International Women’s Day 2022
This past Sunday we—along with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Pensacola Dream Defenders, a speaker from the Poor People's Campaign, and passionate members of the public—held a rally for International Women's Day (IWD). We rallied around the history of women, gender non-conforming, and non-binary individuals' struggle and the ongoing fight against bigotry & injustice. We rally because we are tired, we are hurting, and we are angry. Angry that those in power continue to show us who they are by denying us justice and stripping us of our humanity. As many speakers pointed out, the struggles faced are systemic issues that cannot be fixed alone. They weave through our lives and intersect where they cannot be untangled from one another. We must recognize that true women's liberation is tied to the liberation of all, and more specifically, to the liberation of the most marginalized. It is clear that poor and working class women, gender non-conforming people,