Raise the Green Bandana on International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a day to give voice to our fury against the ways that women’s lives and rights are threatened and to our dreams of a future where women and all people are free.

This year, we call on women and people of all genders across this country to raise the Green Bandana of abortion rights, a symbol which comes from our sisters in Latin America, to demand:

LEGAL ABORTION ON DEMAND AND WITHOUT APOLOGY EVERYWHERE!

FORCED MOTHERHOOD = FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT!

Last year on International Women’s Day, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights launched a nationwide struggle aimed at stopping the Supreme Court from overturning the right to abortion in this country. In the months that followed, tens of thousands of young women, older women, women from Latin America and people of all genders and walks of life joined us in the streets. Ultimately, this resistance was not powerful enough to stop the Supreme Court. Since then, the Christian fascist assault on abortion rights has only escalated. This makes our resistance in the streets even more urgent.

Right now, a Trump-appointed federal judge is being asked to take one of the most common abortion medications off the market nationwide.

Will you silently adjust to another leap in the drive to force women back into open patriarchal subordination by using the state to force them to have children against their will?

Will you comfort yourself in this acquiescence with the misplaced hope that this assault will stop here? It won’t!

Or will you resist?

Will you stand with women around the world rising up for their rights and their lives?

As we wrote in our founding statement, “The violent subjugation of half of society must not be accommodated, excused, downplayed, or surrendered to. IT MUST BE STOPPED!” 

AND WE MUST STOP IT!