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niyad

(113,556 posts)
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 01:21 PM Jan 2015

7 Arrested As Fearless Pro-Choice Group Turns The Heat Around On Anti-Choice March In DC


7 Arrested As Fearless Pro-Choice Group Turns The Heat Around On Anti-Choice March In DC


There's a new powerhouse in town called StopPatriarchy.org. The organization takes a strong proactive approach to fight the Republican War on Women and constant assault on women's reproductive rights.

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Last week, StopPatriarchy.org took to the streets in Washington DC to counter protest the Anti-Choice March for Life, held every year to to mark the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. On this anniversary, the March for Life was halted for at least 30 minutes as seven StopPatriarchy.org members were arrested.

As arrestees were put in the police paddy wagon, they could be heard chanting:

”Every generation, has an obligation, to women’s liberation!"

"That Congress has scheduled a vote on a federal ban on abortion at 20 weeks on this day only underscores the need to stand up and resist," said Sunsara Taylor, initiator of Stop Patriarchy. “Abortion rights are in a state of emergency, clinics are being forced to close and women are being forced once again to have children against their will. The fight over abortion has never been about babies, it has always been about controlling women. Forcing women to have children against their will is a form of enslavement and we refuse to accept this.”

Activists were wearing all white with fake blood-soaked pants, representing the women who died from dangerous “back alley” abortions before Roe v. Wade. They also carried enlarged photographs of women who died from illegal abortion before Roe.

Facts:

47,000 women around the world die every year from illegal, unsafe, abortions
5,000 women in the US are estimated to have died every year from illegal, unsafe abortions before Roe v.Wade legalized abortion
42 states prohibit abortion at some point in the pregnancy
87% of all counties in the U.S. have no abortion provider
6 states have only one surgical abortion clinic
8 abortion providers (doctors and staff) have been murdered by anti-abortion fanatics.

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Website: StopPatriarchy.org.
Facebook: Stop Patriarchy
Twitter: #StopPatriarchy

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/26/1360230/-New-Pro-Choice-Organization-Stomps-March-For-Life-in-Washington-DC?detail=email
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Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
2. This thread needs to be banned. It refers to Paddy wagons
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 02:27 PM
Jan 2015

This is a term that was meant to be a reference to Immigrant Irish.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
6. Proverbs, I think...
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:38 PM
Jan 2015

"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion"

 

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)
8. The post is a response to the simple minded people on this site
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 04:14 PM
Jan 2015

Who flag every thing that offends them.

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)
9. No, I believe it was in reference to.....
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 04:21 PM
Jan 2015

the Irish Police who drove the wagons, not to those in the wagons (arrested) were Irish.

from Wikipedia?
The most prevalent theory is based on the term "Paddy" (a common Irish shortening of Patrick), which was used (sometimes as slang) to refer to Irish people.[3] Irishmen made up a large percentage of the officers of early police forces in many American cities. Thus, this theory suggests that the concentration of Irish in the police forces led to the term "paddywagon" being used to describe the vehicles driven by police.

An alternative theory is similarly based on the term "Paddy" but states that the term arose due to the number of Irish being arrested for spirited behavior and hauled off in the vehicles.

Sometimes we see/read what we want to see/read.

I'm of Irish descent & a former Police Officer, the most prevalent theory is how this term came to be.

calimary

(81,466 posts)
4. Amen! Well, maybe this is how it starts.
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:10 PM
Jan 2015

How many years have gone by when our side has sat and wrung its hands and done NOTHING?

I really LIKE the idea of fighting fire with fire - they have their damn posters with the mass of differentiating cells in various stages of development. Well, what about the posters that show butchered women? DYING women? DEAD women, from trying to end an unwanted pregnancy - for WHATEVER reason (usually a really serious and credible reason like rape or incest or extreme poverty or hopeless deformity of the fetus or sickness and disability for the mother - who usually doesn't have any partner to help her afford to raise all those kids). Show the gore. Show the gore on the OTHER SIDE, so the actual cost can be seen.

Again here it is. ALL WE EVER SEE is THAT side. That OTHER side. That's all we ever see, all we ever hear about, all we ever hear talked about. WHERE IS OUR SIDE???? WHERE? WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ALL THIS TIME, while the other side has been busy busy busy, working working working, lobbying lobbying lobbying, pushing pushing pushing, staying-awake staying-awake staying-awake, and they have done NOTHING but gain ground. And we make it easier for them to do that because we offer no forceful push-back to match their efforts, move by every-single-move.

WHERE IS OUR SIDE??? Is it finally here? Is this the start of it? I sure hope so. SOMEBODY has to be out there advocating vigorously, pointed, aggressively. We need a "citizen soldier" movement like these people are. A "citizen activist" And we need to be part of it, even in a small way. They have one on that side, trying to force-feed their message and their agenda. We NEED one on OUR side - to COUNTER-FORCE-FEED OUR message and OUR agenda. We need more forceful push-back - like this.

niyad

(113,556 posts)
12. the sad truth is that, even when we are out in the tens and hundreds of thousands, the so-called
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:21 PM
Jan 2015

"liberal media" ignores us. two woman-hating anti-choicers get together, wall-to-wall coverage.

dembotoz

(16,832 posts)
14. i do not care anymore fuck them
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:40 PM
Jan 2015

tired of being nice
tired of being polite
tired of choosing my words carefully not to offend

fuck em

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
5. frankly should position that pro choice is more pro life than the violent
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 03:18 PM
Jan 2015

pro life folks ... ie fighting for the life of the mother..

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
7. Pope Francis shoutout to March for Life: Tweets to DC 'Every Life is a Gift'
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 04:05 PM
Jan 2015

And: Pope Francis surprises attendees of Italy’s March for Life

"Life Site News is reporting that after delivering his weekly Regina Coeli address this past Sunday, Pope Francis surprised the 40,000 or so participants in Italy’s third annual March for Life by greeting them as they gathered just outside St. Peter’s Square following the march."
http://www.catholicvote.org/pope-francis-surprises-attendees-of-italys-march-for-life/

niyad

(113,556 posts)
10. as I have said before, pope photo op has changed NOTHING about the treatment of women
Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:19 PM
Jan 2015

in terms of rcc doctrine, so as far as I can tell, pretty much everything he does is window dressing.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
17. +1
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 02:01 AM
Jan 2015

We're supposed to believe he is moving the church forward and then he pulls shit like this. He doesn't care if women die, which they do, when they do not receive the proper and RIGHTFUL medical care. He hates women and has already said the case for the ordination of women is closed. That's where your money is going to people, making women second class citizens.

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