Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils
Language: English
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1604862009
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Both a radical feminist history and a street art resource, this handbook combines short biographies with striking and usable stencil images of 30 female activists, anarchists, feminists, freedom fighters, and visionaries. From Harriet Tubman, Emma Goldman, and Angela Davis to Vandana Shiva, Sylvia Rivera, and Lucy Parsons, this collection offers a subversive portrait celebrating the military prowess and revolutionary drive of these women whose violent resolve often shatters the archetype of woman as nurturer. A sampling of quotes from key writings and speeches gives voice to each woman’s ideologies, philosophies, struggles, and quiet humanity while the stencils offer further opportunities to commemorate these women and their actions through the reproduction of their likenesses.
biopiracy patents, and winning in the cases of neem and basmati. The Foundation’s work has been fundamental in helping build the global resistance to genetically engineered crops. Vandana has worked as an ecology advisor for governmental and nongovernmental organizations. She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement, one of many “new global movements connected through our common
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former slaves. Harriet soon became involved in the Railroad, making nineteen trips to the south to kidnap and guide groups of slaves, including some of her family, to the north, and freedom. Nicknamed “Moses,” she was always armed and threatened any escapee who showed frailty on the arduous trip north: “Dead niggers tell no tales.” She became famous among slaves and infamous among slaveowners. A year after she escaped slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 permitted the recapture of escaped
Harris in Cork, Ireland (though more likely in 1837 than on May Day 1830 as commonly celebrated). After the devastation of the potato famine, her father immigrated to North America and later sent for his family to join him. Mary arrived in Toronto, when she was in her mid-teens, learned dressmaking, and worked as a teacher in Michigan and Tennessee. While living in Memphis, Mary met and married George Jones, an iron molder and active member of the International Iron Molders Union. The couple had
total. By all accounts, Marie was not an easy prisoner, bending the rules and making trouble just as she did when she was free. Marie was released from prison, and began a relationship with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a leading activist in the IWW. In 1930, she had a heart attack at the age of fifty-eight, and was mainly bedridden for the rest of her life, except when she got up to join in the antiwar protests of the 1940s. She died in Portland. “I’m going to speak when and where I wish. No man is