{"id":54180,"date":"2023-08-28T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/women-still-marching-for-justice-60-years-after-the-march-on-washington\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T23:13:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T03:13:30","slug":"women-still-marching-for-justice-60-years-after-the-march-on-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=54180","title":{"rendered":"Women \u2018still marching\u2019 for justice, 60 years after the March on Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n \u201c<\/span>\u201cWe are still marching because we have yet to realize the full protections and expansion of voting rights in this country. We are still marching because our communities are over-policed and underfunded. We are still marching because we continue to question bodily autonomy of women\u2026 because we have yet to heal from the historic harms of racism.\u201d\u201d<\/span>\n <\/p>\n


\n \u2014 Ashley Marshall, cofounder and leader of Forward Justice<\/span>
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On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington \u2014 which was attended by an estimated 250,000 people and during which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous \u201cI have a dream\u201d speech \u2014 a mass virtual gathering on Monday highlighted women, who for the most part were not given the chance to speak at the 1963 event.<\/p>\n

The women and other leaders in attendance at \u201cShe Speaks\u201d on Monday at the Lincoln Memorial and online called the nation\u2019s attention to promises they say have remained unfulfilled since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Those promises include voting and reproductive rights, living wages and ending poverty. <\/p>\n

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Voting and reproductive rights are under attack in many states, especially after Supreme Court decisions in the past several years that have either taken away those rights or put them at risk \u2014 including the overturning of Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n

Marshall, of civil-rights organization Forward Justice, and other female leaders from around the country made it clear that the struggles mentioned by King and others six decades ago continue today.<\/p>\n

Kelly Brown Douglas, a theologian and author, referred to King speaking at the march about the \u201curgency of now.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe urgency of now begins today,\u201d Brown Douglas said. \u201cIt is compelling us to tell the truth about sexism, racism and homophobia in this country\u2026 It is untenable to simply remember what happened 60 years ago, and to stand quietly on the sidelines while books are being banned\u201d and the rights of LGBTQ people are being taken away, she added.<\/p>\n

In addition, the longtime struggles for living wages and toward ending poverty continues \u2014 as shown in the number of workers who are striking or poised to strike around the nation. Racial and gender wage gaps persist. <\/p>\n

The Black poverty rate, which was 51% in 1963, had fallen to 20% as of 2021, according to the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank. Yet that was still two and a half times the poverty rate of 8% for white Americans in 2021. <\/p>\n

Mary Kay Henry, the first elected female president of the Service Employees International Union, spoke about the importance of unions, and said \u201cwe have to link the fights for racial and economic justice. We have to up our demands for good jobs and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

See: <\/strong>Unions are key to reversing stagnant wages and economic inequality, Treasury Department says in first-of-its-kind report<\/p>\n

William Barber, a theologian who\u2019s co-chair of the\u00a0Poor People\u2019s Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach \u2014 which was one of the four organizations who put on Monday\u2019s event \u2014 was the only male voice to speak. He said there were \u201cthousands and thousands of missing sounds and voices of women\u201d at the march 60 years ago, adding that civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks \u201cgot 27 words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barber also mentioned the shooting deaths of three Black people at a Dollar General store in Florida over the weekend by a white man who police said made clear in his writings that he hated Black people.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us remember right now those who were killed in Jacksonville,\u201d Barber said. \u201cThey were shot down by violence first perpetrated by the mouths of politicians,\u201d he added, which was among the several times speakers at the virtual event mentioned politicians and leaders stoking racism and discrimination.<\/p>\n

From our archives (Feb. 2023): <\/strong>California schools may someday require African-American studies \u2014 a move to \u2018directly counter\u2019 laws like Florida\u2019s \u2018Stop WOKE\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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