CAN THE DRAFT SAVE THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT? Forum planned for Saturday June 13th with Wendy Murphy!

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 FEMINIST FORUM: CAN THE DRAFT SAVE THE  EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT?

Saturday, June 13  •  11 AM – 1 PM

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On Saturday, June 13th at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time/2:00 p.m. Eastern, join us for a dive into the latest ERA court case and arguments for legal equality for our sex!

This Zoom forum features renowned feminist attorney WENDY MURPHY and should be a stimulating presentation and discussion!

 

WENDY MURPHY is adjunct professor of Sexual Violence and Law Reform at New England Law in Boston where she also co-directs the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project (WCAP) under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility. WCAP runs the Judicial Language Project, and the Hate Crimes Against Women project, WCAP also files amicus briefs and engages in public interest litigation to advance the rights of women and children. On January 7, 2020, WCAP filed a first-in-the-nation federal lawsuit to validate the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Massachusetts federal court.

Wendy is an impact litigator who practices in state and federal courts and specializes in advancing the constitutional and civil rights of women and children. She has authored numerous scholarly articles including a landmark piece explaining the legal relationship between sexual assault on campus and Title IX. Her most recent law review article is a feminist critical re-examination of the history of women’s struggle for equality and is entitled, “Unequal Protection of the Laws for Women is Constitutional Terrorism, So How Come Nobody Knows about It?”

She has also appeared on television as a legal analyst for many years and has worked for NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News and has provided legal analysis for print and television media. She is the author of two books, “And Justice For Some,” published by Penguin/Sentinel in 2007 and “Oh No He Didn’t: Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work,” published by Cynren Press in 2024.

Wendy’s recent article in the Boston Herald, “Unequal draft, unequal rights: Automatic registration for men means women will lose standing in fight for rights” addresses the issues of the Equal Means Equal v. Donald J. Trump case that she will cover in this seminar.

 

FIST forums are held remotely on Zoom, and are women only, interactive events, allowing for time for questions and discussion. Registrants will be provided with a zoom link closer to the event date. Please arrive ten minutes before the scheduled start time. Our forums are also recorded and uploaded to our You Tube channel,  for later viewing by women and men.

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FIST ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE WAR ON IRAN

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At the time of this posting, the world remains on edge as we wait to hear whether a final settlement of this war is reached, or whether the war will sooner or later flare up again with more violence, death and destruction.  Meanwhile, the killing of civilians in Lebanon and Gaza has continued unabated.  The time for feminists to speak out for peace and in solidarity with our sisters everywhere is now.

Members of Feminists In Struggle have approved by consensus a statement against the U.S./Israel War on Iran and in support of Iranian feminists. 

Here it is below:

FIST stands against the unjustified and reckless war being waged against Iran by the Trump Administration.  The Epstein Axis, led by Trump and Netanyahu is in part about distracting their populations from issues of systemic rape and pedophilia by the elites.  But is also about acquiring and protecting wealth, power, and empire, while being indifferent to the deaths of innocent civilians.

We  must oppose this war as it violates all of the Geneva Convention rules, including starting a war of choice not justified by self-defense, committing war crimes by targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure (hospitals, schools, energy facilities) and openly admitting genocidal intent (Trump’s recent threat to send Iran “back to the stone age” ).

Women suffer from war, often disproportionately, from the increased violence, displacement, poverty and fanaticism it engenders. Clearly, this war is not in our interests.

However, our opposition, as feminists, to this war does not mean we support the authoritarian theocratic government in Iran.

SUPPORT FOR FEMINISTS IN IRAN

While many on the left believe that the only two possible positions in this conflict are to side with the theocratic regime or the U.S. attack, FIST takes the position that we must support neither, but instead support Iranian ​Feminists and other progressives, now being murdered and jailed by their government by the thousands (current figures are 7,000 killed, 40,000 arrested) as a result of recent uprisings. The attack by the U.S. will only strengthen the hand of this cruel regime and worsen its crackdown against its citizens.

