🩷 Your Daily Dose of Women’s History… On November 30, 1999, more than 40,000 people took to the streets of Seattle to confront the World Trade Organization at its ministerial meeting. The world remembers it as the “Battle of Seattle,” but it was also a huge feminist moment inside the global justice movement, with women and Global South organizers at the heart of the shutdown.  Women from labor unions, peasant groups, Indigenous nations, environmental networks, and feminist NGOs had been warnin

Born on March 23, 1950, George Helm was a Native Hawaiian activist and musician from Moloka'i. George was one of the greatest Hawaiian falsetto vocalists, and played fast, complex guitar parts while singing in an "almost inhuman" vocal range. He was a powerful speaker, writer, and "revolutionary" philosopher who pioneered many Hawaiian sovereignty concepts. He was considered, a "True Hawaiian" who surfed, fished, farmed, loved, sang, worshipped, and thought in the ways of old. He began his front