Feminist News Digest | Week of September 21-26

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Dear John,
This week a grand jury failed to deliver sufficient charges against the officers responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor, a Black EMT from Louisville who was shot and killed in her apartment by police and whose name has become a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement.
We are dismayed at this miscarriage of justice and call upon legislators to take immediate action on racial justice and to heed the demands to divest from traditional policing and invest in alternatives that support communities and protect Black lives.
While we continue to mourn Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we reflect on her many contributions to the feminist movement, and the ways in which she shaped women's rights and protections during her many years on the court.
Women, especially women of color, continue to be disproportionately economically impacted by the pandemic, experiencing uprecedented unemployment rates with no economic plan for recovery on the horizon.
In a step forward for the women of Afghanistan, the Afghan president signed a historic amendment that will put women's names on official documents.
These stories are are linked below, and other important feminist news can be found here [[link removed]] .



PRESS RELEASES
Feminist Majority Foundation Condemns Lack of Justice for Breonna Taylor [[link removed]]
We are outraged by the news about the grand jury decision regarding the murder of Breonna Taylor. The lesser charge of wanton endangerment brought against only one of the three officers responsible for her death shows the abject failure of our policing system and puts a spotlight on a criminal justice system that enables police officers to take a life with little to no consequence. It illustrates the deadly repercussions of a faulty system that disproportionately overpolices Black people in the U.S. and endangers their lives, even when they are asleep in their own homes.


POLICE | RACE
Grand Jury Fails to Charge Officers Responsible for Breonna Taylor’s Murder [[link removed]]
On September 23, a decision was made by a grand jury concerning the murder of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman from Louisville, KY who was killed in her home in March of this year. Out of the three officers present at her murder, only one – Brett Hankison – was charged.


COURTS
Celebrating Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Enormous Contribution to Women’s Rights [[link removed]]
The impact Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left on the contours of American society are unmatched, unprecedented, and too numerous to count.



ECONOMY | LABOR RIGHTS
The Pandemic & Its Detriment to the Female Workforce [[link removed]]
“Women have never experienced an unemployment rate in the double digits since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting data by gender in 1948 – until now.”



AFGHANISTAN | WOMEN'S RIGHTS
President of Afghanistan Signed Amendment to Include Mothers’ Names in Children’s Birth Certificates [[link removed]]
In a historical move, President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani signed an amendment for mothers’ names to be included on Afghan national IDs.



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