 It's just a moment. We're trying to grab the correct chant here. There's a gender justice movement. It doesn't work. There's a gender justice fight. We do a hey-hey. Yeah, do that. Free choice is not just here in the United States, it's all over the world. So install a foresee. Would you like to learn a little foresee today? This is the seeded land of the Western Abenaki people where we gather today. People who have been living and working on this land from time immemorial. Immemorial, Professor Speak, not me. We recognize that colonialism and the oppression of Native peoples is a current and ongoing process and we commit to building our awareness of our present participation. We give thanks to those who have come before us and honor Vermont's indigenous people, the Abenaki people of the dawn. That's not a normal thing to I hear because I'm extremely loud and shrill, but I will be double shrill today, folks. Our march and rally is a labor councilor, council. Consection today. Marching today to send loud in the U.S. where abortion has been banned to women led uprising in Iran. Clumsy and it's authentic. Immigration is banned. Migrant justice. Wendy Bernardino since 2014. Three years ago she was being, Wendy and her children were detained. Migration authorities was told by ICE that she must leave the country or she will be detained and deported. Team Wendy being deported or allowed to remain in Vermont with her family and send an email today to the ICE apport. ICE is attacked on Wendy's rights and her bodily autonomy is an attack on all of us. Feminist solidarity knows no borders. But you know what? This is real. I've got to make people understand because there is dangers in that. I consider it one of the best decisions I have ever made for myself in abortion. A politician in the room when I have them and you know what? There should not be. The community does question with the fact that this religion or the people that lead this religion has told me that I cannot have bodily autonomy based on that religion, which by the way I don't really agree with because I'm all for showing up for community. I'm going to lead this particular one. In their communities for the March weekend of action should not be more important to young people in this community and all others. According to the research from the Gutmaker Institute college aged women account for the largest proportion of abortions done and are the severely affected of liberty. It is our job as campus leaders to stand up for the rights of our peers to make sure the reproductive liberty amendment is passed to do so. Not only do we need to pass the RLA for those who can become pregnant but as a way to support gender-affirmative care for trans individuals. Reproductive rights are trans rights too. We need to know our support by the term. Let me repeat that. If our public had to see reproductive rights enshrined in our state constitution through article 22, circle and not pretty you. And right now it's full circle. We're repeating history. Unfortunately, I'm going to tell you a story. I work in clinical healthcare. I worked in an emergency room for over 10 years. I had a 12-year-old little girl come in with her mother. She was pregnant. She was raped by her stepfather. The mother wanted her to have this child because the mother does not believe in abortion. Now us as healthcare providers we have to provide non-biased care if you take an oath. That's correct. If you take an oath you have to treat. That mother has the right to make the decision for that 12-year-old child. That 12-year-old child gave birth to a child. Now let me tell you the history today. That was back in 2007. I'll never forget it. It lives with me today. It lives in 10th City. She's a major drug addict. And that little baby, she's dead. She killed herself. She's still with the man who raped her own daughter. But that's okay. You left. So you folk. The handkerchiefs, they viewed as the symbol of hope by abortion movement. Page turned. He's a real man. He works on an abortion health hotline. She's one of the founder's organization who helped organize this march today. We had to send clients to New Mexico to have an abortion. Trans children's rights. Claiming that gender-affirming care, which we know is life-saving for trans children, abortion might be contraband. It's this agenda. It's that a new generation of activists are being activated to fight for bodily autonomy. Reproductive justice is solidarity. It has to shield law and abortion pills anywhere in the country, including to the banned states. That she must leave the country or she will be detained. Oh, feminist solidarity. It's to listen to the plan chat from Ask Me Locals. When I say that abortion rights are workers' rights, state regulation, individuals. That's right. Add legislature and add shield law. Mexican underground reproductive networks that have shown us have been seeing our bodily autonomy ripped away. She was a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman whose crime was an improper hijab. She was arrested, detained by the morality vanity of small in Vermont, but they're here today. Can you make some noise for them for coming out today? This can get you killed, and it has killed several women. 