U.S. / At-large 2021 Activities Archive
National online meeting
The future of reproductive justice is in our hands
On December 1, as the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the legal status of abortion in the U.S., members of Radical Women and the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice hit the streets in Washington, DC and a number of other cities to demand the judges uphold and expand abortion rights. Hear from the organizers about how the day went. Get an evaluation of national leadership on the issue. Share your thoughts on what kind of actions are needed on January 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, and help plan what it will take to build a movement mighty enough to preserve the right of women and all people to control their own bodies. Together we are saying, it's #MyDecisionAlone.
If you are in an organization, please encourage it to send representatives and to endorse and get active in the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice.
Register here. You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
Hosted by Radical Women.
Information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Go to ReproJusticeNow.org – to endorse, donate, learn about the campaign, and access tools and resources
Sunday, November 21, 3pm PST / 5pm CST / 6pm EST
Radical Women national online meeting
Build the movement to #TestifyForRoe
The National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice is planning in-person and online actions for Wed., December 1st, when the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a crucial challenge to abortion rights. We call on feminists across the country to "Tell It to the Judges: Uphold and Expand Abortion Rights." Share your thoughts and plans. Find out how you can help. Your voice is essential. Together we are saying, it's #MyDecisionAlone.
If you are in an organization, please encourage it to send representatives and to endorse (via www.ReproJusticeNow.org) the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and its powerful, intersectional demands
Register here. You will receive a Zoom confirmation. Information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Go to www.ReproJusticeNow.org – to endorse, donate, view demands and calendar, and access tools and resources
Sunday book group resumes in November
3pm PT, 5pm CT, 6pm ET
“Revolution, She Wrote,” by Clara Fraser
Radical Women founder Clara Fraser provides an encyclopedic yet entertaining exploration of the meaning of socialist feminism, the power of Marxist theory and working-class feminism, and the highs and lows of an activist life. Through columns, essays and speeches spanning 40 years, she addresses diverse topics including women's leadership, the interconnections of racism and sexism, homophobia in the military, electoral politics, and more. Meet a woman revolutionary for all times! Everyone welcome.
Order from Red Letter Press, $17.95 plus shipping
or read online at: https://tinyurl.com/RSWonline
11/7: Socialism for Skeptics p. 271-301
12/5: Marxism: From Red Square to Main Street (selections) p. 305-354
1/9: The Socialist Feminist Future (& beyond!) p. 355-377
Register here.
For more information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Sunday, October 17, 3pm PT / 5pm CT / 6pm ET
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Report-back on the mobilization for reproductive justice — and what's next
Hear about the achievements and wide range of actions held on October 3rd as part of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice. From New York City to Redwood City, from Arizona to Minnesota and parts in-between, folks came out with a powerful, intersectional set of demands aimed at building the kind of broad, militant grassroots movement that can save abortion and expand reproductive rights.
What's next? Bring your thoughts and ideas! The Supreme Court has scheduled December 1 for hearing arguments on the Mississippi case that could throw out Roe v. Wade. June is when the decision could come down. What can we do in the meantime to build the massive political pressure needed to ensure the right of women and all people to control their own bodies and lives?
Hosted by National Radical Women
Register here.
Information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Sunday, October 3
Remember Rosie Jiménez
National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Make your voice heard on October 3 -- the anniversary of Jiménez death from a back-alley abortion after the Hyde Amendment was passed in 1977. October is also the beginning of the fall session of the U.S. Supreme Court, which will hear a dangerous challenge to Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion.
Take action in your own locale -- live, online, or on social media - for a national day of action demanding the right of women and all people to control their own bodies. Share your action and organizing resources on a coordinated national calendar at www.ReproJusticeNow.org
We demand
-Protect & expand Roe v. Wade; safe, legal abortion on demand without apology
-Repeal the Hyde Amendment
-Overturn state barriers to reproductive choices
-Stop forced sterilization
-No to caged kids, forced assimilation, & child welfare abuses
-End medical & environmental racism; for universal healthcare
-Defend queer & trans families
-Guarantee medically sound sex education & affordable childcare
-Uphold social progress with expanded voting rights & strong unions
Contact the National Organizing Center at RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com, 206-985-4621, www.ReproJusticeNow.org to endorse, connect with local actions and donate.