Women in Iran face systemic legal discrimination and operate under male guardianship that restricts their rights in marriage, divorce, travel, and employment; legally, a woman’s testimony has half the value of a man’s; inheritance by women is a pittance of what men receive; a woman needs her father’s or grandfather’s permission to marry and husbands have an almost absolute right to divorce, while initiating divorce for women is difficult; Iranian law mandates strict, state-enforced hijab with penalties that include flogging, fines and imprisonment (and in the case of the death of Jina Mahsa Amini murder–which is what sparked the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement of 2022-2023). Women in Iran have been resisting this sex apartheid system since 1979!

.EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON THE U.S.

The unprovoked attack by the U.S. on Iran is having and will continue to  have devastating effects on U.S. society.  The over one trillion dollars spent on weapons each year benefitting war profiteers, leaves little for education, childcare, healthcare, affordable housing, DV shelters, and public benefits that so many women need to survive.

The war will give the Trump administration an excuse to increase the military budget even further and defund human needs programs (many of which particularly impact women).  Working people will have an even harder time to survive, as prices across the board increase, possibly leading to a worldwide depression. There is also the possibility of a further spread of the conflict (many Gulf states have now been forced to become involved) and a World War III scenario cannot be discounted

While serving as distraction to the scandal over the Epstein files, this war is being waged mainly for reasons of imperialism: the controlling of resources—in this case, oil—of another country, and it reinforces a worldwide economy based on fossil fuels, which can only hasten the ongoing ecological planetary crisis. None of this is in the interest of women in the U.S., Iran, or elsewhere.

For the above reasons, we say NO to Islamic (or any) Theocracy. We say NO to U.S. imperialism. We say NO to government funds going into the pockets of war profiteers and advancing the aims of the warmongers while regular people in all nations suffer. We demand a U.S. government that honors international law, that prioritizes spending for peoples’ needs and centers the needs of women, and that promotes peace throughout the Middle East and the world.

Celebrate Women’s Rights on July 4, 2026

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On July 4, 2026, the nation’s semiquincentennial, we are enlisting women and men across the country to acknowledge the fully-ratified Equal Rights Amendment by reading a Women’s Declaration of Independence 2.0 (an updated version of the Declaration of Sentiments) and singing The ERA Song (sung to the tune of America the Beautiful) and the Battle Hymn of Equality (sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic) and recording both and posting them online. Anyone wishing to do so can gather together 2 or 3 friends, a group of women, a choir, or any configuration they choose to read and perform the songs and may download them here.

Women’s Declaration of Independence 2.0 reads as follows:

When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one-half of the people
to call a nation back to its own truths,
we declare the causes which compel us to speak.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all persons are created equal;
that women are persons;
and that government exists to secure these truths—
not to delay or deny them.

The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in stone.
Yet they have never applied fully to women,
because women have never had full legal equality
under the United States Constitution.

Although the Fourteenth Amendment promised equal protection,
it has never been applied equally to women.

And although the Equal Rights Amendment—
ratified in 2020—establishes equality,
it has not been implemented.

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Women bring forth life,
sustain families,
serve their communities,
and defend this nation.
To deny them constitutional equality
is to deny their dignity, humanity, and rights.

Yet courts apply a lesser standard—
intermediate scrutiny—
to laws that discriminate on the basis of sex,
allowing inequality to continue.
The highest standard, strict scrutiny,
remains unavailable to women.

As a result, women are denied equal protection,
economic equality,
and full protection from violence and exploitation.

These injustices are not accidental—
they are legally authorized.

We declare:
women are equal citizens of this Republic.
Equality must be clear in law
and in its enforcement.

We call upon the people to demand:
the full implementation and enforcement
of the Equal Rights Amendment—
by all courts,
and all government officials.

A nation that treats women unequally
cannot be a democracy.

Therefore, we declare:
the Equal Rights Amendment is part of the Constitution.
It is the law.

Women will no longer accept inequality.
We demand equality now—
nothing more, nothing less.

In the spirit of 1776, the Declaration of Sentiments of 1848, and the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in 2020.

Drafted in 2026 by a Committee of the National ERA Publication Task Force. org.

