Our feminism on International Working Women’s Day, and every day, means standing with all women around the world! This IWWD, we call on you to embrace a feminist outlook that includes women in the Global South. We live in a country that gives over a trillion dollars to fund wars, military bases, and occupations that harm women and communities around the world; feminist values require us to be in solidarity with them!
For our sisters all over the world, it’s time we divest from war and militarism and invest in social services that support our communities!
This International Working Women's Day, March 8, 2025, join us as we demand: Cut the War Budget! Invest in Women's lives!
Take these messages to a local IWWD event or plan one of your own! We are here to help!
Use our #IWWD2025 Toolkit to Organize Actions Add your name to the petition to Cut the War Budget!
About IWWD and CODEPINK
After the founding of CODEPINK in 2002, on IWWD 2003, 10,000 women marched from MLK Jr. Park to the White House to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Twenty-two years later after witnessing $21 Trillion of taxpayer dollars stolen to pay for the war on terror which killed over 4.5 million people, we are now witnessing another war of terror through the U.S.-supported genocide in Gaza, which is slaughtering thousands of women and children at rapid pace. After Israel's 22-day assault on Gaza in winter 2008, CODEPINK joined an International Coalition to end the illegal siege of Gaza, and delivered 2000 baskets of gifts and love to the women in Gaza on International Women's Day 2009.
Every International Working Women's Day, CODEPINK strives to uplift the necessity to defund and end wars everywhere so we can fund the people and the planet. We call for a Free Palestine, Peace in Ukraine, Peace relations with China, a Good Neighbor Policy with Latin America and the Caribbean and a peace economy everywhere!
Tune in!
Global Research News Hour went on air on the eve of the 2025 International Women's Day to review the state of the women's movement today. At the end of the second half hour they talk to CODEPINK organizer Nour Jaghama about how the feminist movement in the U.S. is being exploited as an enabler of imperialist control at the expense of the rights of women in Palestine, Iran and elsewhere.