Sunday, September 26, 3pm PDT/5pm CDT/6pm EDT
Online Organizing Meeting
Help Build the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Come to this mobilizing meeting to help shape and build a massive chorus of voices for reproductive justice on Sunday, October 3, through a nationally coordinated calendar of local activities. Everyone welcome -- both individuals and representatives of groups! Bring your ideas and energy!
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ReproJ-Sep26
For more information: 206-985-4621 • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
Sunday, September 12, 3pm PDT/5pm CDT/6pm EDT
Online Organizing Meeting
Help Build the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
At this urgent movement in the fight for safe, legal and accessible abortion, we remember Rosie Jiménez and the untold numbers of women who have died from illegal botched procedures. Join other activists to build coordinated national actions for October 3, the anniversary of Rosie's death, to say NEVER AGAIN!
Come to this mobilizing meeting to help shape and build a massive chorus of voices for reproductive justice on Sunday, October 3, through a nationally coordinated calendar of local activities. Everyone welcome -- both individuals and representatives of groups! Bring your ideas and energy!
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ReproJ-Sep12
For more information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Saturday, Aug. 28, 1pm PDT, 3pm CDT, 4pm EDT
Women’s Rights Day celebration
The inspiring global fight for reproductive justice
Don't miss this exciting event! Two international speakers will tell how women in their countries won legal abortion by building massive grassroots movements. Building on their inspiration, a Phoenix feminist will discuss how to counter threats to reproductive justice in the United States. Come away energized, hopeful, and galvanized to action!
Speakers:
ARGENTINA – Paula Carbajal – educator, historian, abortion rights activist, Mujeres por la Libertad, Neuquén
IRELAND - Ellen Dillon – poet and teacher, rural organizer for movement to repeal anti-abortion law, Limerick
U.S. – Susan Massey – feminist mathematician in health research, Radical Women, Phoenix
Chair: Nga Bui – anti-fascist organizer, New York City
Spanish translation available.
Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/WRD-RW
Sponsored by: Radical Women U.S. For more information: 206-985-4621 • Facebook event • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
Sunday, Aug. 15, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
Radical Women organizing meeting
Help build the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
This is an urgent moment in the fight for safe, legal and accessible abortion. Come to this mobilizing meeting to help shape and build a massive chorus of voices for reproductive justice on Sunday, October 3, through a nationally coordinated calendar of local activities. Also learn about the Women's Rights Day celebration being organized by Radical Women that will feature a panel of abortion rights activists from Argentina, Ireland and the United States. Everyone welcome -- both individuals and representatives of groups! Bring your ideas and energy!
Register here.
You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
For more information: 206-985-4621 • www.facebook.com/RadicalWomenUS • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
Sunday, July 18 -- 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
Radical Women organizing meeting
Spotlighting the fight for reproductive justice
SisterReach and supporters speak out in Memphis, Tennessee, June 19, 2020.
Black women, women of color and the poor are hardest hit when abortion rights are denied. The fight for full reproductive justice encompasses issues of access to quality health care, social support for pregnant people and single mothers, an end to forced sterilization, childcare, and ending all forms of bigotry.
This national Radical Women zoom meeting will begin with fiery words from a videotaped press conference by SisterReach of Memphis, Tennessee, in June 2020, when lawmakers had just passed a 6-week limit on abortion. An array of speakers reveal the full human cost and racist impact of attacks on reproductive rights.
Buoyed by their fight-back, we will then discuss Radical Women’s plans to build a strong movement to stop the rollback of reproductive rights, beginning with an inspiring international Women’s Rights Day celebration in August and a campaign for actions around the country on October 3, to remember Rosie Jiménez and defend Roe v Wade.
Come share your ideas and energy. Let’s build this movement!
Register here
You will receive a Zoom confirmation. For more information: 206-985-4621 • Facebook event • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
Sunday, June 20, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
National Radical Women online meeting
A call-out to defenders of abortion rights!
Are you outraged and worried that the pro-patriarchy Supreme Court majority could overturn Roe v Wade when it takes up Mississippi’s anti-abortion laws this fall? What should supporters of women’s rights do to stop a rollback? What local or national actions can we work on together to affirm every person’s right to control their own body?
