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This is far from over

05 Tuesday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta, Resist

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In the past five days we’ve covered four different pro-choice demonstrations in Missouri – Sedalia, Jefferson City, Warrensburg, and Kansas City. The smaller demonstrations have been organized at the grassroots level via social media. The weather has been miserable – high humidity and high temperatures. Yet, people show up. That’s what happens when half the country loses their bodily automony on the whim of six right wingnuts.

This is not going away. It’s definitely not over.

I’ve shot close to 2000 frames at these demonstrations.

“…Because you get none”

The image is from the July 3rd demonstration in Jefferson City. The rally had already started. The three individuals were walking on Lafayette toward the federal court building.

One thing we noticed five years ago was that many of our images of protests, demonstrations, and marches taken over the years featured women. It took us a brief second to grapple with the reality that much of the labor in recent activist history has been carried by women. If women are organizing and showing up at demonstrations chances are the images taken at those events are going to be of women.

As is the case with this recent round of pro-choice demonstrations, men attend, but they’re distinctly in the minority.

I suspect there may be different results with other ideologies.

The image may be a harbinger of the future. Confident young women asserting their voices, humanity, and autonomy, accompanied by a supportive friend.

The pro-choice demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in Jefferson City at noon on Sunday was well attended. The humidity and heat were oppressive. The original announcement of the event had the location at the Capitol – it was moved to the federal courthouse (ironically, next to the decrepit and deteriorating old state prison) because there were already July 4th events taking place at the Capitol. And it ended up that there was no march to the Capitol (but a “break off” group appraently did make the trek).

Anyone who has attended a protest on a weekend in Jefferson City knows that there will probably be no one else around to witness it. The site at the federal courthouse is one of the most deserted places in Jefferson City on a Sunday afternoon. In this instance there appeared to be about a dozen people at the entrance of the old prison lining up for a tour. That was a “win” of sorts.

I’m not complaining (other than about the heat and humidity) because I knew I’d get some good images to feed the content beast at Show Me Progress.

“Abort the patriarchy”

This image is from the July 4th demonstration in Kansas City. They rally had started and people were still streaming into Mill Creek Park from all corners (depending on where they parked).

This, too, may be another harbinger of the future. Passing the torch to another generation.

This larger demonstration – it was difficult to estimate the size, but definitely more than 1000 – was more centrally organized. Though, again, word was circulated via social media. The Kansas City metro area obviously has a greater population to draw from. There is a difference.

In Kansas City at the beginning of the rally there were two distinct groupings, with individuals easily moving between them. There were those who lined up on the sidewalks facing traffic and engaging passers by and, those listening to speakers in the park. The host merged again later to march through the Plaza (there are spectacular drone images of the march through the streets). As is customary for demonstrations at this location, many of those who cannot march remain on the sidewalks at the edge of the park to picket facing passing traffic.

Again, the heat and humidity was miserable. And people still showed up.

Media and social media do create audiences, but the point of public protest is to inform, and yes, inconvenience and make others aware of your greivances.
From experience – you don’t necessarily need a large crowd to accomplish those communication goals. One individual on a street corner has a powerful impact, though I would point out there is safety in numbers.

One million people in a street protest in Washington, D.C. does have an impact. Fifty or twenty or two people in every town and city in America has a much greater impact. Over at thousand in a public place out in the heat on a holiday works, too.

It takes a lot of courage to put yourself on the line organizing a public protest event under any circumstances. It takes a lot of courage for an individual to take that step in public on their own. It is a start.

No one will listen to your greivances if they’re not put in a position to actually listen. Polite defference to their sensibilities and convenience will get you nowhere. They’ll only notice you if you’re there, persistent, and inconvenient.

You’re supposed to make people uncomfortable with injustice. We all are.

Make it so.

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 4

04 Monday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, abortion, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court

“Today, staring before 11:00 a.m., in high humidity and with the temperature in the 90s, hundreds of individuals gathered in Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri to rally in support of reproductive rights.

Several hundred lined the sidewalks facing the streets with their picket signs. Hundreds more constantly, also with signs, streamed further into the park for a rally and to hear speakers.

