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I believe I made it very clear that they were not arrested and tried for being horrific male supremacists, and that they were gone after for organizing a demonstration. The words overreaching and unconstitutional do not suffice. But to ignore their rampant and unapologetic sexism, which my book and Bakke's book and ALL the left feminist literature available documents - Fanshen Statement for example, is inexcusable. *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 8:41 AM Ron Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > Are you suggesting they should have been arrested and tried for their > sexism? Unfortunately, it was a rampant problem on the Left then and > remains a considerable problem now. I look forward to your book. > > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 8:34 AM Barbara Winslow <[email protected]> > 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_-6210094406338946297_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 < >> [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