#untilwomenareequal

#wewillnotbesilent

For more information on this campaign, go to: https://untilwomenareequal.org/

AN UPDATE ON ERA LITIGATION – SPECIAL GUEST POST BY WENDY MURPHY

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By Wendy Murphy, J. D., Impact Litigator

Last week we received a ruling in our lawsuit (Equal Means Equal v. Donald Trump) to establish women’s full legal equality by challenging the constitutionality of the Selective Service Act, which forbids women to register for the military draft. It is a very rare example of a law that explicitly treats women and men differently. Most instances where women suffer unequal treatment are in the enforcement of laws, and in the actions and inactions of government officials.

As expected, the judge ruled that we do have standing because the primary plaintiff is a woman who tried to register for the draft, but was rejected solely because of her sex.

Because women have standing, the court had to address the merits. This is vitally important because courts routinely deny women standing as a way of avoiding having to address the issue of women’s inequality. This keeps the problem of women’s inequality invisible, which obviously contributes to the problem of activism. Simply put, most women aren’t even aware that the Constitution has established them as unequal second-class citizens. This helps to maintain women’s subjugation because women will not fight for equality if they don’t know they don’t have it. They will, instead, suffer horrendous injustices, and feel hopeless and upset, but never come to understand that the primary cause of their suffering is the Constitution.

Because standing is so important, we are happy to have prevailed on the standing issue, especially considering that the government spent most of its brief arguing that we lacked standing.

As for the merits, the court ruled that it cannot address the question of whether the Selective Service Act is unconstitutional because the Supreme Court has already ruled – in 1981 – that it is, and only the Supreme Court can reverse itself. This ruling is inconsistent with what a different judge ruled on the exact same issue a few years ago in New Jersey where the court said that the Supreme Court’s decision is not binding precedent because the conditions under which that ruling was decided have changed.

The court also ruled that the ERA is not valid because the deadline expired long before the last state ratified. Again, we were not surprised by this, and to some extent we wanted this to be the ruling because it enables us to appeal.

An appeal is appealing (pardon the pun) because it is an opportunity yet again to show the federal courts that many people support our view that the ERA is valid, and while courts have yet to agree, we will not stop fighting until the Supreme Court decides the issue.

We do intend to appeal, which  means the First Circuit Court of Appeals will soon decide the issue.

We will have an amicus brief and welcome all the help we can get.

Meanwhile, we will also be filing similar cases in other jurisdictions. It is important that we file more cases soon because in December 2026, women will no longer be able to achieve standing on the Selective Service Act challenges. This is because Congress quietly inserted into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act in December 2025, changing the registration process so that men will be registered automatically for the draft when they turn 18. For now, they must fill out a form, but in December the government will do that for them. This will deprive women of standing because they can no longer suffer the “legal injury” of being rejected by the government, and it is not enough of an “injury” to say the law itself harms women by excluding them.

This law change was done solely because of our case, so it’s a good sign that they are paying attention and so worried about women filing lawsuits that they bothered to burden Congress with the task of making the draft registration process automatic even though we haven’t had a draft since 1973 and won’t likely have another one anytime soon.

We take such small victories very seriously –

Sometimes victories don’t look like victories, but in high stakes litigation, anything that teaches us something or helps educate the public is important.

See also Wendy’s article in the Boston Globe: Unequal Draft, Unequal Rights

EXCITING FORUM PLANNED FOR APRIL 18th ON FEMINISM IN IRAN

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

FORUM: Woman, Life, Freedom & the Struggle against Theocracy & War in Iran Tickets, Saturday, Apr 18 from 11 am to 1 pm | Eventbrite

 

Woman, Life, Freedom & the Struggle against Theocracy & War in Iran

Saturday, April 18 at 11 am Pacific Time/2:00 p.m. Eastern

 

Hear Iranian feminist Maryam Namazie speak about feminist struggle in Iran & the need to oppose BOTH imperialist war & Iranian theocracy

SPEAKERS:

MARYAM NAMAZIE is a multiple award-winning Iranian-born UK-based activist and writer who has long opposed the Islamic regime and political Islam from a Left perspective. She has organized internationally for women’s rights, asylum seekers, and freedom of expression, including through the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and One Law for All. In her work on Iran, she consistently argues that the central struggle is a popular uprising against theocratic rule, not a proxy conflict between states, and has been equally critical of war, insisting that both militarism and the regime undermine the fight for woman, life, freedom.

