Jenny Brown

Jenny Brown is a National Women’s Liberation organizer (womensliberation.org) and assistant editor at Labor Notes. She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make “morning-after pill” contraception available over-the-counter in the United States and was a plaintiff in the winning lawsuit. For ten years she co-chaired the Alachua County Labor Party, organizing for national health insurance, the right to a job at a living wage, free higher education and a working person’s political party under the Labor Party slogan, “The corporations have two parties, we need one of our own.” More recently she co-authored, with other Labor Notes staff, How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers (2014). In addition to Labor Notes, her work has appeared in Jacobin, Huffington Post, N+1, Alternet, Convergence, and Jewish Currents.