Reproductive Justice SF

Article in The Guardian discusses why we can’t just vote and why protesters are gathering at the Democratic National Convention for Gaza and abortion rights. Our photo in the Guardian article here includes signs from our sister organization National Radical Women. Full article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/19/chicacgo-dnc-protests-gaza-wacker-drive-michigan-avenue

August 15 from 6:30pm PST join us. Use link in bio. Hear Report: Comprehensive s*x ed is crucial for young people. Yet it's still the exception, especially when it comes to students with disabilities.

What is up with the right wing? Statements like JD Vance's "cat ladies just want to make others miserable" attacks women who don't marry and procreate with men. Let's talk about fighting against their tactics to push white supremacy by controlling women's bodies! Zoom with us this Thursday Aug 1 at 6:30pm. Email to get the link: [email protected]

Against a backdrop of the AFL-CIO headquarters, labor and reproductive justice activists came together yesterday to call on the labor federation to convene an emergency national labor conference on reproductive justice. Our San Francisco chapter of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice was there!

The group gathered on Black Lives Matter Plaza on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion. Behind the speakers was an array of colorful placards and banners from the sponsors including the demand for an end to abortion bans threatening 7 million Black women.

National Mobilization members expressed eagerness to hear a response from the federation’s leader in response to a letter addressed to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. Shuler’s Chief of Staff Julie Collier received the letters at the podium. The AFL-CIO needs to sound the fire alarm for workers to pour out into the streets for reproductive justice! Photo: Naheed Choudry-Caballero

Zoom with us! We are active in San Francisco, Sacramento, Yolo and Placer Counties. Exciting things are coming up... Email for zoom link [email protected]. We ordinary meet first and third Thursdays at 6:30pm but no meeting on July 4. Next meeting won't be until July 18.

Read this summary of important comments on the recent Supreme Court decision on mifepristone. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/06/14/18867378.php

The Supreme Court tossed right wing challenge to FDA approval of the abortion pill..but is it a legitimate, lasting victory? It is important to understand what the decision meant...

We're the Bay Area and Sacramento chapter of National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice... and we have a lot of organizing in the works!

Join us on Zoom the first and third Thursday of the month from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Our next meeting is on June 6.

Our demands acknowledge the many issues which fall within the framework of reproductive justice.

Meet us at our very first Davis Pride this Saturday, June 1st, from 11 AM to 5 PM! We're excited to get even more folks involved as we have expanded beyond the Bay Area!

Davis Pride 2024 is on Saturday, June 1, 2024 from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm at Davis Civic Center Park. Talented community crafters, local businesses, community resources, and food vendors will be offering you the chance to shop local, for original items. Davis Pride Community Fair and Music Festival will have something for everyone! Visit www.davispride.org for more information regarding all Pride related events.

May 16 Thursday join in the zoom call! Lots to discuss. Plan for action too. 6:30pm email [email protected] for zoom link.

The annual Give BIG campaign is May 7-8
Please donate to help reproductive justice activists travel to D.C.

Make your Give BIG contribution support a grassroots, labor-focused organizing effort initiated by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice (NMRJ). Donate at https://tinyurl.com/NMRJdonate

On June 24, the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the NMRJ and the Coalition of Labor Union Women are cosponsoring a press conference in Washington, D.C. Unionists and feminists will speak out on the need for labor action in defense of abortion and reproductive justice.

It will cost at least $10,000 for travel and housing to send a Mobilization contingent from around the country. Your donation will help make it possible for working-class activists, many of whom are LGBTQI+ and of color, to attend.

Donate online at https://tinyurl.com/NMRJdonate or mail a check payable to the Mobilization's financial sponsor, National Radical Women, to 4710 University Way NE #100, Seattle, WA 98105, with note “DC Press Conference.” (Donations are not tax deductible.)

In solidarity,
Brooke Binkowski, SAG-AFTRA* and UAW*
Helen Gilbert, National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice

*for ID only

Abortion is on the agenda. May 2 at 6:30pm PST we gather on zoom to hear what some of the arguments were on EMTALA case the Supreme Court heard last week. Also plan for upcoming actions. email [email protected] for zoom link.

Next planning meeting is April 4. We meet on zoom at 6:30pm on 1st and 3rd Thursdays. Register in our link tree or email [email protected].

US Supreme Court Hands Off Mifepristone! Rally in front of the SF Federal Bldg on March 24. Press coverage on ABC TV and KQED radio plus YAHOO NEWS. photos by Steve Chan Probonophoto. Free to use with credit to the photographer. If you do share any of these, kindly let us know.

