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BTW, I specifically mention their sexism. On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 8:34 AM Barbara Winslow <bwpurplew...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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] > <#m_-5029506256420645858__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 < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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
