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Today at Ms. | April 17, 2023
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Women Need Julie Su as Our Next Labor Secretary. The Labor Movement Is Ready to Fight for Her [[link removed]]
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Julie Su (at podium), flanked by Thai workers, other lawyers and workers’ rights advocates. Su filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of a group of migrant workers against “garment contractors” alleging charges of involuntary servitude, false imprisonment, racketeering, fraud, assault and civil rights and labor law violations. (Dan Groshong / AFP via Getty Images)
BY LIZ SHULER | Julie Su would make history as the second-ever Asian-American woman to hold the role of labor secretary and only the fourth-ever woman of color. But this is about more than representation.
Her knowledge of wage theft, immigrant worker abuse and labor law is personal and encyclopedic. But she also has a deep understanding of what’s happening on the ground.
“A win for Julie Su is a win for women and workers all over this country. Let’s get it done.”
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As Supreme Court Weighs Next Steps on Abortion Pill, Protesters Rally in Support of Abortion Rights [[link removed]]
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a march for abortion rights in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, on April 15, 2023. “This moment, I believe, is the next phase of a movement,” Harris said at the speech. “And we have all been called to help lead this movement, to fight on behalf of all of the people who have so much at stake.” (Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images)
BY CARRIE N. BAKER and ROXY SZAL | As the Supreme Court weighs its options on the abortion pill mifepristone, abortion and women’s rights supporters across the U.S. are protesting the latest efforts to restrict access to abortion. Protests took place this weekend in small and large cities, including Amarillo and Dallas, Texas; Chicago; Detroit; Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, Calif.; New York City; Seattle; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Tallahassee, Fla.; and Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital.
The continued contradictory orders of various courts have escalated the issue to the Supreme Court. A decision could come any day.
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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (May 1974) [[link removed]]
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BY ALICE WALKER | From the May 1974 issue of Ms. magazine:
“What did it mean for a Black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers’ time? It is a question with an answer cruel enough to stop the blood. … How was the creativity of the Black woman kept alive, year after year and century after century, when for most of the years Black people have been in America, it was a punishable crime for a Black person to read or write? … The agony of the lives of women who might have been Poets, Novelists, Essayists and Short Story Writers, who died with their real gifts stifled within them.”
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In 2022, women voters across the U.S. made their voices heard, demanding access to safe reproductive healthcare. And yet, state legislatures—which purport to represent the people—continue to attack reproductive rights, proposing increasingly restrictive bans on abortion. In the face of these challenges, how can we work towards a government that truly represents us—and protects us?
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