Workers’ Voice is an endorser of the June 24 labor-community press conference for reproductive rights. The event is sponsored by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice. We urge our readers who can travel to Washington, D.C., to attend the event in person, or to watch it via livestream (see the link for the Mobilization‘s Facebook page below).

We’re D.C.-bound for a historic labor-community media action for reproductive rights! 

On Monday June 24, members of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice will be standing in front of the AFL-CIO building on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. with an impressive array of labor unions and community organizations. This press conference is the culmination of a two-year campaign calling on the national AFL-CIO to take urgent action in defense of reproductive justice.

Press conference cosponsors and speakers will represent Metropolitan Washington Council – AFL-CIO, AFSCME Local 88, AFSCME Council 57 Retiree Chapter, Freedom Socialist Party, Georgia NOW, Metro DC DSA, National Organization of Legal Services Workers (UAW 2320), Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (IFPTE Local 70), Oregon Chapter Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Radical Women, Reproductive Justice Maryland, and United Auto Workers 2110 and of course, the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice.

A delegation will deliver 640+ letters to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler urging an emergency labor conference for reproductive justice. The signers include thousands of people represented by labor councils, union conventions, locals and retiree chapters, constituency groups, organizations for reproductive rights, gender equality and civil rights, plus individual activists and labor scholars.

You can be part of making history by attending the press conference via livestream at the Mobilization’s Facebook page, starting at 10:00 am ET (7am PT).

And please attend the July 21 meeting of the Mobilization for a report-back and evaluation, plus a discussion of what’s next. Register here. Meeting is at 3pm PT, 4pm MT, 5pm CT, 6pm ET.
More information: info@reprojusticenow.org
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NEWS RELEASE

June 13, 2024

WHAT:
Press conference and delivery of open letter to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler

WHEN: 10:00 AM EDT, Monday, June 24, 2024

WHERE: Black Lives Matter Plaza NW (16th St. NW). Between I and H Streets NW, Washington, D.C.

Feminists and Unionists Get Energy Boost from Mifepristone Decision

In a unanimous decision today, the Supreme Court upheld access to the abortion drug Mifepristone, ruling that the charging parties had no standing to bring the case. “Why did SCOTUS take the case in the first place?” asks Gina Petry, coordinator of the Puget Sound Mobilization for Reproductive Justice. “I suspect they wanted to rule against Mifepristone, but bowed to political pressure.” Meanwhile, she and other abortion rights advocates plan to press their advantage. Read more.

National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
ReproJusticeNow .org • Facebook @ ReproJusticeNow

Graphic: Activists in Madison, Wis. (MARRCH via Freedom Socialist)