U.S. / At-large 2022 Activities Archive
Labor to the fore for reproductive justice!
Come to the second roundtable discussion of working-class change-makers who are laying plans to build union action on reproductive justice. View and discuss an inspiring short video, "Why Abortion Care Workers are Unionizing After Roe v. Wade was Overturned," created by More Perfect Union. Get updates on what people are doing in their unions and hear progress reports on decisions from the first meeting, including getting national unions to call an emergency conference to strategize defense of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy for all.
Get involved and add your thoughts on how to engage organized labor to take up this survival issue for their members.
Click here to register.
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, Facebook @ReproJusticeNow,
reprojusticenow.org 206-985-4621.
Sunday, November 20, 3:00pm PST/6pm EST
Monthly organizing meeting of National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Taking bold action from coast to coast for reproductive justice!
Zoom in to this lively meeting and let’s keep organizing. Get informed on how reproductive justice advocates are getting pills to induce abortions across the Mexican border and into needed hands in the United States. Learn about MARRCH (Madison Abortion & Reproductive Rights Coalition for Healthcare) in Wisconsin and the grassroots actions they are coordinating. Find out about plans by labor rebels across the United States to keep unions involved in this fight and help strategize for winter actions! Bring your thoughts, talents and energy!
Sunday, November 20, 3pm PST/5pm CST/6pm EST
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/NMRJ-11-20
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, Facebook @ReproJusticeNow, 206-985-4621.
Sunday, Sept. 18, 3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT
Monthly zoom organizing meeting of
Radical Women and the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Fighting for Rosie and reproductive justice for all!
Learn how you can take part in multi-city actions on October 1 in honor of Rosie Jiménez, the first person known to die of an unsafe abortion after the Hyde Amendment cut off federal dollars for abortion in 1977. Events will protest reproductive injustices against Latinx communities, such as border separations and inhumane treatment of ICE detainees, including forced sterilization and denial of abortion. Gatherings will also demand that the Supreme Court uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act in its new session beginning October 3. The meeting will also discuss National Mobilization contingents that will raise these issues and more at the marches called by Women's March the following weekend.
Zoom event • Register at tinyurl.com/NRW-Sept2022
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, Facebook @ReproJusticeNow, 206-985-4621.
Women's Rights Day half-day online event
Sponsored by National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and Radical Women
FIGHTING FOR OUR LIVES:
An action conference on reproductive justice
Opening panel: Perspectives from grassroots leaders Workshops: Breaking the race barrier - Labor in the forefront - All aboard for next steps
Flyer for posting (pdf): full sheet or half sheet
Color poster
Register in advance at https://tinyurl.com/2022WRD
Free admission - Requested donation $5.00-$50.00
Sponsored by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and Radical Women
Information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org • 206-985-4621
Sunday, August 21
3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT
This fight is only beginning
Come to the next meeting of Radical Women and the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Hear from activists who attended the Houston Women's Convention. Get fired up to attend and spread the word about the August 27 half-day action conference for reproductive justice cosponsored by Radical Women and the National Mobilization. Bring your thoughts and get involved.
Zoom event • Register at: https://tinyurl.com/NRWaug2022
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, facebook RadicalWomenUS, www.RadicalWomen.org, 206-985-4621.
Sunday, July 17, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
Monthly meeting of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and Radical Women U.S.
Moving forward for reproductive justice!
Learn about the National Mobilization’s Day of Decision actions. Hear how reproductive rights fighters connected with union militants at the national Labor Notes conference. And firm up plans for ongoing organizing. Bring your thoughts and get involved. Register at www.tinyurl.com/JulyNatlMobe.
June 19, 3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT
National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice online meeting
Organizing Meeting of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
News from across the nation! Hear organizers in different cities tell about their Day of Decision actions. Learn about some of the Mobilization's recent endorsers. Be part of developing the response to the decision and deciding on an action plan with concrete demands. Get involved in the movement to win real reproductive justice. Everyone welcome — your help is needed!
Zoom event • Register at https://tinyurl.com/NatlMobe
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, 206-985-4621, ReproJusticeNow.org
Sunday, May 15, 3pm PDT / 4pm MDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT
National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice online meeting
Get involved -- help build the national movement for abortion and reproductive justice!
Sometime soon, the Supreme Court will rule on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Based on the leaked draft decision, the situation looks dire for a federal policy upholding legal abortion. Everyone who believes in the right of bodily autonomy must speak out that this is unacceptable. We need to inspire our communities, unions, and organizations to add their strength to this fight. The intersectional platform of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice is essential in demonstrating meaningful unity to the most-marginalized, who are most by the attacks and whose leadership is vital. Learn how you can get involved in a movement to win real reproductive justice. Everyone welcome -- your ideas and participation are needed!
Zoom event • Register at tinyurl.com/NRWmay2022
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, 206-985-4621, ReproJusticeNow.org
Sun., April 17, 4pm PDT / 5pm MDT / 6pm CDT / 7pm EDT
National Radical Women online meeting
Which Road to Women's Liberation and Reproductive Justice?
Radical Women's multi-issue socialist feminist vision keeps us moving forward in the right direction. One debate in the current reproductive rights struggle is whether a narrow, single-issue focus "we can all agree on" is stronger than building an intersectional effort. We'll dig into this long-running, still persistent political question with a discussion on the document Which Road towards Women's Liberation: A Radical Vanguard or a Single-Issue Coalition?.
