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niyad

(112,424 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 09:41 PM Jul 2014

Join the week of action to protest the Hobby Lobby decision & attacks on women's rights: July 3 - Ju

WORD--Women Organized to Resist and Defend



Stop the war on women’s rights!
Contraception IS healthcare!
Free, safe, legal abortion on demand!

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Women's Equality Day LA action

The Supreme Court has shown itself to be the enemy of all women. The decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby constitutes an immediate attack on women’s health and reproductive rights. The Court is one more weapon in the arsenal of the right-wing, anti-woman bigots who would deny women the right to control our bodies. This is part of a larger set of attacks over the last few years that intend to destroy the rights women won through militant mass movement in the 1970s.

The Burwell decision enshrines the totally unscientific religious beliefs held by owners of a corporation as highly valuable, while denying the healthcare needs of the women workers of the corporation. Because the Green family that owns Hobby Lobby believes—despite thoroughly researched scientific evidence—that life begins at conception, and the morning after pill and IUD prevent conception, the Supreme Court has declared that Hobby Lobby shouldn’t have to comply with the Affordable Care Act coverage of those forms of birth control.

No employer should have the right to deny women their rights to make decisions about their health and well-being, including their reproductive health. The misleading words “closely held” are used by the court to describe Hobby Lobby, but in reality obscure the breadth of their decision. Hobby Lobby is not some small family-owned, religious-based business. It is a giant crafts store with 500 outlets and 16,000 employees. Not one of those 16,000 workers should have their health decisions undermined or negated because of the owner’s beliefs.

The Green family are religious bigots whose belief that contraception is equal to abortion (which it is not) and that abortion is immoral (which it is not) have now been supported by the Supreme Court’s decision.
The ruling that a corporation should be protected as if it were an individual—even though corporations are also protected from individual liability—and that the owners’ religious beliefs allow them to flout the law leads down a slippery slope of bigoted and hate-based politics. This constitutes a dangerous claim that corporate owners and bosses can use to carry out any number of racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ, bigoted policies against workers based on their gender, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

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Join WORD on July 3-13 in a city near you or call an action in your city and add it to the list! Events are being added every day!

Event Listing:

Los Angeles, Calif.
Date/Time/Location TBD
Info: la@defendwomensrights.org or 323-394-3611

San Francisco, Calif.
Thurs. July 3, 5:30 p.m.
Powell and Market Sts.
Info: sf@defendwomensrights.org or 415-375-9502

New Haven, Conn.
Sat. July 5, 10:00 a.m.
Hobby Lobby, 68 Frontage Rd, East Haven, CT
Info: ct@defendwomensrights.org or 203-787-8232

Washington D.C. area: Laurel, Maryland
Sat. July 5, 11:30 a.m.
Meet across the parking lot from Hobby Lobby (near Chik-fil-A)
3333 Corridor Marketplace, Laurel, Maryland
We will walk to Hobby Lobby as a group after we assemble
Info: dc@defendwomensrights.org or 240-487-WORD (9673)

Albuquerque, N.M.
Mon. July 7, 4:00 p.m.
Hobby Lobby, 4315 Wyoming Blvd NE
Info: abq@defendwomensrights.org or 505-249-1768

New York City, N.Y.
Date/Time/Location TBD
Info: nyc@defendwomensrights.org or 347-292-WORD (9673)

Seattle, Wash.
Sun. July 13, 5:00 p.m.
Future Hobby Lobby site, Aurora Ave N at N. 130th
Info: seattle@defendwomensrights.org or 206-568-1661

Email us at info@defendwomensrights.org to add details of your event!

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Join the week of action to protest the Hobby Lobby decision & attacks on women's rights: July 3 - Ju (Original Post) niyad Jul 2014 OP
K&R Hell Hath No Fury Jul 2014 #1
KnR sheshe2 Jul 2014 #2
Am going to try to make the protest in Laurel, Maryland theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #3
Wish I could be there Dale Neiburg Jul 2014 #7
kick, rec. BlancheSplanchnik Jul 2014 #4
Thanks for the Seattle meet up date! freshwest Jul 2014 #5
Kicking MadrasT Jul 2014 #6
A Kick for Action! theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #8
K&R. I still can't believe what has happened here...another obstacle from the 5. n/t Jefferson23 Jul 2014 #9

Dale Neiburg

(694 posts)
7. Wish I could be there
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:41 AM
Jul 2014

I have to work Saturday, or I'd definitely join in. (I'm assuming that male participation is also welcome.) Hope to see pictures!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
5. Thanks for the Seattle meet up date!
Wed Jul 2, 2014, 11:43 PM
Jul 2014

Seattle, Wash.
Sun. July 13, 5:00 p.m.
Future Hobby Lobby site, Aurora Ave N at N. 130th
Info: seattle@defendwomensrights.org or 206-568-1661

MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
6. Kicking
Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:22 AM
Jul 2014

I had no plans this weekend... perhaps I shall head to DC.

Sitting in my house typing on the internet seems wholly inadequate this time.

Thanks for the thread.

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