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These things are all connected

Fierce Planet Posted on July 1, 2022 by jnfrJuly 1, 2022

I think Laurie Penny said this well in her substack column. You should read the whole thing. But realize that most if not all of the crises happening in the world today are the outcome of the same problem: the violent response of a white patriarchal order which sees its power waning.

So much for the Land of the Free.

…And no, I’m not interested in playing the weaponised pedantry game today. It is possible to acknowledge that the forced birth movement is deeply rooted in misogyny while respecting trans identities and making it clear not all pregnant people affected by these laws will be women. For a start- because patriarchy is exactly this ugly – some of them will be children.

So no, I’ve got no time to pay attention to boring edgelords whimpering ‘what is a woman?’ when the whole point is that no state and no nation should ever be allowed to define anyone’s life on the basis of their designated sex. Funnily enough, the crackdown on abortion and contraception, the war on sexual freedom, the strategic attacks on gay rights and trans and queer identities around the world are all part of the same violent right-wing backlash against a future they’d rather burn down than share. They are all part of a violent response by a patriarchal order that sees its power slipping away….

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Yes, killing Roe is a racist act

Fierce Planet Posted on June 30, 2022 by jnfrJune 30, 2022

Jane Elliott is famous for her exercises teaching about racism, exercises she presents at various schools and to different groups of people. Below she reports about the ideology behind the movement to stop abortions in this country. I’ve transcribed her words beneath the video, and any transcription errors are definitely my own.

90-priceless seconds of Jane Elliot…pic.twitter.com/zfpPLCQLTV

— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 25, 2022

Jane Elliott:

“And right now white people are really frightened. If you don’t understand this discussion of Planned Parenthood offices and you don’t understand the Wall that we’re going to build on the southern border of the United States, you haven’t read the book “The Birth Dearth” by Ben Wattenberg. Ben Wattenberg was a brilliant Jewish man who was a member of the American Enterprise Institute. And he wrote a book the first paragraph of which says, “The main problem confronting the United States today is there aren’t enough white babies being born in this country.”

He was an adviser to the President of the United States. He wrote the book in 1987. He says there, “If we don’t change this and change it rapidly, white people will lose their numerical majority in this country, and this will no longer be a white man’s land.”

Now I am not misrepresenting this, I’m telling you exactly, almost exactly what he said. He said, “There are two things you can do to solve this. Number one, we could pay women to have babies, as they have been doing in Western European nations for years.”

Then he says—and these are his words not mine—”Unfortunately, we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies, so we don’t want to do that.”

He says, “The second thing we could do is increase the number of legal immigrants that are allowed into this country every year.” Then again he says, “Unfortunately, the vast majority of those wanting to come to this country today are people of color. We don’t want to do that.”

The third thing he says, “And white women had better pay attention to this, 60% of the fetuses aborted every year are white. If we could keep those 60% alive, that would solve our ‘birth dearth’.”

Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.

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More F U to SCOTUS

Fierce Planet Posted on June 29, 2022 by jnfrJune 29, 2022

Janelle Monae also celebrates queer artists, especially black queer artists, at the BET awards.

Also too:

Megan Thee Stallion gets crowd of thousands at the Glastonbury Festival to scream “my body, my motherfuckin’ choice” pic.twitter.com/GDNuHK1uUy

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) June 26, 2022

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Fk the Supreme Court

Fierce Planet Posted on June 28, 2022 by jnfrJune 30, 2022

ETA, 6/30/22: I can’t stop listening to this. I would like to hear the whole world sing this out loud for hours.

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And in Ukraine

Fierce Planet Posted on June 27, 2022 by jnfrJune 28, 2022

Putin is a pure terrorist.

As night began to fall, rescuers brought lights and generators to continue the search. Worried family members, some close to tears and with hands over their mouths, lined up at a hotel across the street from the mall where rescue workers had set up a base. https://t.co/g4dbzBMl46

— tom balmforth (@BalmforthTom) June 27, 2022

6/28/22 ETA: Word is currently that 25 people are known dead, 21 others are missing.

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Liars

Fierce Planet Posted on June 25, 2022 by jnfrJune 25, 2022

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The death of Roe is not the end, either

Fierce Planet Posted on June 24, 2022 by jnfrJune 24, 2022

Clarence Thomas writes, in a concurring opinion, that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell — the rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 24, 2022

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Posted in Civil Rights, Equality, Feminism, Health, Justice, Legal, Politics | Tagged obergefell, roe v. wade, supreme court | Leave a reply

“Roe and Casey are overruled.”

Fierce Planet Posted on June 24, 2022 by jnfrJune 26, 2022

Resources:

National Network of Abortion Funds – help women who live in states where abortion is prohibited. NNAF is hosting an ActBlue account which shares donations with multiple abortion funds around the country.

Planned Parenthood. I’ve had a small monthly donation to them going back years.

I have created a document with information about abortion funds specific to each state: https://t.co/isAbSST2AR
I encourage y'all to share this information and follow/donate to the organizations I have cited, whether or not you copy this language into tweets.

