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Activist Action Series! Messaging using Electric Road Signs
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. To all activists, if you are planning to “dance the streets”, you must become knowledgeable of the laws and regulations of your municipality. Decide what, if any, lines you are willing to cross using sound critical thinking skills. …
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Activist Action Series! How to Drop a Banner to get your message to the masses
Feminist Global Resistance will be posting a series of articles on techniques and safety tips for activists. Our first, “How to Drop a Banner to get your message to the masses”, is a technique for powerful messaging to be seen by a huge number of people. Keep it short, powerful and on point. A Drop…
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PTSD, Graveyard Dancing and saying Good-Bye: Ketamine Dreams
When I was a Child It wasn’t always easy being a little kid and I soon found it was downhill from there. I won’t get into many specifics but “trauma” became a constant companion very early – violence, assault, death (too many deaths but the death of my brother when I was 13 –…
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Mother’s Peace Day
In 1870, Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist,… … called for a “Mother’s Peace Day” dedicated as a celebration to the eradication of war. She organized “Mother’s Peace Day” festivities in Boston for years. Below is the proclamation she wrote in 1870: Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or…
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Revolutionaries (Part 14): Nana Obiyaa, Queen Nanny Of The Maroons
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…
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Revolutionaries (Part 13): Titina Silá, Freedom Fighter
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…
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Revolutionaries (Part 12): “Mama Warrior”, Dolores Cacuango
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…
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Revolutionaries (Part 11): Before Rosa, there was Irene – The Bus Ride of Irene Amos Morgan (Kirkaldy)
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…
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Revolutionaries (Part 10): Sophie Scholl, Weiße Rose (White Rose)
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…
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Revolutionaries (Part 9): Lozen, Tchihende (Chihenne) Nde Warrior
(A series brought to you by Feminist Global Resistance) The Series: Patriarchy ensures that male (almost exclusively white colonizer) history is remembered though a few women shine through or are given a twisted footnote. More often, women are relegated to lost tomes and forgotten lore. Some shine through in song and tales while others, more…