[ENS] less than two weeks to go to abortion rights march!

[Laura Schwartz]

Boys heed my words- there is much you can do to prove your feminist credentials- keep reading...
   
  Thanks to everyone for working so hard so far (and thanks regional organisers for putting up with my almost daily phone calls!) We've got groups coming from Nottingham, Brighton, Leeds, York, Manchester, Bradford, Oxford, Portsmouth, Cambridge and Scotland. If you are coming from anywhere near those areas and need transport please contact me and I will put you in touch with their organiser. We've also got a long list of supporters and some great speakers including a speaker from the Portugal referendum campaign and Katy Clark MP. We've also got the support of NUS Women's Campaign which is nice...
   
  We now need to have a final woosh to make the march as big as we can and give a strong meesage that pro-choice still represents the majority of women.
   
  So...here are some really important things you can do in the next few days.
   
  Leaflet everything in sight and shamelessly flypost every bus shelter in existence (if you need hard copies of posters and flyers let me know I will post them out to you- they are downloadable from www.fightback.org.uk.)
   
  We particularly need people to help out with flyering in London- meet outside ULU at 4pm tomorrow and next Monday and Tuesday if you can join us for an hour.
   
  If you are coming on the London Stop the War march on Saturday 24th (this sat) we will all be meeting at 12 at speakers corner- look out for a Fightback stall. Speakers corner is just by Marble Arch tube station on the central line. We really need people to leaflet for our march on this so come along and join us.
  Afterwards we will be going to the London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate St (nearest tubes Whitechapel and Aldgate East) at 4pm to make placards and banners. if you are not based it London it might be a good idea to organiser your own banner making session.
   
  If you have student union, political or feminist banners please please bring them along on the day!
   
  I've pasted updated info about the march with a list of supporters and speakers- could you please send this out to all the email lists you can as a reminder for the march.
   
  Lots of love,
  Laura
   
  MARCH FOR ABORTION RIGHTS GAINS MOMENTUM - PLEASE ADD YOUR SUPPORT

2007 is the 40th anniversary of the Abortion Act, which legalised 
abortion
in Britain. The 21 October Feminist Fightback conference agreed to
organise a march for abortion rights on Saturday 3 March. There are now
just under two weeks to go, and the march is gaining momentum. Please
advertise it, come along, bring a delegation - and contact us to add 
your
or your group's official support!

Confirmed speakers so far:

- Katy Clark - Labour MP for North Ayshire and Arran
- Maria Exall - Trade Union Congress LGBT officer
- Sofie Buckland - National Union of Students national executive
- Kate Ahrens - Leicester Health Unison and Keep Our NHS Public 
activist
- Debbie Hollingsworth - Ruskin College SU Women’s Officer
- European Women’s Lobby - speaker from the Portugal referendum 
campaign

Other supporting organisations and individuals include:

- Education Not for Sale Women
- National Union of Students Women's Campaign
- Marge Berer - editor, Reproductive Health Matters journal
- International Union of Sexworkers
- Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq (UK)
- Sussex University Women's Group
- Nottingham University Women’s Group
- Emma Clossick - co-chair, Oxford University Women’s Group
- RMT Women’s Advisory Committee
- John McDonnell MP
- Carolyn Leckie - Scottish Socialist Party MEP
- Petra Urwin - SOAS Women’s Society president
- Janine Booth - Hackney TUC President
- Socialist Youth Network
- Mary Partington - SYN Women’s Officer and Feminists 4 John McDonnell
- Scottish Socialist Youth Women's Network
- Louise Gold - Sheffield University, NUS Women’s Committee 2004-6
- Laura Sterry - Nottingham University
- Laura Schwartz - University of East London
- Susie Orbach - author of "Fat is a feminist issue"
- Teodora Todorova - Nottingham University Women’s Officer.

Rhythms of Resistance samba band will be playing. For more 
info,
for posters and flyers to distribute in your area, or to add yourself 
to
the list of supporters, get in touch: team at fightback.org.uk


 		
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