Signs of the times: What protesters are carrying at Saturday’s abortion rights rallies in Southern California

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• Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future By ASHRAF KHALIL and DAVID SHARP WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights supporters demonstrating at hundreds of marches and rallies Saturday expressed their outrage that the Supreme Court will soon scrap the constitutional right to abortion that has endured for nearly a half-century and their fear about what that could mean for women’s reproductive choices. Incensed after a leaked draft opinion suggested the court’s conservative majority would overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, activists spoke of the need to mobilize…
• Protesters ‘promise to stay in the streets’ after failed Senate effort to codify abortion rights Angelina Han, 20, and Emma Macfadyen, 20, both from Chicago, join other abortion rights activists Wednesday evening to protest on Michigan Avenue in the Loop after the U.S. Senate voted against pushing the Women’s Health Protection Act forward.Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times Candice Choo-Kang was making $13 per hour when she got pregnant at 25 years old. Abortion, she said, was the logical option. “There was no way I would have been able to provide a child with housing, food and the things…
• Abortion rights marchers gather across Bay Area SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands prepared to march through downtown San Francisco on Saturday morning in support of abortion rights, one of dozens of gatherings across the Bay Area and country sparked by the Supreme Court’s leaked draft ruling threatening Roe v. Wade. The March for Reproductive Justice in San Francisco is scheduled for 11 a.m. — beginning around the Civic Center and heading down Market Street — at the same time as rallies across the region in a coordinated effort…
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• Mike Lee tells Fox News pro-abortion protesters showed up at his house as a child Sen. Mike Lee speaks to delegates at the GOP State Convention at the Mountain America Exposition Center in Sandy on Saturday, April 23, 2022.Adam Fondren, for the Deseret News Sen. Mike Lee, who has condemned protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices over the anticipated undoing of Roe v. Wade, encountered similar protests outside his own house as a child. Fox News reports that Lee describes the event in his forthcoming book, “Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left’s…
• Thousand Oaks boys volleyball loses to Servite in Division 2 semifinals Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. THOUSAND OAKS — After sweeping its last two opponents, the Thousand Oaks boys volleyball faced a challenge in No. 1-seeded Servite on Saturday night in the CIF Southern Section Division 2 semifinals. Servite used strong serving and quick hits to sweep the Lancers 25-21, 25-19, 25-17 and advance to the championship game. Servite’s Eamon Rigdon hits the ball against Thousand Oaks in the CIF Southern Section Division…
• Olympian/business leader Allyson Felix to USC grads: ‘Use your voice’ to improve your world Olympian Allyson Felix at the University of Southern California 2022 commencement ceremony accepted her honorary degree and delivered the commencement address in Los Angeles on Friday, May 13, 2022. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)“I never hated Nike, I never thought they were bad. Their willingness to change their policy really reinforced that. I used my voice and change happened,” she said, encouraging graduates to find ways to use their own voices. Related Articles The latest crop of “Fight On!” success…
• Sri Lanka extends curfew after violence, PM's resignation Sri Lankan authorities extended a curfew another day Wednesday as sporadic violence and arson continued after pro-government mobs attacked peaceful protesters and security forces were ordered to shoot people causing injury and damage. Nationwide protests have been calling for the resignations of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother, who stepped down as prime minister this week, over a debt crisis that has nearly bankrupted Sri Lanka and left its people facing shortages of fuel, food and other essentials. After Mahinda…
• Right-Wingers Rage at Youngkin for Not Arresting Abortion Rights Protesters at Alito’s Home Kent NishimuraVirginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has come under fire from right-wing media personalities for not arresting abortion rights protesters who peacefully demonstrated outside of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home on Monday evening. “We have been coordinating with Fairfax County PD, VA State Police, and federal authorities to ensure that there isn’t violence,” Youngkin tweeted Monday night as activists gathered outside the George W. Bush-appointed justice’s home in Alexandria in protest of the leaked draft opinion suggesting Alito and…