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3 tips to supporting #Occupy without actually being there

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This Labor Day we need protest marches rather than parades - CSMonitor.com

DON'T LET THE MAN GET YOU DOWN! ORGANIZE! USE YOUR RESOURCES!

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SlutWalks and the future of feminism

More than 40 years after feminists tossed their bras and high heels into a trash can at the 1968 Miss America pageant — kicking off the bra-burning myth that will never die — some young women are taking to the streets to protest sexual assault, wearing not much more than what their foremothers once dubbed “objects of female oppression” in marches called SlutWalks.

It’s a controversial name, which is in part why the organizers picked it. It’s also why many of the SlutWalk protesters are wearing so little (though some are sweatpants-clad, too). Thousands of women — and men — are demonstrating to fight the idea that what women wear, what they drink or how they behave can make them a target for rape. SlutWalks started with a local march organized by five women in Toronto and have gone viral, with events planned in more than 75 cities in countries from the United States and Canada to Sweden and South Africa. In just a few months, SlutWalks have become the most successful feminist action of the past 20 years.

In a feminist movement that is often fighting simply to hold ground, SlutWalks stand out as a reminder of feminism’s more grass-roots past and point to what the future could look like.

The marches are mostly organized by younger women who don’t apologize for their in-your-face tactics, making the events much more effective in garnering media attention and participant interest than the actions of well-established (and better funded) feminist organizations. And while not every feminist may agree with the messaging of SlutWalks, the protests have translated online enthusiasm into in-person action in a way that hasn’t been done before in feminism on this scale.

The protests began after a police officer told students at Toronto’s York University in January that if women want to avoid rape, they shouldn’t dress like “sluts.” (If you thought the days of “she was asking for it” were long gone, guess again.)

Heather Jarvis, a student in Toronto and a co-founder of SlutWalk, explained that the officer’s comments struck her and her co-organizers as so preposterous and damaging that they demanded action. “We were fed up and pissed off, and we wanted to do something other than just be angry,” she said. Bucking the oft-repeated notion that young women are apathetic to feminism, they organized. What Jarvis hoped would be a march of at least 100 turned out to be a rally of more than 3,000 — some marchers with “slut” scrawled across their bodies, others with signs reading “My dress is not a yes” or “Slut pride.”

The idea that women’s clothing has some bearing on whether they will be raped is a dangerous myth feminists have tried to debunk for decades. Despite all the activism and research, however, the cultural misconception prevails. After an 11-year-old girl in Texas was gang-raped, the New York Times ran a widely criticized story this spring that included a description of how the girl dressed “older than her age” and wore makeup — as if either was relevant to the culpability of the 18 men accused of raping her. In Scotland, one secondary school is calling for uniforms to be baggier and longer in an attempt to dissuade pedophiles.

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Junio será un buen mes para las acciones mexicanas

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Las bolsas celebran la creación de empleo en los EE.UU.

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37 people arrested at the anti-drone rally

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The Link Between War and Big Finance

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Stand with Planned Parenthood!

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Osama Bin Laden Living in Hollywood?

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Kentuckians "Defend the Dream" at Lexington’s Phoenix Park - Lexington courts | Examiner.com

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¿Los futuros del S&P 500 podrán extender su rally?

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Tea Party Activist Assault Speaker At Texans' Day Of Outrage Rally In Houston, TX

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Los futuros del S&P 500 rompen con su reciente rally alcista

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Weekly Audit: Police Defy Order to Clear Protesters from Wisconsin Capital

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Los futuros del S&P 500 pondrán a prueba el optimismo del mercado

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Escalator Malfunction Fail In Washington DC

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Rallies Clash Loudly Over Union Rights In N.C. Where Public Unions Are Banned

RALEIGH -- Wisconsin's battle over collective bargaining rights spilled over into downtown streets Saturday, producing a noisy clash of pro- and anti-union demonstrators.

Hundreds of supporters of Wisconsin public employees in a dispute with Gov. Scott Walker waved signs, chanted and heard speeches on the south lawn of the Capitol, while a smaller, loudly outspoken group of opponents shouted their own slogans from the other side of Fayetteville Street.

The pro-union rally was organized by the State Employees Association of North Carolina. SEANC doesn't have formal negotiating rights, because North Carolina is one of two states that ban collective bargaining for public workers.

"If Wisconsin goes, everything goes!" Linda Suggs, a special education teacher in Wake County, said to the crowd that gathered facing Fayetteville Street.

Rallies supporting the Wisconsin employees also took place in Minneapolis; Denver; New York City; Topeka, Kan.; Lansing, Mich.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Columbus, Ohio; and elsewhere, the Associated Press reported.

Some among the crowd of about 150 opponents to the pro-union group said they were affiliated with the tea party movement.

Many in the anti-union group waved flags, and one was dressed in the uniform of a Revolutionary War soldier.

"We're trying to get all the sickness out of this country so we can get back to the foundation," said Roy Musser, who traveled from Morehead City for the rally.

Said Wake County resident Bruce Morris, gesturing toward the pro-union demonstrators, "These people are socialists; that's all it is."

State Capitol police kept order and maintained the distance between the groups. Heated exchanges between the two factions erupted occasionally as the events broke up.

"These people don't really understand whose side we're really on," said Laurie Gengenbach, an employee of N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro.

"We are fighting for them against greedy banks and greedy corporations and greedy governors," Gengenbach said.RALEIGH -- Wisconsin's battle over collective bargaining rights spilled over into... more

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Op Wisconsin. Stand with our brothers!

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Emergency 50-State Protest Mobilization to Save the American Dream

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