{"id":18287,"date":"2021-04-08T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:55:35","slug":"bio-marie-equi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/bio-marie-equi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio:  Marie Equi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MarieEqui.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MarieEqui.jpeg 640w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MarieEqui-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/MarieEqui-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Marie Equi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Marie Equi, born on this day in 1872, was a radical medical doctor, gay rights advocate, Wobbly, and Anarchist convicted of sedition for speaking out against American involvement in World War I.<br><br>Providing care for poor and working-class patients, she also regularly provided birth control information and abortions at a time when both were illegal. As a political activist, she was a vocal opponent of World War I and advocated civic and economic reforms, including the women&#8217;s right to vote and an eight-hour workday.<br><br>After witnessing first-hand the brutality of police repression of a cannery workers&#8217; strike, Equi aligned herself with anarchists and the radical labor movement. While participating in the strike, she was clubbed by a policeman after becoming enraged at watching a pregnant women be dragged away by police.<br><br>Equi was also a lesbian who maintained a primary relationship with Harriet Frances Speckart (1883 &#8211; 1927) for more than a decade. The two women adopted an infant and raised the child in an early U.S. example of a same-sex family. In 1918, Equi was convicted under the Sedition Act for speaking out against U.S. involvement in World War I. She was sentenced to a three-year term at San Quentin State Prison, but was released after ten months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Contributed by Gwyllm Llwydd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Equi, born on this day in 1872, was a radical medical doctor, gay rights advocate, Wobbly, and Anarchist convicted of sedition for speaking out against American involvement in World War I. Providing care for poor and working-class patients, she also regularly provided birth control information and abortions at a&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/04\/08\/bio-marie-equi\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18289,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions\/18289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}