Change is brewing. Revolution is in the air. This coming Labor Day women and men in over 100 communities across the U.S. are coming together to demand that hospitals increase their practice of evidence based maternity care, as part of the Improving Birth National Rally for Change. Most of these rallies will take place in front of a local hospital. However there are some unique locations such as the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC and the headquarters of the American Medical Association in Chicago, IL.

The founder of Improving Birth, Dawn Thompson, participated in our First Annual Birth Activist Retreat. At the retreat we decided that this event would be the first of many coordinated actions we would promote and organize as a collective of birth activists. When people all over the country stand together and speak in unison the message can not be ignored…