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#sexism

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️
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"The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good."
- Heather Cox Richardson

heathercoxrichardson.substack. [heathercoxrichardson.substack.com]

Text from article: “Were it not for the Navajos,” Major Howard Connor said, “the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.” Today, Erin Alberty of Axios reported that at least ten articles about the Code Talkers have disappeared from U.S. military websites. Broken URLs are now labeled “DEI,” an abbreviation for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Axios found that web pages associated with the Department of Defense have also put DEI labels on now-missing pages that honored prominent Black veterans. Similarly missing is information about women who served in the military, including the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II. A profile of Army Major General Charles Rogers, who received the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, was similarly changed, but the Defense Department replaced the missing page and removed “dei” from the URL today after a public outcry. Two days ago, media outlets noted that the Arlington National Cemetery website had deleted content about Black, female, and Hispanic veterans. The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history. It is also an attempt to erase a vision of a nation in which Americans of all backgrounds come together to work—and fight—for the common good.
#Bigotry#Racism#Sexism
Nonilex
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The #DOJ is aiming to get these cases to #SCOTUS, where it’s betting that enough of the right-wing justices will agree to overturn the high court’s own #precedent on #independent agencies — encapsulated primarily in a 1936 case called Humphrey’s Executor — & axe the removal protections that keep leadership at such entities as the #NLRB or #MSPB insulated from political will or vindictiveness.

#law#discrimination#sexism
Nonilex
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“I think that that would be within the President’s constitutional authority under the removal power…there would be separate questions about whether that would violate other provisions of the #Constitution,” McArthur said.

Judge Justin Walker, a #Trump appointee on the panel, swooped in to try to salvage the moment, saying to the #DOJ atty that he didn’t think “you would have to go there,”pointing to the protections of the #14thAmendment.

#law#discrimination#sexism
Nonilex
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The startling admission came in response to a federal judge’s hypothetical.

“Could the President decide that he wasn’t going to appoint or allow to remain in office any female heads of agencies or any heads over 40 years old?” Judge Karen Henderson, a Reagan appointee on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, asked Dpty Asst AG Eric McArthur Tues in proceedings over the fired board members of two #independent agencies.

#law#discrimination#sexism
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MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History March 13, 1979: The Marxist New Jewel movement, led by Maurice Bishop, overthrew the prime minister of Grenada. Bishop led the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown and executed in a coup supported by the U.S. Bishop supported anti-racist struggles around the world and the fight to end Apartheid. Under his leadership, Granada gave women equal pay to men and provided paid maternity leave. They also banned sexual discrimination and introduced free public health and literacy programs that brought the national illiteracy rate from 35% down to 5%. In 1983, the U.S. invaded Granada. 19 U.S. soldiers and 45 Grenadian soldiers died in the fighting that ensued. The invasion effectively ended the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome,” where U.S. leaders feared that overt regime change, with U.S. boots on the ground, would spark large antiwar protests, like those that rocked the nation in the 1960s and early 70s. The Grenada invasion paved the way for much more aggressive interventions like Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.

M102 howitzers of 1st Bn 320th FA, 82D Abn Div firing during battle. By TSGT M. J. CREEN - DoDMedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2060797
#workingclass#LaborHistory#grenada
Megan Lynch (she/her)
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Every time I see the cycling dudes who kicked me and the only other woman who wasn't their girlfriend out of the early formation of a cycle advocacy group, I think about how their orientation was as much about making sure they were creating non-profit jobs for themselves as it was cycle advocacy...

#Sexism#BikeTooter
MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

German poster for International Women's Day, March 8, 1914.[a] This poster was banned in the German Empire. It depicts a woman waving a long banner. By Karl Maria Stadler (1888 – nach 1943) - Scan from an old book, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6372383
#workingclass#LaborHistory#internationalwomensday
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MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History March 8, 1908: Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (mostly women) launched a strike for higher wages, shorter hours and an end to child labor. They chose this date in commemoration of the 1857 strike. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike and the one in 1857.

Women protesters with picket signs. Two of them read, “We shall fight until we win,” “Our employers are powerful; We shall be more powerful.”
#workingclass#LaborHistory#internationalwomensday
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