{"id":2265,"date":"2019-11-12T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:25:28","slug":"women-are-universalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Women Are Universalizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of women once again took to the streets on January 20, 2018 to fire up the \u201cresistance movement\u201d that they helped ignite a year ago, the day after President Trump\u2019s inauguration. But while the numbers were not as large as a year ago, this second Women\u2019s March may prove to be more consequential. It is beginning to create a \u201cuniversalizing resistance,\u201d one that speaks not only to the needs of women but to universal human needs.<\/p>\n<p>The US Left has been seriously weakened since the 1960s by turning to a fragmented or \u201csiloed\u201d politics in which each \u201cidentity community\u201d organizes separately to fight for its own members. But the problems of women, people of color, workers, and immigrants are all intertwined, all ruled by the same tiny concentration of wealthy people who run our militarized corporate system for their own benefit. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the the Women\u2019s March turned out in huge numbers to challenge Trump\u2019s blatant sexism, symbolized by the pink pussy hats that came to define the movement. But while while some of the leading organizers spoke for women of color, immigrants and poor people, it was not clear that women were moving beyond a narrow identity politics to fight for rights of all people.<\/p>\n<p>This new March was energized by the #Me Too explosion that may be a bridge to a broader feminist concern with what the actress Natalie Portman, in the LA March called \u201cmutuality.\u201d She rejected the puritanical side of #Me Too and said to all people \u201clet\u2019s find a space where we mutually, consensually, look out for each other\u2019s pleasure,\u201d hinting at a social change direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 2018 Women\u2019s March may be igniting a new politics of solidarity and a more robust phase of \u201cuniversalizing resistance.\u201d This is anti-systemic politics that sees the intertwined or \u201cintersectional\u201d nature of power and fights for a new system of mutuality and universal rights. Opinion polls have long shown that women are more supportive of social welfare and solidarity, one reason why feminist movements may universalize.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few clues pointing to a growing universalizing resistance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the protest signs. Colorful posters said \u00a0\u201cprotect the Dreamers,\u201d \u201cend mass incarceration,\u201d \u201chealth care for all,\u201d \u00a0\u201cfund our schools,\u201d \u201cequality for all.\u201d This solidarity with many struggles is the core of universalizing resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Look at the marchers. The majority were women but they were women and men of all colors, all ages, and all incomes \u2013and many countries. This coalition of diverse protestors and movements moves beyond silo politics into universalized resistance<\/li>\n<li>Look at what marchers said. Marcher Ellen Bower said \u201cwe need to march for equality, \u00a0not just for women but for all.\u201d Another marcher, who wore red to honor indigenous people, said \u201cit\u2019s really important to stand together\u2026be intersectional.\u201d Bob Bland, a co-organizer of the first march said this time we \u201ccentered women of color in leadership,\u201d saying \u201cthe miracle this year\u201d was broad inclusivity, a key to universalizing resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Look at the protestors and the politicians. Progressive Democratic Party leaders and candidates \u2013 such as Elizabeth Warren and a Leftist Virginia state candidate for Congress Leslie Cockburn\u2013 spoke strongly for the March. Many protestors have dived into 2018 electoral campaigns to take political power locally and nationally. This rise of a \u201cunited front\u201d linking \u201cthe streets\u201d with electoral politics is essential to a universalizing resistance movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Huffington Post noted that the new Women\u2019s March was \u201can effort to work for inclusivity and intersectionality from Day 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women are just starting this revolution in the Resistance, and many may stay glued to narrower identity politics. The new Women\u2019s March did not speak loudly enough about our corporate capitalism, global militarism, or climate change. Some women felt the second march had actually moved away from broader concerns about racism and social justice. But the signs of a new universalizing are tantalizing and hopeful, for it is only through solidarity and a \u201cmovement of movements\u201d that we will create a new system ensuring equality for women themselves as well as all people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of twenty books, most recently Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of women once again took to the streets on January 20, 2018 to fire up the \u201cresistance movement\u201d that they helped ignite a year ago, the day after President Trump\u2019s inauguration. 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