16 years old, 17, 18, 20s. High school students and college students are on the front lines of this revolution. So we ask that you care about this movement today because it's about you as well. So a vote for bodily autonomy in the United States is also imperative that you care about bodily autonomy in the rest of the world. All right, thank you guys for listening today. Please support the women of Iran. Do not forget. I'm going to say her name, and I need you to say Masa Ameini. Say her name! She was a devout French-Canadian Catholic who attended Mass seven days a week. The church was an important part of her education, her upbringing, and her daily life. She married my father at 19, and because of his career in the Air Force, she spent years traveling, never spending much time in one place. In the late 60s, she was living in the Midwest, far away from her family in Canada. She was 29, and she had four children. Six was a good sighted that she didn't want any more children. The church was all she had. She went to confession to speak of her dilemma being Catholic and not wanting any more children. To my mother's shock and sadness, she was told she would go to heaven if she had more kids and hell if she did not. From the church, generation, college, graduates. Can I bring this up? Is not to bill afford to mean the clergy institutions, including our government, do not think they should have children. Decisions to those who are direct is for all. For some other monsterer with the DOP wins the lighthouse in 2024. Whatever we pass in Vermont to protect reproductive liberty will not help us. We all know abortion ban for a person by nature, and the good news is we can stop that from happening. But we have to do more than support the RLA and vote for the RLA in the House. Even if you don't like them very much, we have to support them. So I'm going to give you a handful of names who are in very tight races and could make a difference to all our futures, our daughters' futures, our granddaughters' futures. And a bonus is that many of these candidates are candidates of color. You might have noticed DC is a little bit white. So I'm going to ask you to please go online for one or more of these candidates. You can write postcards. You can do text banking. You can do phone banking. There is a lot you can do from Vermont. So first, Val Demings in Florida. She is within striking distance of beating Marco Rubio in Georgia. And you could go to Stacey Abrams' group, Fair Fight, and sign up to be a volunteer with Cheri Beasley, a Democrat in North Carolina. She could very well win the Senate, but she needs our help. Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire. You can go over to New Hampshire and knock on doors for Maggie Hassan. We need her to get re-elected. Two more. John Fetterman in Pennsylvania running against the wildly crazy Dr. Oz that is a tight race. Help Fetterman get elected. We need to knock on doors. We can do this. One more. Mandela Barnes, a Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin running to defeat perhaps the least apt of the current GOP Senators, Ron Johnson. Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin help him get elected. So it is not enough to support the RLA. It is not enough to support for degree-productive rights in Vermont. We have to be active on the national level as well. So I want to do a chant. I'm sure you all know National League for Peace and for... You got to hold the button. Okay. All right. I'm figuring it out. Can you hear me? Okay, let me hold it. Can you just speak into it? Okay. Yeah. So I wanted to let you all know that this organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, is actually 100 years old. And back there, back in the day, my grandmother was involved. And she was friends with a woman named Margaret Sanger. Do any of you remember her? She was really the first reproductive rights warrior. She tried to send contraceptive information through the males back then in the early 1900s, and she was put in jail. So she was one of the very first of the many women who have been imprisoned because of the patriarchal society that they live in. But I'd like to point out some other ways in which we are, we are actually controlled by the governments that we live in. And that is through nationalism. Yes, we love our country, but why are we willing to send our sons and now our daughters, and of course our taxes, off to wars, wars that have proven in retrospect to be unwinnable and in some cases even bogus. And now, because the nature of war has changed, we are sending not our sons and daughters, but our treasure, billions of dollars in the form of weapons to continue the war in Ukraine. Let me read you some sentences from an op-ed written by my friend from quick reading here in Burlington, reminding that Quakers believe that there is that of God and every person and that therefore we cannot support wars. So we are against all wars. She asks, what does it mean to love one's country? When cities have been destroyed and thousands of Ukrainians kill, including hundreds of children, what does the heart counsel them? I imagine a Ukrainian mother looking out over the wreckage and weeping at the sheer waste