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Drop the Charges Against Elise “Luna” Kelder!
Fighting for Abortion Rights Should Not Be a Crime!

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Stand With Luna—Come to Court to Hear Arguments on the Motion to Dismiss on the Basis of Selective Prosecution. 

The hearing scheduled for August 2 was postponed. 
NEW HEARING DATE: Thurs. August 15, 2024 @8:30 am at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple St, Dept. 51, in Los Angeles. 

CALL THE Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto—(213) 978-8100—and DEMAND that all charges be dropped on Elise “Luna” Kelder, a member of THE REVCOM CORPS and a Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights leader.

Luna being arrested at Los Angeles City Hall, July 6, 2022.

 

Luna Hernandez is arrested at Los Angeles City Hall, July 6, 2022.   

Luna is a member of THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity, Los Angeles, and former leader of the Los Angeles Chapter of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights. She is being prosecuted for protesting against the overturning of abortion rights in 2022, calling out the fact that FORCED MOTHERHOOD IS FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT. She was arrested twice for participating in two bold and righteous nonviolent acts of civil disobedience before and after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, demanding: “OVERTURN ROE? HELL NO!” She was arrested in June of 2022 at the Summit of Americas where Biden was speaking and in a bold civil disobedience action at Los Angeles City Hall in July 2022, where four women chained themselves to City Hall after washable red paint was poured down the steps.

Luna is the only person from those protests now facing criminal charges—four misdemeanors! On August 2, there will be a hearing on a motion to dismiss all charges against Luna as she is being selectively prosecuted based on her political affiliations (a “Murgia motion”). When the motion was initially heard in the beginning of May, the judge denied the motion on the basis of there not being “enough evidence” but gave Luna’s attorney the option to provide more evidence in support of selective prosecution.  This is an important political battle in the courtroom and everyone who cares about fighting for the right to abortion should be in the house!

For more backstory read here.

Luna being arrested by LAPD for protesting for abortion rights.

 

Luna being arrested by LAPD for protesting for abortion rights.    Photo: Ringo Chiu

The “Murgia motion” that will be argued in court is a motion to dismiss all four misdemeanor charges against Luna on the grounds of selective prosecution based on her political affiliations. 

Luna’s acts of political protests were right and righteous and should not be criminalized! Look at the situation in society today: 

*A girl in Mississippi who was raped is now being forced to have her rapist's child while going into the seventh grade because she was not allowed to get an abortion in that state. 

*There are over 171,000 documented cases of women who have had to travel out of state to get an abortion since Roe has been overturned. 

*Harrowing stories of pregnant women being forced to carry their dead fetuses because of miscarrying and some almost dying from their bodies going into septic shock. 

Luna stood up to prevent this Christian fascist nightmare where women are being slammed back to the dark ages and she is being prosecuted by the so-called “pro-choice” Los Angeles City Attorney for doing so AND for being a revolutionary and a communist. 

This must not go down and the charges must be dismissed and dropped! 

Be there in the courtroom to show support for Luna and demand that NO ONE should be prosecuted for standing up for the lives of women and girls, because forced motherhood IS FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT. Spread the word about this court date. 

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