The Women’s March returns to Washington on October 2 to rally in support of reproductive rights.
Marches are being organized in every state two days before the Supreme Court reconvenes for the October term.
The event was announced on September 2, the same day Texas’s new abortion legislation went into effect, banning abortions after six weeks and giving Texans the power to sue abortion providers.
In the dark of night, the Supreme Court voted to uphold the legislation in a 5-4 majority. Texas’s anti-abortion laws are now the most restrictive in the country.
Are any BJ peeps marching? Are your communities participating?
Elizabelle
I’ll be in DC. Freedom Plaza: prayer service at 10; rally starts at noon. 1:30 p: step off for march to the Supreme Court. They’re asking we wear masks and distance at 6 feet, which will be interesting for a mass protest.
Any other Juicers attending??
RaflW
It looks like the main event for the Twin Cities will be at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. I feel like I saw somewhere that it will travel the short distance to Loring Park? More a rally than a March, perhaps.
I live walking distance, so yeah, I’ll be there!
eta: A friend in Austin, TX has been tryna drum up interest in the AusTX March. Anyone on here going to that? Look for my loud and righteous friend Linda! :)
Starboard Tack
Thanks for the link.
raven
Kickoff for a huge SEC game is at noon and the rally in Athens is scheduled for 3:00 in the heart of campus right about when the game ends. It’s chaos down there and this will be even more chaotic.
Rob
Sadly, we can’t attend the DC march, even though we live inside the Beltway. We will be visiting my mother in her retirement community, and then my sister for her upcoming birthday.
UncleEbeneezer
For anyone in the LA/Pasadena/SGV area, here’s the blurb for the action I am helping organize:
Who’s ready???
This Saturday, 10/2 at 9:30am we are meeting at the bridge on Los Robles over the 210, to cheer, chant, hold signs etc. for the Planned Parenthood/Women’s March Caravan For Choice as the cars and bikes make their way to City Hall.
I have a bunch of pink, thunder-sticks for noise-making and will have Planned Parenthood tee shirts too.
Come on out. It should be fun!
#AbortionRightsAreHUMANRights
FB Event link here!
Feel free to reach out to me, via WaterGirl if you have any other questions.
Ohio Mom
The Cincinnati March is at Fountain Square, in the middle of downtown; there’s also one just across the river in Covington, Northern Kentucky, and a third one in the northeastern suburb of Mason.
Maybe one big gathering would have made more sense in this 25-mile radius, on the other hand, there’s a March conveniently located foreveryone, I guess.
Looking forward to being amused by lots of witty signs.
sab
There are a lot more march sites than there were a few days ago. I just signed up. I already bought my pink yarn. Time to start knitting. (My last March I wore my inerited hot pink straw hat with cardboard cat ears tucked into the band.
ETA My sign: “I don’t want a bounty hunter suing my doctor about my miscarriage.” Any ideas about snappier version with same idea?
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: Yes!
Anyone attending a march should definitely send photos of the wonderful signs that will surely be out.
jimmiraybob
In St. Louis.
Elizabelle
Signage. I am thinking about
sab
Last time I checked before today NE Ohio had Cleveland, Lorain and Hudson. Hudson? Seriously? Now they have included a park in my city near me where my local paper is sure to show up. Yay traci, whoever you are.
Mary G
I finally broke down and ordered a new wheelchair, this time with power. That was three weeks ago and the best guess they can give me with all the fucked up logistic supply chains is another three or four weeks. Not wise to chose a van with ramp until I get the chair.
Unfortunately I pulled the trigger too soon and sold my Subaru and no one I know is going who can hoist a wheelchair into their car. Housemate’s husband has been voted off the island to deal with substance abuse. He went to live with his dad, an unvaccinated evangelical pastor who has come down with a bad case of Covid and of course is “praying it away at home,” though he isn’t trying any of the quack cures and is trying to get some oxygen. Prognosis is poor.
Housemate fired her toxic daytime cheapskate rich client and took a live-in case Thursday – Monday, works 4 hours MTW nights and 8 daytime hours Tuesday for a nicer, less toxic rich lady and is making quite a bit more money, but I’m afraid pushing her body farther than it can go. Teen has neither car nor driver’s license, so I’ll be cheering you all on from home.
Supply chain is really messed up – guy I hired to do earthquake retrofitting in July has finally scheduled me for December! The special metal brackets made in the EU are way behind.
sab
@Ohio Mom: Got any sign ideas? I need a better writer than me. My obsession is the private bounty hunters. I think the abortion issue is important but I don’t want to talk about it. This is so much broader.
