Exclusive conference coverage from openDemocracy 50.50: Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams writes about Women Fight Back: from survive to thrive ahead of our Evolve the Mvmt conference.
The rising backlash against women’s rights, as well as that against activists of all stripes, was infused with new and terrifyingly overt vigor with the campaigning tactics of Donald Trump leading up to the dumbfounding results of the US presidential elections last November. But perhaps for many, equally as surprising has been the massive, and mostly nonviolent opposition in the US to Mr. Trump’s dystopian agenda that favors the rich and Wall Street at the expense of the poor and middle classes, its sexist assault on women’s rights, and the fact that it doesn’t give one whit about the environment and climate change.
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