WAR ON WOMEN APRIL 28, 2012 MARCH
Hundreds Of Protestors Take New York By Storm In Fight Against ‘War On Women’
April 29, 2012 11:04 AM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Hundreds of protesters marched on Saturday in New York City against what they say are setbacks to equal rights and reproductive rights for women.
Saturday’s march against the “war on women” was one of dozens around the country.
Protesters marched from Washington Square down Broadway to Foley Square.
They chanted “Not the church, not the state, women must control their fate.”
Brenda Reiss says she was taking part in the protest because of efforts in several states to restrict access to abortion and contraception. She says women “will not be shoved back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.”
Protesters included actress Martha Plimpton, star of television program “Raising Hope.”
Plimpton tweeted that it was “a beautiful day for yelling at the government.”
Police reported no arrests.
April 29, 2012 11:04 AM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Hundreds of protesters marched on Saturday in New York City against what they say are setbacks to equal rights and reproductive rights for women.
Saturday’s march against the “war on women” was one of dozens around the country.
Protesters marched from Washington Square down Broadway to Foley Square.
They chanted “Not the church, not the state, women must control their fate.”
Brenda Reiss says she was taking part in the protest because of efforts in several states to restrict access to abortion and contraception. She says women “will not be shoved back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.”
Protesters included actress Martha Plimpton, star of television program “Raising Hope.”
Plimpton tweeted that it was “a beautiful day for yelling at the government.”
Police reported no arrests.
APRIL 28, 2012 MARCH - FOLEY SQUARE, NYC
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Women: Rise Up Now
We're told that this gentleman was very popular at the the Harrisburg, PA Rally so we wanted to give him a shout-out. Share this post if the men in your life support women's equality, or as we like to call it around here: equality!
We're told that this gentleman was very popular at the the Harrisburg, PA Rally so we wanted to give him a shout-out. Share this post if the men in your life support women's equality, or as we like to call it around here: equality!
Sarah Silverman Performs at War on Women Rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py0FaW_HjzU&feature=youtu.be
FAVORITE MARCH PICTURES (so far)
Women: Rise Up Now:
"We march and rally to protect our rights AND the rights of our daughters and granddaughters - like this little activist."
"We march and rally to protect our rights AND the rights of our daughters and granddaughters - like this little activist."
Seattle Rally - April 28, 2012
Rhode Island March & Rally - April 28, 2012
Boise, Idaho March & Rally - April 28, 2012
About 100 women marched through downtown Boise Saturday April 28, 2012 on their way to the Idaho Statehouse where they continued a rally for women's rights and denouncing a "war on women" from the political right wing. The march was part of a national event on Saturday.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/28/2095826/womens-march-in-boise-04282012.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/28/2095826/womens-march-in-boise-04282012.html#storylink=cpy
IN THE NEWS
Hundreds of women march for equal rights
Posted: Apr 28, 2012 7:22 PM PDT
Updated: Apr 28, 2012 9:29 PM PDT
By Glenn Wilburn, Web Producer -
Hundreds of women marched from Washington Square to Foley Square to fight for their rights.
The protesters marched to support women's rights including reproductive and healthcare rights, equal pay and the Violence Against Women Act.
The demonstrators said those rights are now in jeopardy because of actions by State Legislatures across the country and Congress.
One of the protesters included actress Martha Plimpton, the star of the Fox sitcom "Raising Hope."
There were dozens of similar marches against the "War on Women" nationwide.
POCKET MARCHERS
Sharon Starkey Jacobs
Off to the March on April 28, 2012.....Mom & me at the train station with all of our Pocket Marchers!
Off to the March on April 28, 2012.....Mom & me at the train station with all of our Pocket Marchers!
Sharon Starkey Jacobs
WOW! The Pocket Marchers list grew from last night. (See above) Thank you!
WOW! The Pocket Marchers list grew from last night. (See above) Thank you!
Sharon Starkey Jacobs You're still having a blast Pocket Marchers!!!!
Sharon Starkey Jacobs Whew...Pocket Marchers had to go potty after the march. lol
Sharon Starkey Jacobs
Pocket Marchers and I get our picture taken with Jerry (running for congress against Darrell Issa).
Pocket Marchers and I get our picture taken with Jerry (running for congress against Darrell Issa).