Radical Women knows that powerful social movements have a big influence on the U.S. Supreme Court. That is the lesson from how abortion, voting rights, LGBTQ marriage and other groundbreaking victories were won. Relying on lobbyists, lawyers, and professional spokespeople isn’t going to cut it. Neither will the hope that mail-order abortion drugs can stop the conflict. The real aim of anti-choicers is controlling and repressing women, queers and trans people. The far-right wants to revive racist eugenics policies that restrict childbearing for people of color, while boosting the white birthrate. To turn the tide will take masses in the streets like we’ve seen in Ireland, Argentina, Poland and elsewhere. We need a united fight against a common enemy!
Come to this Radical Women meeting to brainstorm bold and creative approaches that could spark mass action. Bring your thoughts on what is needed locally and nationally, along with ideas on how to build alliances with other social movements.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/NRWJune
You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
For more information: 206-985-4621 • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com • facebook.com/RadicalWomenUS
Sunday, May 16, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
National Radical Women organizing meeting
Feminists imagine a more just future — from Palestine to the U.S.
Feminist voices in defense of the most oppressed are vitally needed, whether the issue is justice in the Middle East, the scapegoating of transgender youth, or racist attacks. At this meeting, longtime anti-Zionist Jewish activist Adrienne Weller will report on the renewed outbreak of protest and repression in Israel/Palestine and exciting feminist voices coming out of the struggle. The meeting will also discuss the rash of bigoted legislation targeting trans youth and how Radical Women can provide support. Plus updates on other socialist feminist activities. Everyone welcome.
Register here.
For more information:
206-985-4621 • Facebook event • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com • radicalwomen.org
Sunday, April 18, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Standing up to fascists yesterday and today
Learn about a powerful coalition effort, United Front Against Fascism (UFAF), that confronted and demoralized fascists every time they raised their heads in the Pacific Northwest during the 1990s. Radical Women was a proud part of that movement. Ann Rogers, a Native American elder who was a mainstay of the UFAF campaign, will recount key lessons from that experience -- lessons that are urgently needed today as Nazis and white supremacists ratchet up recruiting efforts around the country.
The meeting will also hear reports on Radical Women's participation in recent protests against the far-right in Seattle, Phoenix, and Huntington Beach, California. Plus an update on Radical Women's organizing around the EACH Act to expand abortion access and other socialist feminist activities. Everyone welcome.
Register here.
You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
For more information: 206-985-4621 • Facebook event • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
Sunday, March 21, 3pm PDT/5pm CDT/6pm EDT
Online meeting
Women Shake the World
Teachers protest military coup, Feb. 9, 2021. (Ninjastrikers)
With the roar of global International Women's Day protests still reverberating, this socialist feminist gathering will examine the courageous leadership role women are playing in opposing the military coup in Myanmar. What inspires them? What has brought them into the streets?
The meeting will also discuss organizing for the Each Woman Act, which would strengthen abortion access across the U.S., and hold a skills-building session on writing successful letters to the editor. Everyone welcome.
Register at: http://bit.ly/NRW3-21
You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
Sponsored by Radical Women U.S.
For more information: 206-985-4621 • RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com • radicalwomen.org • www.facebook.com/RadicalWomenUS
Saturday, March 13, 4pm PST (6pm CST, 7pm EST)
Sunday, March 14, 11am Melbourne
Online International Women's Day Celebration
Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide
This international celebration of the socialist-inspired day to honor working women will bring together feminists of different nations and regions to discuss the massive cross-border upsurge in defense of women’s lives and address how to stop the epidemic of violence against women.
