Video: Fighting for Women’s Lives
Video of the Event
Fighting for Women’s Lives
Defeat Project 2025
A National Dialogue for Revolutionaries
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Sponsored by League of Revolutionaries for a New America
“Tune in to this video of a June 15 dialogue among revolutionary leaders engaged in the movement for reproductive freedom. Together, they stressed the urgency of defeating Project 2025, the blueprint for a fascist America that corporations plan to impose if they can get a ‘conservative president’ elected in November. Although participants disagreed on how to defeat Project 2025, they were united in the understanding that reproductive freedom is at the heart of the beautiful better world we are fighting for.”
Project 2025 is a 920-page blueprint for Fascist America that corporations plan to impose if they can get a “conservative president” elected in November. Reproductive Freedom is one of the many Human Rights they intend to eliminate if they win. But Reproductive Freedom is much more than just a tactic for Defeating Dictatorship. It is at the Heart of the Peaceful and Sustainable World we envision and fight for. It is inseparable from our Economic Well-Being, our Democracy, our fight against Genocide, and our Spiritual Liberation.
Featured Speakers:
Melinda Lavon is a mother, midwife, and community organizer in Kansas. She did the deep canvassing and campaign planning behind Vote No Kansas with her Lawrence DSA Chapter, and shared the recipe for mass movement with other states fighting abortion restrictions and constitutional amendments. Melinda was an author of DSA National’s new priority campaign – Trans Rights and Bodily Autonomy. Kansas has plenty of billionaires funding parts of the authoritarian plan outlined in Project 2025, and extremists, including Christian Nationalists, hold Republican supermajorities in both sides of the state legislature. This fall, she is asking everyone to vote against fascists and their authoritarian friends every chance we get.
Carroll Fife is a mother, organizer, and a “hell-raising humanitarian” committed to doing her part to build strong, healthy communities. As a founder of Moms for Housing, Carroll has fought to make the human right to housing state law in California and the San Francisco Bay Area. After decades of work in education, human services, and grassroots organizing, Carroll was “volun-told” to run for Oakland City Council by her movement family and residents city-wide. Her historic campaign win in 2020 was supported by a broad coalition, from youth to elders, and powered by over 1000 active volunteers. Her campaign then transitioned into a permanent political organization dedicated to civic engagement and education, supporting transformative legislation, and building progressive electoral majorities in Oakland, California, and abroad. Councilmember Fife’s primary mission is to build lasting relationships in diverse communities by strengthening connections to people, the planet, and our shared humanity.
Kristian Hernandez is an organizer based in North Texas. She recently completed a four-year term in the national leadership of DSA (the Democratic Socialists of America). She has dedicated over ten years to immigrant rights organizing, particularly supporting DACA and fighting against policies like SB4 and 287g. Border security has been a heavy and polarizing topic in Texas, particularly with recent failed efforts by national Democrats to pass an oppressive, bipartisan border bill.
Margaret Flowers, MD, is a retired pediatrician in Baltimore, MD. Flowers is the director of Popular Resistance and co-host of Clearing the FOG. She is a cofounder of the Maryland Health Care is a Human Right campaign, a board advisor to Physicians for a National Health Program and served as a Congressional Fellow for PNHP in 2009-2010.
Maureen Taylor serves as State Chairperson for the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, where her duties include active representation of public assistance recipients in disputes with government agencies. She also serves as Project Coordinator/Program Development Officer for the “NEW CHANCES/JET” program, a welfare-to-work project initiated by the Governor’s office, is Co-Director of the Detroit Family & Family Initiative, and Parent Coordinator at Detroit Community Schools. In 2010, she served as Co-Coordinator and Logistics Chair for the Second US Social Forum in Detroit.
Ethel Long Scott has been for almost fifty years a grassroots community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist, and non-profit director primarily in the City of Oakland, California. She has worked with labor, the housing insecure, Moms4Housing, the Oakland Renters Strike, and people fighting as essential workers in health justice for poor and disabled people. She is on a mission to increase social and economic justice and economic security, and works tirelessly to create opportunities for constructive social change where none seem to exist. She maintains a keen understanding of current public policy, media, and politics, and works cooperatively and effectively with all kinds of people across racial and class lines.
Recommended Video & Reading:
Reproductive freedom or fascism – fighting for women’s lives
Project 2025: The New Fascist Playbook November 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Let’s Talk! https://lrna.org/contact-us/
“As people struggle to survive war, climate catastrophe, poverty, and pandemic, a new fascist state form is arising to crush us – the naked rule of corporate power.” ..” The battle is a class struggle because the ruling class is the enemy of humanity and the earth itself.” from the League Program
Program of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America:
https://lrna.org/lrna-program/
