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Multiracial crowd of women, many yelling, some fists up, front and center an older-looking white woman in a kerchief and a sweatshirt that reads, "i Don't Want to Strike."

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Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need to Get Right

Karen Nussbaum

"In good times, organizations wrest and secure our gains. In bad times, they help withstand the inevitable chaos from backlash, repression and sectarianism."

Diverse women grouped behind a banner for 9to5, an organization for justice for women workers.

Gender Justice

Barbie Stars at Sparking Conversation, But Her Feminism Falls Short

Ellen Bravo

The former director of 9to5 calls out Barbie’s “vision of individual striving….We don’t just want to smash the glass ceiling—we want to redesign the building and redistribute power and profits.”

Women holding protest signs at a protest in the 70s

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9to5: Hope and Lessons from ‘70s Working Women

Karen Nussbaum

One of the founders of 9to5 reflects on the new film documenting office workers’ organizing in the 1970s

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Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need to Get Right

Barbie Stars at Sparking Conversation, But Her Feminism Falls Short

9to5: Hope and Lessons from ‘70s Working Women

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