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Have you seen this petition yet? Free Pakhshan Azizi

Help Fund our Socialist Feminist Contingent to the DNC Protest!

The Democratic National Convention will see a historic protest this year- a showdown between those standing up against capitalism, racism and genocide; and the corporate, pro-war Democratic Party. The country will be watching.

Now more than ever, we need to organize bold alternatives to the two-party trap that empower the working class- like forming united fronts to stop immigrant scapegoating, mobilizing unions to defend abortion rights, and raising the call for an anti-capitalist labor party. All this and more is what Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party's Socialist Feminist Contingent will bring to Chicago.

But we need your help to get there.

Your working class dollars will help with travel, housing, visuals, signage and our media team so that we can get our message out widely and boldly.

We've set up a Gofundme to gather financial support from members and supporters: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-socialist-feminist-protest-at-dnc

A donation of any amount will help us send a strong team to be a part of this historic protest. And consider joining us in Chicago on August 18th-21st! To join our contingent, email [email protected] for more info.

Thank you for your generous support in bringing a radical voice for change to Chicago!

Jed
Coordinator, FSP & RW Contingent to the DNC Protest

Help Fund our Socialist Feminist Contingent to the DNC Protest!

The Democratic National Convention will see a historic protest this year- a showdown between those standing up against capitalism, racism and genocide; and the corporate, pro-war Democratic Party. The country will be watching.

Now more than ever, we need to organize bold alternatives to the two-party trap that empower the working class- like forming united fronts to stop immigrant scapegoating, mobilizing unions to defend abortion rights, and raising the call for an anti-capitalist labor party. All this and more is what Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party's Socialist Feminist Contingent will bring to Chicago.

But we need your help to get there.

Your working class dollars will help with travel, housing, visuals, signage and our media team so that we can get our message out widely and boldly.

We've set up a Gofundme to gather financial support from members and supporters.

A donation of any amount will help us send a strong team to be a part of this historic protest. And consider joining us in Chicago on August 18th-21st! To join our contingent, email [email protected] for more info.

Thank you for your generous support in bringing a radical voice for change to Chicago!

Jed
Coordinator, FSP & RW Contingent to the DNC Protest

Happy to say that a Radical Women member will be part of this action!

Southern Californians, don't miss this! Choudry-Cabellero's documentary, "The Power of Choice," which includes an interview with Radical Women's Maxine Reigel, will be shown on July 6 in the afternoon! Naheedence Photographic

Ticket and Schedule Wine, refreshments, music, networking and the presentation of the Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Actor awards.

An excellent article by Workers Voice on the purpose of our DC action and the goals of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, including Radical Women's initiating role.

Unions and social justice organizations speak out for reproductive rights - Workers' Voice/La Voz (También en español) The same forces that are attacking our reproductive rights are also trying to destroy our rights as workers...

Monday, June 24 was a powerful day for Radical Women's work in the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice. Solidarity forever!

Tune in here https://tinyurl.com/FeministLaborPC for the Livestream on June 24 at 10:00am ET to hear the variety of labor and community voices united in calling for the AFL-CIO to convene an emergency conference for reproductive justice!

The annual Give BIG campaign is May 7-8
Please donate to help reproductive justice activists travel to D.C.

Make your Give BIG contribution support a grassroots, labor-focused organizing effort initiated by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice (NMRJ). Donate at https://tinyurl.com/NMRJdonate

On June 24, the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the NMRJ and the Coalition of Labor Union Women are cosponsoring a press conference in Washington, D.C. Unionists and feminists will speak out on the need for labor action in defense of abortion and reproductive justice.

It will cost at least $10,000 for travel and housing to send a Mobilization contingent from around the country. Your donation will help make it possible for working-class activists, many of whom are LGBTQI+ and of color, to attend.

Donate online at https://tinyurl.com/NMRJdonate or mail a check payable to the Mobilization's financial sponsor, National Radical Women, to 4710 University Way NE #100, Seattle, WA 98105, with note “DC Press Conference.” (Donations are not tax deductible.)

