The Green Wave’s emergence around the world makes clear that not only is our enemy the same, but more importantly, that feminism and the fight for abortion rights is a transnational movement rooted in solidarity beyond borders.
The Green Wave movement played a major role in securing the right to abortion in countries across Latin America. It’s time for to paint the U.S. green.
A protester wearing a green bandana raises a fist at a protest against the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturningThe Supreme Court has officially overturned , eliminating the constitutional right to legal abortion and opening doors for restrictive laws in states across the country. In response, thousands of people have been gathering to show their support for abortion rights.
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.
On Dec. 30, 2021, the Argentine Congress passed a bill to legalize abortion until 14 weeks, a historic move in a region with some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws. Pro-choice demonstrators wait for the result of the vote. Whether we were tying them over our mouths clamoring for change, wearing them around our lifted fists, or attaching them to our purses or backpacks in more subtle displays of solidarity, our presence was ever-growing. Soon enough, the , or Green Wave, was born, and the tide was too strong to ignore. Every day, women of all walks of life wore them proudly to school, on public transportation, to work, at social gatherings, and every display was an act of resistance.
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