[News] Pro-choice Rally SF on Sat 1/21 - 11am

[Anti-Imperialist News]

Pro-choice Rally and Counter-protest on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
San Francisco!

Saturday, January 21, 11:00am, Pier #1 (Embarcadero and Market Streets)

COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS UNITE TO DEFEND REPRODUCTIVE 
RIGHTS IN OPPOSITION TO ANTI-CHOICE FUNDAMENTALISTS COMING TO SF!

Bay Area community activists are convening a 
broad-based "Stand for Reproductive Justice – 
Women's Rights are Human Rights!" celebration and 
counter-picket opposing the second annual "Walk 
for Life - West Coast" march in San Francisco on 
January 21 – the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The reproductive rights rally takes place on 
Saturday, January 21 in San Francisco at Pier #1 
(Embarcadero and Market Streets) at 11:00am and 
will be followed at 12:00pm by a spirited 
counter-protest and celebration of Roe v. Wade 
along the Embarcadero waterfront.

Activities include a speak-out, featuring Women's 
Choice Clinic Executive Director Linci Comy, San 
Francisco City Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Code 
Pink activist Vicki Leidner, Bay View social 
justice journalist Marie Harrison, and more. 
Following the rally, pro-choice advocates from 
the Radical Cheerleaders to the Raging Grannies 
will line the anti-abortionists' march route in a 
grassroots, multi-issue reaffirmation of a woman's right to control her body.

"Women know better than to return to the deadly 
days of illegal abortions – the overwhelming 
majority of the Bay Area is opposed to the 'Walk 
for Life' organizers' anti-choice, anti-birth 
control, anti-equality, and anti-gay-marriage 
platform. Given the emboldened assaults on our 
rights, our clinics, and our civil liberties by 
rightwing government crusaders and reactionary 
fundamentalists, it is urgent that U.S. feminists 
re-ignite a movement like the one that secured 
abortion rights in 1973, and hit the streets in 
self-defense," said Elizabeth Creely, clinic 
defender and organizer for the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.

Sponsored by the Bay Area Coalition for Our 
Reproductive Rights and endorsed by the San 
Francisco Labor Council; Women's International 
League for Peace and Freedom, Peninsula Chapter; 
Refuse and Resist; ANSWER-SF; East Bay NOW; 
Radical Women; Code Pink; Women's Choice Clinic; 
Socialist Party USA, Bay Area Local; Solidarity; 
Labor Committee for Peace & Justice; Green Party; 
Progressive Voter Project; Freedom Socialist 
Party; queer liberation activist Tommi Avicolli 
Mecca; Peace & Freedom Party; Allen Fisher, 
American Federation of Teachers, Local 2121*; 
California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Purple 
Berets; HaitiAction Committee; GABNet; Peninsula 
Raging Grannies; International Socialist 
Organization; the World Can't Wait campaign, and 
United Auto Workers, Local 2103.
For more information, call 415-558-8669 x227, 
415-730-2917 or e-mail 
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