In solidarity,
Brooke Binkowski, SAG-AFTRA* and UAW*
Helen Gilbert, National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice

*for ID only

Watch and share The Power of Choice, a brand new and riveting half-hour film on the fight for reproductive justice by Naheed Chaudhry Naheedence Photographic One of the five people it interviews is Radical Women's own Max Reigel

The Power of Choice THE POWER OF CHOICE is a riveting short documentary film that addresses the abortion access crisis in America, after the U.S. Supreme Court stripped women &…

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S.O.S. from Ghana Despite widespread concerns and opposition, parliament in Ghana has passed the Anti-LGBT+ Bill. Sign the petition urging the President to stand on the right side of history by rejecting this bill. Your signature can make a real difference.

BREAKING NEWS via Associated Press.
The Arizona Supreme Court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban today.

"To date, our legislature has never affirmatively created a right to, or independently authorized, elective abortion," the court's opinion stated.

This ruling makes nearly all abortion in the state illegal, with exception of saving the mother's life.

It also wipes out a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, which was made law in 2022, prior to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade.

After the constitutional right to an abortion was overturned later that year, Arizona still had a law on the books from 1864 that banned nearly all abortions, including in cases of r**e or in**st.

Republicans attempted to revive the law but faced opposition from abortion-rights advocates.

A lower court previously ruled that medical providers could perform abortions up to 15 weeks of pregnancy under the new law. But that ruling was overturned with the state Supreme Court's decision today.

Photo: Members of Radical Women in signature T-shirts carry the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice Banner at the June 24, 2022 Day of Decision protest in Phoenix.

Watch for Naheed Chaudry's soon-to-be-released film, The Power of Choice. Maxine Reigel of Radical Women Seattle Branch is one of the people featured among others in groups who are fighting the good fight! See trailers at Naheed's Instagram page

International Women’s Day statement from Radical Women
STOP THE FAR RIGHT WITH A GLOBAL, FEMINIST UNITED FRONT

Women are rising! We’re workers organizing; First Nations resisting; q***r and trans folks asserting our right to exist; immigrants crossing borders in search of safety; young people demanding a secure future; cis, trans and nonbinary people fighting for reproductive justice; fighters against environmental extinction; and more.

Working women's toughness and fighting spirit are urgently needed today, as we face down ultra-right forces growing through the cracks of a collapsing global economy. From the U.S. to Australia, Iran to Israel, Russia to Argentina, across Europe and beyond, the right wing’s mission is to save this woman-hating, life-sucking system of capitalist rule.

But women are fighting back! In Ukraine they take up arms against Russia’s invasion. Russian women have stood with them, leading daring protests to stop the war despite Putin’s brutal crackdown. Afghan women courageously defy the Taliban, clandestinely holding classes and taking their demand for “Bread, Work, Freedom!” to the streets. The raw endurance of Palestinian women against unimaginable brutality has inspired solidarity from the entire world and First Peoples everywhere. “Woman, Life, Freedom,” the call of Iranian women against their reactionary theocracy, rings around the globe. This slogan comes from Kurdish women across Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria whose fight for a free homeland is unstoppable.

-Profits and patriarchy-
The far right wants to bolster the profit economy and its patriarchal social structure by enforcing gender roles and keeping women underpaid and providing free labor in the home. Our opponents seek to crush labor and incite white supremacy and xenophobia as forces of division within the working class. But resistance is fierce.

In the U.S., the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, initiated by Radical Women, is bringing together women and nonbinary people, qu**rs and unionists of all colors — not only to restore abortion access but to fight for full reproductive rights. In Australia, trans and q***r communities have consistently led mobilizations against patriarchs in Parliament and uniformed N***s on the ground. Huge turnouts, such as Melbourne’s 5,000-strong Trans Day of Visibility in 2023, show the depth and breadth of community anger. Women, trans and q***r people of Ukraine, Russia, India, Singapore, and numerous African countries are organizing against similar controls on their lives. Women were the face of Argentina’s January national general strike against Trumpian President Javier Mile’s “shock therapy” economic measures. Their past experience in opposing dictatorship, fighting femicide and winning abortion rights has prepared them.

