Jenny Brown

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Jenny Brown

Template:TOCnestleft Jenny Brown lives in Gainesville, Florida. As co-chair of the local Labor Party, she helped lead a successful campaign in the 2000 elections in Alachua County, Florida that garnered 65% of the vote for a referendum backing universal health insurance. She has been a paid staffer for both Gainesville Women's Liberation and Redstockings and is a co-editor of The Gainesville Iguana, an alternative newspaper.[1]

Jenny has been involved in international solidarity and feminist, peace, labor and anti-racist organizing since 1984 and co-founded the Aluchua County Labor Party. She works on healthcare and returned to school in the UMass/Amherst Labor Studies program to better understand how to create a critical mass of labor, feminist and anti-racist organizations,.

Jenny Brown is an organizer with National Women's Liberation and was a leader in the fight to get the morning-after pill over the counter in the U.S. She is the author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work and Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now .[2]

48 Years of Roe v Wade

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Redstockings

Brown has worked with the Redstockings Women’s Liberation Archives as a speaker since the late 1980s.[1]

Union for Radical Political Economics

Between 2009 and 2010, Jenny Brown served as an Allied Social Science Associations Coordinator for the Union for Radical Political Economics, an alternative professional organization for left political economists and an intellectual home for academics, policy-makers, and activists.[3]

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