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“I’m not giving up— and neither should you,” Hillary Clinton implored her supporters following her surprising defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Taking these words to heart, on January 21, 2017 millions of women—and men—across America, angry that a misogynist had been elected President of the United States, marched in protest. Women around the world joined them in this first mass action of a new women’s political resistance movement. This book, written in the unique voices of 36 women resistors who are participating in a growing, women-led, effort to “make America great again” on their terms, represents the first chapter in the emerging story of this movement. Speaking truth to power on widely diverse topics, essayists and interviewees include a former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice; an award-winning feminist theologian; a New Mexico assistant Attorney General; a naturalized Muslim-American; warhorse activists who previously fought for reproductive, civil and immigrant rights; first time protestors; and ordinary women of good will who, frightened about the political environment their granddaughters and great-granddaughters will inherit, decided to take action. Their voices echo the sisterhood of determined women, and men, everywhere who love America and stand in solidarity over their concern for its future.

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A mother and advocate for people with serious mental illness, Dede Ranahan's essay, A Canary in the Coal Mine, appearing in We Rise To Resist: Voices From A New Era In Women's Political Action delivers a succinct call for actions that will fix a currently fragmented and broken mental health treatment system. A must-read for everyone concerned about this issue. --Carla Jacobs, Past Board Member, NAMI National; Treatment of Mental Illness in the U.S. is Mom's job. Ranahan's personal, professional, and civic life exposes public policies that reject medical science and condemn our sick children. --Rose King, Co-Founder, Mental Illness FACTS, Political Consultant; A modern-day Dorothea Dix, guided by her broken heart, shatters silence by reporting the uncomfortable truth about the failed treatment of serious mental illness in America. This story makes you care about forgotten families. --Teresa Pasquini, Co-Founder, Mental Illness FACTS, Family and Consumer True Stories/Right 2 Treatment; After 9/11, Nikki Stern overcame tragedy to shine as a beacon of reason and hope. Now, as we wobble close to tyranny, Nikki and the other excellent writers in We Rise to Resist: Voices from a New Era in Women's Political Action collectively provide a way out. Resistance has many voices. Some of its most articulate advocates are gathered in this mighty collection. -- Lorraine Berry, contributing essayist, The Guardian; The Women's March [that inspired this book] has been called the largest, most spontaneous mass demonstration in U.S. history. My wife and I were delighted to march in the Nashville event and to feel the power of so many good-hearted people rallying for a better America. It was, and is, an inspiration. --Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN, 5th District).

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Paula vW. Dáil is an emerita research professor in social welfare and public policy. Widely published in the social sciences, she is a political activist, former journalist, and award-winning non-fiction writer. She lives in the Lower Wisconsin River Valley of Southwestern Wisconsin. Betty L. Wells is a professor of sociology and extension sociologist at Iowa State University. She incorporates various feminist perspectives into her teaching about diversity and sustainability, and is a founding member of the Women’s Food and Agriculture Network. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

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