To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Wear All White For Women's Rights: Visibility Protest
Based on the Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee’s nonviolent protest for women’s rights in Liberia , I started this protest as a single woman in New York, a woman who is horrified at watching my rights being stripped away in this country that I love so much. I can no longer sit back and do nothing. I am beginning this grass roots movement to stand up for my rights, your rights, human rights. Will you stand with me?
Lawmakers today seem to have forgotten who those laws are being made for; seem to have forgotten how many of us there are who vote to keep them in office, or to take them out. How about a friendly reminder?
I stand by and for women’s rights.
By wearing all white, or a white shirt with pink "I support women's rights" on this day, April 2, 2012, I am reminding those who write and pass bills:
that women deserve honesty from their doctors - 100% of the time
that a fetus’s life is not more important that the mother's
that state sanctioned rape is still rape and not ok
that it is not ok to charge a mother with attempted murder
for a miscarriage
that it is not ok to force women to carry a stillborn baby to term
that it is not ok to take away the funding of women to receive medical treatment to make a political point
that it is not ok to fire a woman because she is taking a medicine you disagree with
For these and many other things currently being debated about in legislature, I stand by and for women’s rights.
Leymah Gbowee said “It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.”
Here is a way to start:
Commit to wearing all white on Monday April 2. Send this invite to people you know. Find a way to gather with others who are weraing white, the more people in one place, the greater the impact. Call your senators and congressmen and let them know you do not approve of what’s happening right now. Stay informed. Talk about it. Shout about it. Do not stop until they have listened. Start visual protests of your own. Vote. Vote. Vote. Do research on what candidates actually believe and look at their voting history. Stay informed. Vote. Be the change.
Will you stand with me?
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Why is this important?
I am writing because I am so frightened by what is happening in this country right now that I started a grassroots visibility protest. Wear All White for Women's Rights will take place on April 2nd, with the intention of raising public awareness of the all-too aggressive war on women's rights being waged across the US and the globe.
Why wear white? The inspiration comes from Leymah Gbowee’s protests in Liberia, as well as from the history of the suffragist movement in the UK and the US; we think it will make a strong visual statement, and hopefully it will cause plenty of onlookers to ask "Why are you dressed like that?", giving every participant the opening to start a conversation about women's rights.