The reaction from passers by was overwhelmingly supportive (this is Kansas City). There was an unending chain of car horns and shouts of solidarity and raised fists from those in the passing cars.

There have been a number of similar demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the past few days.

There were, of course, scores of creative and informative protest signs…”

“Abort the patriarchy”

“Doctors and patients, not politicians and churches”

“When did my privates become so public?”

“Forced pregnancy is slavery”

“…the system”

“It’s a beautiful day to smash the patriarchy”

“You don’t trust me with a choice but you trust me with a baby?”

“My body, my choice”

“I will not go quietly back to the 1950s”

“Seven years, seven deployments…”

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 3

04 Monday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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#resist, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court

“Today, staring before 11:00 a.m., in high humidity and with the temperature in the 90s, hundreds of individuals gathered in Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri to rally in support of reproductive rights.

Several hundred lined the sidewalks facing the streets with their picket signs. Hundreds more constantly, also with signs, streamed further into the park for a rally and to hear speakers.

The reaction from passers by was overwhelmingly supportive (this is Kansas City). There was an unending chain of car horns and shouts of solidarity and raised fists from those in the passing cars.

There have been a number of similar demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the past few days.

There were, of course, scores of creative and informative protest signs…”

“Mother by choice, mother for choice”

“My body, my choice”

I will not quietly go back to the 1950s…”

“Keep your rosaries off my ovaries”

“Literally what the f*ck?”

“My body isn’t property”

“Roe, Roe, Roe your vote”

What happened to My Body, My Choice?”

Mill Creek Park.

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2 (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 2

04 Monday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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#resist, abortion, Kansas City, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court

“Today, staring before 11:00 a.m., in high humidity and with the temperature in the 90s, hundreds of individuals gathered in Mill Creek Park near the entrance to the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri to rally in support of reproductive rights.

Several hundred lined the sidewalks facing the streets with their picket signs. Hundreds more constantly, also with signs, streamed further into the park for a rally and to hear speakers.

The reaction from passers by was overwhelmingly supportive (this is Kansas City). There was an unending chain of car horns and shouts of solidarity and raised fists from those in the passing cars.

There have been a number of similar demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the past few days.

There were, of course, scores of creative and informative protest signs…”

“Reproductive rights are human rights”

“What about my heartbeat?”

“…Protect women’s rights”

“We will fight”

“We will not be silent!”

“…Not your incubator”

“Just ignore abortions like you ignore mass shootings”

“…Until…”

“Thou shall not mess with women’s rights”

“Bans off our bodies”

“Pro vasectomy”

“Off with their dicks”

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

Heartland POD: The 4th of July (July 4, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Kansas City, Missouri – July 4, 2022 – part 1 (July 4, 2022)

Heartland POD: The 4th of July

04 Monday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, Adam Sommer, Heartland POD, podcast, protest, Rachel Parker, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Warrensburg

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022

02 Saturday Jul 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, abortion, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Warrensburg

Early this afternoon over a hundred individuals gathered on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn in Warrensburg, Missouri to demonstrate in support of reproductive rights.

They were greeted with supportive car horn honking.

There are a number of such demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the next few days.

Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022

“Separate Church and State”

“…Abolish the filibuster”

“Someone you love…”

“I support a woman’s right to choose”

“I love someone…”

“Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”

“…Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”

“You will never have the comfort of our silence”

We suspect that’s a warning.

On the Johnson County Courthouse lawn.

Jess Piper (D).

Keep your laws off my body”

Pro choice is not anti-life”

“My body, my choice”

“My private parts should not be up for public debate!”

Here we are again”

“It won’t end here”

No, it won’t.

Previously:

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)

They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)

Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022

30 Thursday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, abortion rights, missouri, pro-choice, protest, Roe v Wade, Sedalia

Early this afternoon approximately fifty individuals gathered in 90 degree heat along Broadway (Highway 50) in Sedalia, Missouri to demonstrate in support of reproductive rights.

They were greeted with supportive car horn honking, hostile stares, and at least one extended middle finger.

There are a number of such demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the next few days.

