Glenn Beck, Alveda King,

and

Reproductive Rights

By :Marjorie B. Signer

Even if you just wanted Glenn Beck and his over-publicized rally to go away, please take a minute to read what African American clergy, and civil rights and women’s health leaders have to say. It’s important.

This past weekend, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) brought together leaders of the African American community to expose a little-noticed aspect of the Beck event – the attempt to use the legacy of the civil rights movement to undermine African American women’s reproductive rights. Alveda King figures prominently in this scheme – with her ludicrous charges of abortion as “black genocide” and her comparison of anti-choice activists to Freedom Riders.

That Beck held this event at the Lincoln Memorial, on the 47th anniversary of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech and the famous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, is insulting to Americans of all races and religions who have worked for equality, unity, and inclusion. It is contrary to Dr. King’s ideals of justice, freedom, and respect for the dignity of all people. But there’s still more – it includes an offensive and harmful anti-woman anti-choice message (and you probably won’t read about this in the press, because they either don’t get it or don’t care).

The message about reproductive health conveyed at this event is connected to the “Right-to-Life” billboard/legislation campaign in Georgia that asserted that African American children are an ‘endangered species’ (and that SisterSong and its allies successfully crushed), and to Alveda King’s ”Freedom Rides for the Unborn” (under the auspices of “Priests for Life”). Outrage over this campaign is growing in the African American community nationally as the billboards go up in new states and on-air ads begin. 

To quote RCRC’s president, Reverend Dr. Carlton W. Veazey:

“Disparaging clinics that provide abortion, birth control and reproductive health services is harmful to individual women and to communities struggling with high rates of unintended pregnancy, teen births and HIV/AIDS. It insults the intelligence and values of African Americans and is offensive to women who make conscientious moral decisions about pregnancy.”

The Religious Right has never been able to gain much support in African American communities, and it’s no wonder.

Read more about RCRC’s perspectives and our event at http://www.rcrc.org.

As Reverend Veazey, said: 

“The ‘Religious Right’ and the Tea Party can hold a rally on the anniversary of a time that is sacred in our nation’s march to equality but there is no question that they are not – and never have been – concerned about the African American community or about the racism, poverty and injustice that Dr. King was dedicated to eradicating.”

Or about women’s reproductive health.

It’s up to the pro-choice community to expose the “Religious Right’s” true motives in the African American community – to close clinics and ultimately to gain more support for ending legal abortion. It’s not to protect African American children.

Click here to read it from rhrealitycheck.org: http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/08/30/glenn-beck-alveda-king-reproductive-rights

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The sweeping health care reform law signed by President Obama last March allocated $15 billion to a newly created Prevention and Public Health Fund. The Fund would pay for preventive services and be used by community organizations and public health departments to address health inequities. Now this critical funding is in jeopardy.

Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) has proposed an amendment to the Small Business Jobs and Credit Act that would use the money from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to offset the tax credits and business loans contained in that bill. Such an action would virtually eliminate the Fund, and reverse the commitment Congress and the President made to community prevention.

It is vital that you tell your Senator to protect this investment in our public health TODAY.

So far, $500 million of the fund has been allocated to strengthen the primary care workforce and the public health infrastructure, as well as community and clinical prevention. Next year, $750 million will be released, with the expectation that more of it will go to primary prevention, such as improving the walk-ability of streets or increasing access to farmers’ markets. We can’t let these funds be raided!

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On this Women’s Rights Day, Radical Women puts out the call: It’s time to reclaim and re-energize a fighting, militant feminist movement!

 August 26, Women’s Rights Day, commemorates the day U.S. women won the vote in 1920. The suffrage struggle was deeply rooted in the battle to abolish slavery. In its early days, equal passion was given to the demands for female emancipation and Black freedom. Although the movements later became tragically divided, there were also principled feminist opponents of racism, including African American leader Sojourner Truth, who never accepted the separation of Black voting rights from female suffrage. We celebrate our courageous foremothers of all colors on this day.

