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To write a piece on the Seattle 7, especially in this day and age, and NOT mention their vicious, virulent and violent sexism doesn't speak, but shrieks about the ongoing misogynism of former new lefties. Even Kit Bakke admits in her book about how horrific they were. I am writing a book about the women's liberation movement in Seattle, which I hope people will read. One issue the book addresses is the sexism of the men in the new left. And oh, by the way. every woman in women's liberation organizations were in all the TDA demonstrations. They too got beaten up and arrested by the police, who by every standard rampaged on the demonstrators. The Seattle 7 were not arrested and tried for their rampant vile sexism. Their arrest and trial was an example of police and state brutality and injustice. Their arrest and trial brought out a debate 50 years ago which is relevant today. Here is the first editorial from the left feminist magazine *Pandora:* Those WL-S women, who had just founded *Pandora, *a movement feminist mimeographed newsletter raised a provocative question: “whether women could support the Seattle 8 as allies in a ‘general movement.’ Their editorial continued its prescient analytical question: For women who think of themselves as part of a broader movement for social change, are men allies because they too are struggling for human liberation? When “women’s issues” conflict with the male-dominated left, should women defer and leave feminism for a quieter time? And they threw out an important gauntlet of feminist resistance: If we are ever to succeed in the struggle for women, we can no longer join with men who refuse to recognize our humanity or the political importance of women’s liberation. Regardless of the potential for uniting people for human liberation, there I no alliance possible with male supremacy. In light of this, we need not apologize for our reservations or our outright unwillingness to defend the Seattle 8. Finally, they warned their sisters: Throughout history we have been considered secondary. Many times women have given up our own battles for others and a growing feminist movement has died away. We now have another chance. But if we don’t take ourselves seriously, and if we continue to defer to others, we will fail again.[1] <#_ftn1> ------------------------------ *Barbara Winslow* *RESIST AND PERSIST!!!* cell and text: 212-8449447 Author: *Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change*, Westview Press, NY 2014; editor *Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Non Traditional Women Historians, *University of Illinois Press, 2018. available on Amazon in Kindle and book Follow me on twitter: @bwpurplewins instagram: @bwpurplewins On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:01 AM Ron Jacobs via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > > http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2019/06/free-seattle-7-persecution-from-past.html > > -- > Check out my newest books *Still Tripping in the Dark > < > http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2018/01/if-you-have-never-read-any-of-my-essays.html > > > *,* Capitalism > <http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2017/02/fomite-interrogations.html>, > and Daydream Sunset:60s Counterculture in the 70s > <http://daydreamsunset.blogspot.com/> * > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/bwpurplewins%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
