LGBTIQ

Socialist Alliance candidate Petrina Harley: ‘We need Safe Schools’
For a feminism for the 99% — and a militant strike on March 8
Dave Zirin: Political fervour thrums beneath Super Bowl’s surface
‘Gender justice is racial and economic justice’: Women’s March guiding vision

The Women’s March Guiding Vision and Definition of Principles was released by the organisers of the Women’s March on Washington, which drew 500,000 people onto the streets.
Letter from the US: Huge women’s marches stare down Trump’s attacks

The day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, January 21, more than 4 million people joined “Women’s Marches” across the United States to protest the new Commander in Chief’s promised attacks on women’s rights.

Hundreds of thousands more took to the streets around the world, with protests on every continent, including Antarctica. In London alone, about 100,000 marched on the day.
Safe Schools program needed to save lives
Under glare of COP22, Moroccans take to streets
‘Dump Trump’ say protesters
Mardi Gras Board rebuffs Malcolm Turnbull
Equal marriage plebiscite defeated in Senate
Jill Stein calls for ‘sustained and organised resistance’
The LGBTI community must lead on marriage equality

I have no doubt that the plebiscite would have been won: it would have been a huge opening to build a mass movement for marriage equality and demolish the opposition. But I shared fears that the “No” campaign would have hurt our youth.