Revolution Books Supports StopPatriarchy.org Call for Protest
SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 1 PM
Federal Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn, Chicago
Join the "March Against Female Enslavement" contingent taking part in
the counter-protest to the #MarchFor Lies (the so-called "March for
Life")--anti-abortion fanatics who are busing their followers into the
Loop this Sunday, January 17. We are joining the powerful outpouring
called by FURIE (Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality & Exploitation)
against these forces who inspire the murder of abortion providers and
who have legal and political support from the highest reaches of this
system.
Be
part of the contingent--spread the news to your friends; call RB
(773-489-0930) with your ideas; plan to come to the bookstore Sunday,
January 17, 11am, to prepare, to gather materials and go to the protest
as a group. Check out this article
from last summer, where women and men wore BLOODY PANTS to dramatize
the women who have lost their lives because of being denied the right to
abortion.
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Think about the fact that Anna Yocca
was just jailed in Tennessee for 'attempted murder' because she tried
to self-abort her fetus with a COAT HANGER! How can you turn away? This
is one more reason you must act NOW to defend the reproductive
rights--the humanity--of half of the people on the planet!
StopPatriarchy.org has called demonstrations in Washington DC on January 22 and San Francisco on January 23: Stand Up for Women's Lives for the Anniversary of Roe v Wade. Go to http://www.stoppatriarchy.org to go and/or support this, financially and otherwise.
At Revolution Books, in Solidarity with StopPatriarchy.org
Video Showing Friday, January 22, 6:30 pm
The Abortion Rights Emergency
Join us to watch the video of a panel at Revolution Books in NYC: The Abortion Rights Emergency-STOP the War on Women! including Merle Hoffman (CEO of Choices Women's Medical Center, which began doing abortions in 1971, and author of Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room); Sunsara Taylor (writer for Revolution/revcom.us and initiator of StopPatriarchy.org); and Sikivu Hutchinson (feminist atheist activist and author of Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels and Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics and the Values Wars).
Book Club Saturday, January 23, noon
My Life, My Body, a collection of essays by Marge Piercy. In
the title essay, "My Life, My Body," poet and novelist Marge Piercy
vividly recounts the perils (personal and public) of a woman's life
before Roe v Wade.
The book includes other essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, and rants. An
early anti-war activist in the 1960s, Piercy expanded her vision to
feminism, then literature, becoming a best-selling novelist without
abandoning the radical politics that set her on her path. Join us to
discuss the title essay of this volume; get your copy for $12 at Revolution Books.
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