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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3><b>Pro-choice Rally and
Counter-protest on the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade<br>
San Francisco!<br><br>
Saturday, January 21, 11:00am, Pier #1 (Embarcadero and Market
Streets)<br><br>
COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS UNITE TO DEFEND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN OPPOSITION TO
ANTI-CHOICE FUNDAMENTALISTS COMING TO SF! <br><br>
</b>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
"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.<br><br>
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.<br>
For more information, call 415-558-8669 x227, 415-730-2917 or e-mail
<a href="mailto:BACORRinfo@riseup.net">BACORRinfo@riseup.net</a>.</font>
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