On Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Demonstrations in San Francisco

at least in hell they'll have the better record collection.

Looks great guys! Good job!

Any crowd estimates of both the Pro-Abortion rights demo and the Church sponsored moblization ?
I have noticed that except for the first yr . The ''Mainstream '' Women's rights groups like N.OW. and Planned Parenthood haven't been present (in any serious numbers anyway .) Did they show up yesterday ?
I also noticed that at times there seem to be a much larger presence of Latinos and Asians in the reactionary march than in ours . Was that different yesterday ?
Please do not misunderstand . I give credit due to the organizers . But i have noticed the above weaknesses .

Nice work everyone! Planned Parenthood never attends.
The turn-out was pretty good: about 250 people.

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About 100 at the rally at Harry Bridges rally...hard to count the number who marched...it was many more. The Chron said "several hundred". That sounds about right.

Thanks for the crowd estimate of our side but what about our opponents ? How many did they bus in ?

According to the Corporate media accounts i have read there were several thousand Anti-Abortion rightists assembled .
If accurate that's not good . So they outnumbered our forces at least 10-15 to One ?
Yeah i know they bussed them in from Inland counties .(but i suspect a fair number came from Catholic congreations in SF , Oakland and Berkeley ) Well the Left and the Women's movement have also ''bussed ''people in on many occasions .
With all due praise to those who did organize and turned out How is it that the Religious Right is able to outmobilze us ?
A little self critical reflection might be in order . What can we do to motivate and activate the no doubt pro-Choice Bay Area majority to hit the streets , especially in this crucial year ?
What have we been doing right and yes what have we been doing wrong ?

To Sorry...and other people wanting a big presence~
Next year, why don't WE be the event ....and they be the protesters?

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Perhaps the self-critical reflection ought to be on your own part if you Weren't . Even . There .
People make the protest. If there are no people there is no protest.

To Felix, I had to do something called work , maybe you have heard of it ? It's something one has to do in capitalist society to survive . Besides me personally being there or not isn't the point .
My question is why in the SF Bay area we were so greatly outnumbered ? Aren't you concerned about that Felix ?

Ask Planned Parenthood. Ask NOW. Ask NARAL. It's not like they don't know what's going on. Planned Parenthood in particular is more concerned about their funding than they are about activism. They have been asked REPEATEDLY to show support. They're pretty useless. If you're going to get the word out, you have to use new media or a big org with big bucks and a way of contacting lots of people. Word of mouth doesn't cut it, judging from the results. But my hat's off to the folks who try and organize against the mammoth Catholic Church and who show up year after year to tell them how wrong they are.

to all those who didn't attend or were too inhibited on the other side to get down and break dance: you simply missed out on a good party making the fucking sheeple feel pretty inadequate when it came to "getting low for jesus".

My wife and I attended this march with our son; we marched with the pro-lifers (the anti-choicers). We came with the St Ann's group from Lodi (just south of Sacramento, near Stockton). We marched alongside a group of neo-catecumenados from one of the San Francisco parishes; they played fun guitar and bongo music and and sang spanish song along the way.

Also walking near our group were some Muslims from the Lodi mosque - a small world I guess. In spite of various theological differences between Muslims and Catholics, it is good to know we can find pleasant common cause when it comes to this issue; I enjoyed chatting with them along the way as well.

I heard a head count of approximately 35,000 pro-lifers, but did not hear a count of the pro-choice folks.

I noticed a fine SF hospitality and we enjoyed the day; perfect weather and after the march, we stoped for some clam chowder - Mmmm!

Thank you San Francisco, for the welcome and fun day.

There were about 10,000 people there for the WFL. Their parade was shorter than last year's. The WFL busses people in from all over California, and as far away as Illinois. They also offer extra credit to kids who go to parochial school (talk about incentives)! A friend of mine goes to the Catholic Church in Fresno, and reported back to me some of her congregation that attended were frightened of the Sisters and "homosexual deviants." Which is odd cuz they were incredibly friendly....
There were about 250 Local People from San Francisco & the Bay Area.
To Sorry - wow, no need to be nastay, save it for the dance floor.

You are not going to change opinions in our town. And shame shame shame on you for wanting to deny women appropriate health care. Wonder what would happen if YOUR wife needed an abortion....hmmm? There are many many cases where it is a medical necessity and you and your ilk make it difficult even then! think about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLXtdlRWapQ

This video shows a youth group at the very front of the Walk for Life. Watch and you'll see how several of the young women can not keep their eyes off the protesters, even though they've been instructed to keep eyes forward at all costs. They can clearly hear the prochoice chants over their religious singing. And in case you think only the protesters are dressed in costumes, I saw several angels and even an Uncle Sam type in the Walk for Life group!