Today in Labor History May 10, 1980: 50,000 marched for passage of Equal Rights Amendment.

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

The LGBTQ+ community needs to be left alone. We can take care of themselves if we have the freedom that everybody else enjoys. Uninformed bigots need to shut up and sit down.

#Trump asks #SCOTUS to allow enforcement of #transgender #military ban

Trump's administration asked the #US #SupremeCourt on Thursday to allow implementation of his order banning transgender people from serving in the military, one of a series of directives by the Republican president to curb #TransgenderRights.

#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #EqualRights #democracy #LGBTQ+ #Equality
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-asks-us-supreme-court-allow-enforcement-transgender-military-ban-2025-04-24/

A long time ago, in my later teens, in my first week of college - I remember half of my class went to the pub one lunch time. I don't remember the exact topic of conversation, but I remember sat around a large table of people, responding with "I'm a feminist".

Everybody laughed at me. All the guys and the girls. I didn't understand. Then someone said "You can't be because you're a man", laughing once again. ...But I still didn't understand.

I was an un-diagnosed autistic at the time, but it makes sense now why that conversation went around in my head for months, trying to make sense of it. Every cycle ended the same way - That I just could not see why a man believing in the fundamental equal rights of woman was something worthy of ridicule.

Of course a lot changed as the years went by, and my standpoint became more socially acceptable. But, 25 years later, I find myself in the exact same situation, as a 'cis' man laughed at for believing in trans equal rights.

But now I know that the only way they could find that ridiculous and comical is if they see everything only from the very narrow perspective of their own existence and sense of self.

Nobody needs to be trans, gay, etc etc, to understand that we are all conscious beings having unique experiences, with the fundamental right to exist. But when you do understand this, you know that we are all experiencing this existence together and need to look out for one another.

"DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed.

The lawsuit against the Mississippi state Senate alleged a brazen pattern of racial discrimination against a Black woman, but AAG Harmeet Dhillon ended the case."

#Racism #CivilRights #Rights #EqualRights #Equality #Constitution #Resist #April19 #USPol

https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-dismisses-key-racial-discrimination-case

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/25/equal-pay-day-highlights-stalled-progress-on-closing-gender-pay-gap.html

Equal Pay Day highlights stalled pay gap progress: 'Women are never, ever going to catch up,' researcher says

"The Bill of Rights is a futile authority for the alien if it can be withdrawn without notice or hearing."

Kwong Hai Chew V. Colding

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/344/590/

Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1908: Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (mostly women) launched a strike for higher wages, shorter hours and an end to child labor. They chose this date in commemoration of the 1857 strike. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike and the one in 1857.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.