured.</li>
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<li>Soil, water degradation is not measured.—only products produced.</li>
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<li>Industrial farming is our biggest threat.</li>
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<li>Next year is “<b>THE YEAR OF THE SOIL</b>”.</li>
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<li>Patenting of seed is commodification. We have seed monopolies.</li>
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<li>Anniversary of Bhopal is coming up. </li>
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<li>GMO crops –toxic systems of agriculture.</li>
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<li>Eliminating insects who are the best controllers of insects.</li>
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<li>We have only 22% biodiversity.</li>
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<li>“Species have intelligence as they evolve.”</li>
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<li>By 2050, ½ of American kids will be autistic.</li>
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<li>We must create commons, stop privatization.</li>
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<li>Cited Ghandi and Rosa Parks as examples of how we have to affirmatively take action to take what is ours. (Ghandi-salt, Parks-seat on bus).</li>
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<li>We must each create a “garden of hope”, and be free (not commodified) creative beings.</li>
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<b>KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ALICE WALKER </b><br />
We need to recover our friendships.<br />
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<b>MY REACTIONS AND THOUGHTS FROM THE CONFERENCE</b><br />
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I avoid learning about the damage to our environment because it is so depressing, because <b>1)</b> my consciousness is already raised; I believe that global warming is real and serious and <b>2)</b> other than making modifications in my own lifestyle and working to help women to learn about our bodies and to love them, I don’t know what else to do at this time. In this conference, I was able to get past the depression, because I was among friends, looking at these hard facts together, and I was learning about concrete actions that are taking place and also get suggestions on projects I could do.<br />
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Ultimately, I realized that I, at base, am an optimist. No matter how bleak it looks, I keep remembering being in Iran after their revolution. I also think about how although globalization is hurting people and the earth, it is also linking us more together, and that gives me great hope.<br />
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I think the main message I received was “we must fall in love with the earth”. My own addition to that is, “we must fall out of love with industrialization”.<br />
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Also, everything that we do in self-help, which is having positive interactions amongst women, learning to trust each other, bonding, rejoicing in our bodies and getting acquainted with them, as well as learning how to control our fertility, to ease menstrual cramps, nurse our babies. All this is entirely consistent with the goals of building communities, respecting nature, rejecting authoritarianism, seizing control of our lives.<br />
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Of course, I can’t help but be sad that the same individuals who are putting out this strong message seem to be unable to apply it to their own physical sexual and reproductive ownership. The self-help movement should be on that stage, because we have learned how to gain power, both psychologically and physically through mutual help and the use of simple tools.<br />
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<b>MEETING WITH <a href="http://patmaginnis.com/" target="_blank">PATRICIA MAGINNIS</a></b><br />
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Pat and I made copies of some of her cartoons at the local copy place, and we talked about some of the events in the late 1960’s that prompted her to create them. They are really great. Pat loves to have people use her cartoons. If you’re interested in using any, I recommend you write her or call her. She is hard of hearing, so e-mail or snail mail is probably better.<br />
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Also, Pat would like to compile her cartoons. If anyone wants to help in such a project, there are people in Northern California that have worked with Pat to create her website and I’m sure she and they would like to hear from you.<br />
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Barbara Hoke continues her 20-year coordination of the defense of an Oakland abortion clinic that is harassed each weekend.<br />
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<b>CONTACTS:</b><br />
<b>Molly Arthur</b> <a href="http://birthkeepersummit.com/" target="_blank">Birthkeeper Summit</a> (<b>April 30-May 3, 2015</b>)<br />
Molly6@pacbell.net<br />
(415) 435-8031<br />
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<b>Mary Lou Singleton</b><br />
<a href="http://enchantedfamilymedicine.com/" target="_blank">enchantedfamilymedicine.com</a><br />
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<b>Suzanne Jay</b><br />
<a href="http://awcep.org/" target="_blank">Asian Women’s Coalition Ending Prostitution</a><br />
awcep.info@gmail.com<br />
(604) 760-1175<br />
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<b>FOLLOW-UP:</b><br />
<b>Gail Dines</b><br />
Professor of Wheelock College<br />
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<li>I need to get in touch with her by e-mail. What does she know about the Academy and how the post-structuralism and queer theory and pro-pornography movement developed? Who funds it?</li>
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<b>Molly Arthur</b>-Molly has friend who uses herbal contraception<br />
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<li>Plan for conference. Perhaps go to Sacramento to speak.</li>
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<b>Suzanne Jay</b><br />
e-mail, maybe go visit.<br />
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<b>IDEAS:</b><br />
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<li>Article on commodification</li>
<li>Get in touch with herbalists to track down people using herbal contraceptives and spreading the knowledge of it.</li>
<li>Write Gail Dines to find out more about how post-structuralism and queer theory have affected the women’s studies departments.</li>
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-32280120504896119712014-10-31T15:53:00.001-07:002014-11-01T14:00:28.669-07:00REPORT - TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY, BROOKLYN, N.Y. AND WASHINGTON, D.C.<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>October 26 to October 28, 2014</b></div>
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<b>Background:</b> <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">StopPatriarchy.org</a> Advisory Committee met one day and the next day a planning meeting for the <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/roe-v-wade-anniversary-2015.html" target="_blank">January 22, 2015 events in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.</a> took place. I met with <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/10/important-new-book-caliban-and-witch.html" target="_blank">Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Clitoral-Truth-Secret-Fingertips/dp/1583224734" target="_blank">Becky Chalker</a> and I attended the <a href="https://nwhn.org/" target="_blank">National Women’s Health Network</a> (NWHN) Awards Event.</div>
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<b>Summary:</b></div>
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<li><b>10-26-14: </b>Meeting of <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">StopPatriarchy.org</a> Advisory Committee</li>
<li><b>10-27-14:</b> Meeting of members, Advisory Committee and community activists</li>
<li><b>10-27-14:</b> Meeting with <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/10/important-new-book-caliban-and-witch.html" target="_blank">Silvia Federici </a></li>
<li><b>10-28-14:</b> <a href="https://nwhn.org/" target="_blank">National Women’s Health Network</a> 7th Annual Barbara Seaman Awards for Activism in Women’s Health; Meeting with <a href="https://nwhn.org/adriane-fugh-berman-0" target="_blank">Adriane Fugh-Berman</a></li>
<li><b>10-29-14:</b> Meeting with <a href="https://nwhn.org/board-directors" target="_blank">Ninia Baehr</a> </li>
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<u><b>New York City 10-26-14</b></u><b> - Meeting of StopPatriarchy.org Advisory Committee:</b> Members present were myself, Mary Lou Singleton, Merle Hoffman; also present were Sunsara Taylor, initiator of Stop Patriarchy, and Mary Lou Greenberg. We had a free-ranging discussion: (1) to deepen our understanding of the objective situation we confront--where we are in the war on women with a particular focus on the concentrated battle over abortion, and (2) to get off the losing trajectory and forge the kind of politically uncompromising, mass independent political resistance.<br />
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<b><u>Topic:</u> The main slogan of Stop Patriarchy, “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology”.</b> The members that were present had consensus on this slogan, and have found many people in the movement and in the public who wholeheartedly respond favorably to it, but we discussed the concerns that some have made that the slogan may be too strong. I reported that many abortion providers are dedicated to abortion rights, but do not want to offend those who have mixed feelings about abortion in their communities, and they want the support of the Democratic Party which has a pro-choice platform, but sometimes endorses candidates who are anti-abortion. Without more members at the meeting, we couldn’t fully explore these concerns.<br />
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<b><u>Topic:</u> Slogan - “Enforced Motherhood is Female Enslavement”. </b> This slogan drew fire from the ad hoc group, “Texans for Reproductive Justice”, because it is not the type of slavery that American Black slaves experienced, but the Committee does not agree that this slogan is racist.<br />