 Today’s fight for decent lives for women must be waged with the same dedication, bravery, audacity and radicalism as the suffrage pioneers whose shoulders we all stand upon. Women and children are still paying the highest toll in U.S. wars—as civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan and in acts of domestic violence by dehumanized and distraught returning soldiers. African American women have been a major target of fraudulent housing loans and have lost their homes in disproportionate numbers. Immigrant mothers are desperately trying to hold their families together under the assault of ICE raids and deportations. More and more women are homeless or just one step ahead of it. About the only sure thing with federal healthcare reform is that it will make access to abortion even more difficult. The economic collapse has forced many men from the workforce, placing the burden of primary wage-earner on female partners, whose smaller salaries can’t stretch to cover the need. And as public services are slashed and workers face speedup, furloughs, and reduced benefits, women are called on to spread themselves even thinner to provide unpaid childcare, eldercare, and support for ill family members.

 But women are nobody’s victims. Sisters everywhere are taking the lead in fighting back. At the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit in June, Radical Women representatives encountered dynamic female organizers, many young and many of color, mobilizing on every front. The Social Forum showed that women are instrumental to efforts against police brutality, and for immigrant rights, queer and trans liberation, education, food safety, alternative media, and much more. However, the forum’s Gender Justice People’s Movement Assembly underscored divisions and problems. Some participants seemed stuck in an alternative postmodern world where the language and content were so esoteric it sowed confusion rather than building opposition to the war on women. Other Gender Justice advocates distanced themselves from feminism, as something entirely and by definition white and middleclass. Radical Women’s delegate argued against this and called for multiracial grassroots feminism with a radical program.

 The demand for women’s liberation, which affects half the human race, is profoundly revolutionary when it fights for the needs of the most oppressed members of the working class—poor women, women of color, queers, immigrants, youth—those who have always been initiators and movement sparkplugs. Female revolt challenges the system of privilege at its very core—the capitalist drive for profits that relies on social inequality and the unpaid and underpaid labor of women.

 Are you a feminist and a fighter looking for ways to defend yourself and your sisters against the attacks coming down today? Are you a rebel looking for allies and a political home? Please connect with Radical Women as an organization that will give you a voice, a role, the collective power to make a difference, and a proud place in the continuity of rebellious women that spans the centuries.

 To learn more, please visit www.RadicalWomen.org and contact the Radical Women National Office (RadicalwomenUS@gmail.com) or a chapter near you. Donations are also tremendously helpful. Please click here to contribute online.

 In struggle,
Helen Gilbert

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This year, more than 21,000 women in California will be diagnosed with breast cancer. And it is expected that we will lose 4,200 women to the disease this year.

The Every Woman Counts (EWC) program, which provides early detection breast and cervical cancer screening to disadvantaged women in our state, is facing drastic budget cuts. Everyone understands the budget is tight, but this program has suffered more than its fair share, putting at risk thousands of California residents.

On January 1, the California Department of Health arbitrarily shut the program’s doors for the remainder of the fiscal year, and closed access to the program to new women over age 50 and for all women age 40 to 49. That last cut was particularly troubling because almost half of the women screened by the program are in their 40s. Then, when the new fiscal year dawned without a state budget on July 1, the Department of Health closed the program indefinitely.

Please Click on the following link to urge your state legislators to honor their commitment to California and to Protect funding to restore services under the Every Woman Counts Program: http://komenpolicy.org/campaign/ca_collaborativebudget

Sadly, we know that women who are low-income, uninsured or underinsured – like those who qualify for Every Woman Counts – are more likely to skip potentially life-saving breast cancer screenings. Without the EWC program, these delays in cancer screening lead to larger tumors, more aggressive cancer and, ultimately, lower survival rates. Access to regular cancer screening is a life and death issue – the stakes could not be higher.

As more people lose their jobs and health coverage in this tough economy, programs such as Every Woman Counts could provide a vital lifeline to those in need. That’s why it’s critical our elected officials hear from us right now!

Please take a moment and urge our leaders to protect funding for early detection services for all women in California in the 2010-2011 budget:http://komenpolicy.org/campaign/ca_collaborativebudget

The women of California cannot afford any more cuts to this life saving program.

Together we can ensure that California’s poor and disadvantaged women are given a fighting chance.

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The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement is my legacy. The roots of my life begin in Valdosta and Decatur, Georgia. My family went to the Dr. King celebrations every year. I’ve attended Ebenezer Baptist Church. When I was about 11, I held a nice, tall man’s hand as we marched. His name was Dick Gregory. We said it loud, “We’re black and we’re proud.” The strong women activists of the Civil Rights Movement – Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisolm – they were my idols. And, now, some people are trying to take their legacy, my legacy, away.

