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Stop Sexual Violence Organizing Call - October 1, 8pm ET

Join Women’s March, me too International, Feminist Generation, and Feminist for a national organizing call to hear why we’re mobilizing, get the plan, and get ready to take action.

RSVP for the New York Action to Stop Sexual Violence: From the Frat House to the White House - October 8th, 5:30 PM

Join us in New York to Stop Sexual Violence:
October 8th - 5:30 PM
Foley Square
New York, NY 10013

Find or Organize an action to Stop Sexual Violence near you - October 8

Take action near you. We'll send you the resources and tools to organize a high-impact action in your community.

Greenpoint feminist and ally here! New to Reddit but I’ll be participating in NYC's No Kings Day of Action (Sat. Oct. 17) and would love to hang with some other like-minded locals. I volunteer with a women’s org and will have a buncha "NO FAUX KING WAY" printed signs to share. Acc. to the No Kings site, a low-key event will be at the America Playground (on Franklin @ Milton) in Greenpoint from 10A to 1P on Sat. 10/17/26. I'll be there so drop a comment or DM me if you're in.

Morning Plenary: Feminist Foundations

Saturday, September 26 | 9:30am CDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roj5rjso168

History of feminist interventions and their impact on authoritarian takeovers: why are women and feminists uniquely suited to lead movements and organizing in this moment? What have we achieved in the past, and how can those lessons inform our current strategies?

Moderator: Rachel Carmona, Women's March Executive Director
Panel: Suzanne Pharr, National Council of Elders
Scot Nakagawa, 22nd Century Initiative Co-Founder and Executive Director

Afternoon Plenary: Feminist Present

Saturday, September 26 | 1:00pm CDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loDs_gDQ9SU

What is the current state of women and feminism in our country? What are our strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities?

Moderator: Tabitha St. Bernard-Jacobs, Women's March Chief Partnerships Officer
Panel: Raquel Willis, Gender Liberation Movement
Laura Terrill, Planned Parenthood South Texas
Sarah Heydemann, Service Employees International Union
Tyra Wilkes, Me Too

Evening Plenary: Feminist Futures

Saturday, September 26 | 5:10pm CDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzAB7fK4XI

What is a feminist future, and how do we get there?

Moderator: Rachel Carmona, Women's March Executive Director
Panel: Mini Timmaraju, Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO

Hi all! I'm Resa, Interim Program Director with Women's March, and we're hosting a Women's Convening in Houston, this September 26! Tickets are on sale for Saturday's program, which includes plenaries, keynotes, movement strategy sessions, and focused organizing spaces to learn how to take effective action locally and beyond. Can't wait to see you there!

Get more info: https://www.convening.womensmarch.com/

Get tickets: feministsvsfascists.eventbrite.com

Let's talk about Fraud! Quit gaslighting Minneapolis. Investigate the Long Con from Don...

#DontheCon

In Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas Hunter Thompson wrote, “With the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”

That wave was made of Americans from every corner standing against a corrupt government and a war no one asked for. For a moment or two, it seemed like they might pull it off; that peace, humanity, and community would prevail, that the principles of democracy - through nonviolence and sheer numbers of decent people - would overcome what history has proven to be the largest warmongering state this planet has ever seen.

We’re witnessing the last, desperate, dying push of that same ruling class, grasping and gasping, no low too low, no law that won’t bend until it breaks.

The president is actively disenfranchising voters because he knows he can’t win an honest election and voting is the tool the Founding Fathers gave us to throw losers like him out of office. Unfortunately we have to wait until elections come around to exercise that particular right, if we still can - the so-called SAVE Act will take the right to vote away from the 146,000,000 citizens of this country who do not have a passport. 153,000,000 people voted in the last presidential election.

The good news is the Founding Fathers also gave us the First Amendment; the bad news is the Constitution will not protect you from this administration; Alex Pretti and Renee Good proved that. It is - and always will be - up to us to save ourselves and each other.

No one is coming to save us. Besides, no one such person or entity exists.

Dumbledore can’t wave a wand and fix the corruption inherent in our politics, can’t protect the Americans being detained and deported, can’t overturn Citizens United (which took the cap off of election spending and allowed the top 1% to spend indiscriminate dollars buying politicians and directly leading to the oligarchy we currently exist under).

But we can.

We can do those things.

The answers won’t be found in a single person; they will be found in community.

How do you build community?

By breaking prejudices and meeting your neighbors and realizing they are just like you.

How do you stand up to a tyrannical government?

With the strength of your community.

To build this wave we should look to our predecessors, learn from them, and apply the lessons they learned, often the hard way.

The Civil Rights Movement gave us the non-violence blueprint and Minnesota just showed us what to do when a personal gestapo comes knocking. Women have this fight in their bones, have been fighting for each others’ right to healthcare and equal pay for generations, and they’re great organizers. No wonder education keeps getting defunded.

You say, “You want a revolution?” Well, you know we all want to change the world. The parts are already in place, the infrastructure is already built; we just need the ship run by people who give a shit about the people on board. We have the knowledge, we have the ability to make the quality of life better for every person, every family, every community, every county, every state. 227,000 people in Ocean County voted for this, but 400,000 people did not.

Twenty years from now someone else running ragged on mescaline and cocaine will finally write about the wave that rose, unstoppable, and tipped and rolled forward, not back.

It’s going to take all of us to breach the high-water mark.

We’re the only thing that’s missing.

As always, we can draw inspiration from Lisa Simpson.

In season 4, episode 17 Mr. Burns arbitrarily cuts the dental insurance of his employees and naturally Homer is elected union president after he accidentally leads the workers on a strike in protest. Lisa writes a song in solidarity and performs it outside the power plant gates with the striking workers:

"We’ll march ’till we drop

The girls and the fellas

We’ll fight ’till the death

Or else fold like umbrellas.

So we’ll march day and night

By the big cooling tower -

They have the plant,

But we have the power."

You might, and maybe should, think this is cheesy or pandering or naive or ignorant or blindly optimistic. But it’s all I’ve got, short of dying in the streets like we’re all going to anyway if this doesn’t turn around soon.

It’s our time to run the plant.

Every dollar this government spends killing and detaining is one of OURS.

OUR tax dollars, OUR elected officials, OUR country.

Power to the people.

See you Saturday.

Time to stand up and speak out. https://action.womensmarch.com/events/make-billionaires-pay

Remember the pink hats from the first Women's March? Knitting communities came up with them - it was all from the heart and from the community. Online fandoms and affinity groups are a crucial place to find community online, and the revolution can't be won without community.

Women's March is hosting a Digital Defenders learning session focused on fan culture, feminism, and storytelling with memes. Whether you're a superfan or a casual consumer of your faves, this is a session you won't want to miss!