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<b><u>Other topics:</u> Planned Parenthood’s (PP) taking over leadership of National Abortion Federation; it’s negative impact on independent abortion providers; its domination of community “pro-choice” coalitions.</b> I told the group that, although I have known of PP’s negative impact on the abortion movement; that I, along with other feminists and abortion providers, have kept silent, because “we didn’t want to give the anti’s more ammunition”. But now, as I see how disastrous this course has been, I feel compelled to speak out and share the information about PP’s harmful activities. Others did not dispute the truth of my specific allegations, but did not want to attack PP, but rather to chart our own course and put forth a more feminist, aggressive strategy.<br />
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<b><u>Role of Advisory Committee Members:</u> </b>We wrestled with and developed a clearer sense of what it means to be on the advisory board of Stop Patriarchy.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Baird_%28activist%29" target="_blank">Bill Baird</a> called and shared his advice on what Stop Patriarchy should be doing. Bill, who is a pioneer in the abortion rights movement, continues to be active. As always, Bill is inspirational and his comments helped up to get perspective on the battle, especially with the Catholic Church.<br />
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We all felt that the opportunity to meet and discuss things in a relatively unstructured setting allowed us to have vigorous discussions, especially where we had minor differences in our political views, which reinforced those areas where we were in total agreement. We did get to know each other better, and I’m sure it will help me on our future conference calls.<br />
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<b><u>New York City, October 26, 2014:</u> Community Planning Meeting for Actions on January 22, 2015 in San Francisco, CA and Washington, D.C.</b><br />
Attending: Stop Patriarchy Advisory Board Members, others within the abortion provider community, activists with Stop Patriarchy, other women's liberation activists, and several students. We had lively discussions around such questions as:<br />
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If we have a low turnout at our events, might this show our opponents our weakness and be counter-productive? <br />
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We know that we will be outnumbered, because the anti-abortion movement annually brings busloads of church members from several states to their rallies. They have about 10,000 marchers. So, how many do we need to have to create a credible force. My thinking is that we only require the number of people it takes to stage a dramatic event that puts forth a powerful message. Others speculated 100-200 people. Of course, we’ll get out as many as possible.<br />
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Many good ideas were suggested for building for the march and using signs and other visual materials and socio-dramas that would make our points. Since this report is going out online, I will not be specific, but I can say that I was impressed with the creativity. Various tactics were discussed to make sure that our message would be clear. So, great progress was made. It was wonderful to be working with these women.<br />
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A future meeting date was selected – November 21st. If you’re interested, please contact me or stoppatriarchy@gmail.com.<br />
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I talked with Fran Luck, of WBAI and others about Planned Parenthood. They were surprised and shocked at some of the specifics. I will be following up on those contacts. The independent providers in attendance were not surprised at the facts I was reporting.<br />
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<b><u>Brooklyn, N.Y. October 26, 2014</u> - Meeting with Silvia Federici</b><br />
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Federici graciously agreed to meet with me, Becky Chalker and <a href="http://choosetoevolve.com/" target="_blank">Kinyofu Mlimwengu</a>, on short notice, even though she had spent the weekend at a conference. She served a wonderful repast of soup, bread and salad and delicious cheesecake! Any fears I had that somehow we wouldn’t hit it off disappeared, because our dinner conversation showed how much we all agreed on a variety of topics. Because our time was limited, I kept bringing back the conversation to how <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/10/important-new-book-caliban-and-witch.html" target="_blank">Caliban and the Witch</a> provided the historical explanation of how women’s knowledge about our bodies was purposely and systematically destroyed, and that I believe that the self-help movement emerged as a powerful antidote to the poisonous effects of patriarchal capitalism. Silvia completely respects our work, but she wanted to know more of how I saw self-help being used to turn around the subjugation of women’s bodies. She gave us autographed copies of her book, <a href="http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=420" target="_blank">Revolution at Point Zero</a>, and Becky and Kinyofu left with copies of <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban" target="_blank">Caliban and the Witch</a>. I proposed we three start a book club!<br />
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Silvia is well-travelled. She told us about how Italian social welfare agencies take away immigrant women’s children, put them in “group homes” until the women can prove that they have enough money to maintain them. I’m going to get more specifics. If you’re interested in learning about this, let me know.<br />
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I left Silvia’s with a head full of ideas about how to carry my new understanding that even though Patriarchy has a long history, the creation of capitalism in Europe depended on wiping out the traditional knowledge that women then had, making “modern women” especially alienated from our bodies and dependent on the medical profession. Furthermore, this primitive accumulation of capital enabled the European nobility, the church and the capitalists to expand their “empires” over many other peoples, along with using many of the same techniques to destroy women’s knowledge, in addition to plundering the resources by forcing those peoples into slavery to extract the resources. Just realizing this history doesn’t ensure that we European white women will make the necessary effort to unite with the descendants of colonized peoples to fight against imperialism and capitalism, but I think it will give us a sound basis to do so.<br />
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Kinyofu told me about the upcoming <a href="http://reproductiveawakening.com/" target="_blank">Reproductive Awakening</a> program. This is part of a series of meetings she is curating.<br />
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<b><u>Washington, D.C., October 27-28</u> - National Women’s Health Network 7th Annual Barbara Seaman Awards for Activism in Women’s Health </b><br />
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I attended with Becky Chalker. Becky’s most recent book is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Clitoral-Truth-Secret-Fingertips/dp/1583224734" target="_blank">The Clitoral Truth</a>. She is an adjunct professor at Pace University in New York City. It was a reception. We were late because it had no readable signage for an out-of-towner to see. Food and drink were provided. The presentation had started. We couldn’t see the program and I couldn’t hear it, unfortunately. Afterwards, we were able to chat with old friends. I saw <a href="http://www.fabrangen.org/" target="_blank">Clare Feinson</a>, who was in the Women’s Caucus at the American Public Health Association (APHA) during the time the health centers were active in that organization. Clare is free-lancing, doing proposals, writing and research, etc. She also works part-time at a synagogue; Clare has done amazing work in a Jewish group bringing an awareness of women’s health issues and sexuality issues to the community. Unfortunately, Clare has some mobility problems, but otherwise she is very vital and involved.<br />
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<b>Meeting with Adriane Fugh-Berman:</b> After the reception, we walked with <a href="https://nwhn.org/adriane-fugh-berman-0" target="_blank">Adriane, a board member of NWHN</a> and a reporter to a nearby Chinese restaurant. Adriane is an associate professor at Georgetown University and a director of <a href="http://www.pharmedout.org/" target="_blank">PharmedOut.org</a>. The reporter is focusing on information about the FDA and the regulations of pharmaceutical companies. Adriane has written a book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Medicine-Comprehensive-Easy-Read/dp/0683304070" target="_blank">Alternative Medicine: What Works: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Read Review of the Scientific Evidence, Pro and Con</a>. I told her about <a href="http://www.sweeteningthepill.com/" target="_blank">Holly Grigg-Spall’s book, Sweetening the Pill</a>.<br />
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<b><u>10-29-14:</u> Meeting with Ninia Baehr</b><br />
<a href="https://nwhn.org/board-directors" target="_blank">Ninia Baehr is on the board of the NWHN</a>. She is Deputy Director of the ACLU in Montana, and she wrote the pamphlet, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Abortion-without-Apology-Radical-Pamphlet/dp/0896083845" target="_blank">Abortion Without Apology, a radical history for the 1990’s</a>”. She wrote about Lana Phelan, Pat Maginnis and Rowena Gurner, and she also wrote about the Self-Help Health Movement.<br />
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Presently, Ninia is working on her PhD. She is interested in comparing the politics and approach of the Self-Help Health Movement and the Right-to-Die movement. She sees many parallels, in that they both are movements demanding body autonomy. She, Becky and I had breakfast; our meeting actually consisted of a discussion about how “gender politics” has taken over women’s studies and is creating a direct challenge to radical feminists, especially those who want women-only spaces for women to explore their common oppression and to develop anti-male supremacy strategies. We also talked about pornography and whether there can be a feminist position to support pornography.<br />
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I asked Ninia (as I have also asked Becky and other associates I have who are in academia) if she knew how Women’s Studies departments came to become “Gender Studies” departments. She didn’t know, as do none of the other people I’ve talked to.<br />
