China is rolling out its most wide-ranging push to boost a flagging birth rate, with official population data due on Jan. 19 set to show a fourth consecutive annual drop. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/asia-pacific/society/china-birth-boost-support/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #china #population #birthcontrol
China is rolling out its most wide-ranging push to boost a flagging birth rate, with official population data due on Jan. 19 set to show a fourth consecutive annual drop. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/16/asia-pacific/society/china-birth-boost-support/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #china #population #birthcontrol
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Today in Labor History December 31, 1918: U.S. courts found Marie Equi guilty of sedition for speaking out against World War One. Marie Equi was born to working-class immigrant parents in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a young woman, she went to work in a textile mill. Her first documented experience as an activist came in 1893, when she horse-whipped Reverend Orson D. Taylor, a land developer and superintendent of the Wasco Independent Academy, after he reneged on paying her lover, Bessie Holcomb, her salary for teaching at the institution. Many local people considered Taylor as a crook and applauded her attack. In 1897, she moved to San Francisco to study medicine. She practiced medicine in Portland, Oregon, where she cared primarily for working-class and poor patients. However, she came back to San Francisco to volunteer during the 1906 earthquake.
In 1913, she went to support a strike by women cannery workers at Oregon Packing Company over low wages. When the IWW and socialists joined the strike, the demands broadened to include equal rights for women and the right to free speech. During that strike, police clubbed her as she protested their brutality toward a pregnant woman. The experience radicalized her and drew her into the anarchist and the radical labor movements. She became a leader in Portland’s unemployment crisis of 1913-14, supported the IWW’s free speech fights, and the labor battles of the region’s timber workers. Throughout her career as a doctor, she provided information on birth control and abortions despite both being illegal at the time, providing discounts to lower income women. She was imprisoned in 1916 for providing abortion literature.
As nationalism and jingoism increased during the years leading up to U.S. involvement in World War One, there were massive Preparedness Parades held throughout the country. Equi believed the war was about profits for capitalists at the expense of working-class people. During one Preparedness Parade in downtown Portland, she unfurled a banner that reading: Prepare to die, workingmen, JP Morgan & Co. want preparedness for profit. She was arrested at this protest, and again in 1918. They sentenced her to three years at San Quintin, which President Wilson commuted to one. After her release, she returned to Portland and invited IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to come live with her.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #marieequi #anarchism #feminism #lgbtq #antiwar #strike #police #policebrutality #abortion #birthcontrol #sedition #prison #IWW
Based Baddy horsewhips boots for wage theft.
Today in Labor History December 31, 1918: U.S. courts found Marie Equi guilty of sedition for speaking out against World War One. Marie Equi was born to working-class immigrant parents in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a young woman, she went to work in a textile mill. Her first documented experience as an activist came in 1893, when she horse-whipped Reverend Orson D. Taylor, a land developer and superintendent of the Wasco Independent Academy, after he reneged on paying her lover, Bessie Holcomb, her salary for teaching at the institution. Many local people considered Taylor as a crook and applauded her attack. In 1897, she moved to San Francisco to study medicine. She practiced medicine in Portland, Oregon, where she cared primarily for working-class and poor patients. However, she came back to San Francisco to volunteer during the 1906 earthquake.
In 1913, she went to support a strike by women cannery workers at Oregon Packing Company over low wages. When the IWW and socialists joined the strike, the demands broadened to include equal rights for women and the right to free speech. During that strike, police clubbed her as she protested their brutality toward a pregnant woman. The experience radicalized her and drew her into the anarchist and the radical labor movements. She became a leader in Portland’s unemployment crisis of 1913-14, supported the IWW’s free speech fights, and the labor battles of the region’s timber workers. Throughout her career as a doctor, she provided information on birth control and abortions despite both being illegal at the time, providing discounts to lower income women. She was imprisoned in 1916 for providing abortion literature.
As nationalism and jingoism increased during the years leading up to U.S. involvement in World War One, there were massive Preparedness Parades held throughout the country. Equi believed the war was about profits for capitalists at the expense of working-class people. During one Preparedness Parade in downtown Portland, she unfurled a banner that reading: Prepare to die, workingmen, JP Morgan & Co. want preparedness for profit. She was arrested at this protest, and again in 1918. They sentenced her to three years at San Quintin, which President Wilson commuted to one. After her release, she returned to Portland and invited IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to come live with her.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #marieequi #anarchism #feminism #lgbtq #antiwar #strike #police #policebrutality #abortion #birthcontrol #sedition #prison #IWW
Today in Labor History December 29, 1939: Madeleine Pelletier died. She was a first wave feminist, psychiatrist, and anarchist. During her lifetime, she advocated for the right to sexual pleasure for women, and access to contraception and abortion. In July 1906, she and other suffragists, including Caroline Kauffmann, invaded the French Chamber of Deputies and rained down from the gallery pink slips of paper containing an appeal for the right to vote. She was the first woman in France to receive a degree in Psychiatry. She was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International. She became hemiplegic in 1937 due to a stroke. Nevertheless, she was still found guilty of assisting an abortion on a teenage survivor of incest, in 1939, despite being physically incapable of assisting in the actual procedure, and was forced to spend the rest of her life in a mental asylum, where she died of a second stroke.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #birthcontrol #abortion #choice #anarchism #psychiatry #MadeleinePelletier
Today in Labor History December 29, 1939: Madeleine Pelletier died. She was a first wave feminist, psychiatrist, and anarchist. During her lifetime, she advocated for the right to sexual pleasure for women, and access to contraception and abortion. In July 1906, she and other suffragists, including Caroline Kauffmann, invaded the French Chamber of Deputies and rained down from the gallery pink slips of paper containing an appeal for the right to vote. She was the first woman in France to receive a degree in Psychiatry. She was a member of the French Section of the Workers' International. She became hemiplegic in 1937 due to a stroke. Nevertheless, she was still found guilty of assisting an abortion on a teenage survivor of incest, in 1939, despite being physically incapable of assisting in the actual procedure, and was forced to spend the rest of her life in a mental asylum, where she died of a second stroke.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #birthcontrol #abortion #choice #anarchism #psychiatry #MadeleinePelletier
In a first, Japan has approved the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptive pill Norlevo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/japan/science-health/japan-morning-after-pill-otc-sale-approval/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #mhlw #pregnancy #birthcontrol #drugs #health
"For Wilson, Hegseth represents a unique chance to spread his extreme ideology. Some at his church oppose female suffrage; his denomination is against women in combat, homosexuality, abortion, and pushes for an extremely traditional interpretation of family structure."
~ Josh Kovensky and Emine Yücel
#DouglasWilson#Hegseth #churches #patriarchy #misogyny #homophobia#Trump#WhiteSupremacy #immigrants#WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/where-things-stand-pete-and-the-preacher-man
"Yes, they're coming for same-sex marriage. This was always part of the right-wing plan. And it won't stop here."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump#Republicans#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#WhiteChristianNationalism #homophobia#MAGA#SupremeCourt #contraception #women#BirthControl#ReproductiveRights
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https://jill.substack.com/p/yes-theyre-coming-for-same-sex-marriage
Millions of dollars worth of U.S.-funded contraceptives are being sent to France to be incinerated after Washington rejected offers to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/24/world/politics/us-contraceptives-poor-nations-burned/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #women039sissues #birthcontrol #usaid #us #donaldtrump
