DRUM Members Join Historic Women’s March

 

DRUM and Ugnayan joined the NYC’s Women’s March and the Women’s March in D.C. as a part of a nation-wide mobilization to stand up to attacks on reproductive and women’s rights from the Trump administration. Over 400,000 people marched in New York City, making it the single largest mobilization in U.S. history. From the workplace to the home, a woman’s worth will be known!

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WE STRIKE AGAINST:
paid jobs
emotional labor
childcare
elderly care
diapers
housework
cooking
sweeping
laundry
dishes
errands
groceries
fake smiles
flirting
make-up
laundry
shaving
gender roles, expectations
What are you striking against?

WE STRIKE FOR:
respect and dignity
liberation
a $15 minimum wage for all workers, no exceptions
reproductive freedom, full access and no coercion
national health care for everyone
protection & expansion of social security
childcare, free like the public schools, and paid family leave
protection of our planet and all livings things
an end to racist and sexual assaults, all forms of bigotry
an end to wars on our bodies, our communities & our sovereign lands
what are you striking for?

we are precious & powerful.

 

 

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March 1, 2017

To my domestic partner(s)/family members/husband:

On March 8th, International Women’s Day, I, along with millions of girls and womxn around the world, will strike to honor and celebrate the countless ways that we have labored in our homes, workplaces and communities. We strike because we recognize that none of the rights and civil liberties we have today would have been possible without the immeasurable hours that girls and womxn have spent – in the streets, in kitchens and factories – in the past fighting for our liberation.

We strike, in solidarity with the girls and womxn marching in 30 other countries on International Women’s Day because we recognize that a change is in order. We want to pause for a moment and come together to build a more just future.

We strike not just against the current repressive governments worldwide; we strike to continue the centuries-long legacy of girls and women who have resisted against sexism and male domination. We strike to disrupt the world of class, race and gender oppressions that makes our labor invisible and peripheral. We strike to show the precious and powerful truth of girls/womxn of color, trans and queer girls/womxn’s labor.

We halt our work to highlight just how meager, how lackluster and how dysfunctional the world would be without us. We strike to demand that both our paid and unpaid labor be valued and fairly compensated.

I submit this letter to invite you to support me and my sisters in walking out from home, the workplace and anywhere else that survives off my labor. Instead, I invite you to participate with me in activities that advance my liberation, the collective liberation of my sisters. I strike not just for myself but also for those who can’t out of fear of retaliation; it is as imperative that we be free of violence, intimidation and injustice at home and in our public/professional domains. Join me in fighting for the world we deserve.

Finally, we invite you to strike and wear red with me because it is the color of sisterhood, our resistance, our commitment to full liberation of all girls and womxnkind.

With love, power and aspirations for freedom,

A Liberation Worker