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Part Two: The Iceland Women's Strike of 1975: How Iceland Became the Most Gender Equal Country on Earth
2026-11-11 | 1h 5 mins.Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the radicals and feminists and radical feminists who got 90% of a country's women to refuse to do work at the jobsite or at home
Sources:
https://bluestockings.com/
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/raeda-adalheidar/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P11310_INSTRUMENT_ID:312245:NO
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/avorp-raudsokka/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/global-womens-strike-international-womens-day-intl/index.html
https://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/Redstockings%20Manifesto.pdf
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Redstockings
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gender-equality-by-country
https://villagepreservation.org/2022/05/09/redstockings/
https://daily.jstor.org/the-bluestockings/
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-pay-gap-grows-despite-equality-efforts/
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/
https://www.france24.com/en/20200731-vigdis-finnbogadottir-the-world-s-first-elected-female-president
https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/stories/womens-right-to-vote
https://english.hi.is/news/womens-strike-2025
https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/
https://lens.monash.edu/gender-equality-behind-icelands-paradise-for-women-image-lies-a-hidden-care-gap/
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/iceland-redstockings-womens-strike-feminism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Part One: The Iceland Women's Strike of 1975: How Iceland Became the Most Gender Equal Country on Earth
2026-11-09 | 48 mins.Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the radicals and feminists and radical feminists who got 90% of a country's women to refuse to do work at the jobsite or at home
Sources:
https://bluestockings.com/
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/icelandic-women-strike-economic-and-social-equality-1975
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/raeda-adalheidar/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::NO:11310:P11310_INSTRUMENT_ID:312245:NO
https://kvennasogusafn-is.translate.goog/kvennafri/1975-2/avorp-raudsokka/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/08/europe/global-womens-strike-international-womens-day-intl/index.html
https://pages.uoregon.edu/eherman/teaching/texts/Redstockings%20Manifesto.pdf
https://feministwiki.org/wiki/Redstockings
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gender-equality-by-country
https://villagepreservation.org/2022/05/09/redstockings/
https://daily.jstor.org/the-bluestockings/
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/iceland-pay-gap-grows-despite-equality-efforts/
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/
https://www.france24.com/en/20200731-vigdis-finnbogadottir-the-world-s-first-elected-female-president
https://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/stories/womens-right-to-vote
https://english.hi.is/news/womens-strike-2025
https://www.routesnorth.com/language-and-culture/icelandic-last-names-a-simple-guide/
https://lens.monash.edu/gender-equality-behind-icelands-paradise-for-women-image-lies-a-hidden-care-gap/
https://jacobin.com/2019/10/iceland-redstockings-womens-strike-feminism
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.- Margaret continues talking with defendant Isaac Sant about the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities and federal repression
links referenced:
Alexio fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid
Wired article on HSI spying: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/
NYtimes article on Operation Puppet Master: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html
Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
The first article to note the correlation between the Northside events and the drop in abductions: https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/23/their-escalation-and-ours-how-the-fight-against-ice-in-the-twin-cities-gained-momentum
Guardian article on nspm-7 defendants union:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-protesters-antifa-defendants-union
https://nspm7union.com/
https://minnesota15.org
https://prairielanddefendants.com/
https://www.defendmichigan8.org/
https://pjals.org/spokane3/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. - Margaret talks with defendant Isaac Sant about the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities and federal repression
links referenced:
Alexio fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/alexio-mutual-aid
Wired article on HSI spying: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-running-one-of-the-largest-anti-left-surveillance-operations-in-us-history/
NYtimes article on Operation Puppet Master: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/dhs-inquiry-immigration-protests-minnesota.html
Minnesota 15 legal defense fund: https://chuffed.org/project/186570-minnesota-15-legal-defense-fund
The first article to note the correlation between the Northside events and the drop in abductions: https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/23/their-escalation-and-ours-how-the-fight-against-ice-in-the-twin-cities-gained-momentum
Guardian article on nspm-7 defendants union:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-protesters-antifa-defendants-union
https://nspm7union.com/
https://minnesota15.org
https://prairielanddefendants.com/
https://www.defendmichigan8.org/
https://pjals.org/spokane3/
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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