RGB's Gender Equity Legacy & Pres. Sarah Nelson Workers' Whirlwind
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., September 21, 2020 7 - 8 pm EST
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Reflections On Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Gender Equality Legacy   
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Nadine Strossen, Prof. of Constitutional Law and the first woman national President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).  Her most recent book is Hate: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship.
 
“Few individuals have had such a dramatic and lasting effect on a particular area of law as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RGB), who directed the work of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project from its founding in 1972 until her appointment to the federal bench in 1980. She led the ACLU in a host of important legal battles, many before the Supreme Court, that established the foundation for the current legal prohibitions against sex discrimination in this country and helped lay the groundwork for future women’s rights advocacy. By 1974, the Women’s Rights Project and ACLU affiliates had participated in over 300 sex discrimination cases; between 1969 and 1980, the ACLU participated in 66 percent of gender discrimination cases decided by the Supreme Court” says Strossen.   “Her legacy is so large."  "And then, I think that she brough to the court her willingness to really push for a full and inclusive definition of equality," Strossen says.  "I think those are things that characterized her and believe that's how she will be remembered."
 
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Pres. of the Association of Flight Attendants, Sara Nelson says to workers, “In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand fold.”
featuring
Sara Nelson, Pres. of the fifty thousand members, at twenty airlines, Association of Flight Attendants
 
The Association of Flight Attendants is fighting to protect 100,000 jobs in airports nationwide with the expiration of the corona virus legislation on October 1st. “And here we are— with this White House, recognizing that the last thing we can do is take the rights we’ve gained for granted. Mother Jones told us, ‘We will fight and win. Fight and lose. But above all, we must fight! Our rights are never absolute. They exist because generations of workers died to give us these rights’ says Sara Nelson who became prominent nationally after threatening a general strike during the month long government shut down in 2018 over Trump's demand for funding his border wall in which more than 800,00 Federal government workers went without paychecks. The next day Trump reopened the government, absent his wall funding. A staunch advocate of the use of strikes Nelson has been mentioned as a successor to AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka.