Can you sponsor a young gender justice organizer's participation in the Young People's D.C. Abortion Justice Occupation? Funds will go towards travel costs, protest materials, and all expenses necessary to win back our reproductive rights.
We are in a time of unprecedented attacks on our reproductive rights. With unconstitutional, anti-abortion legislation sweeping state legislatures and a Supreme Court that refuses to uphold our right to abortion, young people are being stripped of our right to healthcare and bodily autonomy. We need a mass youth mobilization to demand our leaders defend our access to abortion.
Young people call on Biden and Congress to enact policies that expand abortion access by any means necessary. We also demanding action on a permanent solution to the abortion crisis: the Equal Rights Amendment.
That is why young people are mobilizing the week of July 25th in D.C, the last week before Congress goes on recess. Here is what we will be up to:
Senator Schumer Occupation (7/25 – 7/27): The resolution to remove the deadline on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (HJ Res 17) has passed the House of Representatives. The resolution currently has 52 cosponsors in the Senate. We demand that Senator Schumer bring the ERA to a vote in the Senate and make a filibuster exception to get it passed. Join us as we put on the pressure on Schumer to advance the ERA and other abortion justice policies by occupying space outside of the Hart Senate building from 9 am to 6 pm Monday through Wednesday.
Capitol Hill Lobby Day (7/28 – 7/29): To bring it home in the final days before Congress goes on break, we will meet with House and Senate members to demand they be vocal advocates for abortion justice policies and our constitutional equality. The Generation Ratify team will train and lead participants in meeting with their representatives.
White House Slumber Party (7/30 – 7/31): After pressuring Congress to do their part, we will demand Biden step up and do his. Biden has the power to publish the ERA and expand abortion access by himself. Join us for a slumber party to let Biden know that we won't sleep until women and queer people are included in the Constitution. In the morning, we will march for the National Archives where the Constitution is located.
Friday evening through Sunday evening, while we aren't rallying or lobbying, we will be hosting community spaces, workshops, and visioning sessions to plan how we will take the energy and momentum we build together in D.C. back to our home communities. We will collectively strategize how we will build power through the Midterm elections and beyond.
View more action details here: https://secure.everyaction.com/HDhhdXgVXUy_aKKekvBcKQ2.
We need to get as many young people to D.C. as possible. Can you chip in to help us get there?