Oppressing women has NEVER been a good idea [View all]

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Women in Iran are bravely marching and protesting for freedom from religious tyranny. Women in the U.S. are marching and protesting for...well, the same thing. It's good to see, but not exactly surprising. We find ourselves in pretty serious fuck-around-and-find-out times, and the religious zealots are finding out what happens when you mess with women. People who know their history already know...

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On March 8, 1917, in Petrograd (February 23, 1917, on the Julian calendar), women textile workers began a demonstration that eventually engulfed the whole city, demanding "Bread and Peace"—an end to World War I, to food shortages, and to czarism.[22] This marked the beginning of the February Revolution, which alongside the October Revolution, made up the second Russian Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

The Women's March on Versailles, also known as the October March, the October Days or simply the March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution. The march began among women in the marketplaces of Paris who, on the morning of 5 October 1789, were nearly rioting over the high price of bread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_March_on_Versailles

With a single carefully-planned act of protest, refusing to give up her seat on a bus, NAACP activist Rosa Parks gave new vigor to the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Black women were among the protesters arrested during a May 1963 civil rights march on Birmingham, Alabama, and were key organizers across the country for the 1963 civil rights March on Washington that featured Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

https://now.org/about/history/history-of-marches-and-mass-actions/