“Girls Just Wanna Have FUNdamental Human Rights”

“Ban Viagra…”

“…We were free”

“…Cannibalism”

“…Zip it!”

“I will not…”

“He who hath no uterus…”

“Don’t like Abortions?…”

Forced birth

24 Friday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Claire McCaskill, Resist, social media

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#resist, abortion, Claire McCaskill, missouri, reproductive rights, Roe v Wade, social media, Supreme Court, Twitter

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
Missouri is now the first home of government mandated pregnancy.
11:15 AM · Jun 24, 2022

Previously:

But, her emails… (June 24, 2022)

In Missouri Mike Parson (r) now makes your health care decisions for you (June 24, 2022)

But, her emails…

24 Friday Jun 2022

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist

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#resist, abortion, Eric Schmitt, missouri, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court

You were expecting anything else?

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Eric Schmitt (r) [2021 file photo].

Today:

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt Becomes First to Issue Opinion Following SCOTUS Opinion in Dobbs, Effectively Ending Abortion in Missouri
Jun 24, 2022, 09:22 AM by AG Schmitt

Following the Supreme Court of the United States’ ruling in Dobbs that overturns Roe v. Wade, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt today issued an opinion to the Missouri Revisor of Statutes that “triggers” parts of Missouri’s House Bill 126, effectively ending abortion in the State of Missouri. Missouri is the first state in the country to do so.

“Today, following the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, with the issuance of an attorney general opinion, my Office has yet again reinforced Missouri’s dedication to protecting the sanctity of life, both born and unborn. With this attorney general opinion, my Office has effectively ended abortion in Missouri, becoming the first state in the country to do so following the Court’s ruling,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “My Office has been fighting to uphold the sanctity of life since I became attorney general, culminating in today’s momentous court ruling and attorney general opinion. I will continue the fight to protect all life, born and unborn.”

Section B of HB126 states, “The enactment of section 188.017 of this act shall only become effective upon notification to the revisor of statutes by an opinion by the attorney general of Missouri…”

And Section 188.017 that is “triggered” by an attorney general’s opinion states, in part, “Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no abortion shall be performed or induced upon a woman, except in cases of medical emergency…”

Thus, with the opinion from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office, abortion, except in cases of medical emergency, is now outlawed in the State of Missouri.

The opinion states, “By issuing this Attorney General Opinion No. 22-2022 and providing it directly to you, I hereby provide notification to the Revisor of Statutes, pursuant to § 188.017.4(1), that the United States Supreme Court has overruled, in whole or in part, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), restoring or granting to the state of Missouri the authority to regulate abortion to the extent set forth in § 188.017, RSMo, and that as a result, it is reasonably probable that § 188.017 would be upheld by the court as constitutional.”

[….]

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The Attorney General’s Opinion No. 22-2022:

“…Missouri is the first state in the country to do so…”

That’s going to be some campaign slogan for Eric Schmitt (r): “I’m quick on the trigger.”

March for Our Lives – Madison, Wisconsin – June 11, 2022

12 Sunday Jun 2022

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#resist, gun violence, guns, Madison, March for Our Lives, protest, Wisconsin

I can’t believe we still have to protest our nation doing absolutely nothing about gun violence.

Several hundred showed up at the Wisconsin capitol building yesterday afternoon to demonstrate against gun violence and our cultural inaction in addressing it – as one of several hundred such March for Our Lives events scheduled across the country.

Wisconsin capitol building.

“Why aren’t we safe…”

“No one needs assault weapons”

“Stop…”

“Protect kids…”

“Your prayer means nothing when you do nothing”

“Enough is enough…”

“…How many kids have you killed today”

“No more silence…”

“…NRA’s blood…”

“21st Century weapons, 18th Century laws”

“Policy & Change”

“Fighting for change because Congress won’t”

The work is not done. Not even close.

Previously:

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

Are we tired of 2nd Amendment overkill (and I do mean kill) yet? (March 24, 2018)

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – more signs (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – getting there (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Road to Change – Kansas City, Kansas – June 18, 2018 (June 19, 2018)

Ryan Deitsch – March for Our Lives – Road to Change – Kansas City, Kansas – June 18, 2018 (June 21, 2022)

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