The gathering will also hear from national and local organizers of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice about current actions and plans for when the Supreme Court rules on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Learn what's happening in other cities and how you can get involved. Everyone welcome -- your ideas and participation are needed!
Zoom event • Register at tinyurl.com/NRW-April-2022
Order the Radical Women pamphlet Which Road to Women's Liberation?
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org, 206-985-4621, www.RadicalWomen.org
Sunday, March 20, 3pm PDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT
National Radical Women zoom meeting
Women, war and resistance!
Police detain a demonstrator with a sign saying, "No war with Ukraine," at an anti-war protest in Moscow on Feb. 24.
Over and over it’s shown that women, children and civilians pay the highest price in times of war. This meeting will hear about the situation of Ukrainian women, how they’re surviving Russia’s attacks and their situation as refugees. We’ll also learn about courageous feminist antiwar protesters in Russia. Moving to battles at home, the meeting will get updates on building a national movement to defend abortion and reproductive justice. Also on the agenda: a political assessment of Biden’s Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson. It’s a historic first for a Black woman to be nominated, but what are her views? Come add your thoughts.
Zoom event • Register at tinyurl.com/NRW-Mar2022
Sponsored by Radical Women U.S.
More information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org", 206-985-4621
Saturday, March 12, 4pm PST, 5pm MST, 6pm CST, 7pm EST
International Women’s Day Celebration
Still We Rise: Women Rebel Against All Odds
An uplifting appraisal of the courageous resistance of sisters in struggle at home and abroad, punctuated by poetry and song.
Speaker
Maudie Osborne filmmaker, radio presenter, and Radical Women member in Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, Melbourne, Australia
Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” read by Merri Ann Osborne, Seattle-based actor and director of the Mahogany Project
“Women of the World,” read by the author, renowned San Francisco poet-activist Nellie Wong
Zoom event • Register in advance at tinyurl.com/IWD-22
Remote audience participation is encouraged! Be prepared with a picture of someone you want to honor or an important object signifying women's struggle, or simply be ready to raise your hands to salute humanity's unquenchable fight for freedom.
Sponsored by Radical Women Australia and U.S.
For more information: RW.US@radicalwomen.org
Sunday, February 20, 1pm PST/4pm EST
Black History Month celebration
Black Women Fire Up the Movement for Reproductive Justice
Photo caption: Nsombi Lambright speaks at Jackson, MS rally. Charles Smith/AP
The war on abortion access and reproductive rights is mounting daily. In the crosshairs of these assaults, Black women are leading the fightback. Hear from grassroots organizers about how you can help build a militant, multiracial movement that is centered on demands that leave no one behind.
Speakers
Irene Akingbade, National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice—San Francisco
Kristina Lee, queer rights activist; Comrades of Color Caucus coordinator
Register at: tinyurl.com/BHM-2022
Please register in advance
Hosted by the Comrades of Color Caucus of Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party
Information: 206-722-2453, rwseattle@mindspring.com, seattlefsp@socialism.com
Radical Women: radicalwomen.org, facebook.com/RWseattle
Freedom Socialist Party: socialism.com, facebook.com/FSPseattle
Sunday, February 13, 3pm PST / 4pm MST / 5pm CST / 6pm EST
National online meeting
Educate, agitate, & organize
for reproductive justice
San Franciscans head off to confront anti-abortion rally, 1/22/22. Leon Kunstenaar/ProBonoPhoto.org
Get energized and involved by learning about these exciting projects and how you can take part.
• Hear report-backs from activists who stood up for reproductive justice on January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
• Discover the little-known history of African American midwives and abortion providers in the South.
• Get jazzed about the February 20 Black History Month Celebration, "Black Women Fire Up the Movement for Reproductive Justice!" Details below.
• Add your thoughts on how to broaden the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and prepare for actions when the Supreme Court announces its ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization this summer.
• Mark your calendars for an inspiring trans-continental International Women's Day event being planned for Saturday, March 12.
Hosted by Radical Women
Information: 206-985-4621 • Email to: RW.US@radicalwomen.org
National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice • www.ReproJusticeNow.org
Sunday, January 16, 3pm PST / 4pm MST / 5pm CST / 6pm EST
National online Radical Women meeting
Launch the new year with a determined fight for reproductive justice
Who will save reproductive rights and access to abortion for all? It's coming down to you and me. We ARE the leaders we've been waiting for — and we're not waiting any longer! There is an urgent need for a grassroots, militant fight that champions the leadership and demands of the most marginalized. The place to start is here and now.
This national Radical Women meeting will hear from the January 8 Chicago counter-protest of the Midwest Right to "Life" march. Organizers in San Francisco will review their plans for a similar counter-protest, and other cities will discuss their actions for January 22, the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Add your ideas for "Day Of" actions when the Supreme Court decision comes down on the Mississippi challenge to Roe. And let's get inspired by women's uprisings worldwide, as we look toward International Women's Day.
Come add your ideas and share your actions so we can support and reinforce each other's organizing.
Register here.
Information: 206-985-4621 • RW.US@radicalwomen.org
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2021 Activities