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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Antie and Samantha and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I've never told you a protection of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Today we are on part two of our overview of

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Speaker 1: Women and Organizing, So go listen to part one if

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Speaker 1: you if you haven't already, we covered all kinds of

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Speaker 1: things from suffragettes to the modern civil rights movement. UM,

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Speaker 1: so definitely check that out prior to listening to this one.

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Speaker 1: And for this one, which UM, we're going to cover

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Speaker 1: some big events that women have helped plan and protested

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Speaker 1: it in and specific women just like we did in

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Speaker 1: part one. We're going to start with the woman March

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Speaker 1: in Pretoria. So on August nine, over twenty women in

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Speaker 1: Praetoria protested a proposed amendment to the Urban Areas Act

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Speaker 1: which would have required black women to carry passes in

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Speaker 1: urban areas UM. And a pass was essentially a passport

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Speaker 1: that strengthened apartheide in part by severely restricting where you

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Speaker 1: could do and what you couldn't do jobs you could have,

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Speaker 1: things like that. And this was not the first attempt

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Speaker 1: to buy the government to implement passes, nor was this

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Speaker 1: the first time people and particularly women engaged in civil

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Speaker 1: disobedience to make their own opposition known. Um. And as

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Speaker 1: we said in the previous one, just a disclaimer, there's

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Speaker 1: so much leading up to the things we're talking about. UM.

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Speaker 1: Like we're talking about one specific event, but there's so

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Speaker 1: many things tied into that event that made it happen,

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Speaker 1: so many forces at work. UM. So just always keep

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Speaker 1: that in mind. We are kind of doing the highlights

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Speaker 1: of these events. But like we said in the part one,

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Speaker 1: we could talk about all these for entire episodes. And

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Speaker 1: if he want us to let us know, yes, But anyway, okay, Yes,

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Speaker 1: there had been all these protests in in South Africa.

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Speaker 1: Many women who participated were jailed. All of it culminated

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Speaker 1: in the Women's March in ninety six. A song was

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Speaker 1: written to mark the event that went in part stretched him,

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Speaker 1: you have tampered with the women, You have struck a

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Speaker 1: rock and stretched him was the Prime Minister at the time.

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Speaker 1: I apologize if I mispronouncing his name. Could not find

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Speaker 1: it anywhere, uh, but I'm trying my best. The Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister wasn't there to see the protests. That was on purpose.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to didn't want to be involved. Um.

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Speaker 1: So protesters left a massive stack of signed petitions UM,

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Speaker 1: thousands of them at his door, which he never looked at. UM.

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Speaker 1: And they closed out the protest with a thirty minute

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Speaker 1: moment of silence. August nine is now a national holiday

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Speaker 1: in South Africa Women's Day, and a monument commemorating the

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Speaker 1: event was erected in two thousand uh and it was

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Speaker 1: recreated in two thousand and six for the fiftieth anniversary. Right,

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Speaker 1: um and as we record this, it's June, which is

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Speaker 1: Pride month and something we owe to the Stone Wall Riots.

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Speaker 1: And I know we've been I've been seeing it more

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Speaker 1: and more on social media talking about the significance of

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Speaker 1: the Stone Wall Riots, especially in pertaining to the protests

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Speaker 1: and marches today. Stewing unrest in altercations between the police

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Speaker 1: and the lgbt Q plus community eventually culminated in a

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Speaker 1: police rate of the Stone Wall in, which was a

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Speaker 1: gay bar in Greenwich Village on June nineteen sixty nine.

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Speaker 1: This was the catalyst for numerous protests across the country,

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Speaker 1: protests that took place every year. Records recounting this time

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Speaker 1: an LGBTQ person was really dangerous. So this major historical

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Speaker 1: event is quite murky at best. Even people who were

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Speaker 1: part one of this topic. We kind of said that

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Speaker 1: with Lucy Parsons and they Haymarket riots or Haymarket protests

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Speaker 1: There was a public confrontation in nineteen fifty nine at

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Speaker 1: l A's Cooper Donuts, and in nineteen sixty five in

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Speaker 1: Religion and the Homosexual That was also the year activists

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Speaker 1: the same year Mafia member fat Tony Laria opened Stone

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Speaker 1: owners with the gay bars frequently bribed officials to keep

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Speaker 1: but to undercover officers showed up anyway. Because the patrol

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Speaker 1: crowd of patrons and by standards grew, reaching a boiling

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Speaker 1: point that led to violence. By some accounts, a lesbian

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Speaker 1: patron by the name of stormmate the larvae through the

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Speaker 1: followed was a six day confrontation between patrons and police,

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Speaker 1: there was anywhere from five hundred to two thousand protesters.

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Speaker 1: Over the course of the six days, there were thirteen

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Speaker 1: as well Black trans woman Marsha P. Johnson and Latina

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Speaker 1: American LGBTQ plus liberation movement UM and soon after the

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Speaker 1: She was an activist for many causes from transgender rights homelessness.

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Speaker 1: of causes UM racial, criminal and economic justice on top

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Speaker 1: was the determination of organizers to commemorate the event each year,

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Speaker 1: Thousands attended the first Pride March in New York, or

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Speaker 1: as it was called then Christopher Street Liberation Day, that

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Speaker 1: It is currently the only historical lgbt Q plus monument

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Speaker 1: in the United States, and as we've been saying throughout this,

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Speaker 1: the Women's Stress for Equality. In nineteen seventy, a protest

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Speaker 1: of fifty thousand women marched down Fifth Avenue in New

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Speaker 1: new way feminism at the time, what we would consider

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Speaker 1: the second way feminism. The protests was originally intended as

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Speaker 1: a women's strike or national work stoppage, and was the

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Speaker 1: brainchild of the author of the Feminist Mistake, Betty Freedan.

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Speaker 1: This was the largest March for women since the suffrage

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Speaker 1: they quote agreed on a set of three specific goals

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Speaker 1: which reflected the overall spirit of second wave feminism. Free

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Speaker 1: the establishment of twenty four seven child care centers. Two

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Speaker 1: years later after these demonstrations, Title nine passed which out

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Speaker 1: awed discrimination on the basis of sex and educational programs

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Speaker 1: that received federal financial assistance. And of course Vie Rade

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Speaker 1: about the Women's March of Peace in nineteen seventies six,

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Speaker 1: which actually happened in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are

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Speaker 1: also known as the Northern Ireland Conflict. After a British

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