This March, we celebrate the legacy of international working women’s struggle for liberation. In this moment it is ever relevant to strengthen the fight for the power and self determination of working women, femmes and gender oppressed people around the globe.
Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and particularly the recent massacre in Rafah, must be at the fore when thinking about the struggle for women’s liberation right now. According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society,“this year is the bloodiest for Palestinian women.” In Gaza, where a majority of the population are children, Israel continues its callous genocidal acts–engaging in mass starvation of the people. When a settler colonial state removes the capacity of a people to sustain life, this is also an attack on reproductive justice and must be treated as such. On Friday, March 8, movement partners near and far are mobilizing mass actions in the spirit of the first women’s strike in New York City in 1908, to stand united in upholding the legacy and power of women’s resistance here and in Palestine and demand an end to the horrendous genocide funded by US tax dollars. Find an International Working Women’s Day action near you andtake the streets with us!
Globally, the struggle for reproductive autonomy continues in the wake of the far-right’s threat, thefight against the PIC remains vigorous. CR’s Oakland and Los Angeles chapters and California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP) have been central organizations in Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s fight to close 10 prisons by 2025 in CA, while CCWP spearheads the effort to close the two remaining state women’s prisons in California.
PIC abolition is a necessary vision for the liberation of all working women and gender oppressed people. Please join CR in attending CCWP’s upcoming event on March 28 at 5pm PST#ClosureIsPossible: Making California Women’s Prisons Obsolete featuring CR-cofounder Rachel Herzing, Andrea James, and Piper Kerman.
Happy International Working Women’s Day and Women’s history month!
Onward toward liberation,
-Critical Resistance
MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS
TOMORROW, Friday, March 8: From San Francisco, to Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Providence, Washington DC, Palestine & Beyond, THIRD WORLD WOMEN RESIST!
If you’re in the Bay Area, please join CR Oakland in San Francisco for the 2024 International Working Women's Day mobilization, as part of Palestinian Feminist Collective’s mass mobilizations in multiple cities.
Thursday, March 28, 5pm PT: "Making California Women's Prisons Obsolete" Event with CCWP
Join CCWP and three leading anti-prison activists—Andrea James, Rachel Herzing, and Piper Kerman—in a vital conversation about making women’s history by closing women’s prisons in California and across the country. What will it take to make this vision real?Register for the Zoom link!
Want on Reproductive Justice & Abolition?:Read Issue 39 of The Abolitionist Newspaper!
Issue 39 of CR's cross-wall bilingual newspaper covers articles exploring how the PIC maintains reproductive oppression, and how PIC abolition and reproductive justice must conjoin to win collective liberation, featuring an interview with CCWP’s Diana Block and Moonlight Pulido on the fight for reparations for people forcibly sterilized while caged in California prisons for women.
Today, Tomorrow & Next Week: Defend the Bay Bridge 78!
All this week, supporters in the Bay Area and beyond have been calling and emailing the San Francisco District Attorney's office each day to demand they drop all charges against the Bay Bridge 78, a group of protestors & Bay Area residents who shut down the Bay Bridge in November for a ceasefire when Biden was in town.
This week and next keep up the pressure with CR, and help us with more calls and emails., If you're in the Bay Area join us for court support next week, on Thursday, March 14 at 850 Bryant in San Francisco. A drop the charges rally will be held at 12:30pm PT, and court starts at 1:30pm.
Imprisoned Organizer Sitawa Jamaa is Free & Home: Donate NOW to support his daily care!
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Mural by Leslie “Dime” Lopez at 4400 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 2019.