ANN MENASCHE is a founding member and co-coordinator of Feminists in Struggle, a civil rights lawyer, lesbian, and lifelong radical feminist and socialist. She has spent much of her life organizing against imperialist war and for women’s liberation. She has found inspiration from the woman, life, freedom movement in Iran, and those who speak out for peace, whether in Israel, Europe or the United States.

FORUM WILL TAKE PLACE ON ZOOM AND IS WOMEN-ONLY.

 

FEMINISTS SHOULD SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE US/ISRAEL WAR AGAINST IRAN

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By Ann Menasche

This piece is the opinion of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Feminists in Struggle as an organization.

Trump and Netanyahu are two peas in a pod.  Both are crooked politicians, narcissists, misogynists and psychopaths who are all about acquiring and protecting wealth, power, and empire, indifferent to the toll measured in innocent civilian lives in other countries and even among their own people.  Together as heads of two nuclear armed nations, they have launched a war of choice against Iran, which, though the excuses keep changing, are fundamentally all about maintaining U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and the world, while Israel , after its killing spree in Gaza, is given the green light to carry out ethnic cleansing in Lebanon and the West Bank,  in pursuit of its  dream of a “greater Israel.”

This war is already causing the whole Middle East to go up in flames, threatens an even wider war, and has begun precipitating worldwide economic crisis, that we will all feel with higher prices for food, fuel, and other necessities.  It means more billions for bombs while more Americans face homelessness, hunger and lack of medical care.   The threat of U.S. ground troops being sent into Iran, if carried out, could lead to large numbers ofAmerican soldiers coming back in body bags just like during the Vietnam War.

The war is not making the Israeli population any safer either, as they hide in bomb shelters night after night. normal lives, work, education, disrupted.  The violence could spread here inside the U.S. as well.

No question, women suffer from war, often disproportionately, from the increased violence, displacement, poverty, and fanaticism it engenders. It is what patriarchy, at its most naked, looks like. Opposing this war should be a no brainer for feminists.

But what of the authoritarian theocratic government in Iran which oppresses women in draconian fashion, and kills its own people?   Opposition to the War does not mean support for the Iranian regime. But liberation does not come through the bombing and murder of schoolchildren, the destruction of homes, hospitals, universities, and civilian infrastructure, or from the heavy boots of imperial armies.  The power-over legacy of colonialism is one main source of the problem, not the solution.

The Women, Life, Freedom movement will rise again in Iran, but not under these conditions.  And the genuine feminist revolutionary transformation it will engender won’t be to the liking of the patriarchs and warmongers in Washington and Tel Aviv.  That we can be sure of.

Besides, regime change begins at home.  The thousands of peace protesters in the United States and Israel are a beginning.  Feminists should be in the leadership of this movement.

PEACE NOW!

 

 

Who are the Men Who Oppose Women’s Equality?

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Well, the list is quite long indeed. There are the unabashed women haters of the Manosphere, the Broligarchs, the corporate moguls, the tech billionaires, the pornography pushers, the pimps, the johns, the sex traffickers, the Evangelicals, the Catholic church, the Christian Nationalists, the Dominionists, the fundamentalists and male supremacists of every variety of patriarchal religion, the incels, rapists, pedophiles, and lest we forget, the trans-identified fetishists and autogynephiles, sex addicts, and sadists.

All across the political spectrum, women are commodified, vilified, debased, silenced, dehumanized, and sentenced to second-class citizenship and would be rendered handmaidens of the Right, transmaidens of the Left if these men had their way. Women’s agency, bodily sovereignty, freedom, and autonomy are restricted on the one hand, and exploited on the other, but denigrated and dismissed by both. From the bedroom to the boardroom, women are treated as nothing more than objects to be manipulated and used. The tyranny of the ruling sex class of men, however they ‘identify’, reveals itself not only in the handling of the Epstein files and case, but in the staggering statistics:

  • Over 4 women a week were murdered in California in 2020; now there are 4 women a day being murdered in the U.S.
  • Over 298.000 rapes of women were reported in the U.S. in 2020
  • Spousal abuse of women is estimated at 4.8 million every year
  • Approximately 1 million women are stalked annually in the U.S.
  • Over 78% of sexual harassment charges were filed by women between 2018-2021
  • 7 in 10 human trafficking victims are women and girls
  • Over 500,000 cases of female genital mutilation have occurred or are at risk of occurring in the U.S.
  • Abortion rights and birth control are increasingly under attack, risking women’s health and lives
  • “Women in every state report injustice in their family law cases, especially battered mothers trying to protect their children from abusive fathers who aggressively litigate against them, using family court to stalk, harass, punish, and impoverish their former partners and children” according to NOW
  • Child marriage is still prevalent in the U.S., 87% of victims of which are girls
  • Women still earn around 82 cents to every dollar men earn
  • Single women and mothers with children are the two fastest-growing groups of people experiencing homelessness in the United States
  • Sexual assault victims are overwhelmingly female and their assailants are male
  • Women and girls’ safe spaces are being invaded by trans-identified males, including prisons where female prisoners are being assaulted and raped
  • Women and girls’ achievements, opportunities, endorsements, scholarships, and trophies are being stolen by mediocre male athletes – over 600 individuals in 29 different sports have been affected
  • Girls are the fastest growing group to be medicalized, sterilized, and mutilated by sex-rejecting “gender affirming care”

See:

Women Count USA

Domestic Violence Abuse Rates

Violence Against Women Statistics

Human Trafficking in the USA

FGM Statistics

Crisis in Family Courts

Child Marriage

Gender Pay Gap

Women and Homelessness

UN Report on Effect of Trans-identified Males in Female Sports

How the Debate Over Men in Women’s Sports Both Obscured and Advanced Sport Science

The Female Category – WHAM (Women’s Hockey Assoc. of Minnesota)

California transgender convict pulled from female prison for alleged rape

DOC employee reports men are claiming to be women to transfer prisons

USA: Almost 50% of Trans Inmates in Federal Custody for Sex Offences

https://washingtonstand.com/news/pornhubs-year-in-review-sextrafficking-abuse-and-age-verification

No platforming and Silencing of Women in Academia

Special Report on Trans Youth

Irreversible Damage

If you’re wondering why the system enables this abuse and exploitation, and why there is little to no accountability, read this:

If We Win, This Changes Everything

And join us on March 24th, 2026 2:00 pm to listen to oral arguments on the Equal Means Equal vs. Donald J. Trump case scheduled to be heard before Judge William G Young in the Boston Division of the US District Court of Massachusetts.  At that time, the Court will hear arguments on the Trump Administration’s Motion to Dismiss in the matter of Equal Means Equal, et al v Trump, et al.

For those unable to attend in person, please register at this link, for that date. Registration will open two days prior to the hearing.

https://forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html

THE UNDERBELLY OF THE CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY

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By Ann E. Menasche.

This piece is the opinion of the author and not necessarily the opinion of Feminists in Struggle as an organization.

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal, as revealed in the Epstein files, provides all that we need to know about the men (and a few women) at the highest echelons of wealth and power and their support of, or at best indifference to, the ubiquitous sexual exploitation of women and girls.  In their eyes, women and girls are merely sexual objects, property to be bought and sold, used and abused by men.  Women are not recognized as full human beings.

Clearly, Epstein himself was both a misogynist and a sociopath – a sex trafficker and serial child molester, raping and torturing underaged girls, delivering them as prey to the powerful men he flew on the “Lolita Express” and “serviced” on his islands.  He was a pathological liar (he even lied about obtaining a college degree). a thief, a crook, who raised his millions through dishonesty and complete lack of a conscience.  He was also a eugenicist and trans-humanist, enamored with the fantasy of creating a super-race from his own sperm; and a close collaborator with the reactionary leadership of the Israeli state, whose dehumanizing of Palestinians and myriad crimes against humanity are re-known (none of which have made Jews one iota safer).

