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DESCRIPTION:Join Refuse Fascism 11:30am, Larkin Street side of Main Library, San 
 Francisco\nMarch to City Hall steps for noon Rally for Reproductive Rights! 
 sponsored by Supervisor Vallie Brown and Planned Parenthood Northern 
 California\n\nTo reserve your 'handmaid' costume please contact Adrienne, 
 afong@jps.net\n\nThe Trump/Pence Regime Must Go!\n\nThe author of the 
 Alabama law that just passed said, “Why not go all the way?” His 
 Alabama ban includes no exceptions for rape or incest, and promises to 
 punish doctors that perform abortions with sentences for up to 99 years in 
 prison.\n\nMore than 250 anti-abortion laws have been proposed at the state 
 level across the country this year. Contrary to the narrative that the new 
 Democratic-controlled Congress is reining in the regime, the fascists who 
 have kept their eyes on the prize understand that the judiciary has been, 
 and still is, being remade by the Trump/Pence regime, capable of fulfilling 
 their most fervently held goals: to pull American society back to the 1950s 
 and lock people – especially women – into a situation where they are 
 helpless to control the most basic and fundamental circumstances that 
 affect their lives. Ultimately, they’ll be coming for legal 
 contraceptives as well… and then gay, trans, and gender non-conforming 
 people’s rights to be themselves and love who they want to. If you’re 
 looking for clues on how this works, read The Handmaid’s 
 Tale.\n\nAbortion is more than healthcare, and the “pro-life” forces 
 are in fact Christian fascists. 'Christofascists' find "fertile recruitment 
 ground in the anti-choice movement," say journalists Elizabeth King and 
 Erin Corbett. "Attacks on reproductive rights are nothing new, but fascist 
 groups’ infiltration of anti-choice groups and recruiting around 
 anti-choice organizing in their genocidal agenda is an 
 escalation...\n\n"Not surprisingly, there is often overlap and 
 collaboration between the so-called pro-life movement—typically made up 
 of religious conservatives who oppose a person’s right to safe, legal, 
 and affordable abortion—and racist far-right movements. Myriad activists 
 and journalists have chronicled the short line between hatred of gender and 
 sexual minorities and white nationalism. Gamergate, for example, revealed 
 how easy it is for male supremacists and white supremacists to target 
 common enemies together, and how quickly men who hate women can become 
 radicalized. Not only do misogynists such as “incels” tend to hold 
 deeply racist views and transition to white nationalism, but white 
 nationalists themselves tend to target women and trans people, and have a 
 particular animus for abortion rights."\n\nWe’re teetering on the brink 
 of a post-Roe reality in this country. The point is, what do we do about 
 it?\n\nSafe and legal access to abortion is essential to the bedrock 
 foundation of a functioning, humane society (or one approaching that 
 status). In the name of humanity, for women and everyone here and around 
 the world, it’s past time we take to the streets and demand that the 
 Trump/Pence regime must go.\n\n\nNext Bay Area Refuse Fascism Organizing 
 Meeting\nTuesday May 21, 6:30pm\nSports Basement\n1590 Bryant Street, San 
 Francisco\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/20/18823530.php
SUMMARY:Calling All Handmaids: Stop Fascist Attacks on Reproductive Rights
LOCATION:Larkin Street side of Main Library, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/20/18823530.php
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