by Sunsara Taylor

St. Patrick’s is, of course, home of Cardinal Timothy Dolan – head of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops, a lifelong staunch opponent of abortion rights, and the person who spearheaded the U.S. Catholic church’s recent political and legal revolt against birth control.


As I and one other woman, Alice Woodward, spent a long night each alone in a filthy cell, looking out between fourteen bars to cold flourescent lights, a dingy wall, and a window that revealed only the dirty bricks and tarp of the next building (no green and no sky), I thought of the women in El Salvador staring out of similar cells after being arrested out of the emergency room and imprisoned if the doctors suspect they are bleeding due to botched abortions. I thought of the women who are imprisoned in Afghanistan if they fall in love with the wrong man or end up pregnant while still unmarried. I thought of Dr. Pendergraft who had spent seven months in jail for illegitimate charges leveled against him by anti-abortion fanatics seeking to put him out of business.


There is a real war going on against women. Around the world, under the cover of religious authority, women’s dreams are extinguished, women’s bodies are treated like mere vessels for men’s sperm and the incubation of fetuses, women’s lives are foreclosed. Around the world, women and men face not only the church, but also the state, if they dare to defy thousands of years of tradition’s chains.


With these people in mind, my sacrifice felt well worth it.


Still, time alone in a jail cell creeps by at a snail’s pace. So, my mind continued to wander…

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“Stop the war on women!”

Come out at NOON to 100 Centre Street, NYC demand that all charges be dropped against Sunsara Taylor and Alice Woodward. It is incredibly right and moral to stand up and speak out when there is an all-out war on women. Join us. Stop Patriarchy!

This afternoon  Sunsara Taylor - initiator of End Porn and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women - was arrested leaving St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a historically right-wing, anti-birth control, anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-woman stronghold.  Inside, a group of women and men delivered a message directed at the Catholic Church’s role in the international war on women.

They chanted “Abortion on demand and without apology!” “Forced motherhood is female enslavement!” and “Stop the war on women!”

Sunsara Taylor and Alice Woodward were roughly grabbed by security as they were leaving, and delivered to NYPD.  Others were able to leave without arrest.  Sunsara, a writer for Revolution newspaper, and Alice are being held at 100 Centre Street for arraignment Monday on charges of disorderly conduct and disruption of a religious service.

This action was part of a week of political protest in New York City in a 10 days “push” to “Take Patriarchy by Storm.”  We have been bringing out the message that women are full human beings, not sexual objects for the pleasure of men, not breeders, and capable of full equality in every sphere. We have protested many of the sites that concentrate the oppression of women such as: Hooters, porn shops, and “crisis pregnancy” centers. Wherever this crew goes we challenge a political situation where people aren’t outraged by the subjugation of women.

Come out tomorrow (Monday, August 13) for the Anti-Patriarchy Talent Show at 7pm at Revolution Books 146 W. 26th, NYC OR at 100 Centre Street outside the court if they’re not released by then.

   *Donations encouraged to support the Take Patriarchy by Storm project. 

Thursday, August 9, 7:00pm
Sunsara Taylor
speaking on

“You Can’t Break All the Chains Except One.   Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution.”

A talk and discussion on this quote from BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian:

“You cannot break all the chains, except one. You cannot say you want to be free of exploitation and oppression, except you want to keep the oppression of women by men. You can’t say you want to liberate humanity yet keep one half of the people enslaved to the other half. The oppression of women is completely bound up with the division of society into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the ending of all such conditions is impossible without the complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian revolution.” 

If you hate the way that women are not only raped but then blamed and shamed for being raped… 

If your blood boils at the knowledge of millions of women bought and sold and abused and degraded in the global sex industry…

If you are sick of the way women have been trained to hold their tongues, suppress their rage, and remain silent in the face of this all out war against their lives and their humanity…

Join TAKE PATRIARCHY BY STORM! 

Aug. 4-14 in NYC - volunteers from around the country and all over the city working closely together to launch an all-out counteroffensive against patriarchy and to strategize together to figure out how we are going to go forward to win.    http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/

at Revolution Books

146 W. 26^th Street, NYC   212-691-3345

Sun, March 4 - 3:00pm at

Revolution Books - 146 W. 26th St., NYC - btw 6-7th Aves. 212-691-3345

From the Catholic Church’s recent hysterics over birth control to the decades long assault on abortion… from the increasingly violent nature of pornography to the mushrooming global sex slave trade… from the global epidemic of rape to the super-exploitation of female labor around the world… The war on women must be confronted – and defeated! With the approach of International Women’s Day, and a major protest March 10th to take on this assault, come and hear how all of this can and must be overcome through the most thoroughgoing revolution in history. Sunsara will talk about how we build up the strength for that revolution and transform people towards that today. And how you can be part of fighting to reverse the dynamic and momentum of the war on women throughout all of society.

End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women!

Abortion on Demand and Without Apology!

Fight for the Liberation of Women All Over the World!

Sunsara Taylor is a writer for Revolution newspaper, a host of WBAI’s Equal Time for Freethought, and is on the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait. She has written on the rise of theocracy, wars and repression in the U.S., led in building resistance to these crimes, and contributed to the movement for revolution to end all this. She takes as her foundation, and is a bold popularizer of, the new synthesis on revolution and communism developed by Bob Avakian.