Jenny Brown is an organizer with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. She is author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press) and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle […]
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American decline? Imperial reckoning. 40 years of Combat Rock by The Clash
Interrupting all programs, but we’re putting out this transmission…a review of the 40th anniversary reissue of The Clash’s Combat Rock. August 21st is Joe Strummer’s birthday. He would have been seventy years old. He died twenty years ago. “It could be anywhere. Most likely could be any frontier, any hemisphere. It’s No Man’s Land. There ain’t no […]
Breaking the Law Does Not Always Have to Be Scary
Camille Rudney is an activist and a clinical social worker based in Richmond, Virginia. They became involved in abortion struggles after being arrested in 2012 for protesting Virginia’s restrictive abortion bill that required women seeking abortions to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound as well as other stringent regulations that would severely affect abortion providers. Camille’s arrest […]
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It’s 1976. I am 26 and have been experiencing light vaginal bleeding off and on for several weeks. I am married, but getting a divorce. I have no children. I am using the low dose of “The Pill.” A friend recommends her ob-gyn doctor. I go to this doctor and after his exam he tells me, to my relief, […]
We Were Keeping the Clinic Doors Open With Our Bodies: Interview with Sunny Chapman
Sunny Chapman is a longtime activist and artist. In the 1980s and 1990s she participated in abortion clinic defense struggles by escorting women to clinics and videotaping the activities of anti-abortion activists. In this interview, she discusses how her own abortion experience with Jane politicized her to become an activist and she shares some of […]
Redstockings Abortion Speak Out
This is the fourth post in the Hard Crackers Reproductive Freedom Series. The post is an edited transcript of remarks made by women who spoke at the first Abortion Speak Out on March 21, 1969 in New York City. A full recording is available at the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archive (https://archive.org/details/RedstockingsAbortionSpeakoutNewYork1969March21). A full transcript was […]