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Ninia will be interviewing me in the near future regarding early history of self-help.<br />
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<u><b>Sharing of Resources: </b></u><br />
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<li><b>Abortion Without Apology, a radical history for the 1990‘s</b>, Ninia Baehr, South End Press, Pamphlet No. 8, 1990 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Abortion-without-Apology-Radical-Pamphlet/dp/0896083845" target="_blank">amaz<span id="goog_1519005955"></span><span id="goog_1519005956"></span>on<span id="goog_1519005967"></span><span id="goog_1519005968"></span>.com</a></li>
<li><b>Revolution at Point Zero, Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle</b>. Silvia Federici, PM Press, P.O. Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623 <a href="http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=420" target="_blank">pmpress.org</a></li>
<li><b>Stop Patriarchy</b> - <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">www.stoppatriarchy.org</a></li>
<li><b>Caliban and the Witch, Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation</b>, Second, Revised Edition, 2014, <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban" target="_blank">autonomedia.org</a>, info@autonomedia.org</li>
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<u><b>Contacts: </b></u><br />
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<li><b>Stop Patriarchy</b> - <a href="http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">ww<span id="goog_1519005961"></span><span id="goog_1519005962"></span>w.stoppatriarchy.org</a></li>
<li><b>Clare Feinson</b>, Blackbird Development Solutions,1752 Hobart Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20009; (202)302-1823</li>
<li><b>Adriane Fugh-Berman</b> (Director) - <a href="http://www.pharmedout.org/" target="_blank">www.ph<span id="goog_1519005964"></span><span id="goog_1519005965"></span>armedout.org</a></li>
<li><b>Kinyofu Mlimwengu</b> - <a href="http://reproductiveawakening.com/" target="_blank">reproductiveawakening.com</a></li>
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<b>October 2 to October 7, 2014</b></div>
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<b>Background:</b> <a href="http://choosetoevolve.com/" target="_blank">Kinyofu Mlimwengu</a> invited me to be the keynote speaker at her “Reproductive Awakening” event in Brooklyn.</div>
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<li><b>10/2/14: </b>stop in Phoenix, AZ airport to meet with <a href="http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Ann Hibner Koblitz</a> </li>
<li><b>10/2/14 - 10/4/14</b> at <a href="http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/107109">Gilbert Gaynor</a>’s N.Y. apartment </li>
<li><b>10/4/14:</b> New York Magazine interview and presentation in Brooklyn</li>
<li><b>10/5/14:</b> <a href="http://meetinggroundonline.org/">Kathy Scarbrough</a> and <a href="http://www.redstockings.org/">Kathie Sarachild</a> and I drove to <a href="http://meetinggroundonline.org/">Carol Hanisch</a>’s house in Ellenville, N.Y.; met 3 hours </li>
<li><b>10/6/14-10/7/14:</b> Met with <a href="https://twitter.com/prsnhood4women">Mary Lou Singleton</a>: presentation in Albuquerque</li>
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<b><u>Phoenix 10/2/14 </u>- Meeting with Ann Hibner Koblitz:</b> She has an impressive background and has written several books. Since 1998, she has been a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses on Women as Healers, Gender and Science/Medicine, and Feminist Theory.<br />
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Ann is the author of <a href="http://kovfund.org/book.shtml" target="_blank"><u>Sex and Herbs and Birth Control, Women and Fertility Regulation Through the Ages</u></a>. She discusses women’s efforts to maintain control of their sexuality and fertility through time and across cultures. They have utilized herbs; fashioned barriers out of lemon, beeswax and sea sponge and circumvented religious and societal proscriptions in order to maintain access to abortion. Ann emphasizes women’s agency, our pragmatism and resourcefulness. <br />
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Sex and Herbs and Birth Control is a wonderful book. I highly recommend it. <br />
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We found ourselves in agreement or close to it in many, many subjects, especially the potential of women to control our own fertility through self-knowledge, use of natural remedies and substances and simple abortion technology. Ann is the one who recommended <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban" target="_blank"><u>Caliban and the Witch</u></a> to me. <br />
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We discussed the current attack of some transwomen on radical feminists’ exclusion of them from all-female events; she informed me that Arizona State University had just added complete coverage for trans-sexual surgery and care to their insurance policy. We agreed that it is positive news that this surgery and drug treatment will be covered, but we marveled that it has been a fight to get abortion and other women’s reproductive medical services covered in insurance policies, and we have often been unsuccessful, yet the inclusion of this extremely expensive medical procedure in group insurance policies is becoming standard. <br />
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We shared our dismay that young college women are generally inactive politically, even those in the Women’s and Gender Studies program.<br />
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If we both had not had to board planes, we would have kept talking for many hours more.<br />
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Ann wrote a lively account of our meeting on her blog, <a href="http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/an-airport-meeting-with-the-legendary-carol-downer/">ahkoblitz.wordpress.com</a>.<br />
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<u><b>New York, 10/2 to 10/4:</b></u> I had a restful but stimulating stay at the apartment of <a href="http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/107109">Gilbert Gaynor</a> for 2 nights. Gilbert is a brilliant constitutional lawyer. I met him 30 years ago at the ACLU when he worked on the health center injunction to prevent some anti-abortionists from holding a funeral for the remains of 4,000 aborted embryos and a few fetuses. (We won the legal battle, but they had the politicians on their side and did it anyway) Gilbert clerked with a California Supreme Court Justice, Joyce Kennard, and as a private practitioner, he takes on complex litigation with gusto--and wins most of the time. He does death penalty appeals, something that only the highest qualified attorneys are able to do. He has recently moved to New York from California. <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/07102-nj-gilbert-gaynor-171325.html">He’s looking for new paying clients.</a> He’s over-booked for pro bono for civil rights cases, and, like everyone else, he has to pay his bills. I’ve worked on cases with Gilbert, and he not only writes persuasively and produces impeccable papers, but he’s very aggressive and creative in court, a combination of skill sets that are rare.<br />
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<u><b>Brooklyn 10/4/14:</b></u> Kinyofu Mlimwengu is the curator of “<a href="http://reproductiveawakening.com/">Reproductive Awakening: Narratives of Agency in Black America: An Exhibition</a>” which started October 3, 2014 and will continue until November 23, 2014. I gave the keynote talk on October 4. The event is being held at the <b>Women’s Museum of Resistance</b> at 279 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn. The Museum is dedicated to black women’s experience in America and has beautiful artwork and relics of black people’s centuries of slavery and subsequent times in the United States. <br />
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Kinyofu and I became acquainted when she interviewed me for an excellent paper that she wrote as part of her class work, <u>Self Help as the Base for Women’s Power</u>. It’s an overview of the women’s health movement of the ’70’s, its history and its politics of empowering women through regaining control of their reproduction. <br />
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<b>New York Magazine, 10/4/14:</b> Rachel Syne of New York Magazine interviewed me re menstrual extraction. She was interested in learning the history of menstrual extraction as it applies to the medical version of M.E., M.V.A (manual vacuum aspiration). A doctor in New York City is offering this procedure, and Rachel is impressed with how superior the technique is. The machine is noisy and often performed in an impersonal setting. I believe a good article will be the result. Rachel also was keenly interested in self-help. I gave her a speculum. <br />
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<b>The Program, 10/4/14:</b> Kinyofu constructed a “red tent” for her exhibit. The tent was incredible; it occupied about 400 square feet, carpeted with a red padded floor. It had filmy red drapes and velvet tie-backs. Dozens of pillows formed a comfy circle; I had the immediate urge to go in it. <br />
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First was a dance/drama with 2 women. With my hearing impairment, I couldn’t understand the dialogue, but I appreciated their graceful moves and expressions.<br />
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Kinyofu gave a moving presentation. The centerpiece of her talk was that our uterus is our core and the source of our strength. <br />
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Then I talked about <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban"><u>Caliban and the Witch</u></a> by Silvia Federici. This was my first time to present this material in a talk, and I was worried the women would find my point of view too anti-capitalistic and too intellectual. They were totally interested and their questions showed a profound understanding of the importance of Federici’s work.<br />
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Then, Stephen, one of the members of Kinyofu’s team, shared an Indian line dance, which got our juices going.<br />
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<u><b>Ellenville, New York, 10/5/14:</b></u><b> </b>Kathie Sarachild, Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough presented “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl_77iUdjL4">De-Fanging the Women’s Liberation Movement</a>” at the Boston Conference on the Second Wave of the Women’s Liberation Movement earlier this year. I’ve met with Kathie Sarachild before, (the Feminist Women's Health Center’s have been supportive of <a href="http://www.redstockings.org/">Redstockings</a> and their political decision to expose Gloria Steinem’s pre-feminist anti-communist activities. They responded to my offer to come meet with them to continue discussing the panel’s topic.<br />
