The organizers of an anti-Donald Trump protest scheduled for after the Jan. 20 inauguration have released their platform, and it’s pretty much what you’d expect.
Slate’s Christina Cauterucci approvingly characterized the four-page document as an “unapologetically radical, progressive vision for justice in America.”
The Women’s March on Washington, which started with a single Facebook post, has become a vehicle to lobby for abortion rights, criminal justice, immigration reform and environmentalism.
It can’t be stressed enough that march organizers, who recently received the backing of Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International and the NAACP, place a major emphasis on the abortion rights aspect of their platform.
“We believe in Reproductive Freedom. We do not accept any federal, state or local rollbacks, cuts or restrictions on our ability to access quality reproductive healthcare services, birth control, HIV/AIDS care and prevention, or medically accurate sexuality education,” the platform states.
It added, “This means open access to safe, legal, affordable abortion and birth control for all people, regardless of income, location or education. We understand that we can only have reproductive justice when reproductive health care is accessible to all people regardless of income, location or education.”
The platform’s bit on reproductive rights clearly calls for unfettered public funding for abortions, which is obviously a step further than most pro-abortion politicians are willing to go.
Here are some other highlights from the march’s platform:
We believe in Gender Justice. We must have the power to control our bodies and be free from gender norms, expectations and stereotypes. We must free ourselves and our society from the institution of awarding power, agency and resources disproportionately to masculinity to the exclusion of others.
We believe that all workers – including domestic and farm workers – must have the right to organize and fight for a living minimum wage, and that unions and other labor associations are critical to a healthy and thriving economy for all. Undocumented and migrant workers must be included in our labor protections, and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.
We believe that every person and every community in our nation has the right to clean water, clean air, and access to and enjoyment of public lands. We believe that our environment and our climate must be protected, and that our land and natural resources cannot be exploited for corporate gain or greed—especially at the risk of public safety and health.
It’s a bold strategy, going all in on the progressive ideals.
Considering how infighting over identity politics has already chased away some would-be attendees, it’ll be interesting to see if the march’s doubling-down on leftism boosts or further diminishes its ranks.
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