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"Walk for Life" Counter-Protest 
January 21, 2006 - The second annual "Walk for Life" rally brought in thousands of right-wing christian fundamentalists and abortion opponents to San Francisco's waterfront. They were met by a determined group of pro-choice advocates and women's rights activists bearing green balloons and coathangers, letting them know their hypocritical right-wing pro-Bush patriarchal agenda is not welcome here....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 4:23pm PST
Abortion Opponents Converge On San Francisco To Celebrate Death Of Roe 
With Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court and the Democratic Party giving up its strong pro-choice stand, it is likely that Roe vs. Wade will be weakened and perhaps fully overturned in the next decade. Abortion opponents are emboldened and are now organizing yearly marches in cities like San Francisco to show their clout. Pro-choice groups are trying to fight back but the baby-boom generation that was willing to take to the streets for abortion rights for the past 3 decades seems to have ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:41pm PST
33 Years of Legal Abortion Celebrated by Fighting Fascism We celebrated 33 years of Roe v. Wade guaranteeing safe and legal abortions by protesting fascism in San Francisco as a few thousand mostly white petty bourgeois Bush supporters marched for fascism under the guise of opposing abortion. We were at least 10,000 strong, which is good, but we can and must do better. We must celebrate 34 years of legal abortion next year with a rally at Justin Herman Plaza and a march on Market street....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:27pm PST
Anti-Choice And Pro-Choice Protesters Face Off In San Francisco 
On Saturday January 21st, a crowd of over 10,000 abortion opponents gathered in San Francisco in Justin Herman Plaza. Pro-choice activists gathered a few blocks down near Pier 7. Around noon, the anti-abortion crowd started marching up Embarcadero and hundreds of police moved in to keep the pro-choice crowd ouut of the street as the right-wingers filled Embarcadero....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 1:37pm PST
Indybay Txtmob [People Are Having Problems Using TextMob But It May Be Working For Some Users]...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 9:37pm PST
Improved BART poster 
Poster-suitable for flyers! Print and bring to the march tomorrow: 11 AM Pier 1, Embarcadero....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:11pm PST
Counterprotest the Second annual "Walk for Life" didn't see this posted on this site, so i thought i would repost it...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:07pm PST
1/21 in SF: "Faith in Choice: Reclaiming the Moral Highground" 5:00 pm - Gather at Dolores Park, by the stairs on Dolores...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:37pm PST
Abortion Before Roe: Is the Past a Prologue for the Roberts-Alito Court? Throughout history, women have had unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. And throughout history, women have found ways to terminate those pregnancies....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:01pm PST
California State University East Bay Gears Up for Pro-Choice March 
CSUEB tabled to promote counter anti-choice march in SF tomorrow....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 3:41pm PST
Walk for Life strategy on Saturday 1/21 
Walk for Life strategy on Saturday 1/21:
Appear as much like the Stepford Wives as is humanly possible!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 2:34pm PST
Call to rise up, completely stop (anti-choicers) in their tracks and shut down their march STAND UP AND BE COUNTED PRO-CHOICE BAY AREA!!
Anti-abortion advocates are trying to soften their hardcore profile at Saturday's Walk for Life West Coast, telling marchers to not to "bring signs displaying graphic images of aborted children" and to remain "100 percent peaceful."
Abortion rights activists are worried that their movement has gone soft in arguably America's most liberal city -- and California -- and are trying to toughen it up by urging supporters "...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 10:31am PST
Pro-Choice Demo A coalition of abortion rights activists is organizing a counter-demonstration Saturday to protest a rare pro-life event in San Francisco. The demonstration—which is convened by the broad-based Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)—will line the route of the “Walk for Life” and coincide with the 33rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:36am PST
"Rally for Life" on Tuesday 1/24 in Sacto "Rally for Life" at 10am on Tuesday...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:39pm PST
SPOKES COUNCIL FOR SATURDAY! SPOKES COUNCIL TO PLAN FOR SATURDAY...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:09pm PST
Challenge DiFi to Filibuster on Friday at 11am Join us to go to Sen. Feinstein's office to demand she filibuster Alito. One Post Street in SF at Montgomery BART stop. This Friday at 11am....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 3:53pm PST
Supreme Court Ruling in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood Recognizes Protections for Women's He The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) welcomed today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, et al, which unanimously recognized its precedent that abortion laws must protect women's health and safety....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:47pm PST
Alito Must Not Be Confirmed - Demand a Filibuster Today Judge Alito's unwillingness to stipulate that Roe v. Wade is "settled law", as recently confirmed Chief Justice Roberts had, puts a woman's right to choose in great peril. This factor alone should be enough for Senators to vote against his nomination....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:39am PST
Should the defacement of the ads be protected under the First Amendment? Chronicle writer chimes in with answer to those who cry foul over "free speech" issues and defacement of ads on BART....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:46am PST
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Becomes Liberia's President, First Elected Female Leader in Africa Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's new president, making her Africa's first elected female leader. In an hour-long speech after the ceremony, she vowed to tackle a national debt of $3.5 billion, fight rampant corruption and improve gender equality. We speak with Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies. She is originally from Liberia....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:51am PST
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