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At the conference, Kathy Scarbrough laid out how gender and sex are alternate categories to use to overthrow male-domination and Patriarchy. We talked about the recent attacks of radical feminists by some transwomen. (born males transitioned to female physical appearance through drugs and surgery) for not allowing them into all-women meetings. They charge discrimination and call radical feminists “rad fems” or “TERFS”, (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). They have been verbally violent and sometimes property-damaging. They have received wide support from leftists for their complaints. They’re particularly angry with lesbians if they won’t have sex with them; they have come to occupy positions on advisory boards that previously were occupied by lesbians. Consequently, I was anxious to continue the discussion with Kathy, Kathie and Carol. Kathy proposed some questions to me that challenged my concern about “destroying gender”. Since then, I’ve thought a lot about her points and I’ve written what I think is a clear exposition of my position. I’m going to put it on my blog. <br />
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At the Boston conference, <a href="http://meetinggroundonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Boston-Flyer-Final.pdf">Carol Hanisch, gave out a list of terms with two columns</a>. The first column listed that we used in the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in the 70’s and the second column listed the “new and improved” terms that have replaced them. For example, “male violence” is now “spousal abuse” and “pro-abortion” is now “pro-choice”. Some of these examples were amusing, but her point was dead serious. The use of gender-neutral language has destroyed the feminist insight that 95% of violence is male-female which is caused by male-dominated culture, and supported by male dominated institutions, like the police and counselors, etc.<br />
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Kathie Sarachild has been an influential voice in the WLM. She and other WLM members promoted the use of consciousness-raising groups. She and Carol are original members of the <a href="http://www.redstockings.org/">Redstockings</a>, and one of their contributions is to emphasize the importance of remembering and honoring our history. As Kathie has said, “If you can’t remember where these ideas comes from, they lose much of their power.” Unfortunately, her warnings have been ignored. I expressed my belief that the universities have created an anti-radical feminist tradition that is training young women who enroll in these courses hoping to learn about their history and instead are being taught to ignore the 70’s second-wavers because “they were all white, middle-class women”. <br />
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The four of us shared a delicious, vegetarian lunch in Carol’s living room. The windows on three sides looked out on a small town neighborhood in the Catskills with lots of trees and mountains all around. Like most feminist discussions I’ve ever been in, a lot of our time was spent discussing the agenda, taking spirited detours to talk about specific questions as they arose. In other words, we covered nearly all the topics that had been brought up, we shared what we were doing politically and yet there never was a “new business” and “old business” approach.<br />
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We found that we each differ on which organizing strategy and tactics to pursue at this time, but none of our different approaches are incompatible with the other; it’s more a matter of emphasis and differing histories, skills and personal situations. I agreed with the others‘ belief that it is essential to keep articulating a radical feminist perspective and exposing the subversion and co-optation of the women’s liberation movement (what I called “muck-raking”, an honorable tradition in journalism), but I favor going past that by putting forth our positions and taking actions, rather than assuming that once people know the truth about what’s going on, they will do something to change the situation. This difference came up in the context of discussing what, if anything, should be done to fight back against the transwomen’s attack against TERFS. Kathie has already signed a public statement supporting women‘s right to have all-female meetings that exclude transwomen. I believe that unless we act now and act forcefully, the radical arm of the women’s movement may be dead for generations to come.<br />
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Kathie, in particular, believes that Redstockings has an action program. For example, they’re giving <a href="http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b1f0c9bc023c88b54c15446b1&id=422ba96ce2">ten weekly sessions on <u>Radical Feminist Theory and Action Today</u> in New York City from September 18 through November 20th</a> (contact: nwl@womensliberation.org). <br />
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We talked about the upcoming meeting of <a href="http://stoppariarchy.org/">StopPariarchy.org</a> in New York City to plan a January 22nd protest. All said they would attend protests put on by SP, but that they couldn’t be part of organizing them. Kathie said that she wasn’t going to work on abortion anymore; she’d rather work on related reproductive rights issues, such as childcare, maternity leave, etc. When I told her that I agree that the pro-choice movement limiting itself to birth control and abortion is a mistake. I still think that the pro-abortion movement needs to give priority to the abortion issue, while always placing it in the larger context of reproductive rights, including childcare, natural birth, breast-feeding, toxins in work environment, getting rid of the Hyde Amendment, and increasing women’s power generally, because the legality and availability of abortion is the key determinant of the birth rate and thus the priority of the liberal anti-natalists and to the right-wing pronatalists. Allowing abortion (but not supporting women’s options to have children) or restricting abortion (and forcing women to be mothers) is the most direct threat to a woman’s right to control her reproduction. She clarified her statement to say that she will support abortion rights by going to demonstrations, but she will not devote a significant amount of her time to it. <br />
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I definitely achieved my goals of the meeting and justified my time and expense in getting myself there, and all three said they were glad I had come so that we could have a face-to-face in-depth discussion of these important issues.<br />
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We’ve been e-mailing since, and I hope that our meeting will give us a basis to continue to do so (of course, they already had this basis).<br />
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<u><b>Albuquerque, 10/6 and 10/7:</b></u> Mary Lou Singleton is a nurse practitioner and midwife and a fellow member of the advisory committee of <a href="http://stoppatriarchy.org/">StopPatriarchy.org</a>. She is a founder of <a href="https://twitter.com/prsnhood4women">PersonhoodforWomen.org</a>. She is a member of <b>WoLF</b> (Women’s Liberation Front), <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/">womensliberationfront.org</a> a radical feminist organization that started this last year. Mary Lou, despite working her regular, more-than-full-time schedule, picked me up at the airport, crammed in every free moment to talk to me and organized a community meeting at her office. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFH3bVX2wNrNVBje04j5AtZ8rRA2UpeoxNREL0Y9BeRe8wWU0rynHD_YHE0xHUAGrPwtHOpXUnxI2tE5qnpY8aGxehX-lqPkCkL3h_vkgb1mXXrb2W6XIVid3UJs0ykmmqCPbOMOg3gI/s1600/MaryLouSingleton014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFH3bVX2wNrNVBje04j5AtZ8rRA2UpeoxNREL0Y9BeRe8wWU0rynHD_YHE0xHUAGrPwtHOpXUnxI2tE5qnpY8aGxehX-lqPkCkL3h_vkgb1mXXrb2W6XIVid3UJs0ykmmqCPbOMOg3gI/s1600/MaryLouSingleton014.jpg" height="320" width="246" /></a>She and I talked about hating capitalism and patriarchy. We shared our information about the attacks of some transwomen on radical feminists at the Michigan Women’s Music Festival and other events. In particular, we discussed the increasing number of very young children as being identified in their pre-school as transgender and the parents considering surgery and drugs as young as six years old, the participation of transwomen in women’s athletic events which is resulting in beating out born females in many categories, the widespread leftist support of transwomen being allowed to attend female-only events, the concurrent rise of the pro-pornography movement, etc. It seems that the trans movement is receiving a lot of foundation support. I noted that it would be consistent with the history of the anti-natalist movement to support any cause which had the net effect of reducing women having babies, such as gay rights. But, since the behavior of some transwomen (does anyone know what percentage of transwomen take this aggressive, radical feminist-hating stand?) seems like such classic male behavior, it occurred to us that maybe the <u>right-wing power structure</u> is promoting the activities of that portion of the transwomen’s.<br />
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<b>Meeting, 10/6/14:</b> Approximately 20 women attended. We sat around a large “coffee table” in the reception area of Mary Lou’s offices. I started off with an introduction to the self-help movement, and the intense interest of the group in menstrual extraction determined the rest of the group’s discussion. There were many questions about forming a ME group and discussions amongst the group about the possibilities of doing so. There seemed to be a potential of several groups being formed. One new possibility came up. There are two “red tent” groups in Albuquerque, and one participant is a member of both. She plans to take the information back to those groups. I assured her I would be delighted to work with them if they wanted any further information.<br />
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People contributed to a collection basket, and it was given to me, so I raised about $100.00 to go toward the expense of the trip.<br />
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<b>Sharing Resources</b><br />
