On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by “The Women’s Congress”, which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as “Women’s Day Off”, 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who “represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland”, according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women’s Strike also helped inspire the 2016 “Black Monday” anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the “International Women’s Strike”, single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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Facebook leftist page is encouraging people to commit perjury if they get jury duty so they can be on a jury and do a nullification. This is a fantastic way to be held in contempt of court in the most consequential way possible, that’s gonna cause a mistrial, they’ll get a new jury and you’ll be in a stupid amount of trouble, you personally pissed off and lied to the judge who now controls your fate. If by some weird chance you end out on a jury, nullify, but don’t lie in the selection process to do so. It won’t do anything but delay and you’ll go down fucking hard for it.
What’s stopping people from telling everyone (irl, outside of court setting) about jury nullification, to poison the well?
Also, how can they know you lied?
They literally ask if you know about it in selection, and even if you have little enough social media presence or just data collected about you against your will then lawyers are gonna dig info up on you when you’re the guy who nullifies the jury. You also just personally pissed off a prosecuting attorney. Even if you weren’t lying in the first place they’d probably make you suffer for their troubles somehow.
Isn’t the recipe saying “I don’t find evidence convincing?” And isn’t there special thingy, that says one vote (or up to three) can be bypassed, so it’s not that obvious (that you are the sole pal ruining conviction rate)
You already have to be on a jury in the first place tho. The lawyers get to interview you during selection and you are for sure under oath for that. If you lie about your faith in the justice system, your political beliefs, and all the standard questions lawyers ask to weed out people like us, it’s quite serious perjury and it will be really really easy for them to nail you, you just caused a mistrial which is a massive pain, you’ll piss off exactly the people who can legally find a way to ruin you forever. I would really heavily advise against lying during jury selection, if by some chance you still get there, nullify of course but it’s basically just throwing yourself in prison or living under a massive fine to lie during selection. It’s just a huge risk to yourself and it’ll most likely just trigger a mistrial and you’ll face the consequences of fucking with a judge.