-Uproot emerging führers-
The über right’s growth reveals capitalism’s instability. But women’s uprisings prove our strength and reflect our history. International Women’s Day was inspired by a huge strike of immigrant women garment workers in New York City on March 8, 1908. On IWD 1917 in Russia, striking women textile workers’ demand for “Peace, Land and Bread” ignited the world’s first socialist revolution. In 2020, 80,000 women in Mexico City marched against femicide on March 8 and the next day women across Mexico shut the country down by staying home from work and school to protest gender violence.

A united front of everyone targeted by the far right is the time-tested way to beat back reaction. With leadership of the most oppressed within the working class, democratic functioning, and a strong program, a united front draws on everyone’s energy and insights while recognizing different perspectives.

On an international scale such unity would be even more formidable. Women who face down the barrel of a tank — like brave sisters in Afghanistan, Kurdish territories and Palestine — are reaching out to siblings around the world for support. Solidarity comes from knowing that our liberation struggles are bound together by a common capitalist/imperialist enemy. We need each other. In unifying our power, we could eradicate the far right and the profit system that fuels it. It’s time to finish what our Russian foremothers started in 1917: transforming the world through socialist feminist revolution.

The Right To Boycott, a 5 minute film produced by the Freedom2Boycott NYS Coalition, is available online.The video sounds the alarm on laws intended to take away Americans’ First Amendment right to boycott Israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP0XoovKE7k

As masses throughout the US and around the world rally against the genocide in Gaza and an end to the Israeli occupation, many are recognizing boycotts and divestment as powerful tools. Yet in many states, legislators have been trying to stand in their way, passing dangerous laws curtailing free speech.

Anti-boycott laws have already cost people their jobs and contracts. From Texas to Arkansas to Arizona and beyond, citizens are fighting back. Learn more in The Right to Boycott.

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A very excellent article by a Radical Women sister in Melbourne, Australia that shows the connection between ending Israeli genocide and fighting for Palestinian women's rights.

“No free homeland without free women” - Freedom Socialist Party The crisis in Gaza is creating a reproductive genocide.

Absolutely horrible.

Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were

Mark your calendars and be ready to show the love to flight attendants across the globe on February 13. Their "glamorous" jobs are grueling, low paid, dangerous, and highly at risk of sexual harassment.

Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action Flight Attendants across the industry are fighting to raise the standards for our career. More than two-thirds of the U.S. Flight Attendants are in contract negotiations right now, including red-hot contract fights at Alaska, Air Wisconsin, United, Omni, American, Southwest, Frontier and more. This....

Live in New York -- or register to hear the panelists online!

On Saturday, 1/27/24 at 2PM EST, take part in the Labor Forum in NYC organized by the Mobilization for Reproductive Justice. The event will feature a panel of union activists from diverse sectors who are organizing locally to win better job conditions. Learn how organized labor is mobilizing nationally to fight for reproductive rights.

Panel members:

Tatiana Cozzarelli
Professional Staff Congress - CUNY AFT Local 2335; Left Voice*

Sultana Hossain
Amazon Labor Union, recording secretary of the Amazon Labor Union Democratic Reform Caucus*

Chinisha Scott
Co-chair, WGAE Non-fiction Women of Color Caucus; DGA*

Emily Woo Yamasaki
Legal Services Staff Association, NOLSW Local 2320 of UAW*; Radical Women

*For identification purposes only

Register for the in-person event on Eventbright:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-workers-in-the-fight-for-reproductive-justice-tickets-791331773637

Virtual Attendance
The panel portion of this event will be livestreamed via Zoom. Register to listen in: http://tinyurl.com/NYCLaborForum

Organized by: NYC Mobilization for Reproductive Justice

Co-sponsored by:
Amazon Labor Union Democratic Reform Caucus
Brooklyn Queens NOW
CUNY for Abortion Rights
Freedom Socialist Party
Left Voice
Positive Women United
Radical Women
UAW Region 9A RFA Reproductive Justice Working Group
Writers Guild of America East Non-fiction Women of Color Caucus

Don't miss this exciting discussion of reproductive justice as a labor fight! In NYC on Jan. 27.