<u>Sex and Herbs and Birth Control</u>, Ann Hibner Koblitz.<br />
<a href="http://kovfund.org/book.shtml">http://kovfund.org/book.shtml</a><br />
<a href="http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com/">http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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<a href="http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b1f0c9bc023c88b54c15446b1&id=422ba96ce2">Radical Feminist Theory and Action Today in New York City from September 18 through November 20th</a> Contact: nwl@womensliberation.org<br />
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P.O. Box 744 Stuyvesant Statiion, NYC, 10009<br />
<a href="http://www.redstockings.org/">www.redstockings.org</a><br />
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<b>Follow-up</b>:<br />
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<li>To develop a questionnaire for people that work in the university setting to get facts about the establishment of gender studies, rather than women’s studies. Who is doing it? Have new positions opened up? </li>
<li>To learn more about the transgender movement in general and the transwomen activities in particular. </li>
<li>Join <b>WoLF </b>(done) - <a href="http://womensliberationfront.org/">womensliberationfront.org</a></li>
<li>Send Ann a list of people that I think would use her book to further their work, and she will send out copies to them. Call me if you would use the book in your work.</li>
<li>Keep communicating via e-mail with Carol Hanisch, Kathy Sarachild and Kathy Scarbrough re Class, Gender issues</li>
<li>Possible Conference or some mini-conferences to get a discussion going about what to do about the attack of radical feminists by some transwomen for not letting them come into our all-female groups.</li>
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<b>Contact Information:</b></div>
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<li><b>Kinyofu Mlimwengu </b>- <a href="http://choosetoevolve.com/">http://choosetoevolve.com</a></li>
<li><b>Ann Hibner Koblitz</b> - <a href="http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com/">http://ahkoblitz.wordpress.com</a></li>
<li><b>Gilbert Gaynor</b> - <a href="http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/07102-nj-gilbert-gaynor-171325.html">http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/07102-nj-gilbert-gaynor-171325.html</a></li>
<li><b>Kathy Scarbrough</b> - <a href="http://meetinggroundonline.org/">http://meetinggroundonline.org</a></li>
<li><b>Kathie Sarachild</b> - <a href="http://www.redstockings.org/">http://www.redstockings.org</a></li>
<li><b>Carol Hanisch</b> - <a href="http://meetinggroundonline.org/">http://meetinggroundonline.org</a></li>
<li><b>Mary Lou Singleton</b> - <a href="https://twitter.com/prsnhood4women">https://twitter.com/prsnhood4women</a></li>
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<li>Heinsohn, Gunnar and Steiger, Otto “Witchcraft, Population Catastrophe and Economic Crisis in Renaissance Europe: An Alternative Macroeconomic Explanation”. 31 Pages </li>
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Then, at the Summit Conference on the Persecution of Midwives, Hermine Hayes-Klein provided us with a paper written by german sociologists about how the Witch Hunt was specifically designed to stamp out "women's secrets", meaning how to have voluntary motherhood using herbal tonics and other substances. <br />
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<b>Books</b><br />
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<li>Federici, Silvia <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban"><u>Caliban and the Witch Women</u></a>, The Body And Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2004 </li>
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Silvia Federici's book places the Witch Hunts in the larger historical context of the establishment of capitalism, through primitive accumulation of capital in Europe, then using that capital to launch worldwide exploration and invasion of other lands and peoples, again using the Witch Hunts to destroy "women's secrets" forcing colonialized peoples to provide the slave labor for the European capitalists. <br />
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<li>Koblitz, Ann Hibner <a href="http://kovfund.org/book.shtml"><u>Sex and Herbs and Birth Control: Women and Fertility Regulation Through the Ages</u></a>. Kovalevskaia Fund, 2014</li>
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Ann Koblitz' book discusses how women have in the past controlled our own fertility.<br />
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<li> Riddle, John M. <u>Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance</u>. Harvard University Press, 1994<br /><u>Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West</u>. Harvard University Press, 1999</li>
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Then, I read John Riddle's books which pull together the evidence to show that women's knowledge of contraception and abortion did exist in the European society among women, but the chain of knowledge was broken by the witch hunts. He cites the studies that show that these remedies were effective, and populations were stable.<br />
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<b>Handouts </b><br />
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<li>Wicanhpi Iyotan Win Autumn Cavender-Wilson BA “Midwifery, Colonialism, and Settler Identity: Deconstructing Colonial Norms in Modern Midwifery” </li>
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Autumn Cavender-Wilson handed out these suggestions to U.S. settler midwives on
how to maximize their support of indigenous midwives and ways to be accountable
to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told us "find out your
own history".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did so, and it
turns out that as a white, European settler woman, our histories are different
but interwoven, and we are oppressed by the same forces.</span>
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Dear Friends: I have just finished reading <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban" target="_blank">Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici</a>. This book examines European history in the 14th through the 17th centuries and the conquest and colonization of the Americas and other areas, and the African slave trade. Federici shows how the Witch Hunt, along with other brutal policies of the European rulers, the nobility along with the Church and mercantilists, damaged both men's and women's rights, forcing them into new work relationships, and how this same ruling class spread their mayhem around the globe, stealing lives and resources. <br />
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I believe that Federici's analysis of these cataclysmic events of four centuries explains why women are so ignorant of our bodies and have so little independent control over our bodies, whereas in ancient times, effective birth control methods were known and used among women in general and midwives in particular. It shows that we can reclaim this knowledge. Working together, we can undo the harms that were done to us. <br />
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Fully understanding this history as Federici tells it reinforces my belief that all women and all people of color who descend from colonized and enslaved peoples have every reason to blame capitalism and its exaltation of patriarchy for past atrocities and their present oppression. I also believe that if white men of ordinary intelligence understand how capitalism is wrecking our planet today, they will also blame capitalism and they will see that racism and sexism is keeping humankind from taking effective action against capitalism.<br />
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I urge you to read this book. I already had a general understanding of history, but Caliban and the Witch has helped me to interpret and understand it better and provided me with a road map on how to bring about social change. I'm hoping to inspire you to run right out and get it; I've written a summary which I am attaching (see below). After you read it, please let me hear back from you.<br />
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<u>Caliban and the Witch, Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation</u>, Silvia Federici, 2nd revised edition, 2014, Autonomedia, online ordering <a href="http://www.autonomedia.org/caliban" target="_blank">www.autonomedia.org</a></div>
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About the author: Federici has the chops to write this book. She worked with Wages for Housework in the 70’s, then with others to write books and articles about the transition of feudalism to capitalism. The first edition was published in 2004. She taught in Nigeria for 3 years, during which time she witnessed the Structural Adjustment imposed on the Nigerian economy by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that selectively impoverishes the country for the enrichment of the few. She recognized that this was similar to the way that European nobility, along with the Church and the mercantilists, accumulated capital.</div>
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Summary: Disclaimer: This is a greatly simplified summary. Federici reviews and quotes from many studies of European History in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Over this 4 centuries, there were ups and downs and complexities. I have attempted to contact her, but I have not yet heard back from her. I urge you to read the book to absorb all of the information and analyses.</div>
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Federici recounts the cataclysmic events in the Middle Ages in Europe. The Black Death killed off a sizable proportion of the population. Famines reduced the birth rates, and there was a scarcity of labor, causing wages to skyrocket. These dislocations created conditions that resulted in serfs’ revolts in the Middle Ages, Federici sees the actions of the nobility along with the Church and mercantilists to impoverish the feudal workers as a counter-revolution against the people’s uprisings to tear down the fences, and protests to demand redistribution of the land. </div>
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<li><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">They forced serfs off the land through enclosing the commons, pushing men into becoming waged workers, </span></li>
<li><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">They created a sexual division of labor; they forced women to reproduce the labor force through the Witch Hunts which destroyed women’s knowledge of contraception and abortion, </span></li>
