The Momentum Series
EMERJ's Momentum Series is a series of publications that share organizing tools, models and resources; highlight emerging reproductive justice issues, successes and challenges; and document the contributions that reproductive justice organizations are making to social change. The papers are designed to support reproductive justice movement building, strengthening our collective capacity to build the social, political, and economic power required to make lasting change and ensure the well being of all our communities.
Winning Reproductive Justice: Contributions to Policy Change from the Reproductive Justice Movement (2008)
Volume 1 of the Momentum Series offers case studies of organizing efforts across the country to showcase the specific and unique ways that the Reproductive Justice Movement is advancing both short-term and long-term policy battles.
Intersections at the Grassroots: Insights from Organizing for Reproductive Justice, Youth Leadership, and Immigrant & Refugee Rights (2008)
Volume 2 of the Momentum Series outlines lessons from intersectional grassroots movement building efforts, including common features shared by successful social movements that can be replicated.
Reproductive Justice at the Ballot Box (2008)
Volume 3 of the Momentum Series documents and analyzes the collective efforts of reproductive justice organizations in California to engage communities of color in defeating a parental notification initiative.
Una Nueva Vision para Promover Nuestro Movimiento a Favor de la Salud Reproductiva, los Derechos Reproductivos y la Justicia Reproductiva (2009)
Volume 4 of the Momentum Series is a Spanish language and cultural translation of ACRJ’s 2005 reproductive justice framework, A New Vision.
Looking Both Ways: Women at the Crossroads of Reproductive Justice and Climate Justice (2009)
Volume 5 of the Momentum Series, published in partnership with the New Orleans Women’s Health and Justice Initiative, examines the experiences of women working in low wage toxic industries with a new framework for understanding how to mobilize grassroots communities around climate change.
Movement Building Indicators (2010)
Volume 6 of the Momentum Series is a cutting-edge tool that supports reproductive justice organizations in their strategic thinking around planning and assessing their movement building work.
Introductory videos and individual chapters are available for viewing on the Movement Building Indicators page.
