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Tag : Heather Booth
January 10, 2019 by admin
Heather Booth on Film •
“To be an organizer you have to love people and hate injustice,” says Heather Booth, an organizer since the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war and women’s movements of the 1960s. She created JANE, the pre- Roe underground abortion service. Today, she continues her activism and leadership training social change organizers. She and her work are the subject of Lilly Rivlin’s new film “Heather Booth: Changing the World.” heatherbooththefilm.com
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August 30, 2018 by Talia Lang
A Treasure Trove of Fiery Jewish Labor Activists You May Not Have Heard Of
Rose Schneiderman
The directory of Jewish female labor activists is endless, from the better-known to the nearly invisible.
Many of these women are unknown outside of academic circles, their letters and speeches languishing in dusty academic archives. Ahead of this Labor Day, here is a list of Jewish female labor activists you never knew, or never knew were Jewish, or never knew said that, or never knew did that.
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