The Suffragettes just straight up killed people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign

Carrie a Nation was part of the temperance movement and would destroy bars and saloons with a hatchet. At least thirty times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

Lyudmila Pavlichenko didn't fuck around or cut corners. She shot fascists. Hundreds of them. Also, met Eleanor Roosevelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

The Night Witches dealt with fascists using the world's original stealth bombers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

Judith used a sword

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes

The Gulabi Gang beat rapists with sticks

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/4/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warriors

Kurdish Women in the Peshmerga fought and contributed to the destruction of ISIS. Front line, machine guns in hand.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peshmerga-female-fighters-frontline-sideline

Harriet Tubman carried a gun and lead Union troops as a scout during the Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid

Feel free to add on and pass it around. There's like 180 million women in this country and we only need to radicalize thirty or forty thousand of them.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_on_Waves comes to mind. Drones carrying pills. Pills in the mail.

    I mean for an abortion you don't really need much equipment, it's literally just a speculum, a cannula, syringe that can create a vacuum. It's not a complicated procedure and doesn't need... well... much of anything. You can do it in a kitchen. Takes a few minutes. Probably hurts like hell but I don't have the right equipment to really know.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_aspiration

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective

    The Jane Collective never had anyone die the whole time they were doing it.

    And, like, obvs, we can transport people across state lines and stuff, too.

    The tricky part is that you'd need to keep it all secret from the police. There's not really much physiological evidence of a first trimester pregnancy unless an obgyn gets a good look at you or you accidentally pee on a pregnancy test. It's probably high stakes but low complexity. Drive someone to point A, switch cars, drive them to the clinic, escort them in and out with a bag over their head so no one can ID them, do the procedure, back in the car, drive to a drop point, switch cars, go home. Tricky part would be if prolife freaks try to follow you or ID the patient. You could keep your "Cell" of drivers and escorts in a blue state and pick people up after they've crossed the border under their own power, or get a relay going of some kind. Make sure that no one in the relay knows anyone else, and everything is coordinated by a cell leader who never steps foot in Texas, so they can theoretically never catch and interrogate the coordinator, and therefore never find the relay members. Basic op-sec shit - turn your phone off, put it in a foil bag, leave it there unless and until you need it. Switch around vehicles as much as possible and don't use the same routes where it can be avoided.

    Economics and distance are primary problems. You have to pay for gas and accomodations. Just getting a couch-surfing network where people can stay the night and recover if they need to before heading home would be a big deal. Scrounging up money to help people pay for fuel or plane tickets and any medical costs.

    Getting information to patients would be tricky. It's easy to create a web portal to connect people, but that's prone to various kind of attacks as simple as just spamming fake requests for help.

    idk. I'm sure they already exist, and the people who know about them are the people who need to know about them.