ASL interpreter and handicapped accessible event for reproductive justice!

"Hands Off the Abortion Pill" Rally and Speakout! Very soon the Supreme Court takes up the case against the FDA for approval of mifepristone, an extremely safe prescription drug used for abortion up to 10 weeks and miscarriage management. That's why we hit the streets! Brass Liberation Orchestra, Raging Grannies, timely speakers, more. Wheelchair accessible and organizers are working on getting ASL interpreter, to be confirmed soon. Location: Federal Building San Francisco 90 7th St (corner 7th/Mission). Noon to 1:30pm...See you there!

Join author Angela Hume and activists in a conversation about the history of the Bay Area reproductive justice movement and the fight that continues today.

Hume will read from her new book, Deep Care. Panelists will discuss lessons learned from the organizing done in the Bay Area and the leadership needed to build a movement to ensure bodily autonomy for all.

Speakers:
Angela Hume – Feminist historian, critic, and poet
Merideth Cooper – National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Nancy Reiko Kato – Radical Women & Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1:00
New Valencia Hall
747 Polk St., San Francisco
Located 7 blocks from Civic Center BART & on or near the #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 Muni bus lines

Door donation: $3-5
Also available via zoom registration: bit.ly/DeepCare-March17 (see linktree in bio)

Freedom Socialist Party
Info: 415-864-1278 or [email protected]

Join author Angela Hume and activists in conversation about the history of the reproductive justice movement and the fight that continues today.

Hume will read from her new book, Deep Care. Panelists will discuss lessons learned from organizing in the Bay Area and the leadership needed to build a movement for bodily autonomy for all.

Speakers:
Angela Hume - Feminist Historian, critic and poet

Meredith Cooper - National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice
Nancy Reiko Kato - Radical Women and Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

Saturday, March 17, 1:00
New Valencia Hall - 747 Polk Street San Francisco
Door Donation: $3-5
Also available via Zoom registration : bit.ly/DeepCare-March17

We've got issues! Join us as we plan for telling the US Supreme Court: Hands Off the Abortion Pill, organizing a rally, and more.

We are organizing a March event. Stayed tuned.

Email to join [email protected] or go to link tree. We've got important things to discuss and an action to plan!

January 20 Counter Protest against Walk for Life anti-abortion rally & march. Photo credit: Leon Kunstenaar, Terry Scussel, and Mark Eliot

Protest the anti-abortionist march "Walk for Life" coming to town! Saturday January 20 from 11 am on the steps of the San Francisco main library at 100 Larkin St. near civic center. Come participate in this interconnected protest! Join the millions of people hitting the streets worldwide for countries devastated by war. Our protest will feature music including Brass Liberation Orchestra, speakers, chanting, poetry and much more. "Not the Church, Not the State, Reproductive Justice Liberates".

Protest the anti-abortionist march "Walk for Life" coming to town! "Not the Church, Not the State, Reproductive Justice Liberates" is our cry. Come participate in this interconnected protest! Join the millions of people hitting the streets worldwide for countries devastated by war.

Photo is of protest sign: "The mothers of Gaza should not be collecting pieces of their children blown apart by bombs" seen recently at a San Francisco Bay Area protest for peace. Reproductive Justice includes the right to raise families in a safe and healthy environment.

Saturday January 20 from 11 am with Music including Brass Liberation Orchestra, speakers, chanting, poetry and much more. On the steps of the San Francisco main library at 100 Larkin St. near civic center.

Email for link to zoom with us this thurs Jan 4 from 6:30pm. Planning for Jan 20 "Walk for Life" counter protest: [email protected]

Graphic via .mansour
Palestinians have the right to birth and raise their children in a safe environment. IOF systematically denies that right in multiple ways, including preventing pregnant women from accessing prenatal care; stopping women in labor from moving quickly through checkpoints to get to a hospital in time to give birth; demolishing housing and limiting access to water, food, and medicine; and most egregiously, bombing and displacing the 2.2 million Palestinians living in Gaza, nearly half of whom are children.

ZOOM PLANNING MEETING! We will zoom next Thursday Dec 21 at 6:30pm (and not the previously scheduled Saturday date). Fight back against the attack on abortion pill access! Protest the "Walk for Life" BS that descends on San Francisco annually! We got reasons to protest and this year we will make it BIG. Let's get our creative juices flowing together and plan for the best counter protest yet on Jan 20. See you there. email us for link to zoom [email protected]