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Thousands Rise Up to Say: Overturn Roe? Hell No!

Episode 111 Uploaded May 15:
More than 400 cities on Saturday May 14 saw protests demanding the Supreme Court not overturn Roe. We share some of the voices from a protest in NYC including

Merle Hoffman, Founder/CEO Choices Women’s Medical Center and an initiator of RiseUp4AbortionRights.org
Rosita Romero, Executive Director, Dominican Women’s Development Center
Elizabeth Holtzman, former U.S. Representative and District Attorney of Brooklyn
Sunsara Taylor, Co-Host of the RNL (Revolution Nothing Less) Show on Youtube & a key initiator of RefuseFascism.org & RiseUp4AbortionRights.org



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Merle Hoffman, Even though I've been through the murder of friends and lived on the front line of the abortion wars for 51 years, had death threats [crowd cheers]. 51 years, and I'm still here. [more cheers] I have been threatened with bombs, continual harassment, evicted two times. George Tiller, a good friend, was shot in the head, but we keep going. [crowd cheers] Yes, we keep going. [louder cheers] I thought there were boundaries to their rectitude, their cruelty and their ambition. How could they be so bold to think that women's lives and women's dreams are theirs to define and control?

Rosita Romero: We are NOT going back! We are not going back to the back alleys! We are not going back to the butcher shops! We support abortion here and in Latin America! We want to make sure that all religions stay out of this. We say "take your rosaries out of our coochi-choochies!" [cheers] [repeated in Spanish to wild cheers]

Elizabeth Holtzman: We are here because we demand that we be treated as full human beings under the law! [cheers] They cite judges and jurists who said we weren't in the Constitution and women have no rights. You cite people from the 16th and 17th and 18th centuries who are against women's rights period, who said women were property, that husbands could beat them, that they can rape them, that they had basically no rights. These are the people we should listen to today? [cheers]

Sunsara Taylor: We need real talk, beautiful people, because just as this shock wave of alarm is spreading, just as people are hitting the streets, there is also a louder and louder drumbeat, pushed by Democratic Party politicians and leaders tied to them, that the most realistic thing we can do is channel our energies off the streets and into the elections in the fall. [cries of NO, boos & cheers] This is something the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian, who I follow has warned about. He makes the point that our power is OUT HERE IN THE STREETS! [cheers]

Coco Das: Member of RefuseFascism.org Editorial Board, Co-host of Refuse Fascism podcast, speaking Saturday in Austin TX at the RiseUp4AbortionRights protest:

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from RiseUp4AbortionRights.org

THURSDAY May 26 SHUT the COUNTRY DOWN!

At Noon: Leave Work! Leave School! Converge in the Streets!
No Business-As-Usual!

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