CUAD's Statement for International Women's Day, March 8th, 2017

This strike, we champion and honor a feminism for the 99 percent

This strike, we celebrate and honor working women, Black women, women of color, Native women, Palestinian women, disabled women, immigrant women, Muslim women, lesbian, queer and trans women.

This strike, we celebrate and honor the working class and socialist roots of the first working women’s march in Petrograd, Russia in 1917.

This strike, we honor the call of Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian campaigner and activist who has fought tirelessly for the rights of Palestinian women.

As Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, we celebrate and honor the long history of resistance by Palestinian women and their role in resisting occupation.

We honor the Palestinian women in the 1929 Jerusalem women’s conference protesting against the Balfour Declaration.

We honor the Palestinian women who took up armed struggle against Zionist forces after al-Nakba.

We honor the Palestinian women who rose up in the first and second intifada, who organized relief services, raised funds for prisoners, organized underground schools.

We honor the thousands of Palestinian women who have resisted against Israeli occupation, who have died in Israeli prisons and detention centers, in raids on Gaza and the West Bank, shot dead by racist Israeli policemen and soldiers.

We honor all the Black and Brown women in Black Liberation and anti-racist movements who have stood in solidarity with Palestinian women throughout the years.
 

This March 8, we call for an end to all forms of systemic racism, surveillance, profiling and assassinations targeting Black and Brown women, from the United States to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to all forms of racialized violence and police brutality against Black and Brown women, from Ferguson to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to the inhumane and unlivable conditions and the blockade of basic resources for survival for Black and Brown women, from Flint to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to settler colonialism and the genocide of Black and Brown women, from Standing Rock to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to racist eugenicist policies and forced sterilization targeting Black and Brown people with uteruses, from the Puerto Rico to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to all national borders and racist immigration policies, from Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to any form of wall that tries to separate us, from Mexico to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to capitalist practices that exploit and devalue the labor of working women, from Petrograd to Palestine!

This March 8, we call for an end to an imperialist feminism that privileges white upper-class cis women!

This March 8, we call for an end to trans-exclusionary feminism that excludes trans women, femmes and gender-non-conforming folks!
 

This March 8, we demand the emancipation of women everywhere.

This March 8, we demand the emancipation of Black and Brown women globally.

This March 8, we demand the emancipation of Indigenous women globally.

This March 8, we demand the emancipation of disabled women globally.

This March 8, we demand the emancipation of lesbian, queer and trans women globally.