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Federici recounts how the European ruling class then used its increased wealth to finance exploration of other lands, resulting in their “discovery” of the Americas. They then sent armed expeditions to Latin America where they killed many thousands outright, enslaved others and forced them to dig out the silver and gold they found, which they sent back to Europe. Prior to this, European wealth was primarily land, cattle, horses and valuable objects. The influx of precious metals made a monetized, capitalistic economy possible. This in turn enable the ruling class to build an infrastructure, fund institutions, fuel the industrial revolution.</div>
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She has lots of details about how many features of our so-called modern industrial way of life came into being. She also shows how the capitalist expansion reinforced patriarchal organization, reduced women’s power, both their reproductive power and their ability to move around in society and have independent agency. Such “modern” features as racism and the various uses of prostitution at different times and places are included. The science of demography was invented; the study of the birth and death rates, and especially what causes the birth rate to go up and down so that the policy makers can influence it through “carrot” and “stick” measures.<br />
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Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-66266891271810367612014-09-10T13:48:00.000-07:002014-09-10T13:48:45.917-07:00Stop Patriarchy protester: Don’t give up the fight for abortion rights [<b>Originally published in</b> <a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2014/09/09/stop-patriarchy-protester-don%E2%80%99t-give-up-the-fight-for-abortion-rights" target="_blank">The Daily Texan</a><b>]</b><br />
By Adrienne Luendo<br />
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My name is Adrienne Luendo — I am a 23-year-old recent college graduate. More than that, I am an Abortion Rights Freedom Rider and was one of the five people arrested outside of the UT Austin campus on Aug. 27.<br />
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I protested because I feel responsible to act on what I know to be true. The closure of abortion clinics nationwide must be stopped because without the right to decide for themselves when and whether to have a child, women cannot be free. This responsibility is heavy, but it is not without great joy and honor to be part of something worth living and fighting for. I protested because I’m angry that college students are being silenced when campuses should be teeming with debate and dissent. This is our future, and we can do better than standing on the sidelines. I wanted to challenge students, to show that young people have the ability and responsibility to change the trajectory of history, and that means putting our bodies on the line.<br />
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On Friday, Aug. 29, just two days after our protest and arrest, Judge Lee Yeakel blocked — for now — the round of clinic closures that had been scheduled to take place across Texas on Sept. 1. This is great! However, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has already appealed this ruling and a hearing is set for Sept. 12 in New Orleans. In addition, over half of Texas’ abortion clinics already have been closed for the past two years, part of a dangerous pattern nationwide.<br />
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Everyone needs to know about this and needs to be part of the fight to change the way people think, talk, and act about abortion. “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology” is what Stop Patriarchy says. Abortion is the first word in the slogan. It’s not an afterthought, not a statement that abortion should be “rare.” It creates the possibility of conversations about why abortion should be unrestricted and spoken about without taboo, shame or stigma. Students are leaders, the future of this world and need to be speaking about abortion on those terms!<br />
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Some students were deeply inspired by our action on Guadalupe Street because they had never seen or been part of a protest. We sounded the alarm about the abortion rights emergency here in the U.S. and abroad — chanting facts, stories and questions. We wore all white and had blood stains on our pants to bring to life the reality that when abortion was illegal, 5,000 women per year died from botched abortions, and currently 47,000 women die each year globally from botched abortions. <br />
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“When was the last time someone told you to yell about women’s rights? It feels good to stand up for the lives of women,” Sunsara Taylor, initiator of the movement to End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women, yelled out to students. This is so true! Students and young people have grown up in a culture where talk about abortion is silenced because it’s controversial. But there should be nothing controversial about a woman making the decision of when and whether she will become a mother. It is immoral to force her into motherhood against her will.<br />
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Going to jail was an awful experience. We were treated as less than human, our prints taken, and were constantly searched and groped. I thought of the women who have to drive hours to the nearest clinic, scrape up money and often childcare, of women who inject themselves with birth control before crossing the border because they know there is a likelihood of rape while traveling, of the lives stolen by illegal and botched abortions, the countless stories of foreclosed lives. I stood for them and it was worth it!<br />
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Some students and drivers were angry because of the disruption to their lives. But that’s just a small dose of what it’d be like to be a woman without access to reproductive care. I call on students to stand up for women’s lives. If you don’t want to see the women of the world enslaved to their reproductive system, if you’re angry that some politicians will not stop until abortion is abolished, if you are tired of being silenced, if someone you love had an abortion, join up with StopPatriarchy.org. Listen to women’s stories. Tell your own. Start a chapter where you live. Because if you understand that forcing women into motherhood against their will is immoral and wrong, it’s up to you to do something about it.Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-33355448339641976902014-09-10T11:40:00.000-07:002014-09-10T11:40:59.901-07:00Why Janay Rice (formerly Palmer) didn’t leave is a no-brainer to feminists<b>By Carol Downer </b><br />
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American society seems surprised and shocked that Janay Rice decided to not leave her boyfriend, Ray Rice. Anti-rape feminists in the 70’s knew why a woman stays with an abusive boyfriend or husband. It is the male-dominated system that forces women into positions to “choose” to stay in abusive relationships.<br />
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Then, in the mid-70’s, grass-roots feminist anti-rape groups found themselves re-formed when they received funding from law enforcement agencies. The Law Enforcement Assistance Agency (LEAA) funneled vast funds into replacing lay staff with Ph.D.’s who softened the militancy of the women’s liberation movement. Instead of confronting rapists or forming self-help defense groups, the group’s objective became collecting physical evidence needed to catch and prosecute rapists. Later, efforts to fight violence against women similarly were funded and became social service agencies.<br />
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The feminist energy to fight male violence tolerated by the male-dominated system (patriarchal system) was diverted into providing social services to abused women and punishing abusive men who were disproportionately of lower class and of color. In other words, the system used its money as a counter-revolutionary tool. Today, the debate is couched not in sexual equality terms, but rather in statistics. Experts talk in gender-neutral language about “intimate partner violence” and “abusers” and “abused”, ignoring that the problem in rooted in male supremacy, even if some minority of female partners are sometimes abusive.<br />
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I must admit, when I heard about the video of Ray Rice dragging his unconscious<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> fiancée </span>out of the elevator after he punched her, I thought, “Why doesn’t she just kick him in the shins and leave.” With a moment’s reflection, a flood of reasons, all related to the economics of the situation, came to me. Ray Rice is a successful, high-earning man, so the economic aspect is more clear than the usual case, where a ordinary pay check is all that might be put in jeopardy with law enforcement intervention, however a woman and her family may depend on that paycheck.<br />
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Beyond economics, there are a myriad of reasons to stay in an abusive relationship in a patriarchal society. The woman is blamed; the church disapproves of or forbids divorce; one’s social life often depends on being in couple.<br />
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Lastly, and not inconsistent with being self-respecting, a woman may stay with a man who has qualities that she values, or they may have a history that is irreplaceable. If women had more power in our society, the woman would be able to insist on better treatment.<br />
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As to the fact that Janay Palmer is Black, White prejudice may negatively affect public perceptions of her decision to stay, but whether an abused female can leave an abusive relationship is grounded in difference in power between males and females. Any implication that abused White women somehow have it easier than abused Black women ignores the reality that White men have a lot more power than Black men in our society, thus they tend to have more economic power, and they are able to conceal their violence or they are dealt with more leniently.<br />