of precious human lives and homes and communities. President Biden counsels the president of Ukraine to keep fighting. He and Congress and our congressman keep sending them more weapons. But if we could counsel, if our organization could counsel President Zelensky, we feel he needs to know that there is no shame in exchanging land for peace, of choosing or accepting a temporary loss of land through negotiations over a permanent loss of so many lives and basic human services. The war in Ukraine is making it harder to deliver babies and provide birth control, abortion services and other essential care. Women who flee from Ukraine go to Poland and it's even harder there to obtain those resources. So we must reach out and call for peace in Ukraine, no more shipments of arms, no more talk of weakening Russia with missile attacks. Our organization, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, is working with women in Ukraine and Russia who are yearning for peace in both these countries and even here. It is not popular to call for negotiations even though the presidents of China and India call for it as well as the head of the UN and the Pope. So with the threat of nuclear escalation, hovering over this terrible conflict in Ukraine, there is no time to lose. We urge you all to contact your representatives, the candidates that are running for national office and to say to them, please, please say no to war. Thank you. Russian opposition, David Newton, and his fascist. David's fascist! Hey, I'm Netsap. I'm Netsap. All right. Okay. For our next socialist of America of the Central Vermont chapter. So let's give it up. Pregnancy centers. Do you guys know about the Vermont DSA? Organizes statewide effort to expose and eliminate crisis pregnancy centers in Vermont. A lot of people don't know what they are. You'd be surprised. These centers are fake clinics that exist to prevent people from seeking and accessing abortion. That's it. They have no licensed medical staff usually, but they do pose online and in person as free clinics. They lure vulnerable folks in their doors. Once folks are inside, they lie about the risks of abortion. They give medically unnecessary ultrasounds to pregnant people and misinterpret the results in an attempt to deny and delay care. They give hundreds and hundreds of non-diagnostic ultrasounds in Vermont every year, and they brag about it on their website. They support dangerous treatments like abortion pill reversal. They are putting lives at risk in our communities, and they are causing public health harm. There are nine active crisis pregnancy centers in Vermont. Abortion clinic that we have here in this state. Many of them, most of them, are outposts of massive evangelical anti-abortion networks with huge funding, huge resources, and yet they operate as tax-exempt charities in Vermont. The most well-funded center in our state is Aspire Now. Do you know where it is? We're going to find it. We're going to demonstrate. All of these CPGs represent the local presence of the far-right movement, a foothold of it, of the money of the resources here in Vermont. Don't think it's not here. Most people don't know, so what we do is we let people know. The more we organize, the more we talk to Vermonters, we see that they will not tolerate this type of deceptive and unethical treatment of our fellow Vermonters. We organize in Central Vermont monthly informational pickets. I have flyers for our next one. We go to the Care Net Facility on Main Street and Barrie. The next one is Saturday, October 22nd at 1 p.m. And what we do is we hand out information about CPGs. We also hand out resources, free pregnancy tests, information on how to access real comprehensive abortion care. It really is important to have strength in numbers. We've seen increasing intimidation at these events. I really hope y'all will come out. Get more information from Central Vermont DSA. We're at CVTDSA.org. I also want to shout out, we are hosting a forum online on Zoom on October 27th. We are going to be talking to progressive allies in the legislature. Senate and House, led by Rep Emma Mulvaney-Stanik. She is introducing along with a companion bill in the Senate, anti-CBC legislation in this next session. It hasn't come around for years and years. It's important to bring it up as part of the SHIELD law as a part of reproductive justice here in Vermont. That meeting is on October 27th at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Again, you can go to our website, get information about it, get involved in the fight. It's one piece of reproductive justice here in Vermont, but it is tied to everything that we're doing here. We stand in solidarity with all the groups here. We hope to see you out in front of CPCs in Baryon and Williston in the coming months. Thank you. And for those of you who might have not been here at the beginning, my name is Hannah. My pronouns are they-them. I am the Northern Vermont organizer for Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund as well as Vermont for Reproductive Liberty, which is the campaign to pass the Reproductive Liberty Amendment. Please vote yes. I've been sent out in the mail to any registered voters here in Vermont. And you can drop