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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation, the author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now, and a former collaborator with the Redstockings. We talk about the how radical feminism/women's liberation went from a splinter of the New Left to shaping the course of women's struggles around the world, how their politics are misunderstood today, how their demands for repealing all laws on abortion was recuperated by a supreme court in need of legitimacy, and why the political class today strips those rights.
Jenny Brown in Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/2022/08/capitalism-low-birth-rate-labor-abortion-contraceptives-childcare
Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America by Alice Echols: https://archive.org/details/daringtobebadrad0000echo
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| 0:14.7 | And don't go out in the street little girl and don't go out into town. Now you don't know who Welcome to Armed Love, episode 5 of the Antiifada side project where we talk about the |
| 0:26.1 | revolutionary culture of the 60s and its remembrance and recurrence today. |
| 0:30.3 | My guest today is Jenny Brown, an organizer with National Women's Liberation, and the author |
| 0:36.5 | of Without Apology The Abortion Struggle Now, and a former collaborator with the Red Stocking's Collective. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks for joining us, Jenny Brown. |
| 0:46.0 | How you feeling tonight? |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, pretty good. |
| 0:49.0 | Good to be here. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, and we're recording, we're going to probably release this next week, but recording this right before this ominous election, |
| 0:56.6 | which is largely on the topic that we'll be talking about, about relating to women's liberation and the abortion struggle. |
| 1:03.6 | With that in mind, what are your thoughts about the election? |
| 1:05.6 | Doesn't even matter to you? |
| 1:07.4 | Oh, yeah, I mean, there's really significant stuff |
| 1:10.5 | going to be happening in terms of referenda. So in Michigan they have a |
| 1:14.7 | referendum on basically protecting abortion rights in the in the state and in |
| 1:22.1 | Massachusetts there is a tax the millionaires referendum that's going to be |
| 1:26.4 | really important and then just in general you know there's there are a lot of cases |
| 1:32.4 | where it's basically an outright fascist who's going who's running and |
| 1:39.2 | you know obviously we're we do better with with sort of the even the neoliberal |
| 1:47.2 | Democrats than we do with with these people who are just trying to get rid of |
| 1:50.8 | any semblance of democracy. |
| 1:53.6 | So in terms of like the struggle terrain, |
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