The scandal is also a mirror into the souls of the men who run our society – the Banksters, war profiteers, imperialists, real estate speculators, owners of the fossil fuel industry, Big Pharma, the health insurance industry, corporate politicians and others of or beholden to the billionaire class who cavorted with Epstein and embraced him as one of their own.  It is not a pretty sight.

The Epstein files have also exposed men on the Left including well-known intellectuals and anti-imperialists like Noam Chomsky who associated with, and defended Epstein.  This continued even after Epstein was convicted of child abuse, thereby revealing Chomsky’s own sexism, hypocrisy, and moral bankruptcy.

The refusal of so many men on the Left to recognize women as fellow humans deserving of full rights or to see us at all, has not only led to defending sex traffickers like Epstein, and to supporting institutions that degrade and exploit women’s bodies such as prostitution, pornography, and commercial surrogacy.  It has also led to the wholesale embrace by the male dominated Left of gender identity ideology that deems women’s rights expendable and subordinated to males who claim to be women, thereby rendering us invisible or reduced to our body parts or lack thereof (“uterus-bearers”, “non-men”).

Patriarchy and capitalism are joined at the hip; one cannot be uprooted without the other.  Men who purport to be on the Left need to figure out whose side they are on, i.e., whether their identification with male power and privilege is greater than their commitment to securing a peaceful, just and sustainable world for the women and ultimately for all the people of this planet.

EXCITING FORUM COMING UP FEBRUARY 7TH ON THE DEMISE OF WOMEN’S STUDIES

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How did Women’s Studies change into “gender studies”, promoting “queer theory”, and leaving women behind?

This feminist Zoom forum features KARLA MANTILA to lead discussion on this timely topic for feminists. A zoom link will be provided two days before the event for all registrants.

The Forum is schedule for Saturday February 7th at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time/4:00 p.m. Eastern.

Tickets are on sale now!  WHAT HAPPENED TO WOMEN’S STUDIES?? Tickets, Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

Karla Mantila is a radical feminist whose grounding in feminism coalesced as a collective member of Off Our Backs, a newsjournal by, for, and about women that was published from 1970 to 2008. She is the author of Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral (Praeger, 2015), and she taught sociology at George Mason University, Gettysburg College, McDaniel College, and University of Maryland at College Park. She was the managing editor of Feminist Studies, a women’s studies academic journal, where she was witness to the fundamental erosion of feminist thought throughout the field of academic women’s studies.

FIST’s Feminist forum series are women-only interactive educational events where participants are encouraged to ask questions, express their opinions, and engage in vigorous discussion.

THE STATE-SANCTIONED FEMICIDE OF RENEE GOOD

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By Al Addesso

(This post is the opinion of the author and not an official statement of Feminists In Struggle as an organization.  However, many of our active members share these sentiments and are similarly appalled by Renee’s murder at the hands of ICE agents. )

Renee Good was a mother, writer, former chorus singer, lesbian, wife and American citizen. But she will be forever remembered for her murder that was recorded and viewed by millions on the internet.

On January 7, 2026 Good blocked ICE agents in the middle of the street with her SUV in an effort to stop their terrorizing of her Minneapolis neighborhood, even though she had only lived in the city for a year.

“..we stopped to support our neighbors,” said her wife Becca Good. “We had whistles. They had guns.”

The ICE agents surrounded her car while her wife stood in the street.

As she began to reverse and turn to get away from them, one officer who was lightly tapped by Good’s vehicle shot her at point blank range. In the audio of the video Jonathon Ross, the agent that shot Good, can be heard saying “fucking bitch” after shots are fired, the same slur that most women hear before they are murdered by males.

Renee Good’s death was a femicide committed by an agent of the State.

Good was the widow of a military veteran and was also murdered by a military veteran. Ross served in the Iraq War and had worked for ICE since 2016. Ross was dragged 50 yards by a vehicle 6 months earlier after he bashed in a car’s window and unlocked the door while trying to detain someone.

               The State sanctioned murder of Renee Good spotlights not just the fascist terror of the current US administration and militarized aggression being used against US residents, but also the patriarchal system and blatant woman hate that undergirds it. Ross gets the thoughts and prayers of the federal government and those that support it. Good, as women often do, gets blamed for her own murder.