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The next phase of the resistance as embodied by last month’s Women’s March may come in the form of a general women’s strike—a day inspired by feminist movements in other countries, during which women don’t work (in the office or at home) or go to school.
The official Women’s March social media accounts posted Monday morning:
Meanwhile, a coalition of feminist academics and activists is separately calling for “an international strike against male violence and in defense of reproductive rights” to take place Wednesday, March 8. They reference President Donald Trump in their call, but their vision goes far beyond one man or one administration.
In an op-ed published Monday at the Guardian, they write:
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“As we see it, the new wave of women’s mobilization must address all these concerns in a frontal way,” the authors declare. “It must be a feminism for the 99 percent.”
And so, they continue:
The authors include Hunter College philosophy professor Linda Martín Alcoff; Princeton University assistant professor and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; Arab American Action Network associate director Rasmea Yousef Odeh; and author and activist Angela Davis, who is a distinguished professor emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz and whose impassioned speech at the Women’s March presaged the call for the strike.
“This is a women’s march and this women’s march represents the promise of feminism as against the pernicious powers of state violence,” Davis said at the time. “An inclusive and intersectional feminism that calls upon all of us to join the resistance to racism, to Islamophobia, to antisemitism, to misogyny, to capitalist exploitation.”
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Theirs is not the only call for an anti-Trump strike to emerge in recent days. The F17 strike has been announced for Friday, February 17.
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