30 Yr Abortion Victory Celebrated at Jan 18 March

Thirty years ago, on January 22, 1973, American women won our right to a safe and legal abortion with the majority decision in Roe v. Wade. Our peace march will commemorate that major advance for women, which can certainly be attributed to the success of the momentum of the peace movement against the Vietnam War which gave re-birth to the women’s and gay liberation movements and broadened their strength and agenda to previously unimagined possibilities.

On the speaker’s list for the March on Washington, D.C. on January 18, 2003, there will be a pro-abortion speaker, and I expect we will also have a pro-abortion speaker at the San Francisco march.

Our peace movement, women’s movement, gay liberation movement and civil rights movements today are bigger than ever before, and we will continue to grow together, as that is how all of these movements have always progressed. Today, labor is also part of our peace movement and that will certainly help the labor movement grow, which is desperately needed in the hard economic times.

The weather in San Francisco is clear and cool (about 55-60 degrees) and that is the forecast for Saturday, January 18, 2003. Brother Martin is clearly smiling on his birthday parade, and we cannot and will not let him down for our very lives are on the line with the threat of world war and fascism.

Already, Death Penalty Democrat Gov. Gray Davis wants to expand San Quentin prison’s death row so that it is a death camp. This is Nazi Germany all over again. We must stop abolish the death penalty and stop fascism now. That means we need one million people on the streets of San Francisco on January 18, 2003.

We regularly have one million people at our Gay Pride Parade and Celebration, and thus I know it is possible to have one million people for peace, the Bill of Rights, the Palestinian liberation struggle, our right to abortion, gay liberation , labor, spending our tax dollars on social needs at home and celebrating Martin Luther King’s 74th birthday. Let us march arm-in-arm, from wall to wall (beyond sidewalk to sidewalk), on Market Street from the San Francisco Bay at Market and the Embarcadero to the Civic Center, a nice 1.5 mile stroll, Voting With Our Feet, chanting all our favorite chants.