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Above Right: Austin American-Statesman coverage of bold action & arrest on August 27, 2014. Above Left: A video call to action for a Week of Defiance, including coverage of bold action & arrest on August 13, 2014, from the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride: GROUND ZERO TEXAS. Below Left: A powerful Week of Defiance speak out in Seattle, WA. Women speak out in powerful ways about their own experiences with abortion. Below Right: Sunsara Taylor's call to action for a Week of Defiance from the People's Hearing in San Antonio, TX.
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The Call -
Emergency in Texas! Abortion on Demand and Without Apology! On September 1st, the state of Texas is on track to close all but six abortion clinics (there were 46 in 2011). Women will be forced to have children against their will. Others will be driven to risk – or lose – their lives through dangerous illegal abortions.
This is a critical turning point in a nation-wide emergency: and this is all playing out in a world where women are beaten, shamed, raped, harassed and murdered just for being female. Now is the time for resistance, for refusing to back down in the face of injustice. Now is the time to defend women's lives and women's rights. Abortion on Demand and Without Apology. Come to Texas. Take a stand.
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Urgently Needed: A Week of Defiance to Stop the Attacks on Abortion Rights
A call to action from the 11 Freedom Riders arrested outside Rick Perry's mansion on August 13, 2014 In Austin: A shifting group of protestors - including Freedom Riders from across the country, people from Texas who had come to People's Hearings in other parts of Texas, and UT Austin students - gathered daily at Gov. Rick Perry's mansion at 1010 Colorado St with a determination to reshape the future. We wielded the names and faces of women who died from illegal abortions, coat hangers with messages attached which indict Rick Perry and tell true abortion stories, and chains to represent the enslavement that exists when women are forced into motherhood against their will.
Across the country: People went in public with the names and faces of women who died from illegal abortions, their stories, the Stop Forced Motherhood statement, and brought coat hangers. Represent for abortion on demand and without apology! People from California to Mississippi, from Washington to Missouri, from New York to Arkansas, and more, took an unapologetic stand for women's lives at this crucial time. Others sent messages from across the country, for Stop Patriarchy to put on coat hangers and deliver to the Governor's mansion. |
THE WEEK OF DEFIANCE TOOK PLACE IN...AUSTIN, TX
Every day Monday 8/25 through Monday 9/1 4-6 pm Gov. Rick Perry's mansion 1010 Colorado St in Austin, TX JACKSON, MS Wednesday 8/27 Meet at Smith Park 4-6 pm Gov. Phil Bryant's mansion Saturday 8/31 3:00pm Jackson Women's Health Organization 2903 N State Street LITTLE ROCK, AR Saturday 8/30 Details TBA CHICAGO, IL Saturday 8/30 1-3pm Corner of State and Jackson Outside DePaul Center JEFFERSON CITY, MO Monday 7:10-11am Tuesday 2-5:20pm Wednesday - TBA Thursday 11:10-5:20pm Friday 1:10-5:20pm E. High Street Contact #: 573-353-6463 LOS ANGELES, CA Every day Monday 8/25 through Monday 9/1 3-4pm USC Campus - at Jefferson & Hoover PRESS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY with Carol Downer OAKLAND, CA Wednesday 8/27 through Friday 8/30 12-1pm Mills College - Rothwell Plaza Wear black! BERKELEY, CA Wednesday 8/27 1:00pm UC Berkeley - Sproul Plaza SAN FRANCISCO, CA Tuesday 8/26 5:30-7:30pm Powell & Market SEATTLE, WA Wed 8/27 - 5:30pm Outside Whole Foods Market 2200 Westlake Ave near Denny Sat 8/30 and Mon 9/1 1:00-3:00pm Seattle Center Bumbershoot entrance at corner of Broad & 5th NEW YORK, NY Thursday 8/28 2-4pm Hunter College Friday 8/29 2-4pm In front of the ATLAH World Ministry, Lenox and 123rd |
"My wk of defiance? Speak the truth: work, home, play. No more silence!"
-Minnesota
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