Word: steinhem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to spokesmen, tax resistance in the United States has its roots in the Revolutionary War. During the Vietnam War as well tax resistance was popular. Prominent tax resisters in the 1960's included Joan Baez, Alan Ginsberg, Gloria Steinhem and Pete Seeger, the presentation said...
...MARCH begins. You are up front, with about 50 snapping cameras in your face. Bella Abzug is right behind you. Gloria Steinhem too. You join a chant: "We are Pro-choice," to the rhythm of "We are Penn State." Hundreds of people line the streets, clapping and cheering; a few look on, shaking their heads. An old woman stares right at you, as if in anger. Then she smiles, and raises her fists like Muhammud Ali. You smile back, and raise your fist, nearly dropping your end of the banner...
...Gloria Steinhem, editor of Ms. magazine speaks. Then Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization of Women, says, "The silent majority will be silent no more. You cannot play with women's lives any longer...you cannot sacrifice women on the altar of self-righteousness...
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