Roe v. Wade Battle Update - SF Bay Area
Actions on Wednesday, January 23:
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Stop Patriarchy SF posted the following:
Day 3 in San Francisco: Today we went to Mills College to talk to students about abortion and the war on women, and to challenge them to be on the ground with us confronting the woman-hating March for Life this Saturday! Clear your schedules, grab some friends, and be at Powell & Market at 1pm to fight for a different future! These women took extra flyers, palm cards and stickers to give to others and stopped to pose with one of the banners-in progress for Saturday. It was the first day back on campus, but they said running into Stop Patriarchy was “the best reason to be late to class ever!”
Day 4 and Day 5 – Thursday and Friday - people will be going to UC Berkeley, Castlemont High School, and SF City College. We’ll be emailing and Facebooking - including women’s and gender studies departments, healthcare providers, women’s groups and others.
- So far 2,200 have been invited to the protest on the event’s Facebook page. We’re aiming to get to 10,000!
- one woman posted this comment: “Get the patriarchs out of my womb, others' wombs, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan and Palestine.”
More Press Coverage of Protests on Tuesday, January 22:
Telegraph UK article quoting Sunsara Taylor:
“Abortion protesters clash on 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade”
“‘We're here today not to celebrate 40 years of Roe versus Wade. We're here to recommit to the fight, to expand this right, to defend this right,’ said activist Sunsara Taylor of StopPatriarchy.org.”
“Forty years on, access to abortion services remain difficult for many women, said Ms Taylor, who also argued that women who choose to terminate a pregnancy still find themselves stigmatised.”
Coverage of SF Protest / Press Conference:
SF World Journal (in Chinese)
Sina Daily News (in Chinese)
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