Women are marching all over America tomorrow, October 8. “Women’s Wave” marches are happening in South Dakota’s two biggest cities.
Women and people who support them will rally downtown at Fawick Park on Saturday at noon Central:
“We are united in our commitment to freedom and dignity for all Americans and putting failed ‘leaders’ on notice- from Supreme Court Justices, to candidates running for state legislature and state-wide office, we will not stop marching, protesting, voting, running for office until ALL of our freedoms are protected,” said Tiffany Campbell, Sioux Falls mother and rally organizer.
Michele Brace, Sioux Falls mother, small business owner and rally organizer said, “The freedom to decide how, when and if we bear children. The freedom to raise children free from the terror of gun violence. The freedom to vote and participate fully and completely in a functioning democracy. The freedom to live in a country where we are invested in everyones’ prosperity are our top priorities.”
Speakers include Rep. Erin Healy, Kristin Hayward, Vaney Hariri, a local OB/GYN, a Lincoln High School senior, a volunteer with JEN (Justice Empowerment Network, SD abortion fund), plus others. Sioux Falls League of Women Voters will be there to register voters [Sioux Falls Women’s March Rally, press release, 2022.10.04].
In Rapid City, women and friends will gather downtown at Halley Park on Saturday at noon Mountain:
In South Dakota, the South Dakota Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW, SD), Sisters United SD, the American Association of University Women (AAUW Rapid City), and South Dakota Democracy in Action have teamed up to organize the West River Women’s Wave Rally, a pro-choice, pro-woman, and pro-body autonomy rally beginning at 12 pm on Saturday, October 8 at Halley Park in downtown Rapid City. The rally’s theme is “Women’s Wave,” emphasizing the power of participants to rise together reclaim control of their bodies and freedoms.
The rally occurs one month before Election Day 2022. We will highlight and celebrate women candidates and candidates for choice as well as register folks to vote.
In honor of Period Action Day, which also occurs on October 8, organizers encourage attendees to bring to the rally menstrual products—unused but not necessarily boxed—to donate.
Lesleigh Owen, vice president of NOW, SD, issued this statement: “Politicians and justices have stripped groups of their rights to control their bodies. We are preparing to rise and reclaim those rights.”
It is time for women, feminine persons, anyone with a uterus, and allies across the US to raise our voices, our fists, and our numbers and show our politicians and community members we will not be silent while our rights are stripped away. It is time for us to rise.
The West River Women’s Wave Rally begins at noon at Halley Park in downtown Rapid City. We encourage attendees to bring their signs as well as menstrual items to donate. Organizers will provide limited seating, but we encourage attendees who need seats to also bring their own [Sisters United, press release, 2022.10.04].
Kristi Noem is unlikely to fly back from Arizona for either of these women’s events. When Noem does return, she is unlikely to help women reclaim the rights Owen says have been stripped away or fight for the real freedom to live in a safe, healthy, and inclusive democracy that Brace says should be our priority.
Its gonna be a crimson wave
It’s 2022 and women in South Dakota are still treated as property of the Republican Party. I swear.
As a teacher of impoverished high school students, I spend at least $100/yr on feminine hygiene products for my female students.
They’re not cheap.
So great to know a group like this exists!…. beginning to sound like a democracy again.
Reflect on Kate McCormick when you march.
After 150 years we struggle with the same prejudices and bigotry.
Her Tennessee gravestone reads:
‘”Kate McCormick, Seduced and pregnant by her father’s friend, Unwed, she died from abortion, her only choice. Abandoned in life and death by family, With but a single rose from her mother, Buried only through the kindness of an unknown benefactor, Died February 1875, age 21, Victim of an unforgiving society. Have mercy on us.” Posted 1997
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3tzu78/the_depressing_gravestone_of_kate_mccormick/
Everyone already has the freedom to do what is right. Sadly, doing right is often sacrificed on the alter of doing what is right for yourself. These two rights are not necessarily in conflict but often are. People too often want to get their way, their way. If someone else gets hurt in the process, better that than me sacrificing for their benefit.
Nobody respects women more than grudznick.
“You go, girl!” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, America’s female, black justice replacing esteemed Justice Breyer, said, this is what she understands our ancestors are urging. Her performance, day one, was as the third most active justice during arguments, when new justices are generally silent, more or less, for the first year.
Third is significant. Remember this is still a 6-3 conservatives court, that has lost all semblance of integrity; a nakedly biased court favoring agendas of the billionaire and corporate class over the ordinary, small, resident or citizen, the “lower class”, and of the principles of the highest aspirations of the constitution, our civil rights advances, and while of course demeaningly favoring all the favorite GOP obstructions IN EVERY AREA OF POLICY, human rights, worker rights, voter rights and health and medical care rights, and right now especially, woman’s rights!
Extreme right wing Justice Clarence Thomas has perhaps the unique distinction now of removing the court as presently constituted, from its historically all-white male majority.
Justice Jackson is the third of three justices appointed by Democratic and democratic administrations, and one of four now, of female justices on the nation’s Supreme Court, while Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who Trump hand-picked at the instance of the partisan Republican “Federal Society” specifically to overturn Roe v. Wade, as a white woman. Together with Justice Kavanaugh, the two are arguably incompetent plants (like our Governor Noem), instead of experienced independent jurists the Senate had a duty to vet under the constitutional duty to give “advice and consent”. Instead it acted again like the partisan impeachment jury which failed twice in a single term to recognize Trump’s high criminality and misdemeanors to thus take out the worst president in our history. Checks and balances are gone! The THIRD Senate failure!
Under Republicans, both the severely broken 6-3 SCOTUS, and the 50-50 SENATE now undermine the very democracy under which they were created.
Lakota people chose women to lead them in all matters other than war. Perhaps America will benefit from greater female judgement as well. A native American Indian woman now leads the Department of Interior much to the consternation of the fossil fuels industry. And a seat at the table is now for our black, principled female Justice Jackson to occupy! Thank god.
“Extreme right wing Justice Clarence Thomas has perhaps the unique distinction now of removing the court as presently constituted, from its historically all-white male majority.”
I don’t understand that statement.
The court currently has five male [four, a minority, are still white male] and four female justices. Among the nine justices, there are two African-American justices (Justices Thomas and Jackson) and one Hispanic justice (Justice Sotomayor). One of the justices was born to at least one immigrant parent: Justice Alito’s father was born in Italy.[121][122]
At least six justices are Roman Catholics, one is Jewish, and one is Protestant. It is unclear whether Neil Gorsuch considers himself a Catholic or an Episcopalian. wiki
The court is now the most diverse ever.
Sorry. Mangling the status of Thomas was from a listen (it’s well worth it) to the 1st 15 minutes:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-last-word-with-lawrence-odonnell/id1316084734?i=1000581487941