Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/29/2018 - 09/30/2018
All Day
Categories No Categories
Black Women’s Blueprint
DC Rape Crisis Center
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)
This September 29, 2018 we march in Washington, DC and on September 30. 2018 we march in New York City. Black women (cis, trans, other identities) and comrades will unite and lock arms and march unapologetically with all others who want to pull the foot of oppression off our necks.
Our March is not only a mass mobilization centered on all Black women, but a reminder to every single one of us that so long as Black women have their children forcibly taken, deported or killed by law enforcement; so long as our daughters are sold or go missing; so long as we are raped by friends, family, dates, strangers, prominent persons or nationally renown predators — WE MUST DEPLOY OUR COLLECTIVE POWER. DEMAND JUSTICE. FIGHT FOR PEACE.
We need you to show up for Black women in all our diversity because our oppressions are bound-up together.
We give ourselves permission to believe in the power of our demands and the strength of our convictions to take back what is already ours. We cannot allow an isolationist impulse to dictate our movement strategy given the urgency of now. As various communities of Black women, we have always faced innumerable personal, and unspeakable brutalities. We cannot allow the travesties that have affirmed disregard for our existence to continue to flourish while we wither away with resentment and stew in our own rage. Continue to act to eradicate oppression wherever it shows up. This has been our inherited tradition for centuries, practiced in diverse ways around the world, in in both peaceful protest and in righteous anger in the face of indignities and in the face of dehumanization.
JOIN US FOR A DAY OF ACTION & A NEW SOCIAL CONTRACT FOR BLACK WOMEN
Let us know you’re marching in DC or NY.
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