— abortion donation link fairy ✨️ (@helmsinki) September 8, 2021

How to Make Abortion Pills More Available for a Post-Roe World – NYTimes gift link, no paywall for a time.

Women on Web: request abortion pills. A service of Women on Waves.

Three for Freedom – birth control, emergency contraception, medication abortions.

What abortion looks like in every state — right now – dashboard

Hey Jane – “Join us in the fight to protect and expand abortion access.”

Mayday Health – Educational nonprofit with info on how to access abortion medication in all 50 states.

If/When/How – Repro Legal Helpline.

Aid Access – Abortion pill consults by mail.

M+A Hotline – Miscarriage and abortion hotline.

SASS – Self-Managed Abortion; Safe & Supported.

Plan C – Become an Ambassador of Information.

Reproductive Justice – EFF on digital safety tips for providers and for people seeking abortions.

Reproductive Health Access Project – order mifepristoe.

Just the Pill – also consultations and mobile services.

National Abortion Federation – supporting abortion providers.

Podcast: The Resurgence of the Abortion Underground

“The Janes”: Meet the Women Who Formed a Collective to Provide Safe Abortions Before Roe v. Wade

 

Background on the next fights:

Abortion pills by mail pose challenge for officials in red states – Washington Post sharable link.

The New Abortion Battleground .PDF at link.

 

Men, if you think you don't get enough sex now, go ahead & vote for Republicans who plan to takeaway legal birth control & end all abortion. See how that works out for you.

— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) April 16, 2022

Look forward to more of this too: Woman arrested in Starr County on murder charge for ‘illegal abortion’.

And this: US states could ban people from traveling for abortions, experts warn.

And this: The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy.

More: Getting Real About the Post-‘Roe’ World.

June 25: I continue to update this list of resources.

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Posted in Civil Rights, Equality, Feminism, Health, Justice, Legal, Politics, Privacy | Tagged casey, roe v. wade, supreme court | Leave a reply

No one should have to endure this

Fierce Planet Posted on June 22, 2022 by jnfrJune 22, 2022

And it is fully on Trump and the Republican Party who treat ordinary citizens this way, people who are working to make our elections happen, and who have done absolutely nothing to bring this on themselves.

"There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the US target you? … He targeted me, Lady Ruby, a small business owner, a mother, a proud American citizen, who stood up to help Fulton County run an election in the middle of a pandemic" pic.twitter.com/PeJcdw3J59

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 21, 2022

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They do not care whether the planet lives or dies

Fierce Planet Posted on June 21, 2022 by jnfrJune 21, 2022

Stalling on climate change action is the deliberate policy of the Republican Party, and has been for a very long time. But their drive to end environmental regulation goes much further than climate change.

A case being decided right now in the Supreme Court, West Virginia vs EPA, is likely to destroy the ability of the US government to regulate the environment, particularly in any way that might slow the fossil fuel industry in its march to destroy the planet. This is one of several Supreme Court cases that will be presented to us this week and next, and this is the one which Republicans hope will solidify the right-wing ability to throttle government regulation of all sorts.

Do not miss the deep intentions here — nothing less than preserving the ability of capitalists to make more money over the need for human beings and other living things to have a safe, clean, survivable environment in which to live. The intent is to gut the ability of Congress to delegate regulations to agencies like the EPA, letting those experts decide precisely how to regulate carbon, for example. Instead, they wish to limit any interference with corporate pollution to only specifics that Congress writes directly into legislation, as if Congress will ever have the scientific expertise to do so. They wish to stall environmental regulation of all sorts, as entirely as possible.

This New York Times article is a must-read to understand the issue at hand, and how badly this will impact our ability to seek an end to the reign of fossil fuel companies and their drive to burn the planet to a crisp. This link should get you through the NYT paywall for a least a couple of weeks, by which time we’ll know for sure whether this destructive deregulation will be our path for the foreseeable future.

The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming.
Coming up through the federal courts are more climate cases, some featuring novel legal arguments, each carefully selected for its potential to block the government’s ability to regulate industries and businesses that produce greenhouse gases.

And this has been in the works for a very long time.

West Virginia v. E.P.A., No. 20–1530 on the court docket, is also notable for the tangle of connections between the plaintiffs and the Supreme Court justices who will decide their case. The Republican plaintiffs share many of the same donors behind efforts to nominate and confirm five of the Republicans on the bench — John G. Roberts, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett….

“They are teeing up the attorneys to bring the litigation before the same judges that they handpicked.”…

The right has been working to pack the Supreme Court for many years now, and the Court we have is the result of their determination and hard work. They have every intention of forcing their bleak and terrible vision of the future upon us. It’s hard to think about, but please don’t look away.

Those limitations on climate action in the United States, which has pumped more planet-warming gases into the atmosphere than any other nation, would quite likely doom the world’s goal of cutting enough emissions to keep the planet from heating up more than an average of 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with the preindustrial age. That is the threshold beyond which scientists say the likelihood of catastrophic hurricanes, drought, heat waves and wildfires significantly increases. The Earth has already warmed an average of 1.1 degrees Celsius.

If we on the left don’t find a way to respond, forcefully, this is the future we face.

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