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Media Coverage


Take Patriarchy By Storm - Mississippi 2015

Taking Patriarchy By Storm, by Lori Sokol, Huffington Post
"Women are still doing that?" my friend questioned after I told her about an upcoming demonstration to defend abortion rights in Mississippi. Living in a "blue" state like New York City, it seems that too many women and men remain uninformed about the rights that are being taken away from women in states blanketed in red...(more) 

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"The annual March for Life drew thousands who marched to the Supreme Court to protest abortion. The march was held up when pro-abortion demonstrators blocked the street in front the court and were arrested and taken away by police." - USA Today

Protesting 50 Shades of Grey

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Why Feminists Are Protesting the '50 Shades of Grey' Premiere EJ Dickson, The Daily Dot

50 Shades of Protest Ed Rampell, The Progressive 

Protests Against 50 Shades Strike a Deep Chord and Pick Up Around the Country  
The Black Westchester

"50 Shades of Grey" Sparks Protests in Oakland NBC Bay Area (Video)
A steady stream of people watched 50 Shades of Grey Friday night in Oakland, but were surprised to be greeted by protesters who feel that the movie's sexy message is a message of hate toward women. Cheryl Hurd reports.

Protesters Gather Outside of "Fifty Shades of Grey" Screening ABC Los Angeles (Video)  


Roe v. Wade Anniversary 2015: Confronting the March for "Life" 

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A pro-choice protester is arrested for blocking the route of an anti-abortion march held annually on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, in Washington, Jan. 22, 2015. (Jabin Botsford/The New York Times)
7 Arrested As Fearless Pro-Choice Group Turns The Heat Around On Anti-Choice March In DC Daily Kos

2015 March for Life in Washington, DC UPI (Photoset)

Roe v. Wade Anniversary Brings Both Sides Out to Washington The Baltimore Sun (Photoset)

Republican behind anti-abortion bill says legislation will be put to vote The Guardian 

Protesters Arrested at the March for Life The Blaze

Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: Ground Zero Texas

Changing the Terms

One of the main goals of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride is to change the terms in the fight around abortion. It has never been about babies, it has always been about women's enslavement or women's liberation. The media could not ignore this message, which came through to tens of thousands. 
Above: "An Abortion Rights Battle Bigger Than Texas" - Dennis Trainor Interviews Sunsara Taylor, 8/6/14

Stop Patriarchy Protester: Don’t Give Up the Fight for Abortion Rights. Guest Column in University of Texas Campus Paper. 9/9/14

"No One Has to Ask Permission to Fight For Women’s Equality" A response to Katie Klabusich’s attack on Stop Patriarchy in Bitch Magazine. Carol Downer, CounterPunch 9/5/14

Sunsara Taylor of Stoppatriarchy.org speaks from Texas about the continuing closures there of clinics offering abortions; Dennis Trainor of Acronym TV asks why even left-leaning media outlets dropped his report about Taylor and the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride. Project Censored, 8/31/2014 (Audio)

Key part of Texas abortion law halted by federal judge KXAN (NBC) Austin, 8/29/14 (Video) 

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Above: Austin American-Statesman video, 8/27/14 
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Stop Patriarchy members Amina, Sunsara Taylor and Bob Stop Patriarchy members Amina, Sunsara Taylor and Bob Hammer hold signs and protest in the middle of the cross walk between West Campus and Guadalupe, stopping mid-afternoon traffic. The group protested against the HB2 bill that will be causing abortion facilities around the state to close down. Photo Credit: Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan Staff
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Univision Austin, 8/13/14 - 11 Abortion Rights Freedom Riders Arrested at Governor Perry's Mansion
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Opponents of Texas’ restrictive abortion law protested this week outside a courthouse in Austin, where it is being challenged in a federal suit. Credit Reshma Kirpalani /Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press
Media Compilation from HB2 Hearing Protests
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New York Post "Day in Photos" 8/4/14
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Austin American-Statesman Photoset from StopPatriarchy.org HB2 Actions

Media Coverage of "Controversy" around Stop Patriarchy


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Q&A: The Pro-Choice Group Texas Feminists Hate. An Interview with Sunsara Taylor.
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"I Was Warned About Stop Patriarchy," by Mary Lou Singleton, Midwife, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Founder of Personhood for Women
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‘Freedom Riders’ and Evolving Pro-Choice Protests, by Cynthia Greenlee
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Communist-Led Anti-Patriarchy Protesters Don't Give a Crap if Texas Feminists Are Offended By Its Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, by Amy Silverstein

Vicious Attacks in Defense of a Failed and Deadly Program: Many have stepped forward from a great many different perspectives to support and take part in this Ride. This is very important. At the same time, it is still just a fraction of who can and must be won to take part.

Others have come out in vicious and unprincipled attack. Individuals grouped around some pro-choice organizations in Texas, as well as some individuals from other parts of the country, have taken it upon themselves to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy spreading tabloid-style rumors, making emotionally charged accusations, and even threatening the organizers of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride for daring to mobilize people to stand up on the front lines.

The Advisory Board of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: Ground Zero Texas has issued a response to these attacks, which everyone should read. As this response points out, there is a huge difference between principled and substantive debate over the way forward, and attacks and slanders which foster distrust, demoralization, division, and even danger to people's lives.         

                       
"Come One, Come All to the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: Ground Zero Texas!" 
 by 
Sunsara Taylor, Revolution Newspaper 

#YesAllWomen Actions


From Tweets to the Streets: #YesAllWomen Actions Planned in Major Cities by Alyssa Figuero via Alternet.org 

Activists look to keep momentum from #YesAllWomen going offline from KTVU (Video)


"Stop Patriarchy" protests at Union Square over violence against women by Andy Katz, Demotix.com

#YesAllWomen Demonstrators: Men Are Not Entitled to Women’s Bodies by Rashed Mian, Long Island Press

Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2013
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Who is stop patriarchy?

Stop Patriarchy is a group for everyone who wants to FIGHT to STOP the enslavement of women. Not politely lobby against it. Not grumble at the TV. Not simply post things on Twitter. And definitely not sit around waiting for those in power to “come to their senses.” It is also a movement for everyone who can be won to see the need for this – we are fighting aggressively to change minds and to grow and deepen and escalate until we succeed in changing everything. JOIN US!

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