Meet Activist Jill Jones: Stickin’ to the Union
In the early 1970s, a worker sweeping the floors of the Canadian General Electric (GE) factory in Nogojawanong/Peterborough, Ontario, earned a higher wage than a skilled machinist — if, of […]
Happy Women’s Day – “Our Task Is Not Yet Done”
By Nasreen Pejvack Women — organize in every community, district, and city … wherever you can. The time is now to surge forward and build on the gains of our […]
A Biography of Artist and Crafter Alice Olsen Williams
© Shkaabewis Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe. “I make blankets, just as my mother did, and her mother before her did.” Alice Olsen Williams. Alice Olsen Williams is the daughter of […]
Older Women as Social Activists: Still Kicking After All These Years
What comes to mind when you hear the words, “older women”? Is it the thought of frail and lonely grey-haired women who are burdens to the health care system? Maybe […]
