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Sights and Sounds: April 9th, #RiseUp4AbortionRights

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• Voices of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights
• Youth leaders speak
• April 9 in the news
• New York City
• Los Angeles
• Chicago
• Berkeley
• Atlanta
• Austin
• Boston
• Honolulu
• Seattle
• The weeks running up to April 8 and 9

April 9 protests #RiseUp4AbortionRights

After a day of wearing and spreading #Green4Abortion, on Saturday, April 9, RiseUp4AbortionRights.org called people into the streets.  Hundreds of people—predominantly students and youth—in over 12 cities across the country hit the streets to sound the alarm:

The U.S. Supreme Court Is Poised to Take Away Women’s Right to Abortion this Spring
Only the People Can Stop This
Take to the Streets and 
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights NOW!
ABORTION ON DEMAND & WITHOUT APOLOGY
FORCED MOTHERHOOD = FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT
RISE UP!  WEAR GREEN!

Voices of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights

The leaders of this movement laid out the stakes, and why and how only the people can stop this—acting in their thousands and millions, a ferocious rising in the next weeks for abortion rights. Watch these excerpts:

Sunsara Taylor speaks to how and why we can win: “...there is a fury that can be woken up and aroused as these chains of oppression are being tightened yet again.”

Merle Hoffman speaks to what will happen if the right to abortion is overturned: “Look at this hanger closely, because you are looking at the future...”
 

Lori Sokol speaks to how overturning Roe v Wade sets a legal precedent to “not only ban abortion, but curtail access to birth control, ban marriage equality and even criminalize being gay...”

Skyler Soloman: “this is a crisis that demands the people get loud, to make noise and to call each other into the streets...”

Mari Justice speaks the truth to those who argue that abortion is a “white women's issue:” “I'm here today bringing you history, facts and a call to act”
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights March NYC
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights March NYC

 

Sunsara Taylor, Lori Sokol and Merle Hoffman, RiseUp4AbortionRights co-initiators lead the march.

Youth leaders speak:

A core of angry young women spoke about what's on the line with the ripping away of the right to abortion, and called on their peers to act.

New York City young women chant at RiseUp4AbortionRights.

 

New York City. Photo: Laura Jane Brett Photography   

Anna, 16 year old student organizer, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, LA Chapter

New York City youth march for Rise Up 4 abortion rights

 

Youth in the streets, New York City     Photo: revcom.us

April 9 in the news:

CBS news coverage in LA:

The Daily Texan Abortion rights activists hold protest downtown

 

University of Texas Austin newspaper covers Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights protest    Photo: Daily Texan

Cities across the country:

RiseUp4AbortionRights banner in New York City.

 

IG: DIA.NYC

Woman with green coat hanger with sign Never Again at Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights rally in NYC.

 

Photo: revcom.us

New York City, Green Wave for Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.

 

Photo: revcom.us

Young women march behind green banner

 

New York City, April 9, 2022    Photo: revcom.us

Two people hold Harlem 4 abortion on Demand sign

 

Photo: revcom.us

Musicians at Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights protest

 

Photo: revcom.us 

RiseUp4AbortionRights march in Los Angeles.

 

Rally in Chicago for RiseUp4AbortionRights.

 

Woman with bloodied shirt that speaks of 16 year old who died from botched abortion.

 

Chicago woman with sign about Texas not forcing face masks, but forcing women to carry babies from rapists.

 

Chicago RiseUp4AbortionRights march down Michigan Avenue

 

Chicago    Photo: revcom.us

Waving green flags high at Berkeley RiseUp4AbortionRights rally.

 

Rally at Sather Gate, Berkeley, for RiseUp4AbortionRights

 

UC Berkeley, Sather Gate   

Three women hold signs for RiseUp4AbortionRights in Atlanta.

 

Austin rally RiseUp4Abortion Rights.

 

Two large green banners lead Boston march RiseUp4AbortionRights.

 

Honolulu, RiseUp4AbortionRights march.

 

Three women at Seattle's RiseUp4AbortionRights rally in Seattle.

 

In the weeks running up to April 8 and 9, people started to raise hell for abortion rights:

Watch the protest that took place INSIDE and outside Amy “Coathanger” Barrett speaking at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California:

A die-in at Grand Central Station, New York City:

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