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staying within the accepted political process-there march, organized two marches in Washington, D.C., been no Voting Rights Act, and the important gains in people.

The Civil Rights movement fought power with shoulder for a common purpose. answered with bigger and mightier mobilizations in the were born since 1973, joining hands with older people street. These actions let loose a social movement which who know firsthand the horrors of illegal, butcher aborthe government could not contain no matter how it tions.

The following speech was given by Cynthia Burke protest movement from the abolitionists, to women's banners, unemployed workers, religious activists, at a Jan. 19 pro-choice rally in St. Paul, Minn. Burke suffrage, to the labor movement, the Civil Rights undocumented workers, Gulf War protesters and Gulf is a member of Transportation Communication Union movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement and War veterans, anti-racist fighters, professionals, single Lodge 1310, is a member of the Twin Cities chapter of find that every one of these movements registered their parents, gays and lesbians.

of the Democratic and Republican parties. This was sharing Constitution Avenue with people who have done through strikes, demonstrations, picket lines and never marched for anything before in their lives.

The negative corollary to that is that when the labor South Dakota who wants to can get to this historic overturn Roe v. Wade, and President Bush, who is giv- movement, the Civil Rights movement and the national march. Rescue, that pro-choice is the majority sentiment and "politics as usual" out of the public eye, the opposition turned? Are we doomed to go back to the alleys and that we will not be stopped. We will not go back. We goes right to work on undoing what has been accom- kitchen tables? Don't you believe it.

The ink hadn't even dried on Roe v. Wade before a cessful social protest movement of this century, that of women's right to choose abortion was limited by one uniting every sector of society in visible, mass protest We want an end to government interference with new restriction after another: Only if she can pay for it independent of the Democratic and Republican parties, women's reproductive lives in whatever form it takes, and not if she's on Medicaid, not if she's a minor, only we can overtake and force into retreat the opponents of including schemes to coerce low-income women to if she can prove rape or incest, not in federally-financed abortion rights from the White House, to the Congress, clinics, not in this or that state, and not without some- to the state legislatures and everywhere in between.

In 1989, after the Webster ruling, the National Orga- safe, legal and accessible.

KEEP Cynthia Burke speaking at Jan. 19 pro-choice rally in St. Paul, Minn. the National Organization for Women (NOW), and is a national committee member of Socialist Action.

and the Supreme Court that is chomping at the bit to and accessible abortion rights for all women regardless of age or income.

limit their family size.

legal restrictions on big corporations-they call it faced by the civil rights movement of the 1950s, '60s and '70s. That movement faced then, as we do today, a hostile Supreme Court, a hostile Congress, a hostile White House-politicians, Democratic and Republican alike, who had built their careers on enforcing segregation and institutionalized racism in all its forms.

If leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks adopted the strategy of appealing to the politicians to end their evil ways, had those leaders confined their struggle to lobbying and precinct caucuses, had they given in to the strategy of compromise and yman have been achieved. formal, legal equality for African Americans would not power. Each successive attack on Black rights was tried. Truthfully, we can go back and study every social gains through mobilizing the population independently On April 5, the nation's Capitol will witness women and men of every walk of life, marching shoulder to There will be high school and college students who There will be unionists marching behind their union There will be longtime political activists who have traveled to D.C. many times for this and other causes, But they'll march for this, they 11 march on April 5.

to make sure that everyone in Minnesota and North and Is it inevitable that abortion rights will be overBasing our movement on the strategy of every sucLet us join together in the fight to make abortion Forward to the march on April 5 in D.C.!