Puget Sound Mobilization clinic defense, February 24,2024. Photo by Chris Smith.Join the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice!
Attempts to undermine the right to reproductive and bodily autonomy are an attack on all people’s lives and healthcare needs. The National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice and its affiliates across the country are building a multi-racial, multi-generational grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals to resist these right-wing political assaults. Help build this effort, participate in ongoing reproductive justice actions, and spread the word!
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June 24 press conference: "Labor Takes Action for Reproductive Justice"
What we call for:
• Guarantee access to free contraception & 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 gender-affirming care
• Ensure medically sound sex education & affordable childcare
• Sexual self-determination for people with disabilities
• Uphold social progress with expanded voting rights & strong unions
Add your organization as an endorser and add events to the calendar by contacting
info@reprojusticenow.org or 206-985-4621.
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Get Involved
National
Monthly Mobilization Organizing Meeting
Sunday, June 16, 3pm PT/4pm MT/5pm CT/6pm ET
Reproductive justice organizing from coast to coast. Get involved with efforts to build a strong grassroots defense of all aspects of bodily autonomy.
Register here.
June 24 Press Conference in Washington, DC
"Labor Takes Action for Reproductive Justice"
Cosponsored by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice, Metropolitan Washington Council, AFSCME Local 88, AFSCME Council 57 Retiree Chapter, Freedom Socialist Party, Georgia NOW, Metro DC DSA, National Organization of Legal Services Workers (UAW 2320), Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (IFPTE Local 70), Oregon Chapter Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Radical Women, Reproductive Justice Maryland, and UAW 2110.
- Speakers from unions and reproductive justice groups on the need for labor action to power the fight.
- Delivery of open letter for labor conference to office of AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler.
- Sign on to cosponsor the press conference
More information: info@reprojusticenow.org
Donate to help travel to DC
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Reproductive Justice SF meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 6:30pm.
Register for meetings at: https://bit.ly/reprojusticesf
Linktree for more information
New York, NY
Register here
for Reproductive Justice organizing meetings on 1st and 3rd Wed., 7pm.
ReproJusticeNow.NYC @gmail.com, 212-222-0633.
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Seattle, WA
Planning meetings of the Puget Sound Mobilization for Reproductive Justice: 2nd Thursdays of each month at 6:30pm via Zoom. Register at tinyurl.com/PSmobe
Info: pugetsoundmobe@gmail.com, 206-722-6057, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
Take Action
Help get union and community signers on open letter calling for emergency labor conference in support of reproductive justice.
Download and print PDF version.
Read and sign online form
Signers to date
Resolution template to present to unions and labor groups
Leaflet about the letter to AFL-CIO with QR code
Union power for reproductive justice
Motivate your union to support the call for an emergency national labor-organized conference to
strategize defense of reproductive rights.
Download and print PDF version.
Read and sign online form
Non-AFL-CIO locals are welcome to modify the letter to send to their own International unions urging them to work with the AFL-CIO on an emergency conference.
If you write a separate letter, please send a copy to info@reprojusticenow.org.
How you can help
Donate to costs of the national campaign
Organize a rally, march or flash mob
Do bannering and leafleting at bridges and intersections
Hold an online forum, teach-in or conversation
Work with other groups to hold a town hall event addressing a range of key events such as voting rights, reproductive justice, and workers rights during Covid
Online film showing – recommended titles
Host a letter-writing hour to address federal and state issues of concern
Recent press
"Feminists push for organized labor to fight for reproductive justice," Repro Rights Now, May 29, 2024
Abortion Access and Economic Justice LA Progressive, May 13, 2024
"Why I support the urgent call for a National Labor Conference on Reproductive Justice," Mary Ann Curtis, June 2024
Initiated by Radical Women. Endorsed by: AFSCME Local 88, Alphabet Workers Union CWA Local 1400, American Federation of Government Employees Local 3197, Brooklyn-Queens Chapter NOW, Central Phoenix NOW - Inez Casiano, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (Puerto Rico), Columbia NOW - South Carolina, Communication Workers of America Local 7800, Cornish Federation of Teachers (AFT 4169), Denver Democratic Socialists of America, Downtown Women for Change, The Feminine Effect, Freedom Socialist Party, Fuerza Mundial Global, Gender Justice League, Georgia NOW, Graduate Employees' Organization (AFT 3550), Her Heart Beats Too, Houston Socialist Movement, Houston United Front Against Fascism, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 520, Kadima Reconstructionist Community, Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, Labor for Black Lives Collective-Seattle, Madison Abortion & Reproductive Rights Coalition for Healthcare, Metro Justice, Minnesota Nurses Union, National Organization of Legal Services Workers UAW 2320, Newark Education Workers Caucus, Northwest Animal Rights Network, OCA Asian Pacific American Advocates of Greater Seattle, Older Women's League-SF, Oregon Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, Phoenix Democratic Socialists of America, Pacific NW & IL chapters of American Party of Labor, Raging Grannies Action League, La Resistancia, Seattle Democratic Socialists of America, Seattle NOW, Socialist Alternative-Oakland-San Francisco-Seattle, South Dakota NOW, Speak Out Socialists, Taller Salud (Puerto Rico), Trabajadoras por la Paz, Trans Radical Activist Network, United Auto Workers Local 2324, United Auto Workers Local 4121, Unitarian Universalists of San Francisco Human Rights Working Group, Washington Federation of State Employees Local 304, Washington State Federation of Democratic Women, Women for Racial and Economic Equality, Women's eNews, Workers' Voice - La voz de los trabajadores
Visit the website of Radical Women, campaign initiator, at www.RadicalWomen.org