Speakers:
Amelia Kirk-Harkin, Australia, union activist, tradeswoman and artist, Melbourne Radical Women
Eréndira Munguía, Mexico, college mathematics professor, Partido Obrero Socialista (Socialist Workers Party)
Earth-Feather Sovereign, Confederated Colville Tribes, founder of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington
Charlotte Strauss Swanson, U.S. Radical Women, doctoral researcher in psychology, gender, social justice at University of Tennessee
Register in advance at http://bit.ly/IWD-RW
Sponsored by: Radical Women U.S. and Australia
For more information:
Radical Women National Office
206-985-4621
RadicalWomenUS@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/1238776999856840
Sunday, February 21, 1pm Zoom event
Black History Month celebration
The Unfinished Revolution: Black Reconstruction Today
Today's fight against entrenched racism cries out for a massive restructuring of society on the level of post-Civil War Reconstruction, where former slaves led in creation of historic gains, including public school and health systems, Black political representation, and increased democratic rights. Help envision the components of a new Reconstruction through a multiracial anti-capitalist and feminist movement with militant Black working-class leadership. Get connected to campaigns against police brutality, homelessness, and rising fascism. Step into the battle for reproductive justice, and for jobs and training programs that focus on the Black community.
Featured Speaker:
Kristina Lee is a Black and Chinese activist from San Francisco, with Slash SFPD Stash - Guns & Cash and the Comrades of Color Caucus of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party
Register in advance for this meeting: bit.ly/BHM-2021
Hosted by:
National Comrades of Color Caucus of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party
For more information:
206-722-6057
RWseattle@mindspring.com
Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/242431450871581
Saturday, February 20, 3 pm PST, 4pm CST, 6pm EST
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Get on the move with Radical Women
Let’s get together and strategize! This online gathering will forward plans for a national campaign for reproductive justice, discuss Radical Women's exciting cross-border International Women's Day event "Women Rise Up Globally Against Femicide," and choose topics for an ongoing reading group. Come ready to share your ideas, creativity, preferences and insights.
Click here to register. You will receive a Zoom confirmation.
Sponsored by Radical Women U.S.
For more information: 206-722-6057 • rwseattle@mindspring.com • radicalwomen.org • www.facebook.com/RWseattle
Sunday, Jan. 17, 3pm - 4:30pm PST, 6pm - 7:30pm EST
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Building a socialist feminist response to a world in turmoil
In this whirlwind month of ultra-right insurgency, impeachment efforts, ongoing attacks on abortion, and the ever-present economic and social crisis of Covid, what are feminist radicals to do? Let’s get together and strategize! This national zoom gathering will analyze the Washington, DC, far-right riot, discuss the growing fascist movement, and take a look at what Radical Women members and friends across the U.S. can adopt as a collective focus for the year ahead. Bring your anger, ideas, creativity and insights into how women and the most oppressed are impacted by current events and what leadership we can provide!Radical Women’s working-class activists are eager to connect with you on the many crucial issues of these times! Let's talk about how we can work together in far-flung locations.
Sunday, December 20, 3pm PST, 6pm EST
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Let's talk about building the fight for race and gender justice in 2021!
Bring your ideas about the hot topics coming up in 2021 and what issue Radical Women members and friends across the U.S. can work on together to build a strong socialist feminist response. Evictions? Debt relief? Counteracting the race and gender impacts of Covid? Childcare? Police harassment? Reproductive rights? Education? Violence against women? What's affecting your life? On every issue, women of color are fighting the hardest battles. Let's come up with ways to make a difference and build multiracial, radical resistance!Radical Women’s working-class activists are eager to connect with you on the many crucial issues of these times! Let's talk about how we can work together in far-flung locations.
Sunday, November 15, 3pm PST, 6pm EST
National Radical Women meetingE
Socialist feminist Zoom gathering
How do things stand for women's rights, racial justice, and working people in the still uncertain aftermath of the elections and with COVID on the upswing? Join with other feminist radicals to discuss how things stand in your region and how we can organize to make sure the needs of the most oppressed are front and center.Sunday, October 18, 3pm PST, 6pm EST
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
Radical Women's revolutionary roundtable!
Please join with other feminist radicals to discuss the coming presidential elections and the rightwing backlash. Emma Allen, who represents Seattle Radical Women in the Community & Labor Against Fascism coalition, will present lessons from history on how fascists target women’s rights while also trying to recruit middle-class women. On a brighter note, please come to share your experiences from the national October 17 women’s marches!Sunday, September 20, 3pm PST, 6pm EST
National Radical Women Zoom meeting
You're warmly invited to
Radical Women's first national online meet-and-greet!