The Suffragettes just straight up killed people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign

Carrie a Nation was part of the temperance movement and would destroy bars and saloons with a hatchet. At least thirty times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation

Lyudmila Pavlichenko didn't fuck around or cut corners. She shot fascists. Hundreds of them. Also, met Eleanor Roosevelt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko

The Night Witches dealt with fascists using the world's original stealth bombers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches

Judith used a sword

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes

The Gulabi Gang beat rapists with sticks

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/4/gulabi-gang-indias-women-warriors

Kurdish Women in the Peshmerga fought and contributed to the destruction of ISIS. Front line, machine guns in hand.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/peshmerga-female-fighters-frontline-sideline

Harriet Tubman carried a gun and lead Union troops as a scout during the Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman#Scouting_and_the_Combahee_River_Raid

Feel free to add on and pass it around. There's like 180 million women in this country and we only need to radicalize thirty or forty thousand of them.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Aww man I was reading "How to Blow up a Pipeline" today and the author talks about this kind of thing. Just about every "non-violent" protest movement was either extremely violent or had a radical wing working alongside the main one.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      3 years ago

      Can you really call a union if it doesn't have an armed paramilitary auxiliary and at least one artillery piece?