Disrupt New Jersey

Disrupt New Jersey Disrupt! Furthermore, we hope to create a space that is inclusive to both seasoned activists and people new to the movement who are eager to get involved.

America, with your help, will work to create a safer space for strengthening affinity groups, sharing projects and discussing the topics we care to organize around, promote collaboration, solidarity and build our collective potential. America, with your help, will work to create a safer space for strengthening affinity groups, sharing projects and discussing the topics we care to organize around,

promote collaboration, solidarity and build our collective potential as an organizing force. has many different organizing projects and people who care about pressing issues, with many of these projects focusing on very particular areas of expertise, and rightfully so. But, we believe to effectively confront the growing threat of the extreme right, which seeks to destroy countless people, natural spaces and resources, etc, a united front is needed. Rather than create a new hierarchical centralized organization to perpetuate this work we seek to generate an inclusive framework that allows for a multiplicity of political perspectives and forms of organizations to take autonomous actions while having access to one another to better coordinate and gain needed resources so as to engender the formulation of the various projects and programs that must be created to continue the fight against the destruction of our communities and the lack of support systems available to our marginalized brother, sisters, mothers, fathers, and friends. To use this structure as an incubator for organizing, and to assist the already developing and ongoing groups, meeting and actions that seek to defend us and our communities. We believe that together we have the power to influence what happens next for our communities and our planet. Another world is possible if we come together and organize relentlessly, compassionately, and fiercely. As each Disrupt! group for locations across the country are rolled out they will be posted on Disrupt! America. Organisers, if you would like your own Disrupt! group and page for your city/town please DM me or email [email protected]

06/08/2026
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A Mighty Girl's Pick of the Day is in honor of Dr. Virginia Apgar's birthday: "Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!" by Carrie Pearson. The Apgar Score is known the world over: a test given to babies to determine their health moments after they are born. Less well-known is the story of the brilliant, pioneering woman who invented it, even though she named it after herself!

Virginia "Ginny" Apgar was born into a New Jersey household so brimming with curiosity and motion that, as she later put it, no one ever sat down. Ginny was no different -- talking her way onto every sports team, building her own violins, and leaving teachers to wonder, as one famously did, "frankly, how does she do it?" She earned her medical degree at Columbia in 1933 and, when her mentor warned that surgery offered few opportunities for women, pivoted into the new field of anesthesiology, where she became only the second woman in the country to earn full board certification. In 1952, in answer to a medical student's question about how to tell a healthy newborn from one in distress, she jotted down a five-point checklist for evaluating a baby in the first minute of life. That checklist became the Apgar Score, used in delivery rooms around the world ever since and credited with saving countless babies' lives.

This lively picture book biography moves at Ginny's own brisk pace, capturing the irrepressible energy that defined her. Nancy Carpenter's warm, vibrantly observed illustrations follow her from a busy childhood through medical school and into the delivery rooms of New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where she would help bring some twenty thousand babies into the world. Substantial back matter, including a timeline, an author's note, and additional historical context, helps young readers understand both the medical breakthrough at the story's heart and the wider barriers women in science faced in Apgar's lifetime. Highly recommended for ages 5 to 9.

"Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!" is available at https://www.amightygirl.com/virginia-wouldn-t-slow-down

To share her story with young readers, there is an early chapter-book biography, "She Persisted: Virginia Apgar" for ages 6 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-virginia-apgar

Virginia Apgar's story is also told in the picture book "She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted), "Girls Think of Everything" for ages 8 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/girls-think-of-everything), and "Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/trailblazers-33-women-in-science)

For teens and adults, she's also featured in the books "Bold Women of Medicine" (https://www.amightygirl.com/bold-women-of-medicine) and "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science – And The World" (https://www.amightygirl.com/headstrong-52-women)

For children's books about more trailblazing women of science, visit our blog post "60 Books to Inspire Science-Loving Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13914

06/06/2026
06/06/2026

Updated guidance for anyone heading to Delaney Hall.

Knowing your rights is one of the best ways to protect yourself and your community. Take a few minutes to review this information before you arrive. Share it with others. Make a plan. Look out for one another.

the more numbers that show up against this the stronger we are ‼️‼️
06/06/2026

the more numbers that show up against this the stronger we are ‼️‼️

06/06/2026

And here we are...

■Fascism protects capitalism by violently crushing labor movements, and vilifying leftists.
■It uses nationalism, racism, and scapegoating to distract workers from class struggle.
■The capitalist class backs fascist regimes when liberal democracy is no longer able to contain rising unrest.
■Fascism merges the state and corporate interests, not to abolish capitalism, but to discipline and stabilize it-with brutal repression.

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