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• ‟ I wholeheartedly believe that we can't organize just as women. There has to be specific messaging and an issue prioritization based on identity groups. Because when you ask a black woman what her top priority issues are versus a white woman versus a Muslim woman versus an undocumented woman, you're going to get... different answers.

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• ‟ It just doesn't make any sense for someone to say, 'Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?' There can't be in feminism. You either stand up for the rights of all women, including Palestinians, or none. There's just no way around it.

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• ‟ It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

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• ‟ I'm the national co-chair for the Women's March on Washington.

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• ‟ I'm impacted by my women's reproductive rights.

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• ‟ We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

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• ‟ As one of the national organizers of the Women's March back in 2017, immediately after the Women's March, over 20,000 women across the country had registered to run for office - the largest numbers we've seen in probably our entire American history for women to run in this way.

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• ‟ You can't be a feminist in the United States and stand up for the rights of the American woman and then say that you don't want to stand up for the rights of Palestinian women in Palestine. It's all connected.

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• ‟ When you talk about feminism, you're talking about the rights of all women and their families to live in dignity, peace, and security. It's about giving women access to health care and other basic rights.

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• ‟ BDS has been used as a tactic to raise awareness for Palestinian people, including women and their children.

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• ‟ You have to understand when you're organizing with women of color, you can't use words like 'marginalized' and 'second-class citizen' loosely.

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• ‟ There are plenty of Muslim women who are backbones of the community, but they aren't usually at the forefront. There just aren't a lot of me out there - women in hijabs, doing what I do.

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