Judy Rebick
| Judy Rebick | |
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| Born |
August 15, 1945 Reno, Nevada, United States |
| Occupation | journalist, activist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | rabble.ca, Ten Thousand Roses, Occupy This |
Judy Rebick (born in Reno, Nevada), arrived in Toronto at age 9, and is a Canadian journalist, political activist, and feminist.
In 1983, a man attacked Henry Morgentaler with garden shears outside of his Toronto abortion clinic. Rebick blocked the attack, and Morgentaler remained unharmed. Augusto Dantas was charged with assault and with possession of a weapon dangerous to the public good.
Rebick first gained national prominence as president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women from 1990 to 1993. She was the co-host of a prime time debate show called Face Off on CBC Newsworld from 1994–1998 and then a women's discussion show Straight From the Hip, until 2000. She was a regular commentator on CBC TV's Sunday Report and CBC Radio. She was during that time also a columnist with Elm Street, the London Free Press, and on CBC Online.
In 2001 she helped launch rabble.ca, a multi-media independent news and discussion site, with Mark Surman and Judy MacDonald, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Rebick was publisher of rabble.ca from 2001 until 2005.
With Jim Stanford, Svend Robinson and Libby Davies, she helped lead the New Politics Initiative, a movement that worked both inside and outside the New Democratic Party to refocus it as an activist party. The NPI's platform was rejected at the 2001 NDP convention in Winnipeg. She initiated the wind down the NPI in 2003, claiming that many of its ideals had been embraced by new party leader Jack Layton.
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