Women Unite to Fight 250 Years of Imperialism!

On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US, IWA US calls on all women to join with all exploited and oppressed peoples in protest to expose the true legacy of the United States: that of war, intervention, exploitation, and genocide!

Throughout its 250 year history, the US has leveraged a facade of democracy, equal rights, and freedom to further its imperialist hegemony. The US claims to be a land of opportunity for women and gender oppressed people, but in reality, women are used as pawns and cannon fodder to justify war and militarization or exploited as "untapped resources" and cheap labor.

Just earlier this year, women rights were used as a justification for the bombings and attempted regime change in Iran, when in reality the US attacks increased instability and violence against women and girls, including bombing a school and killing more than 100 Iranian schoolgirls. All over the world, including in Cuba and Venezuela, the US has instilled brutal sanctions, forcing mothers and families to migrate in order to provide food or medicine for their children. In the Philippines, the US-lead Pax Silica is a blatant attempt to control supply chains for unfettered war tech and AI production, leading to land-grabbing at the hands of US corporations and forcing women into jobs with little to no labor protections in special economic zones. And, this month, the US is hosting the Rim of the Pacific exercises (RIMPAC), multinational maritime exercises used to prepare for war in the Asia Pacific that inevitably leads to a rise of sex trafficking and violence against women in Hawaii and San Diego.

But women are rising and fighting back in defense of their families and communities within the US and linking arms with women across the Global South!

Black mothers are marching to fight for the reunification of their stolen children. Elderly caregivers in NYC are organizing hunger strikes to eliminate the backbreaking 24-hour work day.
Children and their families are organizing protests inside of Dilley Detention Center, clamoring against the inedible food and dismal health care.

Migrant women continue to organize even after being freed from detention - like Las Madres Unidas en La Lucha, 40 migrant mothers who are demanding the investigation and shutdown of the Fallon building in DMV, and Alma Bowman who is continuing the fight against third country deportations. Women continue to fight even after deportation, like Ligaya Jensen, who continues the fight from the homeland for an end to this system of forced migration!

Women are using every tool at their disposal to fight back against US militarization, from opposing US military bases and war games, to exposing war profiteering by US-based tech and AI corporations. In a landmark case, Korean women are demanding justice for sex trafficking by the US Military in historical "camp towns" surrounding US bases. Palestinian women continue to expose and fight the sexual and gender based-violence perpetuated by the US-backed and funded IOF and demand an end to the genocide in Palestine. These historical patterns of sexual and economic violence have laid the basis for and give just cause to the militant women's movement globally.

Across Global South, women are defending their national sovereignty and fighting for national liberation - from Venezuela women who continue to assert their nation's sovereignty and demand the safe return of President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, to women in the Philippines are taking up arms and fighting for national liberation!

As IWA US, we assert that women are not pawns to justify war, and intervention, resources to be exploited, or trophies to be claimed! This July 4th and every day of the year, women across the US are mobilizing to expose the smokescreen of US imperialism and fight for genuine liberation!

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