More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Despite differing political systems and climates, activists in the U.S. and Latin America share a vision of reproductive freedom and access to healthcare that cannot be stopped.
We are a united movement, a transnational movement, a movement without borders and together we are unstoppable. The Green Wave is here to stay.
While we are only just beginning to scratch the surface of the kinds of horrors that banning abortion will create in the U.S., our neighbors in Latin America have understood this reality for years. We cannot afford to ignore the wins and the lessons learned from our neighbors and friends around the globe as we embark on the long road ahead to rebuild power and restore our right to abortion in the U.S.
As countless signs across the marches and rallies call for bans off our bodies and to keep abortion legal, a symbol that is new to many in this country, but beloved to the three of us, has unmistakably emerged all over the streets: a sea of green bandanas. The Green Wave, which had begun in Argentina — and then spread across all of Latin America — is now here, as a rallying cry to protect abortion.
