This morning, we come together to declare our resolve. Many of us are holding our babies, families, and loved ones close. We know that there is tremendous suffering and anger in this country, yet we stand here today, determined. After an election rife with the politics of division and hate, today we open a new chapter in our country’s long, difficult journey towards the promise of liberty and justice for all.
Join us, over the next 100 hours, at community events across the country as we come together to affirm our unity, and together recommit to continue our work towards this promise.
Our work did not start, and has not ended, with this election. Women built upon longstanding community and family networks to lead community-based voter programs. We’ve known that women of color represent 74 percent of the growth in eligible women voters since 2000. In more than 100 cities, across all 50 states, women came together to mobilize and inspire turnout, creating an unprecedented gender and racial gap at the polls.
Women did this work, not to get one woman a new job, but because we understood the stakes in this election. Black lives, women’s lives, immigrant’s lives, the lives of LGBTQ folks, of people with disabilities; of working people of every race, region and ethnicity, including those at Standing Rock and others protecting our land. We know that the future and well-being of this country depends on the health and well-being of all women.
Today, we feel how far we are from the promise of a nation that ensures liberty and justice for all. But our work, built on the hopes of our grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters, is testament to the power of our shared belief in that promise. It is we who must build the path forward on our journey.
As we look at our polarized country standing at this crossroads, we are filled with love for the many peoples of this nation. Despite disappointment and heartbreak, our resolve grounds us in hope for our future. Too often in the shadows, women’s hands have always been the strongest grip bending the arc of history towards justice.
Today, we recommit to take hold of that arc of history. As women, we stand united in our pledge to continue to take action to bring forward solutions. We know the politics of hate will not get us to the solutions we need.
As women of color, as leaders, we will build and lead us on a path forward. We must work together to hold civic, administrative and corporate decision makers accountable. To reach our full potential as people, and as a nation, this democracy must be owned by all of us, for all of us. We pledge our unity and determination to be ready, determined and united behind a vision and plan of action to become a nation where we can all live with dignity, care for our loved ones and the land, and thrive in freedom from all forms of inequality.
We can only get there, together. We invite you to journey with us.
Take the Pledge
My work will not end at the ballot box. In the #First100Hours and #First100days, I will stand with women of color leadership. I will stand with women 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 Islamophobia. I pledge to take action to pursue a democracy and economy where we all have an equal say, and an equal chance.
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Signatories
Ai-jen Poo
National Domestic Workers Alliance / Caring Across Generations
Alicia Garza
Black Lives Matter, co-founder
Charlene Carruthers
Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)
Eveline Shen
Forward Together
Jodeen Olguín-Tayler
Demos / Movement Strategy Center / Mijente
Judith LeBlanc
Native Organizers Alliance
Linda Sarsour
MyMuslimVote / MPower Change
Opal Tometi
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Paulina Hernandez
Southeners on New Ground
Stacy Long Simmons
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
Aarti Kohli
Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus
Aditi Vaidya
Solidago
Agunda Okeyo
artist / writer / performer
Alexis Flanagan
Ocean Ana Rising, Inc.
Amanda Alexander
University of Michigan
Amy Casso
Western States Center
Ana Maria Archila
Center for Popular Democracy
Andrea Cristina Mercado
We Belong Together
Andrea Serrano
Olé
Angela Adrar
Climate Justice Alliance
Angelique Been
Institute for Policy Studies
Annika M. Gifford
"The Network"
April N. Baskin
Jewish Community Leader
Arisha Hatch
Color of Change
Ash-Lee Henderson
Project South
Christine Ahn
Women Cross DMZ
Cindy Wiesner
Grassroots Global Justice / World March of Women
Corrine Sanchez
Tewa Women United
Cristina Jimenez Moreta
United We Dream
Deepa Isac
Greenpeace
Denise Perry
BOLD
Edith Sargon
Wellstone Action
Eesha Pandit
Center for Advancing Innovative Policy
Elizabeth Yeampierre
UPROSE
Ginna Green
Democracy Reform Activist
Haeyoung Yoon
National Employment Law Project
Heather McGhee
Demos Action
Jasleen Kohli
Racial Justice Educator
Jennifer Kim
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Jessica González-Rojas
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Joanne Smith
Girls for Gender Equity
Juana Flores
Mujeres Unidas y Activas
Julie Quiroz & MiMi Ho
Movement Strategy Center
Kandi Mossett
Indigenous Environmental Network
Kica Matos
Center for Community Change
Kimberle Crenshaw
African American Policy Forum
Klarissa Oh
Ending Childhood Sexual Abuse Activist
LaTosha Brown
Linda Burnham
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Linda Garcia Barnard
9to5, National Association of Working Women
Lizet Ocampo
People For the American Way
Luisa Blue, Rocio Saenz & Valarie Long
SEIU
Malkia Cyril
Center for Media Justice
Marcia Olivo
Miami Workers Center
Mari Schimmer
Marielena Hincapie
National Immigration Law Center
Marisa Franco
Mijente / #Not1More
Melissa Harris-Perry
Anna Julia Cooper Project
Miriam Yeung
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
Miya Yoshitani
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Monifa Bandele
MomsRising.org
Nafisah Ula
National Guestworker Alliance
Naila S. Arwan
Demos
Nakea West
Project Vote
Nan Stoops
Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Nancy Treviño
Power U Center for Social Change
Nelini Stamp
Working Families Party
Nellis Kennedy-Howard
Sierra Club
Nicole Matthews
Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition
Nikki Fortunato Bas
Partnership for Working Families
Nina Angela Mercer,
Ocean Ana Rising, Inc
Nita Chaudhary
UltraViolet Action
Onleilove Alston
PICO National Network
Patrisse Cullors
Dignity and Power Now
Puja Dhawan
Women's Equity & Anti-violence activist
Purvi Shah
Law For Black Lives
Rahna Epting
Every Voice
Rinku Sen
Race Forward
Sachie Hopkins-Hayakawa
New Economy Coalition
Salamishah & Scheherezade Tillet
A Long Walk Home
Samia Assed
Alburquerque Center for Peace and Justice
Sarita Gupta
Jobs With Justice
Shanti Lowry
Actress
Suman Raghunathan
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
Teresa C. Younger
Ms. Foundation for Women
Thenjiwe Tameika McHarris
Movement For Black Lives Policy Table
Tracy Sturdivant
Make It Work
Trina Greene Brown
Parenting for Liberation
Vaimoana Niumeitolu
Indigenious & Human Rights Leader
Vien Truong
Green For All
Wendy Chun-Hoon
Family Values @ Work
Xochitl Oseguera
MamásConPoder.org
Yavilah McCoy
VISIONS Inc.
Yong Jung Cho
AllofUs.org