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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · May 11

Rümeysa Öztürk -- the Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested by a mob of masked plainclothes federal agents six weeks ago -- was freed from immigration detention on Friday after a federal judge ordered her immediate release.

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · May 7

Dr. Edda Fields-Black was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History this week for her book on the Combahee River Raid, which the Pulitzer Prizes described as one of Harriet Tubman’s “most extraordinary accomplishments.”

To order a copy of "Combee," you can find it at bookshop.org/a/8011/97801...

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Apr 16

Kseniia Petrova faces deportation to Russia for a minor offense. ICE has twice refused her lawyer's petition for parole, claiming that the shy "supernerd," as her colleagues describe her, is a "threat to U.S. security" and a "danger to the community."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 26

Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit civil rights activist, was murdered by the KKK after the Selma march in 1965. The 39-year-old mom of five had traveled to Alabama in response to MLK's call for volunteers, telling her husband that the civil rights struggle was "everybody's fight."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 25

Libraries and librarians save lives - and now we need to save libraries!

Congress is back in and they need to hear from library supporters like YOU to save federal library funding from Elon Musk's DOGE goon squad. You can use the ALA's tool to contact Congress at bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 15

Elon Musk shared this post: “Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did.”

It's now more important than ever to teach young people about the atrocities committed by totalitarian regimes.

Here are resources to start:
www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11586

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 11

More than 500 Canadians formed a long line along the U.S.-Canada border in Quebec on last Saturday's International Women's Day to protest the U.S. government’s attacks on women’s rights and Canada’s sovereignty.

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 9

"I am that girl. You are that girl. Together we change the world." #InternationalWomensDay

Kimothy Joy wrote that she created this design "as a symbol of our collective power, solidarity, and an overall affirmation that we are all wondrous and strong beyond belief!"

Prints at amgrl.co/2p9afxxv

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 8

This photograph is dangerous. Women are dangerous.

That is the only possible explanation for why it and tens of thousands of other photos of women and minorities in the military are currently being deleted from federal government websites.

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 5

Thank you to New Mexico Representative Melanie Stansbury for the critical reminder that 'This Is Not Normal' and choosing to speak truth to power through her silent protest.

As George Orwell once reflected, "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Mar 2

Televangelist Pat Robertson once said "I think having a woman president would be a terrible mistake. Women are too emotional to handle high office."

Strange how when men in office shout and berate others in a childish emotional outburst, it's praised by some as "boldly standing up for our country."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 27

After House Speaker Mike Johnson denied her request to vote remotely, Rep. Brittany Pettersen flew from Colorado with her newborn son to vote no on the Republican budget resolution and had this to say:

"I have a message for Donald Trump: nobody fights harder than a mom."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 22

Marina Ovsyannikova, an editor at Russia’s state-run Channel One television station, burst onto the set of the live nightly news broadcast shouting “Stop the war. No to war" three years ago, just weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

#TruthIsTruth

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 20

11-year-old Jocelynn Rojo Carranza died by suicide following bullying about her family's immigration status. "The kids said because your family is Hispanic, that they were going to call ICE so her parents could be taken away and she would be left alone."

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 20

Thank you! We are new here and not very good at short form but we're trying. 😄

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 20

This 7-year-old girl was one of five children arrested by Russian police along with their mothers after the group attempted to leave flowers and child-made signs reading "No War" outside of the Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow nearly three years ago - after Russia invaded Ukraine.

#TruthIsTruth

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 15

"But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room." -- Miep Gies, protector of Anne Frank

To introduce children to her heroic story, we recommend "Miep and the Most Famous Diary" for 6 to 9 at amgrl.co/3x98f7sv

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 15

Let's show our embattled federal public servants love and support this Valentine's Day! Please write a note of thanks or drop a ❤️ in the comments below.

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 14

"As a Christian,' Anne Linn wrote, 'I was compelled by the Gospel, the words of Jesus, to use my life to try to diminish suffering for the world’s most vulnerable.... [now] children, children of God, will die unnecessarily.'"

Read Peter Wehner's full piece in The Atlantic at tinyurl.com/2s4f99c5

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 14

Kudos to the Mighty Girl who led dozens of middle schoolers in a peaceful walkout at Patch Middle School, a Department of Defense school in Germany. The students were protesting Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth's visit and the Trump administration's crackdown on diversity initiatives in military schools!

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 7

Former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a military branch, was evicted from her house at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling with 3 hours notice; the Trump Admin did not even grant the 40-year veteran enough time to gather her personal effects.

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 6

These powerful and poignant stories will give young readers a new appreciation of the rights afforded to them within a democracy -- and a deeper understanding of why it is so essential to protect democracy by becoming an informed and engaged citizen.

www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=32426

The Fragility of Freedom: Mighty Girl Books About Life Under Authoritarianism

These powerful stories for tweens and teens explore the grim realities of life under dictatorships, and why protecting our democracy by becoming an informed and engaged citizen is more important than ...

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 5

"I didn’t give up literal parts of my body to have the Constitution trampled on." - Senator Tammy Duckworth

To speak out on the many alarming developments of recent days, in particular Elon Musk's efforts to undermine the federal government, 5 Calls makes it easy at 5calls.org/issue/elon-m...

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 5

A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days" tells the powerful true story of a young American who witnessed the swift rise of the Nazi party firsthand in the 1930s and became a major resistance leader in Berlin. Age: Adults

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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

At 26, Mildred Harnack went to Germany to enroll in a PhD program — and got a front seat to the rise of the Nazi party. By 1932, she started holding secret meetings for anti-Hitler activists in her ap...

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A Mighty Girl @amightygirl.com · Feb 4

A tremendous thank you to the many humanitarian heroes around the world fighting to save lives in the face of such callous disregard for human life.

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