Sharon Starkey Jacobs Mother With Kelley Gardner.
Sharon Starkey Jacobs Stop The War On Women's Rights
She's 83 and still marching for Womens rights in Los Angeles.
She's 83 and still marching for Womens rights in Los Angeles.
WEB MARCHERS IN SPIRIT
Sandy Hager-Clark Luisa Lynne La Mar (nee Romero) Lucille Clifton Pat Parker Susan B. Anthony Dorothy Height Margaret Sanger | Sheri Lynne Ruoff (nee Ward) Margaret Lewis Gloria Anzaldua Eleanor Roosevelt Sorjouner Truth Amelia Earhart Mary McLeod Bethune |
IMHO: For some reason, I really like this idea of the Spirits of the women who came before us still being here with us. Certainly you can find web pages for most of the women mentioned above except for the names that are personal to me and not of famous women. Is there a personal or famous name of a women you would like to see here? I'll find a permanent spot somewhere at both thewomankindparty.com and thefourthwave2012.com web sites for this "Spirit" list and together we all can watch it grow.
Rock The Slut Vote
It's a beautiful morning in Sacramento, CA! We are headed to the Unite Women march on the capitol in a few minutes! If you're at Fremont Park this afternoon, please stop by and say hello!
Everyone, wherever you are, we hope you're at a Unite Women march! If not, we know you're with us in spirit! xo
It's a beautiful morning in Sacramento, CA! We are headed to the Unite Women march on the capitol in a few minutes! If you're at Fremont Park this afternoon, please stop by and say hello!
Everyone, wherever you are, we hope you're at a Unite Women march! If not, we know you're with us in spirit! xo
Stop The War On Women's Rights shared a link.
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This is my protest sign for tomorrow’s We Are Women March in Harrisburg, PA!
I am so ready to start fighting back against the patriarchy and reclaiming control over my own body.
Yesterday, I found an essay I wrote at 10 years old about how when I got older, I wanted to fight for women’s rights. Nine years later, and my dreams haven’t changed, except now, I get to live them!
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This is my protest sign for tomorrow’s We Are Women March in Harrisburg, PA!
I am so ready to start fighting back against the patriarchy and reclaiming control over my own body.
Yesterday, I found an essay I wrote at 10 years old about how when I got older, I wanted to fight for women’s rights. Nine years later, and my dreams haven’t changed, except now, I get to live them!
Women: Rise Up Now Spotted at the rally in Trenton, NJ.
Pro-choice protests are popping up everywhere!
Supporters mobilise against SPUC's 'kerbside vigils'
Anti-choice group SPUC have announced that they will hold 'pro-life chains' in 50 towns around the country on Saturday, 28th April to mark 44 years since the implementation of the Abortion Act.
Fortunately, Abortion Rights is not alone in believing that the advent of safe, legal abortion in Great Britain is a cause for celebration. In fact, pro-choice supporters will be staging counter-protests in major towns and cities this weekend, to remind SPUC and anyone who sees them, that the majority of the UK population firmly supports a woman's right to choose.
So why not join them, or stage your own counter-protest? It only takes a few friends and a facebook page to get started.
Here are the details of counter-protests organised so far. To add yours to the list email us the details or contact us on Twitter – we're happy to spread the word!
Bath: 10.30am, Bath Abbey
Brighton: 10.30, Preston Park
Bristol: 10.30/11.00am, Bristol Hippodrome
Liverpool: 10.45am, Childwall Health Centre
Edinburgh, 11am, Usher Hall, Lothian Road
Sheffield, 10.30am Vulcan Road
Cardiff: 10.45am near Whitchurch high School on the A470
Newcastle: 11am, Tyne Bridge
Stevenage: 11am, Stevenage Station
Oxford: 12pm, Cornmarket (there's no SPUC demo in Oxford, but it's a good day to do some pro-choice leafletting anyway!)
So let's make some noise on Saturday and tell anti-choice protesters to SPUC OFF!
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Rachel Budman-Burke Gay Men For Women's Rights about an hour ago:
Colorado women in Denver today! I made the sign that this women is carrying for me because I couldn't make the trip, Keep your fucking laws off my body! Awesome, brave, beautiful, strong women marching for ALL of us!!
