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Women Strike

January 20, 2017

STRIKE to protest Trump, Pence, and the Republican Congress' ANTI-WOMAN Agenda

NO WORK, PAID OR UNPAID

Sign the pledge and share it with your friends: womenstrike.org

 

Why did National Women's Liberation call a women's strike for the inauguration?

Women had many good reasons to strike before this election, but now we have a president-elect who openly disrespects and assaults women, and wants to limit our roles to servant, mother, or sexual plaything. This strike comes from anger at men in our lives who didn't vote, or who voted for Trump, or who aren't taking seriously the threat that his presidency represents. And it is a reaction to an election campaign that-apart from Bernie Sanders in the primary-ignored the universal programs that women and all people need, and that work well in so many other countries, from paid family leave to childcare to national health care.

The Democrats didn't pursue these plans when they could have, and now the Republican-majority Congress is promising to cut, undermine, privatize, or eliminate every social contract from public schools to Medicare to Social Security. They expect the family (that is, WOMEN) to fill in the gaps and pick up the pieces. NO WE WON'T. This strike is a warning. Our work can no longer be taken for granted.

When we get 20,000 signatures, the strike will be ON.  Every pledge counts, pledge today.

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January 20, 2017
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