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Randall Terry is feeling sorry for himself. He says that his bullies in Operation Rescue are "tired and battle-weary."

In a New York Times article of June 11, it was reported: "On two consecutive Mondays in May, the Supreme Court let stand rulings in New York and Atlanta that forbid demonstrators from Operation Rescue to block access to abortion clinics.

"There are still $450,000 in unpaid fines growing out of the New York demonstrations and more than a dozen pending lawsuits around the country; not to mention that after federal marshals seized the group's payroll account the staff of Operation Rescue's headquarters shrunk to three people from 23."

The National Organization for Women deserves credit for giving Randall Terry this heartache. It was NOW that organized iwo massive marches in 1989 which revealed the depth of support for women's right to choose. Politicians who had been silent about this attack on our fundamental, legal right to abortion found—all of a sudden-that they were really pro-choice.

Democratic Party candidates, such as Dianne Feinstein, had refused to speak at the "Days In The Park For Women's Rights" (annual demonstrations organized by NOW when Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco). Then she didn't want to be on the same platform as proabortion supporters. Now she has wrapped herself in the flag of "choice" in order to win the California race for governor.

During the Vietnam War, politicians who had stood firm in their support of the war, became "antiwarriors" when the opposition to older generation and poured out to defend their clinics, not only for themselves but for all women. Both women and men gave up their time to turn out for clinic defense at the crack of dawn (most times even beWOMEN MUST GET OFF WELFARE Sexism intrudes on all aspects of our lives. The forms of oppression are social, economic, political, physical, and emotional. While all these forms of oppression are aimed at keeping women subjugated, men have not entirely escaped the effects. For example, some men have had to help a mate or daughter cross By fore the crack of dawn) in rain, snow, or fog, and fought off the hoodlums of Operation Rescue.

All over this country-at clinic after clinic, from Boston to San Francisco, from Miami Beach to WOMEN MUST GET OUT AND WORK the borders of Canada-we tangled with Operation Rescue and won. This generation has shown that they have the same courage as their foremothers who marched for women's right to vote, the eight-hour day, ending child labor, and human equality for all.

Thousands of those same young people joined the National Organization for Women because they feel that it is an organization which protects their interests. They are prepared to continue that fight until the right to choose is available to all who need it, regardless of costs.

There are over 250 laws in opposition to safe, legal abortion in the various states. Molly Yard, president of NOW, said that this issue cannot be a states-rights issue. It is a national issue. Just as this counWE BELIEVE IN THE DIGNITY OF WORK... are assigned the job of reproducing, child rearing, caring for the elderly, cooking, feeding, nurturing, cleaning, and all of the other tasks needed to send the "productive" (paid) workers off to work each day. (This is regardless of whether we hold down a job for wages ourselves, in which case, women still perform 75 percent of the household try could not exist half-slave and up and half-free.

NOW has the opportunity to once again step into the forefront of leading the fight for women's lives and women's equality. National NOW must mobilize this powerful new force, by organizing for a massive national march in 1991 to let everyone know that women will not tolerate a state-by-state encroachment on our rights.

It would be an invitation to disaster to put an ounce of faith in Democrat or Republican politicians. Only massive, visible, militant demonstrations will serve notice to all politicians, judges, and religious fanatics that we will not turn back!

WHEN WE SET THE INAGES!

WAGES But for the employer, this is a big advantage. It gives employers a great deal more flexibility if some workers—in this case, women of child-bearing age-periodically cycle out of the workforce and then back in again at the boss's discretion.

Employers have no obligation to rehire us again, especially in peri-

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half-free, neither can women exist half-slave to their biological make-