Exciting Plans for International Women's Day Protest and Program: Sat., March 10th

End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women! Abortion On Demand and Without Apology! Fight for the Emancipation of Women All  Over the World   [Promotional flyers available below to download, print and distribute. Or pick up copies at Revolution Books.  Spread the word!]   Saturday, March 10th, 12 Noon  Celebrate International Women's Day Protest and Car Caravan throughout Los Angeles    12 Noon - Rally at Her Clinic, 2502 S Figueroa St. (& Adams) Support abortion providers. March 10th is Abortion Provider Appreciation  Day! Oppose the anti-woman, anti-abortion picketers who harass women  at this clinic.  2011 saw the largest spate of legal restrictions on abortion  since Roe v. Wade in 1973. ALL THIS MUST BE STOPPED! Fetuses are  not babies. Women are not incubators. Abortion is not murder. 2 PM -  The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, 3424 Wilshire Blvd. (1 block  east of Normandie)  The Catholic Church's approach to women, gender,  science and sexuality - like that of many religions - is a Dark Ages disaster!  The Pope has condemned condoms (causing millions of HIV/AIDs deaths). The Church condemns homosexuality and insists that "divorce is a sin"  (contributing to women staying in abusive marriages). Recently, Catholic  Bishops urged "non-compliance" with new regulations requiring health  insurance to cover birth control! 4 PM - Hustler Store, 8920 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Stop the brutality against women in the name of free speech! In recent  years, pornography has become increasingly violent, cruel, degrading  towards women; women are referred to as "cumdumpsters" and  "fuckbuckets"; the "money shot" (ejaculation in a woman's face) is  standard; humiliating cruelty-like violent "ass-to-mouth" penetration-is  normalized, and racist bigotry is sexualized. Meanwhile, the broader  culture has been pornified: pole dancing is taught at gyms, "sexting"  is a national phenomenon among teens, and the strip club is the  accepted backdrop to "male bonding." All this is tied in with, and  reinforces, the trafficking of millions of women and girls as literal  chattel in the international sex industry. This is NOT society becoming more comfortable with sex. This is  society becoming saturated with the sexualized degradation of women.  Women are not objects. Women are not things to be used for the  sexual pleasure of men NOR are they breeders of children. WOMEN  ARE HUMAN BEINGS CAPABLE OF FULL EQUALITY IN EVERY  REALM! Read more here. Contact stoppatriarchy@gmail.com  or for local info:  iwdlosangeles@gmail.com Click on the flyers below (front and back pages of protest flyer and flyer on evening event at Revolution Books) to download, print and distribute.  Help spread the word!

And after the protest / car caravan: Saturday, March 10th - 6 PM International Women's Day program and fundraiser at Revolution Books    $10 at the door We are living in a time of great danger-a time  when the lives of women the planet over are  under unrelenting assault. We are also living  at the first time in human history when it is  possible to not only dream but fight to realize  a whole new world where all of humanity can  flourish; to lift, finally and once and for all, the  veil and heavy weight of women's oppression  and bring about a liberating new day, for  people everywhere. We need a revolution! A revolution that takes  the full emancipation of women as a cornerstone. A revolution that  unleashes the fury of women as a mighty force, and that grasps how  central this question is to uprooting and abolishing all exploitation,  oppression and degrading social relations, and the ideas that go along  with them, among human beings as a whole, all over the world. Before the revolutionary society in China was reversed, women held  up half the sky and the world saw the most gender neutrality ever.  Today there is no longer the need for women's role in society to be  dictated by their biological role in childbearing. There is no longer the  need for humanity to be hemmed in by patriarchal traditions and  oppressive religious morality. This is as insane, as it is cruel, as it is  utterly unnecessary. WE DECLARE: NO MORE! From the Constitution for the New  Socialist Republic in North America  (Draft Proposal): Article III, Section  3. Eradicating the Oppression of  Women "...the New Socialist Republic of North  America gives the highest priority not only  to establishing and giving practical effect to  full legal equality for women - and to basic  rights and liberties that are essential for the  emancipation of women, such as reproductive freedom, including the  right to abortion as well as birth control - but also to the increasing,  and increasingly unfettered, involvement of women, equally with men,  in every sphere of society, and to propagating and popularizing the  need for and importance of uprooting and overcoming all remaining  expressions and manifestations of patriarchy and male supremacy,  in the economic and social relations and in the realms of politics,  ideology and culture, and to promote the objective of fully  emancipating women and the pivotal role of the struggle for this  emancipation in the overall transformation  of this society and the world as a whole."    " "You cannot break all the chains, except  one. You cannot say you want to be free  of exploitation and oppression, except  you want to keep the oppression of  women by men. You can't say you want  to liberate humanity yet keep one half  of the people enslaved to the other half.  The oppression of women is completely  bound up with the division of society  into masters and slaves, exploiters and exploited, and the  ending of all such conditions is impossible without the  complete liberation of women. All this is why women have a  tremendous role to play not only in making revolution but in  making sure there is all-the-way revolution. The fury of women  can and must be fully unleashed as a mighty force for proletarian  revolution."     - - BAsics from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian, 3:22