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Today in #Poland the parliament will vote on two new laws - one to restrict #abortion, the other to ban #SexEducation.

They know that massive women’s protests vs previous attempts are not possible. #ProtestAtHome for women's right to choose.

#NieSkladamyParasolek #StrajkKobiet
Here’s how you can join #Poland #ProtestAtHome via @AnnaMBlus
➡️Make a banner with a #solidarity message☂️🏳️‍🌈
➡️If you can, change your virtual background (e.g. in Zoom) - you will be outside the Polish Parliament #Sejm).
➡️If you can't, post a selfie with your message.
The banner and hashtag #NieSkladamyParasolek means 'we are not putting our umbrellas down".

The umbrellas were used during the Black Protest a few years ago and there are rainbows because the sex ed ban is targetting #LGBTI communities mainly. ☂️🏳️‍🌈

Via @annamblus @amnesty
And here’s background: the debate in #Poland’s parliament of two draconian bills seeks to ban access to abortion and criminalize sexuality education while equating homosexuality with paedophilia.

#NieSkladamyParasolek ☂️🏳️‍🌈

amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Drop the bills, #Poland!

#NieSkladamyParasolek ☂️🏳️‍🌈 “Attempting to pass these recklessly retrogressive laws at any time would be shameful, but to rush them through under the cover of the COVID-19 crisis is unconscionable,”<br /> Draginja Nadazdin, Director of Amnesty International Poland
#Poland already has one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws.

A bid to ban abortion in 2016 was defeated after tens of thousands of women demonstrated in the streets. But now a #COVID19 state of emergency bans group gatherings google.com/amp/s/www.euro… #ProtestAtHome
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BRAVO all who protested, on the streets near #Polish parliament or #ProtestAtHome: it worked!

Lockdown protests force "freeze" on two bills seeking to further restrict abortion and to ban sex ed. h/t @AnnaMBlus

🏳️‍🌈☂️ #NieSkladamyParasolek #StrajkKobiet google.com/amp/s/www.thes…
“While it is shameful that parliamentarians didn’t reject these two retrogressive proposals unequivocally, today’s vote is a testament to the power of protest, even and especially, during the #COVID19 pandemic”

h/t @AnnaMBlus 🏳️‍🌈☂️ #NieSkladamyParasolek amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
“The voices of the thousands who took part in creative protests this week may have been muffled by face masks, but their message was nonetheless heard loud and clear” @amnesty Poland Director Draginja Nadazdin
🏳️‍🌈☂️ #NieSkladamyParasolek #StrajkKobiet #ProtestAtHome h/t @AnnaMBlus
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I am watching Mrs. America and yelling at the screen. FFS.

As this article reminds: anti-feminist white women like Phyllis Schlafly are not working “against their own interests,” but working to preserve their class and racial privilege above all else. google.com/amp/s/www.buzz…
“Still, just as Bombshell did with its portrait of Megyn Kelly and her Fox News colleagues, the series’ supposedly complex depiction of its conservative white protagonist in some ways shies away from Schlafly’s most unpalatable beliefs.”
The show “pulls its punches about its right-wing protagonist’s history of racism, ultimately making the show’s dramatic stakes and conclusion less powerful and relevant than it could have been, and more of a TV history version of Sean Spicer on Dancing With the Stars.”
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FEMINIST GIANT Dispatch

There are enough houses/apts, no one should be homeless

There is enough food, no one should be hungry

There is enough health care, no one should be without healthcare

There is enough money, no one should be poor

🎥 @rerutled

Feminism is more than men & more than misogyny. It’s a struggle to destroy the patriarchy & it’s attendant oppressions. I began these FEMINIST GIANT Dispatches because feminism must fight the structural inequalities & injustices that result from patriarchy
Feminism is a daily struggle, a daily revolution. It is not something I keep in the closet and which I wear once every couple of weeks when some man has been a shit to me. It is a daily revolution for what we’re told is “impossible” #COVID19

🎥 @rerutled

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