This innovative and collaborative online campaign is designed to encourage people to speak out for women’s rights. Nearly 70 organizations across the country are working with MoveOn.org and the Silver Ribbon Campaign of San Francisco, which developed the concept.
The online participants are aiming to let legislators know that reproductive freedom, reproductive justice and reproductive rights are at the top of our agenda, and they want legislators to listen up.
Join Words of Choice on this virtual “march” by clicking here. It takes less than a minute! After you vote on a message, you will see a map showing what others around the country are doing, and how many have signed on! By agreement with MoveOn, no personal information is collected or kept about the "marchers."
Messages from “virtual marchers” will be delivered directly to members of Congress, governors and state legislators to impress upon them that Americans trust women to make their own decisions about their bodies and their lives. The campaign hopes to gather one million participants.
Each person who signs on, gets to pick her own message from a list:
“I trust women and I vote;”
“Reproductive rights are human rights;”
“Keep abortion safe and legal, affordable and accessible;”
“Stand up and be counted for reproductive justice;”
“We are the 99%. Fix the economy, and stop the war on women;”
"Contraception IS Prevention."
Trust Women Week, January 20-27, overlaps the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22, the 1973 decision that of the U.S. Supreme Court that said states could not make abortion illegal under all circumstances and that abortion is a personal decision for women, protected from government interference under the Ninth Amendment.
Words of Choice II performs "Letters to Justice Blackmun" -- Justice Harry Blackmun was the author of the Roe v. Wade opinion. The Supreme Court has received more mail about Roe than any other opinion of the court. The anniversary of Roe is a time when Words of Choice, along with many reproductive freedom fighters, can reaffirm our commitment reproductive justice for all.
Join Words of Choice on the Virtual March by clicking here. Invite your friends to join, too!
The Twitter hashtag for the campaign is #TrustWmn.
Find Words of Choice on Twitter: @ChoiceTheater.
Posted by Cindy Cooper
Pictured above: online map page from Trust Women Week Virtual March!
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