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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

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1. and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. This is so incredibly depressing, but, alas,

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Sep 20, 2021, 07:18 PM

Sep 2021

not in the least surprising, as it has gone on for decades. I think of. The Holly Near/Ronnie Gilbert song about this many years ago.

And American and Canadian officials are little better, witness the need for the MMIW movement (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), although Secretary Haaland is now overseeing a federal level group.

Women and girls simply do not count in patriarchy.

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and the WAR ON WOMEN continues apace. This is so incredibly depressing, but, alas, niyad Sep 2021 #1