An End to Gender Violence.<\/strong>
\nAll women deserve a life free of violence, both domestic and institutional. Working women, trans women, and women of color face the worst aspects of direct institutionalized violence, be it in the form of police brutality, immigration raids, or day-to-day violence in the form of state policies that create and consolidate poverty in our communities. Against all such state and personal violence, we demand that our lives and labor be treated with dignity for they form the basis of this society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nPolice brutality? \u00a0Sure, as long as we don\u2019t exaggerate its prevalence. \u00a0Immigration enforcement? \u00a0Not violence. \u00a0\u201cState policies that create and consolidate poverty\u201d? \u00a0Not violence. \u00a0And none of these are \u201cgender violence.\u201d \u00a0The one item which could be labeled as \u201cgender violence,\u201d domestic violence, hardly seems of interest with only a cursory mention.<\/em><\/p>\nReproductive Justice for All<\/strong>
\nWe stand for full reproductive justice for all women, cis and trans. We want complete autonomy over our bodies and full reproductive freedom. We demand free abortion without conditions and affordable healthcare for all, irrespective of income, race or citizenship status. The history of sterilization of women of color in this country goes hand in hand with the attack on abortion rights. Reproductive justice for us means the freedom to choose both whether to have children and when to have them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo I\u2019m a bit puzzled as to what \u201creproductive rights\u201d would mean for \u201ctrans\u201d women. \u00a0The free abortion demand is about par for the course at this point for this sort of platform. \u00a0I\u2019m a bit surprised to see the line about sterilization in here, given that this no longer occurs, unless this is actually a reference to pushing poor women onto implants and IUDs rather than providing supports for parenting? \u00a0But if this is what they meant, this is an awfully vague way of expressing it.<\/em><\/p>\nLabor Rights<\/strong>
\nLabor rights are women\u2019s rights because women\u2019s paid labor in the workplace and unpaid labor at home is the basis of wealth in our society. All over the world millions of women are forced to work for slave wages in dangerous sweatshops and other \u2018hell factories\u2019 that kill thousands every year. In the United States 46% of union members are women and a majority of them are women of color. All women, irrespective of citizenship status, sexuality or race, must have equal pay for equal work, $15 minimum wage, including for caregivers, free universal child care, paid maternity leave, sick leave, paid family leave and the freedom to organize a fighting union in the workplace. As working women who hold up half the sky we refuse to be divided over the kind of labor we perform, whether skilled or unskilled, formal or informal, sex work and domestic work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHere we go: \u00a0$15 minimum wage, government-paid child care, and various sorts of paid leaves.\u00a0 Funny, they forgot about fully-government-funded care for other sorts of caregivers, e.g., for the disabled and the elderly.<\/em><\/p>\nFull Social Provisioning<\/strong>
\nDecades of neoliberal policies have seen the violent dismantling of social provisioning that has affected all women. While our working lives have been made increasingly precarious, social services that might have provided a safety net against such harsh exploitation of labor, have either been attacked or removed completely. Against these attacks, we demand an expansive restructuring of the American welfare system to serve the needs of the majority, such as universal healthcare, robust unemployment and social security benefits, and free education for all. We demand that the welfare system work to support our lives rather than shame us when we access such rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nFree, free, free. \u00a0To be sure, they don\u2019t spell out the desired level of generosity of social welfare benefits, but one presumes that level is \u201chigh.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nFor an Antiracist and Anti-imperialist Feminism<\/strong>
\nAgainst the open white supremacists in the current government and the far right and anti-Semites they have given confidence to, we stand for an uncompromising anti-racist and anti-colonial feminism. This means that movements such as Black Lives Matter, the struggle against police brutality and mass incarceration, the demand for open borders and for immigrant rights and for the decolonization of Palestine are for us the beating heart of this new feminist movement. We want to dismantle all walls, from prison walls to border walls, from Mexico to Palestine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nHere it is! \u00a0Open borders. \u00a0Anti-Israel. \u00a0(\u201cdecolonization of Palestine\u201d is not about statehood for the West Bank and Gaza, but refers to the idea\u00a0that Jews arriving in the area that is now Israel\u00a0were European colonizers.)<\/em><\/p>\nEnvironmental Justice for All<\/strong>
\nWe believe that both social inequality and environmental degradation are due to an economic system that puts profit before people. We demand instead that the earth\u2019s natural resources be preserved and sustained to enrich our lives and those of our children. The struggle of Water Protectors against the Dakota Access Pipe Line inspires us. The emancipation of women and the emancipation of the planet must go hand in hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cEmancipation of the planet\u201d? \u00a0The planet is not sentient, so cannot be imprisoned and emancipated. \u00a0And there is no relationship between \u201cenvironmental degradation\u201d and the equality of women.<\/em><\/p>\nThe bottom line, as shouldn\u2019t be a surprise to anyone, is that this is not a platform about equality for women, but a very specific, very radical, political platform.<\/p>\n
Count me \u2014 well, out.<\/p>\n
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