The Enduring Power of Women’s Protests
Women-Led Movements Have Found Strength in Solidarity Across Centuries and Borders
Whether it’s the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose work helped delegitimize the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983, or the ongoing weekly rallies in South Korea pressuring the Japanese government to take responsibility for conscripting Korean and other Asian women into sexual slavery during World War II, women-led coalitions have effected deep, transformative, and ongoing change, concluded panelists at last night’s Zócalo/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County event, “How Have Women’s Protests Changed History?” It was the first of a three-part series …