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When feminists take our movement back from those who cloud the issue, the issue will be simplified; male supremacy, or patriarchy, will be directly attacked.Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-48995317775916518112014-09-09T15:38:00.000-07:002014-09-10T12:35:17.152-07:00"No One Has To Ask Permission To Fight For Women’s Liberation - A Response To Katie Klabusich’s Attack On Stop Patriarchy In Bitch Magazine"[Originally published in <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/downer050914.htm" target="_blank">countercurrents.org</a>, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/05/no-one-has-to-ask-permission-to-fight-for-womens-equality/" target="_blank">counterpunch.org</a>, <a href="http://stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com/post/96078691191/no-one-has-to-ask-permission-to-fight-for-womens" target="_blank">stoppatriarchy.tumblr.com</a>, and <a href="http://revcom.us/movement-for-revolution/stop-patriarchy/a/350/response-from-carol-downer-to-katie-klabusich-en.html#.VA-PjDQmpiQ.twitter" target="_blank">revcom.us</a>]<br />
<b>By Carol Downer</b><br />
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The headline, “In Texas, Activist Group ‘Stop Patriarchy” Draws Criticism’ and the first two paragraphs might first appear like an objective report; however, your blog, reprinted in Bitch is not a report, but a trash job. Come clean, Katie Klabusich, Texans for Reproductive Justice is you and your buddies in an ad hoc group formed for the sole purpose of opposing Stop Patriarchy and their mission to come to Texas, protest the TRAP laws that are closing down Texas clinics and their goal of linking this to the nationwide emergency facing abortion rights.<br />
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I’m on the advisory board of Stop Patriarchy and I went on the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride for one week.<br />
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So, you have not given me or anyone else one good reason not to support Stop Patriarchy. Your criticisms are baseless; if anything, they are reasons to support Stop Patriarchy. <br />
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It is great that we attract media attention because we go to where the Patriarchy is crushing women down; our demonstrations are photogenic; we have good slogans, “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology”; we have attention-arresting enlargements of photos of women who have died from illegal abortion and great props dramatizing that enforced pregnancy is unconstitutional “involuntary servitude.” We have great fliers and dramatize women’s abortion stories. We get national and local media response, in addition to getting out broadly into the communities across Texas and talking to real people – not just people in the existing “movement” – the majority of whom know nothing about the clinic closures and have never heard anyone speak positively about abortion. I saw this have a real positive impact on people’s thinking. What is not to like about that?<br />
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You ask where the money we raised went? $30,000.00 is not much these days, especially when dozens of you fly or drive to the destination and you have to use cars and stay in motels, but if you sleep on the floor and cook your own food, you can make it stretch. What money do you think is not accounted for?<br />
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You all call Stop Patriarchy racist because we say that forced motherhood is female enslavement? A woman accepts the pains and dangers of wanted pregnancy and labor, but when we are forced to endure them, what would you call it? A walk in the park? You call us Islamaphobic because we condemn the patriarchy that forces women to wear the burka? We condemn Western patriarchy that pressures women to be sex objects and wear body-restricting clothing like thongs. Is that Islamaphobic? And, who says Stop Patriarchy is against sex workers because we are against pornography? Is being against sweatshops also being against underpaid laborers who work in unhealthy conditions?<br />
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None of these are good reasons for opposing and seeking to sabotage Stop Patriarchy.<br />
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Let’s get to the meat of what is burning your buns. We did not get permission from you all to come protest at the Federal Courthouse in Austin at the hearings to decide whether to let the restrictions on clinics go into effect this September 1st, did we? Katie, did you notice that we demonstrated at the FEDERAL courthouse? That’s because the question before the court was whether the law violated the U.S. constitution, and that affects all of us, doesn’t it? Just because it happens on Texas soil is irrelevant. We don’t have to ask permission. Get over it.<br />
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Also, you are upset we did not use our money to pay for women’s abortions now that Texas women are being forced to travel and incur extra costs. Well, that is a political decision. Most people who call themselves reproductive rights groups consider themselves “political.” Political means engaging in the political process. Protesting is a time-honored way of being political, and while we are all consternated at the injustice against Texas women that is being perpetrated, social change will only come about through political organizing, which costs money.<br />
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What really makes me question your ad hoc group’s opposition to Stop Patriarchy, Katie, is that you want to keep SP from protesting in Texas, because they are “disreputable” and many of them support the Revolutionary Communist Party. Why do you think this disqualifies us from being part of the reproductive rights movement?<br />
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I have been a reproductive rights activist and an abortion provider for over 40 years, and I am on the advisory board of Stop Patriarchy. I am aware that Stop Patriarchy is an effort that Sunsara Taylor and other supporters of the RCP initiated which also includes others who believe in the goals of Stop Patriarchy, such as I. I believe that we need a revolution in this country, but think it has to be a feminist-led revolution that transforms our society, therefore I am not a communist, but I have known these folks since before 1979. I esteem them as fellow progressives that share my opposition to U.S. imperialist wars, and mass incarceration of poor, black and brown people, and I condemn your red-baiting.<br />
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The red-baiting brings up an interesting question, Katie, are you guys against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the blatant use of our law enforcement machinery to imprison so many young men of color and the murder of Trayvon Martin and now Michael Brown? Or, are you all the kind of reproductive rights activists that believes that the women’s movement is just about raising women’s status in our society, and not about broader social justice. That might explain your group’s slurs.<br />
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I have to wonder if you folks have lined up with the Democratic Party who continues to support Hyde Amendment restrictions and the mealy-mouthed “choice” people whose only goal is to reduce female fertility, and you do not want us “disreputable” protestors to raise hell about these TRAP laws.<br />
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I would like to say why I came to Texas at this time to protest these laws. First, I have watched our defeat in Texas with dismay, and I wanted to come join in with the protests of Texans and to voice my own outrage. Second, I see more and more attacks coming around the country, and I see very little visible protest occurring. Mostly everything is left up to Planned Parenthood and the Democrats, and I am sick of it. I think it’s time for outspoken protests saying “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology.” I respect that Texans have been working hard on this issue, but it has not been enough. We need to do more. In L.A., in NYC, everywhere. I invite Texans who are working for Reproductive Freedom and Justice to come to California. We need some help too. Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-14945529362412337422014-07-15T10:44:00.000-07:002014-07-15T11:22:04.287-07:00NOW IS THE TIME: A Statement of Support for the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride: Ground Zero Texas[Re-post from <a href="http://stoppatriarchy.org/" target="_blank">stoppatriarchy.org</a>] <br />
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by Carol Downer<br />
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I totally support the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride that will take place through Texas this August and possibly through September, and I hope that everyone who values women’s reproductive freedom will support this beginning of a new chapter of the Battle for Women’s Reproductive Rights.<br />
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I was there in the mid-1960’s, when abortion was still illegal in much of the United States and women were forced to travel to states and cities where abortion, legal or illegal, was available, or to subject themselves to procedures done by unknown abortionists. I was one of them. I had taken no action to stand up for my reproductive rights, and I didn’t know anyone else who had.<br />
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We’re in that same position today. There is a splash of newspaper coverage when one more defeat of the so-called “pro-choice” movement takes place in the courts or the legislatures, or when clinics in Texas close, but mostly life goes on as though nothing significant is happening. Perhaps we send in a few dollars to Planned Parenthood, which has positioned itself as the champion of women’s rights, although that championing is strictly limited to lady-like tactics, not grass-roots organizing.<br />
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But, something significant is happening.<br />
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Suddenly, ridiculous regulations that have been proposed in State legislatures for the last 40 years and quickly quashed, have now gained traction. The Supreme Court has even refused to stay the Texas law that requires a clinic to have a doctor on staff at a hospital within 30 miles. In general, hospitals have not wanted to touch abortion with a 10-foot pole, ever. That’s why abortions are provided in clinics. There are extremely few complications from abortion that require hospitalization, and when they do, hospitals have staffs who are equipped to deal with them and are already required by law to do so. Forty years of providing legal abortion shows that this regulation is bogus, but it is being treated as legitimate by legislators and jurists.<br />
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If the U.S. Supreme Court finds that these regulations are constitutional, it is just a matter of months or a couple of years, for State legislators around the country to emulate Texas and Mississippi. Clinics will scramble to somehow get a doctor on staff if they can. Perhaps those abortion doctors who presently have staff privileges will lose them. Clinics will close. We will find ourselves in a patchwork situation of abortion access similar to pre-Roe v. Wade.<br />
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You may think, “Well, that’s when women will wake up. We’ll take to the streets.” Or, you may think, “Well, thousands of abortion clinic workers know how to perform abortions safely. Clandestine clinics will come into existence.” Or, you may think, “Well, there will be an underground supply of abortion pills.” If you’re really dreaming, you’ll think, “Heck, women did it themselves before Roe v. Wade. They’ll do it again, and the law will collapse of its own weight.”<br />
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None of these solutions is going to occur, at least without the
dedication and organization of those activists who will make them occur.<br />
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Why? Because, history shows that Richard Wright, who wrote “Native Son” was right when he said, “Oppression oppresses.” As the new status quo is established, people will be even less optimistic, less willing to take a chance.<br />
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Most people in the late 60’s and early 70’s took no active interest in abortion, beyond inviting a NOW speaker to come talk about abortion. Public opinion polls showed, as they consistently show today, that a small percentage of people are very concerned about the issue, either pro or con. The majority of people are in the middle. Most of these people are uncomfortable with abortion. Many believe it to be immoral, and would never have an abortion or want their loved one to have one. And, many believe that abortion should be regulated or limited in some fashion. However, all but those at the extreme anti-abortion end of the continuum, do not want abortion to be illegal.<br />
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I believe that the Freedom Ride will awaken those at our end of the continuum who care passionately about women having reproductive freedom. It will form networks, draw attention, support abortion providers, raise consciousness, inspire the future Lana Clarke Phelans and Pat Maginnises. It will be raucous but non-violent; it will be confrontational and enlightening.<br />
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Social change in regards to women’s reproductive rights is not measured by the changes in the law. For example, the Comstock Law, which forbade the mailing of information on birth control, stayed on the books until the 70’s, but it was not enforced. The Freedom Ride will build on the fact that most people are with us. “Abortion should not be illegal!” will resonate with almost everyone. “Abortion On Demand and Without Apology!” will thrill some and start many others thinking about this in a new way. Openly talking about it will keep the dialogue going and reduce the shame. These changes cannot be accomplished on the internet. The internet can coordinate activities and make us aware of each other; the websites where women can talk about their abortions or those that raise money to help women get abortions perform a valuable service, but daughters talking to their moms, and speakouts and demonstrations is what’s going to change the climate around abortion. Social change is not going to come by getting on or watching the Anderson Cooper 360 or Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room. These programs follow the changes in public opinion; they articulate them.<br />
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No one can predict how far-reaching the impact from the Freedom Ride will be. For sure, it will break down isolation and it will bring grass-roots voices to the debate. It certainly will nourish the spirits of those who go on the ride and those who benefit from its actions and programs. It may inspire other projects, other Rides. It could even awaken the potential leaders of mass movements, or even it may itself lead a mass movement.<br />
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NOW IS THE TIME<br />
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Carol Downer is a feminist, lawyer, and co-founder of the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Los Angeles which started providing abortions in 1971 <br />
<br />Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609265872093988560.post-4817879956497517242014-06-27T18:46:00.000-07:002014-06-27T18:46:14.338-07:00Women's Need for Accurate Information About Birth Control Gets Lost in Controversy over Zimbabwe Official’s Speech About Dangers of Birth ControlBy Carol Downer<br />
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The pro-natalist population controllers say they’re concerned about our health, and they charge that hormonal contraceptives are dangerous to our health, therefore we should stop taking them and have more babies; the other side says they’re concerned about our health, and they present the facts that show that the benefits of hormonal contraceptives outweigh the risk, so it’s prudent to use them to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Who’s “facts” do we believe? <br />
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Who’s checking the fact checkers, especially when they check up on jingoistic statements that we want to see proven wrong. When a pro-natalist Zimbabwean official tells his countrywomen “<a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/28259-zimbabwe-official-tobaiwa-mudede-says-birth-control-causes-cancer-spoiler-hes-wrong" target="_blank">to multiply</a>” in order for Zimbabwe to be a “<a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/28259-zimbabwe-official-tobaiwa-mudede-says-birth-control-causes-cancer-spoiler-hes-wrong" target="_blank">superpower</a>” and warns that birth control can cause cancer, we can see that he’s trying to exploit women’s fears. But, we must be equally wary when those of the “anti-natalist persuasion” rush to allay our fears. When the facts start flying about what’s best for women’s bodies, those of us who want to control our reproduction without governmental interference have to carefully analyze this ideologically-driven debate. <br />
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In the article, “Zimbabwe Registrar’s Claim that Contraception Causes Cancer is Misleading and Alarmist”, <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201406161644.html?viewall=1" target="_blank">Africa Check</a> cites two main claims by Zimbabwe Official Tobaiwa Mudede in his speech at an Africa Day celebration in Harare on May 25. They ignore his first assertion that the promotion of birth control is a ploy by western nations to retard population growth in Africa. <br />
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They contact WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and their check reveals his facts are right. IARC confirms that there can be a link between the use of oral and injectable hormonal contraceptives and particular types of cancer, increasing the risk in some cases and lowering it in others. Dr. Elvira Singh of IARC gives their overview of the various risk factors for cancer in taking the Pill or the Shot; she concludes that Mudede’s comments are “alarmist”. Dr. Singh’s support of the Pill and the Shot shows her complacency about the dangers of the Pill or the Shot, given that there a number of other equally effective but far safer barrier methods equally available. She only compares the danger of the Pill or the Shot to doing nothing at all to prevent pregnancy. Birth has dangers so the Pill and the Shot compare well with that. <br />
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<a href="http://www.bustle.com/articles/28259-zimbabwe-official-tobaiwa-mudede-says-birth-control-causes-cancer-spoiler-hes-wrong" target="_blank">Abby Johnston of Bustle.com’s</a> article, a shortened version of Africa Check’s, sums up WHO’s position as “the benefit far exceeds the risks” with contraceptive use, and mis-quotes Africa Check in saying that “the higher the birth rate in a country, the higher the maternal mortality rate”. Fact? The UN only said the dangers of having more children could result in increased mortality rate. Johnston reveals her true concern, “Access and education on birth control is particularly important in areas facing overpopulation.” She presumably means Africa. African women, just as much as other women, need to have an unbiased comparison of all methods of birth control; <a href="http://www.birth-control-comparison.info/">www.birth-control-comparison.info</a><br />
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Methinks that the reason that <a href="http://allafrica.com/stories/201406161644.html?viewall=1" target="_blank">Africa Check</a> didn’t check the facts concerning Mudede’s allegation that there are those in the West that push birth control because they fear population growth in Africa, is because it is also based on fact. Some people confuse the feminist demand that we have control over our reproduction with the anti-natalist drive to reduce those populations they believe are excessive. These anti-natalist forces, usually wealthy families, use their money and influence to support national and international policies to push birth control as the primary way to attack poverty and environmental degradation. They use the rhetoric of women’s liberation, but their foundations and university-funded projects push oral and injectable hormonal contraception, no matter how harmful these methods may be. <br />
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Unfortunately, the anti-natalists have been wildly successful so far in keeping a low profile, framing their proposals as giving women “choice”. But, as a start to understanding the controversy between these two sides, there is an excellent book out that gives us a road map to the christian patriarchy movement and a description and history of national and international pro-natalist trends. I urge supporters of women’s reproductive rights to read my <a href="http://womenshealthinwomenshands.blogspot.com/2014/06/kathryn-joyces-quiverfull-road-map-of.html" target="_blank">review of “Quiverfull” by Kathryn Joyce</a>, a contributing reporter for Nation Magazine. I think it is important for us to face the growing pro-natalist movement in the United States, the popular base for the right-wing politicians who are closing down abortion clinics. Carol Downerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02397443889811948000noreply@blogger.com0