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| Inside the rise of Occupy Ice – plus a fight for choice in Massachusetts | Inside the rise of Occupy Ice – plus a fight for choice in Massachusetts |
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| The Resistance Now is a weekly update on the people, action and ideas driving the protest movement in the US. If you’re not already receiving it by email, subscribe. | The Resistance Now is a weekly update on the people, action and ideas driving the protest movement in the US. If you’re not already receiving it by email, subscribe. |
| Occupy Ice camps spread across the US | Occupy Ice camps spread across the US |
| Occupy Ice Portland emerged spontaneously after a protest outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) building in June. The camp has grown to around 80 people over the past two weeks and inspired other activists around the country to set up their own Occupy Ice encampments. | Occupy Ice Portland emerged spontaneously after a protest outside the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) building in June. The camp has grown to around 80 people over the past two weeks and inspired other activists around the country to set up their own Occupy Ice encampments. |
| The activists have a solid aim – to see Ice abolished – and say they’re not going anywhere. And some of them are being guided by a wave of protests from seven years ago. | The activists have a solid aim – to see Ice abolished – and say they’re not going anywhere. And some of them are being guided by a wave of protests from seven years ago. |
| “People have passed down knowledge from Occupy Wall Street, so that, I think, helps. So some of the lessons from that organization have been learned to make this more sustainable,” a Portland occupier, Whitney Handrich, told the Guardian. | “People have passed down knowledge from Occupy Wall Street, so that, I think, helps. So some of the lessons from that organization have been learned to make this more sustainable,” a Portland occupier, Whitney Handrich, told the Guardian. |
| The Portland camp has already succeeded in shutting down the Ice building for a week. People there and in camps in other cities said they weren’t going anywhere. Read our full report here. | The Portland camp has already succeeded in shutting down the Ice building for a week. People there and in camps in other cities said they weren’t going anywhere. Read our full report here. |
| Pro-choice battle in Massachusetts | Pro-choice battle in Massachusetts |
| Pro-choice advocates in Massachusetts are scrambling to overturn a 19th-century law in the state that criminalizes abortion – as the threat of a Roe v Wade repeal becomes more realistic. | Pro-choice advocates in Massachusetts are scrambling to overturn a 19th-century law in the state that criminalizes abortion – as the threat of a Roe v Wade repeal becomes more realistic. |
| Protests set to sweep the nation, plus a week that shocked the Democrats | |
| A number of outdated laws still exist in Massachusetts which, among other things, threaten to imprison anyone “with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman”, WGBH radio reported. | A number of outdated laws still exist in Massachusetts which, among other things, threaten to imprison anyone “with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman”, WGBH radio reported. |
| Even if Roe v Wade were to be overturned – which some fear could happen if Donald Trump appoints a hardline conservative to the supreme court – the state has other laws supporting abortion rights. Still, activists say the outdated laws should go. A bill to that end – the Nasty Women Act – passed the Massachusetts Senate in January but is yet to clear the House. | Even if Roe v Wade were to be overturned – which some fear could happen if Donald Trump appoints a hardline conservative to the supreme court – the state has other laws supporting abortion rights. Still, activists say the outdated laws should go. A bill to that end – the Nasty Women Act – passed the Massachusetts Senate in January but is yet to clear the House. |
| “It is more pressing than ever before because of Justice Kennedy’s retirement, and I think taking the laws off the books is both practical in protecting abortion care but also symbolic in that it sends a message that the Commonwealth believes that women have the right to choose,” Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Naral Pro-Choice Massachusetts, told WGBH. | “It is more pressing than ever before because of Justice Kennedy’s retirement, and I think taking the laws off the books is both practical in protecting abortion care but also symbolic in that it sends a message that the Commonwealth believes that women have the right to choose,” Rebecca Hart Holder, executive director of Naral Pro-Choice Massachusetts, told WGBH. |
| What we’re reading | What we’re reading |
| “Most of our mainstream political discourse on ‘fighting inequality’ has revolved – for years now – around the more narrow goal of eliminating extreme poverty,” writes Sam Pizzigati, author of The Case for a Maximum Wage. “Few of our elected leaders ever dare suggest that maybe we ought to think about eliminating extreme wealth as well.” It’s not as outlandish as it sounds, Pizzigati says – between the 1940s and 60s America’s top tax rate hovered at around 90%. | “Most of our mainstream political discourse on ‘fighting inequality’ has revolved – for years now – around the more narrow goal of eliminating extreme poverty,” writes Sam Pizzigati, author of The Case for a Maximum Wage. “Few of our elected leaders ever dare suggest that maybe we ought to think about eliminating extreme wealth as well.” It’s not as outlandish as it sounds, Pizzigati says – between the 1940s and 60s America’s top tax rate hovered at around 90%. |
| When the activist Therese Patricia Okoumou clambered up on to the Statue of Liberty to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, she was following in a long line of black women leading the resistance, says Rachel Leah over at Salon. “It’s not new that black women have led and grounded resistance movements of all kinds, advocating for a vision of liberation that is intersectional in scope.” | When the activist Therese Patricia Okoumou clambered up on to the Statue of Liberty to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, she was following in a long line of black women leading the resistance, says Rachel Leah over at Salon. “It’s not new that black women have led and grounded resistance movements of all kinds, advocating for a vision of liberation that is intersectional in scope.” |
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