Walk For Choice, Bay Area

ROUTE, and some words/ideas!

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:04:00 -0500

Hi all,

Wow, it has been amazing to see the number of attendees grow day by day. It is inspiring and empowering to see people come together to stand up for Reproductive Rights. This is our opportunity to show the country that we will not remain quiet in response to these unprecedented attacks on women. While many of us are angry and frustrated, we want to follow the example of those across the world that are making their voices heard to their governments in a constructive, peaceful way.

We want to make this event empowering and supportive and in that vein ensure that the tone stays upbeat and non-threatening. Another reason that we want to ensure this tone is because we fully expect that there will be counter-protesters, and we want to make sure that we do not engage with them nor become sidetracked from our message. We will not be able to change these counter-protesters views and their goal is to engage and anger us, so channel your inner strength and don?t let them win- just move forward with our message.

Here are some details that might be helpful for Saturday:

Parking

There is parking all around Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park. There is pay-for street parking near the shops. We would suggest you try and take AC Transit?lines 57 and the NL are the major lines that run by the front of the Lake, but we advise using tripplanner.transit.511.og to plan your route through public transit. Lake Merritt also has a BART stop.

We will start at 12pm and end at 2:30/3pm

Walk Route

Start here:

We will have about 50 minutes of speakers! Lots of letters from politicians—like Rep. Jackie Speier. Though she is not able to make it, she is sending a constituent to read on her behalf.

This is our midway point! Lakeside Park.

This is where the restrooms are at following the midway point!

Here is our ending point! There will be spoken word performed, photos, facepainting, etc.

Sign ideas

We have a voice, we have a choice!
Eliminating Title X= Will cost tax payers more $
Don?t take away my breast cancer screenings
Don?t take away my Birth Control
Title X Saves Lives
Family planning = saves $

Chant Ideas

Hey, Congress, let them be Planned Parenthood was there for me!
We Have A Voice, We Have A Choice!
Walk and Roll, Walk and Roll!
Keep Your Rosaries off my Ovaries!
They Say ?No Choice? we say ?Pro-Choice?

What to bring?

An orange shirt, or whatever else you have that is orange (this is the theme color)
Umbrella
Sunscreen
Sunglasses
Jacket
Water
Signs

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:57:00 -0500

Probably sometime after I came out of my mom…when I officially became a sentient being!

FLYER FLYER FLYER

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:32:06 -0500

rrachrrey:

PRINT OUT, DISTRIBUTE, GET THE WORD OUT!

Yeah Bay Area! Yeah Oakland! Come out on Saturday, February...

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:27:00 -0500

Yeah Bay Area! Yeah Oakland!

Come out on Saturday, February 26 2011 @ noon (location TBA on Feb. 25) to the Walk For Choice, Bay Area!

We have a voice, we have a choice.

LET’S WALK AND ROLL!

I figured if we posted the photos not in a slideshow folks could download them! I’m working...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:04:00 -0500

I figured if we posted the photos not in a slideshow folks could download them!

I’m working on getting them to the W4C Flickr account so they can be large enough to print off :)

Photos by Sarah Scheibe and more to come! Feel free to print...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:57:23 -0500

Photos by Sarah Scheibe and more to come!

Feel free to print these off and stick them places where folks can see them.

And again, if you have any more poster ideas or images, send them our way—walkforchoicebayarea@gmail.com

Remember to include “OAKLAND, CA Feb. 26 2011 @ 12pm.” along with our Twitter/Tumblr URL so that they can get they location info on Feb 25 @ noon.

I wish we could release location information, but unfortunately, counter-protesters are trying to mobilize against our efforts.

Great news—we are trying to get prominent politicians to show up who are avid supporters! Stay tuned!

REBLOG AND SPREAD THE LOVE.

If any one of you Bay Area Pro-Choicers have posters/flyer ideas send them our way!

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:50:00 -0500

walkforchoicebayarea@gmail.com

House Blocks Planned Parenthood Funding. Sign this petition!

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:28:40 -0500

House Blocks Planned Parenthood Funding. Sign this petition!

Stand United with Planned Parenthood

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:28:11 -0500

Stand United with Planned Parenthood

rrachrrey: ilovecharts: Truth. PREACH. THIS.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:27:14 -0500

rrachrrey:

ilovecharts:

Truth.

PREACH.

THIS.

Walk for Choice, Los Angeles: Good morning, pro-choicers!

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:42:55 -0500

Walk for Choice, Los Angeles: Good morning, pro-choicers!:

stfuconservatives:

walkforchoicelosangeles:

Today we have over 90 people who RSVP’d as ‘attending’ on the Walk for Choice Los Angeles Facebook event page!

This is rad, but it seriously is not enough. We’ve gotta get the lead out because this is going down in nine days whether you show up or not, but obviously we’d prefer that you do.

It’s up to 114 for the Yeses. Please RSVP for LA or your city!

We’re at 60 for the Bay Area walk! 72 ‘maybe’ attending! Let’s get out there and walk for our rights!!

Spread the word to friends you know in other cities with walks!

Why Walking for Choice is Important to Me

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:59:00 -0500

Hey all! My name is Rachel and I’m one of the organizers for Walk for Choice, Bay Area.

I wanted to share my personal experience with abortion and why women having a choice is important to me. My wonderful, beautiful, and amazing mother had to have an abortion before me. She was pregnant, but the fetus was growing completely wrong, and it would have comprised my mom’s life. She had to make the difficult choice to terminate her pregnancy to save her own life.

If HR3 passes, and had my mom been in that position today, she would have died along with her potential baby. HR3’s provisions would have stopped my mother from aborting the fetus because there would be no federal funding to pay for her abortion—even if she already has insurance. And if my mom would have died, she wouldn’t have given birth to me or my little sister, and the world would be missing some incredibly awesome beings.

There are a ton of reasons why women have abortions—we, of course, as Pro-Choicers, understand this. No reason is better or more justified than any other reason, and being pro-Choice does not make us Pro-Abortion. My mom obviously was not aiming for an abortion when she got pregnant, and neither does any other woman who has sex or is raped. We need to leave the option open for all women under all circumstances.

Here is the bill for you to read!

The Ban on Planned Parenthood

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:20:00 -0500

spectrumnaut:

http://twitter.com/#!/ACLU/status/38229033393197057

There’s still time to save Planned Parenthood. This link will send a message to your senator: http://bit.ly/eaOEqJ

EVERY event NEEDS TO HAVE A TWITTER ACCOUNT. Make an account, follow @walkforchoice, & use the tags #walk4choice & #feb26 whenever tweeting!

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:04:19 -0500

WALK FOR CHOICE BAY AREA TWITTER ACCOUNT

Walk for Choice 2011: Why Walk for Choice?

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:03:16 -0500

Walk for Choice 2011: Why Walk for Choice?:

walkforchoicelosangeles:

Walk for Choice will be an international demonstration of outrage over the GOP’s recent attacks on people’s rights to abortion and basic medical care.

The “Protect Life Act” (HR3) in Congress seeks to limit federally funded abortions. In the past, abortions were…