Activists have worn the color for nearly two decades — but its roots go further back.
on Friday, enraged abortion rights supporters poured into the streets. Many wore green.From Washington to New York to Los Angeles, women and men marched and chanted with green bandannas around their necks. They carried green banners and released green smoke into the air.For women at the other end of the hemisphere, the scene was familiar. Women in Latin America have worn green for abortion rights for nearly two decades. Now they watched in awe. Their Green Wave had reached the United States.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, led by Lilia Orfano, right, try to push through a police cordon in December 1982.Decades later, two Argentine women had an idea. Marta Alanis, the founder of Catholics for the Right to Decide in Argentina, was preparing for a national gathering of women in 2003. Abortionillegal in the South American country, was controversial even among feminists.
The bandannas spread across Argentina. Teenage girls began tying them to their backpacks — at times getting in trouble in their Catholic schools. Activists wore them to massive protests against femicide in 2015 and 2016. Those protests, prompted by the murder of a 14-year-old Argentine girl, grew to become a movement across Latin America known as “Ni Una Menos,” or “Not One Less.”People gather in front of Argentina's Congress building in Buenos Aires for a “Ni Una Menos”— “Not One Less” — protest on June 3, 2015.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images
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