How Activists Yelled an Abortion Bill to Death
How Activists Yelled an Abortion Bill to Death
by Aman Batheja | June 28, 2013
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/06/28/how-activists-yelled-abortion-bill-death/
Minutes before midnight in the Texas Capitol on Tuesday, thousands of protesters stopped a restrictive abortion bill in its tracks by yelling at the top of their lungs.
The remarkable and surprisingly successful moment had not been planned by the established groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and the Texas Democratic Party that had done much of the organizing for the protests against Senate Bill 5. Instead, it grew organically with the help of a smaller coalition of groups — including local chapters of the Occupy movement and the International Socialist Organization, or ISO — that helped goad the crowd to a level of civil disobedience not seen in the Texas Capitol in decades.
“This was an excellent example of national organizations and grassroots organizations working together and not really stepping on each other’s toes and really each doing what they do the best,” said Tiffany Bishop of GetEqual Texas, a gay rights grassroots organization that had members at the protest. “It was really amazing to me to see the people from NARAL and Planned Parenthood screaming along with us.”
Reproductive rights activists had spent nearly a week coming to the Capitol to protest abortion restrictions proposed by Republican lawmakers ....
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