The incoming president of the United States will assume office as a tide of hundreds of thousands of women and allies from across the country, and over 350 cities worldwide, take to the streets to demonstrate their dire concerns, resistance, opposition and demands to the new administration.

On 21 January, women and men will join the Women’s March on Washington, the largest protest in response to a new president in American history, to stand for a spectrum of diverse causes – including women’s and LGBTQ rights, racial justice, indigenous rights, immigration rights, worker’s rights and environmental justice.

Within the many distinct calls being made, however, there remains a collective driving force – a fierce understanding of the need to stand boldly for the safety of our world at a critical juncture for the Earth, women’s rights and the American democratic experiment.



In response to Donald Trump’s dangerous position on climate change and appointment of fossil fuel industry executives and climate deniers to the country’s top leadership positions, a coalition of diverse groups will join the march as a Women for Climate Justice contingent. The groups are calling for immediate action on climate change, an end to extraction of fossil fuels, and protection of our lands, waters and children’s futures.

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The new administration’s stance on climate change is a threat to the entire world, but particularly to its women – as women work everyday to stop the devastation of communities and ecosystems; and as droughts, floods, extreme weather, infectious disease, and food and water insecurity disproportionately affect global women and the world’s 1.3 billion poor, the majority of whom are women.

It is important to highlight that violence against the Earth is directly linked to violence against women – and that patriarchy, colonization, imperialism and capitalism are all based in great part upon power over and exploitation of women, the land and peoples of color around the world.



These violent paradigms are manifested clearly in the current political landscape and threaten to escalate dangerously under the Trump administration, deepening multiple crises from accelerating climate change and environmental degradation, to detrimental social and economic injustices.

Women standing for climate justice across the US and around the world refuse to accept this future, and in this context, we march to declare that women are going to continue to rise ever more boldly in defense of all we hold dear – no matter what challenges we face in a climate denying administration.

We as women for climate justice march for full respect for climate science and immediate action on solutions to the global warming crisis – recognizing that it is a matter of life and death, and that justice on issues of economy, gender, race and immigration are completely interwoven with preventing the destruction of the planet for profit and power.

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We march to send a message to the new administration that it is far past time to reject the rule of the fossil fuel industry, and that we must take immediate action to leave fossil fuels in the ground and transition to a clean, just, decentralized, democratized and sustainable energy future.

To do this, it is essential that frontline, grassroots women of color and indigenous women’s voices are at the forefront of the climate conversation, because they simultaneously bear the heaviest burden from environmental impacts, and work everyday to implement solutions born from necessity and to show that another world is possible.

Women from every sector of society are frequently the backbone of movements to stop pipelines; preserve biodiversity; grow sustainable economies; feed the world; implement clean energy solutions; and challenge unjust economic, political and legal systems.

The Women’s March on Washington is part of a strengthened and expanded call to action, and a declaration of our intent to forge ahead for social and ecological justice because we know we must act now.

As you hear our strong voices in our nation’s capital and cities around the world on 21 January, know that women in the US and women of the world have a message to the new administration starting on day one: welcome to four years of audacious resistance and dauntless re-visioning.

Women will take uncompromising action to prevent harms to our families and communities, and build a healthy and just world for the Earth and all future generations.

