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Birth Strike: The Hidden Strike over Women’s Work
By Jenny Brown
National Women’s Conference
1808 no more slaves slavery connection
Brought in
Slavery system on the backs of African women
Jamaica
Babies you could get away from field work
After civil war slave system over thrown
Black codes enacted
Great Mingration 1880s Black People leave the South
They are the labor force
Ruling class how we we get labor
What about revolt
After WWII Black Gips come and demand their rights
Harvesting mechanism
Chopping
SNCC
Black people are demanding democracy
South has Black Majority
Puerto Rico
80% of land for
Land grab
Revolution
Labor requirement
Collective child rearing on the Kibbutz
1970 child bearing is dangerous
Immigration
Working class power is based on organization
Case for open borders
Solidarity increases the power
The search for unity
Immigration
status divides us
Solidarity
Logic the more there are there are immigrants the less the State need to subsidize raising children at home
Closing our borders creates more trife and hatred
Lower birth rate requires a huge amount of immigration
Africa has birth
Capitalism requires expansive growth
Japan total population decreases
We have plenty of resources
Money is spent on the military
Immigration and the nuclear family
Misappropriated of resources
What parenting today looks like
Raise a child in a environment for scarcity
A toll
Racial disparity
Inequality
Around maternal deaths
Afro-American has 4 times the rate of mortality
Abstractly immigration
Government is a leading cause of death in America
Undocumented workers
Immigration happens
Anecdote INS ICE
Allowed immigration to happen
Games with people’s live
Bans child cute
Low birth rates are world wide phenomenon
2000 Catholics protest on Row v. Wade Anniversary
Bodily autonomy
Reproductive justice
Not inspiring
In terms of labor
Pressure of women
Extract women, unpaid labor
Feminism top jobs and abortion
Clinic
Frontlines Christians
Birth strikeIS
Tests will ruin your children ,s Future
Helicopterparenting
Tests lead to less sex
Lower teen birth rate
Immigration lowers the wages of Native wages
Lower wages overtime busting unions
Marx argued the number of people is not what controls you wages
Business wages
Employed unemployed
Powernot numbers
Men participating in the birth strike
Pro natal pressure
Climate change nothave children
Mortality rate for AfroAmerican women
Sexism and racism combine
For a high maternal mortality rate
Bodily autonomy
Methodology
Gender oppression
Strategy
No Border, No Bosses, No Binaries
Earth burning
Fossil fuel industry controls governments
Force gender compliance
Trans and queer analysis
Consciousness raising groups around the country
Study questions
What is going on in your life
Who benefits
