How to Write the Perfect Women’s Day Strike Email

Just issues, news, and other stuff that matters to you [Fusion]( March 7, 2017 Chemotherapy or an iPhone—that’s totally a question you’ve had to ask yourself before, right? At least, Republican Congressman [Jason Chaffetz]( seems to think so. “Maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that? Maybe they should invest in their own health care,” Chaffetz said (the “they” here, presumably, is young and/or poor people). The comment, of course, shows just how much Chaffetz doesn’t know about [phones or health care](. As the adage goes, knowledge is power, and it sounds like [our boy Chaffy]( needs to charge up. [—Anne Branigin]( TODAY IN... DON'T PASS GO ⛔️ A lawyer who got Trump's first travel ban halted says his new one won't hold up in court either. Fusion’s Nidhi Prakash gets [the low-down on why](. SOUTH, BYE ✂️ After a huge public backlash, SXSW has cut an incendiary policy that gave the festival the right to turn foreign performers over to [immigration authorities](. WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? 🙅 Despite saying he was a “real friend” to the LGBTQ community, Trump is taking his administration out of the fight against North Carolina's infamous anti-trans “[bathroom bill]( BRB 📝 Joining the “Day Without a Woman” strike tomorrow? The organizers have got you covered with the perfect [out-of-office email](. THERE GOES THE GAYBORHOOD 👋 We dig into the paradox of being an [LGBTQ gentrifier]( with the author of the new book, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood. THE READ [International Women's Day Has Been Stripped of Its Radical Roots. That's About to Change.]( by Katie McDonough This time last year, Ivanka Trump chose to observe International Women’s Day by releasing a [series of e-cards featuring inspirational quotes]( tailored to the occasion. One of the cards, a dusty rose with elegantly minimal font and a #WomenWhoWork hashtag, read, “Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It’s you who can change the world.” These were the words of Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who, as it happens, would have been barred from entering the United States under the “[total and complete]( ban on Muslim immigration and travel that was then a [centerpiece of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign](. In the United States, International Women’s Day—[much the same as the mainstream feminist movement]( been whitewashed, stripped of its origins in the socialist and labor movements, disconnected from its more radical global contemporaries, and repackaged as an anodyne, symbolic holiday in which corporations urge you to send cute gifs to your girlfriends. But this year, a network of organizers across the country, building on the momentum of millions of women who turned out to protest the inauguration of President Trump, are trying to reconstitute March 8 as a mass movement in its original image. [Read more](. LET’S TALK ABOUT CHEAP SUBSTITUTES Finally, something to unite the country: [a shared hatred]( of the House Republicans’ new American Health Care Act. We knew the Dems weren’t going to get on board, but even [Breitbart]( (aka Trump’s fave) is losing it. It’s basically a poor man’s Obamacare—that poor people can’t actually afford. And of course, because the internet, people quickly voiced their displeasure via (you know what’s next) [a meme](. The Latest ['I have love on my side': Read Gavin Grimm's inspiring words about his fight for trans rights]( [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Fearless Girl' joins the Wall Street bull for International Women's Day]( [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Vine]( [Instagram]( [Youtube]( Remember, you can always [click here to unsubscribe]( and never see another one of these emails until the apocalypse (at which time it'll be nothing but emails). [Unsubscribe]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} Fusion · 419 Lafayette St · New York, NY 10003 · USA