Bush's 'new breeze' spells an 'ill wind' for civil rights

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15,000 celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday on Jan. 16 in San Francisco. inaugurated President Bush applauded attacks A "new breeze" is blowing, President Bush announced to the world. He will follow "the dream" of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the president assured Black civil rights leaders. Bush also pledged that he will "keep talking" with leaders of women's rights organizations.

And not only that. Bush's now-famous "lips" dripped honey with promises to the poor. Visits to schools and childcare centers were placed high on the chief executive's list of things to do. The homeless, too, will receive his attention, Bush said.

The "new breeze," of course, is just SO much hot air. When the hoopla of the By JORGENSON Anti-choice forces are maneuvering to make abortion illegal once again. And Operation Rescue is continuing its attempts to blockade women's health clinics and prevent abortions from occurring.

On Jan. 22, however, pro-choice activists across the country took to the streets and packed meeting halls to celebrate 16 years of legal and safe abortion. On that day, the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, women and men across the country demanded that the attacks on reproductive freedom end.

In seemingly remote Bath, Maine, for example, 300 people showed up at the Bowdoin College campus to hear attorney Sarah Weddington speak. Weddington successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case before the Supreme Court. The crowd was so large that a second meeting was scheduled to accommodate the overflow.

A roundup of a few pro-choice actions in other cities follows:

Pittsburgh The largest rally was in Pittsburgh, where over 1500 people "marched for women's lives." It was one of the largest women's VING IHE DREAM Brach sym ARTIN LUTHE NG JR.

DR. JANUAR action PRO-CHOKE Arrights demonstrations here in years. The march was organized by local chapters of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and co-sponsored by more than 30 pro-choice, women's, civil rights, and religious groups.

Vowing to keep abortion and birth control safe and legal, the demonstrators marched to the Allegheny County Morgue, where they left hundreds of red-tipped coat hangers as a leanwhile, symbol outlawing mean.

Boston More than 300 pro-choice activists rallied here and in nearby Brookline, Mass. A coalition of pro-choice groups—including Boston NOW, the Alliance Against Women's (continued on page 5, in “Pro-choice forces win court case against phony clinics”) Beacock/Socialist Action Tina

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