Colorado women in Denver today! I made the sign that this women is carrying for me because I couldn't make the trip, Keep your fucking laws off my body! Awesome, brave, beautiful, strong women marching for ALL of us!!
LIVE IN SACRAMENTO
http://www.politicususa.com/watch-live-unite-against-the-war-on-women-protests.html
posted by Aleena Equality - Los Angeles March
Trenton, New Jersey March & Rally
Trenton, New Jersey March & Rally
Trenton, New Jersey March & Rally
Trenton, New Jersey March & Rally
San Diego Rally Pictures
Rhode Island March & Rally - April 28, 2012
Wisconsin March & Rally - April 28, 2012
Julie Draves posted: "What a great rally today in Hudson. Thank you to all those who helped Nan and me make this happen--Barb Greub, Tammy Tollefson, Lynn Linder, Collette Sakschek, Gail Upton, Suzanne V., Jonathan L., Mark Lambert, Ramona Gunter, Michelle Judge, Amy Graham, Lauren Evans, Krista Spieler, and most especially, Scott Walker,without whose leadership, we would never had had the will to stand out in the sleet and freezing rain for three hours."
Julie Draves about an hour ago:
"Thank you Tawni Kind for coming all the way to River Falls from LaCrosse, for standing in the rain and marching, and most of all for "edutaining" us with facts and humor and giving us the encouragement to keep up the fight."
"Thank you Tawni Kind for coming all the way to River Falls from LaCrosse, for standing in the rain and marching, and most of all for "edutaining" us with facts and humor and giving us the encouragement to keep up the fight."
Julie Draves about an hour ago:
"Thank you Kim Wojcik for bringing home the reality of how the most vulnerable women in our community suffer, and how it is getting worse for women, not better. Thank you for helping us to see clearly what we have to change and why we have to change it."
"Thank you Kim Wojcik for bringing home the reality of how the most vulnerable women in our community suffer, and how it is getting worse for women, not better. Thank you for helping us to see clearly what we have to change and why we have to change it."
Julie Draves about an hour ago:
"Thank you Todd Coleman, for speaking out today in support of families in Wisconsin. Your words will motivate us all to work harder."
"Thank you Todd Coleman, for speaking out today in support of families in Wisconsin. Your words will motivate us all to work harder."
Julie Draves about an hour ago
Julie Draves 2 hours ago
"Neither, Rain, nor Sleet, nor snow (nor all of the above) will keep us from doing what needs to be done!"
"Neither, Rain, nor Sleet, nor snow (nor all of the above) will keep us from doing what needs to be done!"
APRIL 28, 2012 MARCH PICTURES FROM ALL OVER!
JenniferMae Higley-Bats Stop The War On Women's Rights
"The Rally in Salt Lake City, Utah. it was great and inspiring."
"The Rally in Salt Lake City, Utah. it was great and inspiring."
YOUTUBE VIDEOS - APRIL 28, 2012
A daughters support of her mother at the rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILY0vzGqbM&list=UU3IVdPgOO1lKO3ibep76r3A&index=1&feature=plcp
A teacher speaks out at the War on Women rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5nbEB0NKig&feature=autoplay&list=UU3IVdPgOO1lKO3ibep76r3A&playnext=1
War On Women Rally Columbus
www.youtube.com
Lesley McKinleySpeech -4-28-12
www.youtube.com
IMHO: I'll be posting youtube videos from the marches as fast as I can find them! And I'll put them right here under this heading.
Photo by Eric Tsetsi A sign brought to the state Capitol for the AZ Unite Women rally on Saturday
AZ Unite Women Rally Draws Hundreds to the State Capitol to Protest Against "War on Women"
By Eric Tsetsi Sat., Apr. 28 2012 at 3:07 PM
A crowd assembled at the Arizona Capitol today to put legislators on notice that they're pissed.
About 500 people voiced outrage toward recent laws passed in Arizona and around the county that restrict women's health and reproductive rights.
AZ Unite Women organized the event in response to what's been coined "the war on women."
"Medical decisions regarding my pregnancy should not be decided by legislators," says Lesley McKinley, a singer/songwriter who helped organize the Saturday event.
See the full slideshow from the AZ Unite Women rally, Saturday, April 28.
McKinley, who is 24 weeks pregnant, pointed to HB2036, which makes it illegal for women to have an abortion after 20 weeks and also requires women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound, as a prime example of why so many women are outraged with "right-wing extremist lawmakers."
