The Women’s March has issued an inclusive Pledge of Liberation and is seeking signatures. I just signed. This is just a quick diary to make the DailyKos community aware of it, because I didn’t see another diary on the subject.
Here’s the suggested email text, from their page:
Subject: Sign the Pledge of Liberation!
Friend,
I just joined Women's March in adding my name to the Pledge of Liberation. As a united voice, we declare our commitment to fighting for the liberation of all people.
We will no longer allow our issues to be treated as if they are in competition with each other, rather than integral to one another. We reaffirm our commitment to each other, and we ask our members of Congress to remember their own pledges to their communities and constituents.
Will you join me and take action? Click here to read and sign the Pledge of Liberation: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/womens-march-pledge-of-liberation?source=email&
In solidarity!
The pledge addresses ten interconnected issues:
1. ENDING SEXUAL VIOLENCE
2. ENDING STATE + POLICE VIOLENCE
3. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS + JUSTICE
4. LGBTQIA+ RIGHTS
5. WORKER’S RIGHTS + ECONOMIC JUSTICE
6. CIVIL RIGHTS + RACIAL JUSTICE
7. DISABILITY RIGHTS
8. IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
9. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
10. ENDING WAR
It concludes: “We pledge allegiance to each other and to the liberation of all people. Join us. Make your #PledgeOfLiberation today.”
It also calls for actions outside of Congressional Offices on May 8th:
The final action in Women’s March’s 10 Actions / 100 Days Campaign, Pledge of Liberation, harnesses the power of cross-movement collaboration. Over the course of the next week, we are mobilizing our communities to sign a Pledge of Liberation—a declaration of allegiance to each other.
Together, activists around the country from every movement sector will unite on May 8 and hold demonstrations at in-district congressional offices and the offices of other elected officials. Women’s March, in partnership with ACLU People Power, United We Dream, Hollaback!, The Gathering for Justice, the National Lawyers Guild and other national and local partners, will take our resistance directly to our members of Congress. We will send a clear message that we will rise up, together, against attacks on our health care, our identities, and our religious freedoms. We no longer accept hollow reforms or compromises that help some of our communities but harm others.We will hold demonstrations in solidarity with communities around the country and collectively fight for dignity, justice and freedom. We are all part of one movement, and we are not only stronger and more powerful together—our unity is how we survive as people, organizations, and movements.