SF: January 20 Action For Reproductive Rights

(Photo: a sign from last year's action.)


Dear Defenders of Women’s Rights,

While California voters rejected Proposition 85, the parental notification act in last month’s elections, the fight for reproductive rights continues and your help is needed.

The rightwing remains on the offensive and for the third year running will be coming to San Francisco on Saturday, January 20 for their annual “Walk for Life—West Coast”. But, as in previous years, Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) activists will be organizing a multi-issue response to the anti-abortionists. We are initiating a January 20th Coalition to bring together local and national community groups and activists to organize a counter demonstration with one united voice. We need you to join this important effort and to send the message that the San Francisco Bay Area stands for reproductive rights and that Roe v. Wade must be defended and expanded.

In past years our efforts were endorsed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Labor Council, ACCESS, East Bay NOW, Watsonville Brown Berets, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Radical Women, Code Pink, Women of Color Resource Center, GABNet, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and many more. This year’s theme is “Forward, Not Back—Reproductive Justice for All!”
Here’s what we need you to do:

1. If in the Bay Area: Attend the upcoming January 20th Coalition meetings: Wednesday, December 13 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 1908 Mission Street, San Francisco (at 15th Street), Wednesday, December 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 369 15th Street, Oakland (near 12th St./Downtown Oakland BART) and at these addresses on January 3 (San Francisco), January 10 (Oakland) and January 17 (San Francisco)

Contact BACORR for subcommittee meetings or to arrange meetings in other locations.

2. Endorse the counterprotest of the “Walk for Life—West Coast”. We ask for a $25 donation, but any amount is appreciated. Please make checks out to: Women’s Choice Clinic and mail to 570 14th Street, Suite 3, Oakland, CA 94612-1080 with Jan. 20th endorsement in the memo line.

3. Commit to bringing folks to the counterprotest on Saturday, January 20, 2007. Meet at 10:30 a.m., Pier #5 on the Embarcadero (to the left of the Ferry Building at Embarcadero and Market Streets) in San Francisco. Wear green, bring signs, and defend women’s right to choose!

Please call 415-864-1278, email bacorrinfo [at] riseup.net, or visit http://www.BACORR.org for more information.

BACORR stands for: free, accessible abortion on demand; no forced sterilizations; universal healthcare; pre- and post-natal care and childcare for all; safe and accessible contraceptives; an end to discrimination against people of color, queer, immigrant, and youth communities; embracing (not controlling or denying) sexuality; providing reality-based sex education in our public schools, and more. Fight back with BACORR!
In solidarity,
Anita O’Shea
Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights
(BACORR)

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