March 25, 2025: Women Warriors for Equality in the USA

On this last Tuesday in March, co-hosts Barbara and Two celebrated women warriors who have made a difference in our lives and the lives of our community, our country and the world.  Barbara began with a shoutout to her granddaughter Joey on her 10th birthday and dedicated the show to this next generation of women warriors.  

We focused on the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, noting such notables as Florence Kennedy, who used the intersectionality of feminism and civil rights in her activism in the late 20th century; Marsha P. Johnson, whose resistance to the raid on the Stonewall Inn galvanized the gay rights movement; and Angela Davis, a feminist activist for civil rights, the Occupy movement and BDS.

These and other women warriors fought for economic, political and social rights, as stated in the Declaration of Sentiments of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention:  We hold these truths to be self- evident that all men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

We asked if the movement for women's equality was a people's movement, an oppressed people's movement, a class movement or a movement to achieve the corporate and political power of men by taking on the characteristics of men.