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The Other Women's Movement. In the frenzied aftermath of the police killing asphyxiation of George Floyd, we have seen the emergence of a remarkable and sustained movement against racism and the state terror of police. As I watch it in wonder and really awe, it occurred to me that the organizers of this new movement are women.This movement, this mass, multi-racial not to mention multi-gender and many-aged movement is led by people who occupied the lowest rungs of America's ladder of race and class. Black women, mostly very young black women. They have seized the hour and brought forth people from almost every segment of society.They are the nucleus of the Black Lives Matter Movement, and they are ringing the bells in the night, warning America, and the world, that the American house is on fire. They are to quote the iconic scholar-activist up there, Angela Davis "smarter and better than their elders of the sixties." They are students of history, and they've proven that they are masters of organizing. The issu