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Friday Nite Videos -- October 23, 2015

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Music Is My Ammunition | Playing For Change. What Republicans Hear When Bernie Speaks. Documentary: India's Daughter. Medea Benjamin on System Change. Could We Actually Live on Mars?

Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist, Dies at 76

William Grimes The New York Times
While teaching American studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, she, Linda Gordon and Susan Reverby assembled primary documents, including letters and diaries, that offered a sweeping history of women and labor. Their book, “America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present” (1976), was acquired for Random House by Toni Morrison, then a young editor there.

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Women With Money Have Choices -- Women Who Don't Have Children

Laura Duggan Morning Star
An alliance of Irish trade unions is determined to end the island’s draconian ban on abortion. The denial of the right to an abortion is not about morality, the law exists to target and punish working-class, poor and migrant women for daring to think they deserve equality and control over their own lives and bodies.

The Prominence and Plight Of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System

Joe Sexton ProPublica
Despite decades of attention, the proportion of girls in the juvenile justice system has increased and their challenges have remained remarkably consistent, resulting in deeply rooted systemic gender injustice. The literature is clear that girls in the justice system have experienced abuse, violence, adversity, and deprivation across many of the domains of their lives—family, peers, intimate partners, and community.

Friday Nite Videos -- September 4, 2015

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Judy Collins -- Bread and Roses. How Wolves Change Rivers. Man With Arms Raised Killed by San Antonio Police. I Didn't Come From Your Rib (You Came From My Vagina). Police Recruitment Video Features Military-style Tactics.

Judy Collins -- Bread and Roses

Take a Labor Day listen to this song inspired by a speech by Rose Schneiderman, immigrant, radical, labor and feminist leader. The song is especially associated with the successful strike by women textile workers in Lawrence, MA, in 1912.

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