This is an urgent RISING ACTION that you can all take now with our partners at National Nurses United.
Due to a national shortage of face masks, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) downgraded its guidelines and is now recommending that nurses use bandanas and scarves as makeshift masks when caring for COVID-19 patients — despite proof that they provide almost no effective protection against the virus.
These recommendations are putting our nurses, frontline health care workers, and patients at extreme risk. We need your help to expose the truth about what is going on in hospitals and clinics across the country and pressure the CDC to adjust these guidelines to protect frontline nurses.
We’re asking everyone (that means you) to post a selfie wearing a bandana or something like it to expose the lack of personal protective equipment and call on the CDC to protect frontline nurses immediately.
Find a bandana in your house, or something else like it such as a scarf or dish towel
Download & print this sign, or make your own, that says “This is not protection. Sign the petition at protectnurses.org“
Take a selfie wearing your bandana with your sign
Post in on Facebook and Twitter and tag @CDCgov AND your congressperson with this text (or something similar):.@CDCgov @NNUBonnie @StefRoberson this is NOT personal protective equipment. Bandanas and scarves provide almost NO effective protection when #COVID19 patients are highly contagious.
#ProtectNurses and save lives: strengthen PPE guidelines for frontline health care workers NOW!
If you need an example, check out ours here:
Hospitals are asking nurses to battle this highly infectious virus with little to no protection. This is unacceptable.
At a White House briefing, President Trump said millions of masks were in production and that the federal government was making efforts to address the shortages – but he did not provide any details as to when or how many masks would be made available.
At a moment when we are asking nurses and other health care workers to step up and protect people, we must be able to protect them as well.
All of our lives are at stake. If nurses get sick, they can’t take care of patients. And if they can’t see patients, this pandemic will spiral further out of control.
The time is NOW to take all precautions to protect nurses and health care workers on the frontlines.
Thank you for helping expose this crisis and for standing in solidarity with nurses.
“International Women’s Day was initiated at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s conference to annually honor working women around the world. This day is to cherish, respect and honor the dignity of women workers – farmers, nurses, mothers, restaurant workers, factory workers, domestic workers, teachers, retail workers – and to demand one fair wage, equal pay for equal work, healthcare, and safety on the job free from harassment, poor working conditions and accidents. It’s a day to rise with our sisters in solidarity to make sure those who work the hardest are treated the most fairly.” – Eve Ensler
For #IWD2020, we RAISE THE VIBRATION through Action, Art, Connection, Imagination, and Love as One Billion Rising activists, activists & youth create V-Day benefits, One Billion Rising and Raise the Vibration creative resistance events across the planet.
Celebrate Women Rising Globally
One Billion Rising 2020: Together, we RISE to free all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities) from sexual, physical, racial, economic, political, socio-cultural, ideological and climate crisis violence. RISE to end rape, battery, incest, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, sexual slavery and trafficking, child marriage, femicide, sexual, gender and reproductive oppression, and violence towards LGBTQIA+ communities. RISE to end capitalism, colonization, racism, imperialism, war and climate catastrophe.
RAISING THE VIBRATION through action, art, connection, imagination and love. This is what it looked like…
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce the release of our latest short film – “Raise the Vibration” featuring voiceover by actor/activist/V-Day Board member Thandie Newton and words by Tony award winning playwright / One Billion Rising and V-Day founder Eve Ensler.
Directed by filmmaker Deborah Anderson (“My Revolution Lives In This Body”) and produced by One Billion Rising’s Ensler, Monique Wilson and Susan Celia Swan. The short reflects and celebrates the One Billion Rising campaign’s 2020 theme of “Raise The Vibration.” It honors all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence).
It is a call to honor women’s agency over their bodies and their right to be safe and free, a call to move our bodies so that the freedom and energy we shake loose becomes a new energy bringing in a new future. A call to see, cherish, nurture, respect and protect our Mother Earth as we are not separate from her. Her life is our life.
VIEW THE VIDEO
“Raise the Vibration” features images from some of the hundreds of thousands of One Billion Rising events worldwide where activists, youth, survivors and artists take to the streets demanding an end violence against all women and girls. The risings are global, taking place in 180 countries; throughout Africa, Asia and South America. All 29 states in India are Rising. Hundreds of cities, high schools, theaters, towns in Germany, Poland, Italy, & the US are Rising.
“Bodies raging, bodies ready, bodies that will not be contained … bodies moving, dancing … dignity, integrity … dancing to know my body … Dance into this landscape … dance for our sons and daughters, dance the new world,” – Eve Ensler
In the midst of an international wave of right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, fascism, xenophobia misogyny, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, corporate greed and climate destruction, the One Billion Rising actions are a grassroots and global call to amplify the fight for gender, climate, economic and racial justice.
Together, we RISE to free all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities) from sexual, physical, racial, economic, political, socio-cultural, ideological and climate crisis violence. RISE to end rape, battery, incest, sexual harassment, female genital mutilation, sexual slavery and trafficking, child marriage, femicide, sexual, gender and reproductive oppression, violence towards LGBTQIA+ communities. RISE to end capitalism, colonization, racism, imperialism, war and climate catastrophe.
In the midst of an international wave of right-wing nationalism, white supremacy, fascism, xenophobia misogyny, femicide, homophobia, transphobia, corporate greed and climate destruction, the One Billion Rising actions are a grassroots and global call to amplify the fight for gender, climate, economic and racial justice.