Feminist News Digest | Week of August 24-28

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The Feminist Majority Foundation is proud to partner with today's March on Washington 2020, commemorating the 57th anniversary of the original 1963 march at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. Read FMF president Eleanor Smeal's statement on this impactful event below.

The March takes place not even a week after a police officer shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back seven times while his children watched. So far this year 751 people have died by police violence in the U.S., while there were only 27 days in 2019 where someone was not killed by police.

This week at the Repulican National Convention, anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson praised the Trump administration's anti-abortion agenda while advocating for "household voting", in which the husband votes for his wife, and spread misinformation about abortion and Planned Parenthood clinics.

Finally, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of transgender rights, finding a Virginia high school's bathroom ban unconstitutional and a violation of Title IX rules.

These stories are are linked below, and other important feminist news can be found here [[link removed]] .



PRESS RELEASES
The Feminist Majority Foundation Stands with the March on Washington Against Police Brutality [[link removed]]
Today marks the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. The Feminist Majority Foundation is proud to be a partner in the anniversary march today convened by Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. “The Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” honors this anniversary and demands an end to the violence Black people in the U.S. face every hour of every day. Sadly, almost 60 years after Dr. King’s powerful call to action we are still demanding an end to racism and justice for those whose lives have been lost to anti-Black racist violence.


POLICE | RACE
Jacob Blake Shot in Back Multiple Times by Police in Kenosha, Wisconsin [[link removed]]
Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old unarmed Black man, was shot in the back by police 7 times on Sunday afternoon in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Witnesses report that Blake was helping break up a fight and that police attempted to taser him after responding to a domestic disturbance call.


POLICE | RACE
Police Have Killed 751 People This Year [[link removed]]
According to Mapping Police Violence, a database built by Samuel Sinyangwe, there were only 27 days in 2019 that the police did not kill someone. Mapping Police Violence claims to be “the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013.”



ABORTION| ON THE HILL | POLITICS
Anti-Abortion Activist Who Advocated for Ending Women’s Suffrage Speaks at RNC [[link removed]]
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood employee turned anti-abortion activist, spoke at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Tuesday. Johnson was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic before leaving after reportedly watching an abortion on an ultrasound. She now runs And Then There Were None, an organization which helps those who work in facilities which provide abortions change jobs. In her speech, Johnson made false claims about Planned Parenthood and described the abortion process graphically. She then praised the President’s anti-abortion record.



COURTS | LGBTQ
Federal Court Rules That Students May Use Bathrooms That Match Their Gender Identity [[link removed]]
In a win for transgender rights, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Virginia high school’s transgender bathroom rule is unconstitutional, discriminatory, and a violation of Title IX rules.



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