Kattails
Local march, really a stand on the square, in Keene at 11:30 AM. Oh crap I need to make a sign?
UncleEbeneezer
@sab: Here are a couple from my local PP organizer:
– We won’t go back.
– Abortion is health care.
– Planned Parenthood: Don’t screw with us, don’t screw without us
– Women’s Rights are Human Rights
– Respect Existence or Expect Resistance
– Vulva la Résistance
– Resist. Insist. Persist
I know in general they want to focus on healthcare rather than political (Dems/GOP)
Elizabelle
@UncleEbeneezer: Thank you. Those are great.
Pamoya
I will be at the Minnesota march, wearing my yellow and black Unrestrict MN t-shirt. Their Bans off our Bodies page is here if you want to register for the march: https://unrestrictmn.org/oct-2-day-of-action/
Dan B
@sab: Stop Bounty Hunters!
on the other side:
Miscarry – Lose Your House.
Stop Bounties!
Fight Bounty Hunters!
Anything punchy that puts concrete imagery / story will be effective at reframing the narrative.
Redshift
I wish everyone who is going well, but I’m kinda off of marches and rallies lately. Don’t know how much of that is general pandemic malaise that makes it hard to get enthusiastic about anything. I enjoy rallies, but I think doing my regular Saturday canvassing for the governor’s race will be more productive.
H.E.Wolf
I’ll be joining Mary in cheering from home this time. Everyone who marches, thank you – and please stay healthy.
In 2018, on the way to that year’s march, I gave my beloved 2017 hat (my sister made it!) to a woman who’d come all the way across the state to march, and was sad about being hat-less.
One of the local universities in our city has a collection of memorabilia from the Jan. 2017 march, including hats and signs. Those are now in their archives along with items from the 1919 General Strike! :)
Cameron
In my neck of the woods there will events in St Petersburg and Bradenton, but not in Tampa or Sarasota. I would have guessed all four.
Nelle
The positivity here is 14.5%. So I’m on the fence. Plus there will be people. I’ve gotten used to no people. Yet this is important. Going through risk assessment.
sab
@UncleEbeneezer: @Dan B:
Thanks.
Elizabelle
@Redshift:
Yea you, for canvassing for Terry Mac and Team Sanity. That is always more important.
RaflW
@Nelle: We each have our varying risk-tolerance levels. For me, outdoors is almost always fine (if the rally I’m going to feels too crowded, I’ll just keep moving towards the edge). I might end up across the street, but so what! YMMV.
Nelle
@RaflW: Thanks. I keep thinking all or nothing. You remind me that there are degrees.
sab
OT Granddaughter came by today wearing perfume, hugged Dobby the demon cat, and now he smells like a bar of expensive soap.
sab
@Nelle: Kind of like Goku not speaking at the school board hearing. Just being there, masked, said a lot to the board.
TinRoofRusted
@Elizabelle: I will be in DC for my daughter’s graduation. That runs till about 12:30 on the Mall so I am hoping we can join at least the march. Senator Professor Warren is the speaker so I also hope she leads us Pied Piper style across the Mall to join the march.
artem1s
@sab:
Hudson was the center of the abolitionist movement in NEOH. Brown visited with the Case-Barlow families right before the Harpers Ferry raid.
Laura Too
@Pamoya: Oh good, me too! Maybe we can spot each other. :) I ordered my shirt last week.
Laura Too
@RaflW: Yeah, not sure why they picked that over other more visible places? I did a rally at PP in St. Paul that was really fun. They are so close to University Ave. it would seem to be more appropriate but maybe I missed something.
RedDirtGirl
I’ll be marching from Brooklyn into Manhattan and have volunteered to be a chant leader. I’m a loudmouth, so it’s an easy fit. Would love to see fellow jackals!
Emma
Anyone in the Seattle-area doing it? I’m going to the Kirkland march :)
sab
@artem1s: And now it has a Republican mayor who wants to fire the school board for masking. Its VFW cut the mike on the retired soldier who did a tribute to Black soldiers of the Civil War. They are havimg CRT issues with the high school
ETA: But you are also right. I know some very good people there.
RaflW
@Laura Too: The art bridge over I-94 could be a good spot over the lunch hour. Decent flow of cars as they head to the tunnel.