Name/TitlePlacard: Make Scotland a Safe Access Zone – Healthcare for All
About this objectCardboard placard with blue background bearing the hand-painted slogan 'MAKE SCOTLAND A SAFE ACCESS ZONE - HEALTHCARE FOR ALL' around the central image of a feminist power symbol and the hashtag #SameStruggle. A message on the back says 'Solidarity from ROSA International Socialist Feminists'.
MakerROSA International Socialist Feminists
Date Made2023
Period2020s
Place MadeScotland, Glasgow
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, cardboard
MeasurementsH: 590 x W: 418 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsabortion rights - pro-choice
Subject and Association KeywordsCommunity activism
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's healthcare
Subject and Association DescriptionOne of several placards and banners collected immediately after a counter-protest outside the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow on Saturday 4th April 2023. Pro-choice campaigners, led by protest group Cabaret Against The Hate Speech, displayed the placards to coincide with the final day of "40 Days For Life”, an internationally co-ordinated anti-abortionist, pro-life campaign during Lent.
https://twitter.com/cabaretagainst
https://www.40daysforlife.com
https://www.rosainternational.org:
From #MeToo, to Ni Una Menos, to the Google workers walkout, to the millions strong feminist strikes in the Spanish state, to protests that have banned “marry your rapist” laws in the Middle East, to the successful movement that made abortion free and legal in Ireland, a feminism of struggle on the streets & in our workplaces has powerfully emerged.
Around the world, we are active in aiding to build this struggle, and the socialist-feminist wing of the movement.
Fighting all forms of misogyny and sexism is linked to the fight for rent control and public housing; the fight for decent and equal pay; the climate justice movement; and fighting racism, transphobia & the far-right. Socialist feminism means breaking with establishment feminism that seeks to feminise the capitalist elite. Capitalism— a system that breeds extreme wealth inequality, based on exploitation, a system that perpetuates war — is a system incapable of ending oppression and violence. Help us build a socialist feminist movement, allied with the whole working class and oppressed of this world — to struggle against all exploitation and oppression & fight for a socialist future, free from violence, wealth inequality & environmental destruction! Named after revolutionary socialist, Rosa Luxemburg and civil rights campaigner, Rosa Parks , we are an international network of socialist feminists, established by women, LGBTQI, young & people of colour activists in the International Socialist Alternative (ISA). Get in touch with us today to join our network & struggle — “give us bread but give us roses!”
Object TypePlacard
Object numberGWL-2023-36-3
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved