Jenny Brown

Jenny Brown

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Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women’s Liberation and was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill approved for over-the-counter sale in the U.S. She is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work (PM Press 2019) and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso Books, 2019).

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Close-up of three members of National Women’s Liberation addressing a rally. The one on the left holds the bullhorn for the one in the center who’s speaking. The one on the right holds a strip of posterboard with www.MAPconspiracy.org printed on it.

Breaking the Law to Win Abortion Rights (Part 2)

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Jenny Brown

Publicly taking and distributing abortion pills will play a part in securing and deepening reproductive rights, just as defiance of abortion and contraception bans did in the 1960s and ‘70s.

A small black box truck with its side painted white and “ABORTION PILLS” emblazoned on it in huge black letters sits in front of a colorful mural titled “The City of Soul,” featuring four stylized faces.

Breaking the Law to Win Abortion Rights (Part 1)

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Jenny Brown

Public defiance of bans on abortion and contraception helped bring them down.

Women holding picket signs against unpaid labor at a protest

Who’s Afraid of the Lower Birth Rate?

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Jenny Brown

How our spontaneous "birth strike" can give us leverage to win universal programs

Labor

A Contract, Finally, for Airport Screeners

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Jenny Brown

Republicans in Congress are gnashing their teeth, but TSA workers are voting on their first contract, which would establish important labor…

Labor

Unions Expect Verizon to Impose Terms, Ready to Walk Out Again

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Jenny Brown

Union negotiators think Verizon is on the verge of imposing a "completely horrendous" final offer on 45,000 CWA and IBEW members.

Labor

Hotel Workers Tell Hyatt to Feel Their Pain as Boycott Grows

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Jenny Brown

Hotel workers in 20 cities are planning pickets, civil disobedience, and other actions to this week to protest relentless efforts by Hyatt to…