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100 Women of Color Leaders Issue Open Letter to US Public

  • 100 Women of Color Leaders Issue Open Letter to US Public

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Published 10 November 2016
Opinion

The letter asks people throughout the U.S. to join them in community events over the next 100 hours and 100 days.

One hundred women of color leaders issued an open letter Wednesday to the U.S. pledging to start a “new chapter in our country’s long, difficult journey towards the promise of liberty and justice for all.”

The letter, issued on the same day as thousands took to the streets to protest the election of Donald Trump, is signed by prominent activists and organizers such as Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter; Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance; Judith LeBlanc; of the Native Organizers Alliance; and academics and activists Melissa Harris-Perry and Kimberle Crenshaw, among dozens of others representing organizations from across the country.

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“Women of color-led coalitions are coming together in the first 100 hours after electing a new president to support an agenda for Black lives, immigrants, Muslims, Latinas … against rape culture and a sexist, racist, xenophobic policy,” Agunda Okeyo said in an interview with Rewire about the letter.

Issued in the name of #OUR100, the letter calls on people to pledge to “stand with women of color leadership” who are “leading solutions that support a vision for Black Lives, an end to violence against women and girls, power to make decisions about our bodies, health and reproduction, common sense immigration reform and an end to Islamaphobia.”

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The powerful letter states that “our work did not start, and has not ended, with this election,” and continues that “despite disappointment and heartbreak, our resolve grounds us in hope for our future.”

As fears build about what President-elect Donald Trump may attempt in his first 100 days in office, the letter asks people throughout the U.S. to join them in community events over the next 100 hours and 100 days to come together “united behind a vision and plan of action” to “hold civic, administrative and corporate decision makers accountable.”

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