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A Record Number of Women Were Just Elected, but the Women’s March Is Imploding
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Nov 19, 2018 06:25pm |
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| Author | Jackie Kucinich |
| News Date | Monday, November 19, 2018 08:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Nearly two years ago, women stood on stages in Washington, D.C., and around the country surrounded by a sea of others. It was the beginning of a movement that would help pave the way for a new crop of female lawmakers to be elected into office.
The 2018 midterm elections saw those women elected into office in historic margins. But instead of a moment of celebration for the Women’s March, the group now finds itself in turmoil, as a growing number of activists, sister marches, and high-profile early supporters of the march have begun to separate themselves from the main group, which, they say, hasn’t done enough to denounce the hateful anti-Semitic rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
On Monday, Teresa Shook, a Hawaii-based retired lawyer and founder of the Women’s March, called for the current leadership to step down in a Facebook post, just two months before the third march is set to take place in Washington, D.C.
“Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez of Women’s March, Inc. have steered the Movement away from its true course. I have waited, hoping they would right the ship. But they have not,” she wrote. “In opposition to our Unity Principles, they have allowed anti-Semitism, anti- LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs.” |
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