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The way to help women continue to move forward isn’t to propagate the myth that women in the United States are victims, oppressed by the system and unable to help themselves secure a better future.Yet that’s exactly the message of the “A Day Without a Woman” strike happening Wednesday.Various organizers, including the Women’s March crowd and other feminists, are pushing women to “take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor,” as well as by not shopping (except at “small, women- and minority-owned businesses”) and by wearing red.An op-ed advocating the strike published in The Guardian last month by eight...

Name: Danielle (No last name given) Occupation: Academic Professor Reason for Attending Strike: "Right now, I took a hiatus … actually … after the election it took me to over medicate to fall asleep. I left Europe for two months, to tour Europe and see the difference in the cultural, the diversity, and the acceptance. There are so many things we don't accept here. If we really want to say we're the greatest in country, we're going to need to improve a lot." Motto for Strike: "Question authority."

The organizers of Wednesday’s international women’s strike support the “decolonization of Palestine,” the platform published on their website reveals. “Against the open white supremacists in the current government and the far right and anti-Semites they have given confidence to, we stand for an uncompromising anti-racist and anti-colonial feminism,” the platform says. “This means that movements such as Black Lives Matter, the struggle against police brutality and mass incarceration, the demand for open borders and for immigrant rights and for the decolonization of Palestine are for us the beating heart of this new feminist movement. We want to dismantle all walls,...

The organizers of the Women’s March on Washington are planning another event that will highlight women’s issues. The organizers announced on Instagram that they are planning the event as a “general strike” called “the day without a woman.” The Huffington Post reported that details about the event have not yet been made public and the organizers still haven’t announced a date for the event.

The shrieking banshees behind the vagina-spangled Women’s March have decided that parading through the streets of D.C. covered in cardboard genitalia just isn’t enough – we need a strike. The Women’s March tweeted out Monday morning a call for a women’s strike: [captured tweet about women's strike] It’s not clear what all the “strike” would entail, and there wasn’t an attached date so the rest of us can plan our celebrations accordingly. Or plan to pour bleach in our eyes, depending on the abundance of anatomical signage and furry armpits. The march and the future strike are just two examples...