those ballots off if you're a Burlington citizen. Around the corner there is a drop box. You can also mail them back in. And yeah, we're doing open mic. So I'm sure some people have some stuff that they want to say. So if you have something that you want to say, please come up over here. We would love to hear from you and this is going to be close. And now our speech. I am the former of the Vermont Organization for Women. We had an incredible 1886 vicious literature like ERA's amendment. So that's one little piece of advice that I have. Another one, Massachusetts. What was the second state? Vermont. What's the connection? The connection is first in Massachusetts that employed Vermont women, they were starting to ask for higher wages and better working conditions. So they started a back to the home campaign. And how did they do that? They said the Yankee women, the white, because there were immigrants coming in and taking jobs in the mills, they said to them, you need to go home and have babies because otherwise we're going to have race suicide. And they actually succeeded in getting some of these women. They were our first feminists even before Susan B. Anthony and all those famous suffragists. The first feminists were working in the mills. They did their first women's magazine and they got up on their soapboxes and started talking about better working conditions. So it was a combination of mill owners and the clergy and doctors that started the first pro-family back to the home campaign. So it's just a little piece of history you should know. And my final thought on it is that choice is a working woman's issue. It doesn't get set enough. Wouldn't you agree? You've got to have time to plan your families. And when you get to work and when you don't. So those are my little lessons for today. Prior to you all, vote. Vote yes. This is our last speaker. We have Jane Hendelig from the Women's International League for Peace and freedom. Sorry. Now take a seat. Come on, start curious here. Press the buttons. I got it. No. Unfortunately because I was speaking because I am really angry about the right to abortion being taken away. It is hypocritical to take it away because of the value of human life. If that were so, when fighting so many wars, I think Robin had a very important point to make about trying to make peace at all costs and to keep from having nuclear war. So I think it is hypocritical to say that an unborn fetus is more important than the life of a woman who has already enjoyed life for many years. And I want to say that this is also personal for me because having access kills women. My mother's best friend died because she had an abortion at the age of 16 a long time ago before it was illegal and the scar tissue from that abortion built up over many years. She always had very painful periods. She wanted to have a child. She wanted to have children but it made her sterile. And she was a second mother to us when we were growing up. She was taken from us in 1983 and it didn't help that the hospital at first misdiagnosed the agony that she was going through and sent her home with a pain killer and she had to come back the next day and then die and then died in the hospital from sepsis and anyway. But that's all I have to say. Be right into that. You got it. Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Shay. I am a medical student at the University of Vermont. We see you. We support you. We are the University of Vermont for Social Justice Lecture Series and our Social Justice Lecture Series on the website for details. It's a special thank you to Ashley and Paul for all of their leadership. We appreciate all of you guys for your energy. We could have done this with any of your help. So thank you so much. And lastly, I'm with Burlington for Reproductive Justice. We were one of the organizations that put together this rally today. It was part of the National Women's March Weekend of Action and this was the huge Burlington event we were all hoping for. We had 20 different organizations in the community coming out and endorsing the rally. And we had a lot of people here who were very interested in what we had to say. We're here to advocate for the Reproductive Liberty Amendment Article 22, Proposition 5 on the ballot on November 8th here in Vermont. This is an amendment to the Vermont State Constitution which will guarantee the right to reproductive services in the state for all Vermonters. Once this amendment is passed, it can't be taken away. No legislator, no governor can change that law because it's part of the Constitution. We're also advocating for a shield law in Vermont. A shield law would protect abortion providers who are in Vermont who are providing telemedical reproductive services to clients who are in states where abortion is restricted or banned. This would give those people hope it would give them a chance to get on with their lives and we very much hope to get the governor to sign an emergency executive order passing a shield law and then we'll support legislative efforts to pass a shield law in the state as well and finally we're advocating for reproductive justice for everyone, not just in Vermont not just in the United States but all over the world.