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MADISON, December 4 – Happy Winter holidays to all of our listeners! We hope you are warm and cozy as you listen to this, our 116th handcrafted, collectively created podcast.

In this month’s edition, Freda interviews Wendy Murphy, an experienced impact litigator working fiercely to gain equal protection for women under the law. Wendy has won numerous cases setting precedent and leading to changes in the law for women regarding sexual assault and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of victimized women and children.

To listen to Wendy Murphy bring her case to court on December 16th at 2pm Eastern time you can use the following website. It is possible to register two days in advance.
forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html

You can read Wendy’s Constitutional Terrorism article that details the Equal Rights Amendment, its herstory, and its importance in more detail than she had time to provide in her interview here:
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And here is a link to Wendy Murphy’s book Oh No He Didn’t: Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work. Her book includes a discussion about women’s inequality and ties to the problem of men taking credit for women’s work:

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Wendy Murphy works with the organization EQUAL MEANS EQUAL, a national non-profit organization dedicated to the immediate publication, adoption and enforcement of the original Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which became enforceable federal law on January 27th of 2022. You can get involved here:
equalmeansequal.org/

You can hear Wendy speak more here:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6tnXAMpZsS8

Wendy referenced the feminist activism group FIST. Feminists in Struggle (“FIST”) is a national female-only radical feminist network, democratically run, and composed of individuals born female and affiliated female-only feminist organizations. You can find FIST here:
feministstruggle.org/

Thanks for staying tuned to WLRN, your feminist-community powered radio station in the Femisphere! Below, find Margaret’s artist’s statement for this edition’s cover image.

Artist’s statement:

I used a photo from August 6, 1918 of Suffragists being arrested while protesting outside the White House – exercising their first Amendment rights, as people do. The women were arrested for standing as ‘Silent Sentinels’ with banners and sashes using the colors purple, white and gold. Messages on the banners included quotes that then President Wilson had made to Congress such as, “We shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments.”

About 500 women were arrested during the 2.5 year protest. The women were charged with obstructing traffic even though they were not in the street; 168 were jailed – mostly sent to the Occoquan workhouse.

I overlayed the photo with an image of a round suffragette ribbon and a ‘Hunger Strike’ Medal. Purple, white and green were the colors of the Women’s Social and Political Union in England. That was the group, headed by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters which was ridiculed as being ‘suffragettes’ instead of ‘suffragists’ by the British press – because of their militancy. The women embraced the term, as they were proud of what they stood for and what they were doing.
I also included a magenta duotone photo of a baby newly born, to represent human life, mothers, and the future.