"[My husband] did not serve three tours in Iraq for the land of the free and the home of the brave to have his wife declared asecond-class citizen," McKinley says.
Many protesters at the rally were fed up with religious extremism being the basis for legislation.
The state Legislature also recently passed HB2625, which exempts employers from providing contraception in their healthcare coverage. The bill could soon be handed over to Governor Jan Brewer to be signed into law.
Republican lawmakers also are trying to defund Planned Parenthood by barring any non-abortion-related public funding to the women's health clinic.
"I've watched my beloved state circle the drain for the past year and a half because of the people in that building," Diane D'Angelo, chair of the Phoenix Human Relations Commission, said while pointing to the Capitol building. "They're bent on returning our country back to 1967."
Democratic state Senator Linda Lopez of District 29 also joined in the rally.
"The Republican party I serve with today ... was hijacked by right-wing religious extremists," Lopez says. "They want to create a theocracy like in Iran."
Across the country, Republicans have put forward about 900 bills that attempt to restrict women's health and reproductive rights, according to Unite Women.
On Thursday, April 26, 31 Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, including prospective GOP Vice Presidential candidate Marco Rubio of Florida.
Back in Arizona, a handful of Republicans have spoken out against the perceived extremism in their own party.
Paula Pennypacker, a Republican political activist and blogger, spoke at the AZ Unite Women rally.
She recently wrote on her blog, Paulapennypacker.com, "The message coming out of our state Legislature to women is: 'shut up, stop thinking, and vote Republican.'"
Former Republican legislators, Linda Binder, Susan Gerard, and Roberta Voss, also recently published an editorial in the Arizona Republic decrying the Legislature's focus on women's issues rather than the economy.
"We Republicans just a short decade ago passed Arizona's state law requiring insurance companies to provide fair coverage of contraception -- the very bill these extreme right Republicans now are working to repeal," Binder, Gerard, and Voss' editorial states.
McKinley and other speakers at the AZ Unite Women rally urged voters to take a stand against the extremists.
Lopez even urged Democrats to "temporarily" register as Independents so they could vote in the Republican primaries.
AZ Unite Women is a branch of Unite Women, a national non-profit organization formed about two months ago.
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Photo by Eric Tsetsi
Many protesters at the rally were fed up with religious extremism being the basis for legislation.
Many protesters at the rally were fed up with religious extremism being the basis for legislation.
IMHO: This group of pictures are coming from Gay Men For Women's Rights! You guys are AWESOME! And they're posting youtube videos also. Go check them out on Facebook if you can!
Susan Burrell LewandowskiGay Men For Women's Rights
MA-UniteWomen- Way to go Boston! — at Boston City Hall Plaza.
MA-UniteWomen- Way to go Boston! — at Boston City Hall Plaza.
IMHO: AWESOME, Los Angeles!
CA Unite Women
Susan Schindler McCarthy Too Informed To Vote Republican
"We are women march in Columbus Ohio. My way of explaining the GOP. :) Please share. Let the GOP know we women are mad and we are voting them out of office!"
"We are women march in Columbus Ohio. My way of explaining the GOP. :) Please share. Let the GOP know we women are mad and we are voting them out of office!"
Women: Rise Up Now
"Great photo from the Harrisburg, PA rally. Thanks to the PA chapter of Unite Against The War on Women for permission to post it."
"Great photo from the Harrisburg, PA rally. Thanks to the PA chapter of Unite Against The War on Women for permission to post it."
IMHO: Maggie, Jennifer and Erica, I hope you made it to this march. Love, Mema.
Walk for Choice Seattle
Unite Women - April 28, 2012
Westlake Park
Seattle, Washington — at Westlake Park.
Unite Women - April 28, 2012
Westlake Park
Seattle, Washington — at Westlake Park.
MAXINE SAYS:
BLUE SAYS:
What an AWESOME day! April 28, 2012 will go down in herstory/history as the day The Fourth Wave of the Women's Movement rose up and announced themselves! Tomorrow this page will go under the "April 28, 2012" section of thewomankindparty.com with whatever new I find tomorrow. And tomorrow's Web Wanderings page will begin the serious work of getting out the vote on November 6, 2012! Have a great evening, everyone, and be gentle with yourselves.
