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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">First Communiqué<br><br>This is not a declaration of war. War has been upon us for decades. A war which we did not want, and did not provoke. Too long have we been attacked for asking for basic medical care. Too long have we been shot, bombed, and forced into childbirth without consent. <br><br>This was only a warning. We demand the disbanding of all anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days. This is not a mere "difference of opinion" as some have framed it. We are literally fighting for our lives. We will not sit still while we are killed and forced into servitude. We have run thin on patience and mercy for those who seek to strip us of what little autonomy we have left. As you continue to bomb clinics and assassinate doctors with impunity, so too shall we adopt increasingly extreme tactics to maintain freedom over our own bodies. <br><br>We are forced to adopt the minimum military requirement for a political struggle. Again, this was only a warning. Next time the infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive. Medical imperialism will not face a passive enemy. Wisconsin is the first flashpoint, but we are all over the US, and we will issue no further warnings. <br><br>And we will not stop, we will not back down, nor will we hesitate to strike until the inalienable right to manage our own health is returned to us. <br><br>We are not one group, but many. We are in your city. We are in every city. Your repression only strengthens our accomplice-ship and resolve. <br><br> -Jane's Revenge</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/us/madison-anti-abortion-center-vandalized.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/us/madison-anti-abortion-center-vandalized.html</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anti-Abortion Group in Wisconsin Is Hit by Arson,
Authorities Say<span></span></span></b></p>
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Wisconsin Family Action in Madison and did not ignite, but another fire was
set, the police said.</span></p><img src="cid:ii_l30evbx90" alt="image.png" width="460" height="307"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">By Luke Vander Ploeg and Addison
Lathers - May 8, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The headquarters of an anti-abortion
group in Madison, Wis., was set on fire on Sunday morning in an act of
vandalism that included the attempted use of a Molotov cocktail and graffiti
that read “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either,” according to the
police.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">No one in the group, Wisconsin
Family Action, was in the building at the time, and there were no injuries
reported. Although the Molotov cocktail that was thrown through a window failed
to ignite, the vandal or vandals started another fire nearby, the authorities
said. The fire burned part of a wall.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Madison Police Department did
not say whether it had made any arrests or whether more than one person was
involved.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“We have made our federal partners
aware of this incident and are working with them and the Madison Fire
Department as we investigate this arson,” the department said in a statement. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The attack came nearly a week after
the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/02/us/roe-v-wade-abortion-supreme-court"><span style="color:blue">leak of a draft ruling by the Supreme Court that would
overturn Roe v. Wade</span></a>, the landmark decision that established a
constitutional right to abortion. Wisconsin has a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-bans-restrictons-roe-v-wade.html"><span style="color:blue">law banning abortions</span></a> that predates Roe by more
than a century, but Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, has said he would block its
implementation. Wisconsin Family Action is a nonprofit political advocacy group
that promotes conservative policies on several issues, including abortion,
within the Wisconsin state government.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“There’s nothing we have done to
warrant this. We ought to be able to take different sides on issues without
fearing for our lives,” said Julaine Appling, the president of Wisconsin Family
Action. “Had anybody been in the office, they would have, at a minimum, been
hurt.”</span></p><img src="cid:ii_l30ex59f1" alt="image.png" width="460" height="307"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font size="1">Julaine Appling, president of
Wisconsin Family Action.Credit...Andy Manis for The New York Times</font><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Madison Fire Department first
received a call about the fire at around 6 a.m. on Sunday. Firefighters and
police officers arrived shortly after and quickly brought the fire under
control. Ms. Appling said that she heard about the attack later in the morning
while preparing for a Mother’s Day brunch at her church in Watertown, Wis.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">“I got a call from building
management here saying there had been a break-in and a fire started,” Ms.
Appling said. She then went with a team member to the building, where they
discovered “the havoc and property damage.” <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ms. Appling said that her office was
the main target of the attack. Two windows had been smashed, and water that was
used to put out the fire had caused more damage. Ms. Appling said the graffiti
was particularly disturbing. “As I drove up to the office and I saw that, my
immediate reaction was surprise at how overt the threat was,” she said. The
graffiti included an anarchist symbol and the numbers 1312, a shorthand for an
anti-police slur.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin also
denounced the violence in a statement. “Our work to protect continued access to
reproductive care is rooted in love,” the group’s president, Tanya Atkinson,
said. “We condemn all forms of violence and hatred within our communities.”<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In a statement to The New York
Times, Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, which works
with Wisconsin Family Action, attributed the attack to left-wing extremists who
aim to intimidate abortion opponents, and he vowed that they would not succeed.
“We are grateful for the unwavering leadership of Wisconsin Family Action and
the dozens of family policy councils around the country that are committed to
the sanctity of all human life,” he added.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The north side of Madison, where
Wisconsin Family Action calls home, is not a sleepy neighborhood. Directly off
a busy street, International Lane, the group’s long brown office building is
tucked next to the Dane County Regional Airport, among other nondescript
corporate offices. All of the businesses were empty on Sunday morning, though a
steady stream of cars passed by.</span></p><img src="cid:ii_l30f0pb22" alt="image.png" width="460" height="274"><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wisconsin Family Action plans to
upgrade its security before employees return to the office.Credit...Andy Manis
for The New York Times</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ms. Appling said she and others at
the organization had received threats in the past and that she knew that some
people would be angry after the Supreme Court draft ruling was leaked. <span></span></span></p>
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