This weekend, Glenn Beck will co-opt one of the most sacred moments of the Civil Rights Movement to promote his conservative ideology. A featured speaker at Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally will be Dr. Alveda King, niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Director of African America Outreach at Priests for Life. Her support for the event has been used to appease cries of disdain from people across the political spectrum.

However, we know that Dr. Alveda King does not support freedom for all as her uncle did. Earlier this summer she led an anti-choice “freedom ride” from Birmingham to Atlanta, perpetuating the fallacy that abortion is a tool for genocide against black people. And this weekend, she will stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and claim that she shares her uncle’s dream.

As a black woman, I resent the corruption of this liberating moment in history. And I resent that this rally and the freedom rides intend to further the marginalization and subjugation of black women. Too often people have tried to impose upon us what a “good black woman” should be. A mother, a martyr, one who doesn’t talk about or enjoy sex or sexuality, one who never wants better for herself. Black women are more dynamic than the anti-choice freedom riders and ralliers want us to be. We can be pro-choice. Our legacy is pro-choice. We are pro-choice.

As a reproductive justice activist, I know that reproductive rights are inextricably linked to civil rights. When women were dying from unsafe and illegal abortions, legalization and access to quality providers saved black women’s lives. Access to contraception, childcare options and sexual health information have empowered black women to better understand our bodies, take ownership over when and if we have sex, and control the timing and size of our families.

What has never and will never benefit black women is when someone else decides what is best for our bodies, our lives and our families. Whether being forcibly impregnated by plantation owners in the 1800s or forcibly sterilized in the 1970s, history shows that attempting to control women’s bodies creates opportunities for sexist, racist and classist policies that have negative outcomes disproportionately affecting black women.

I do not believe that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr would support this rally or the anti-choice freedom rides. Dr. King’s mission was for all people to have more autonomy, more opportunities. Certainly, he wouldn’t support anything meant to take opportunities and autonomy away from anyone. And that is exactly what the rally and rides intend to do.

As a new mother, I don’t worry that my child will end up on a list of “endangered species.” I do, however, worry that there is not enough attention and resources focused on the shortage of education and job opportunities, the excessive incarceration of young people and the health disparities that plague our community.

If, as a community, we want to stand up for the health and well-being of our people, to increase the quality of our lives and honor the Civil Rights Movement, then let’s rally for better education. Let’s rally for accessible and affordable healthcare. Let’s ride for a cure to breast cancer. Let’s rally for more childcare options. Let’s rally for the prevention of diabetes. Let’s rally for the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Denouncing access to abortion and reproductive healthcare services is a game of smoke and mirrors. We need only look in the faces of people battling these real problems to know that these are the problems that are claiming lives and hurting people. Creating false claims and made-up genocides that draw our attention away from the reality at hand is irresponsible and dangerous. We can’t afford to believe the illusion.

The brave men and women of the Civil Rights Movement put their lives on the line to call for justice. We need that bravery now. We need to speak up and speak out for reproductive justice as a part of our fight for a future. We need to preserve our legacy.

Follow Kierra Johnson on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ChoiceUSA

Also read the article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kierra-johnson/a-corrupted-dream_b_694647.html

(l-r) K’yhel King, Michael Ligon, Michael D. McCarty, C. Jerome Woods, Billy Burgos, Bryan Sanders                     (photo by Steve Irvin)

On June 19, with a video camera recording, I listened to 20 African American men from 17 to their 70s answering the simple question, ‘What Is a Happy Black Man?’ Their testimony unleashed an awesome wave of inspiration and I invite you to ride that wave with me. My simplest goal is to edit the beautiful footage from that Juneteenth afternoon in LA, when men reminded us “how to dance in blood and remain sane,” to quote a Haiku by Sonia Sanchez. But in a world when too many Black men face some of society’s most difficult challenges, even as we witness the evolution of the Obama presidency, my largest goal is to reflect the invigorating, life-affirming love of freedom that made Juneteenth 2010 so amazing, and reminded me how visceral self-expression can be genuinely creative and healing: 

Imagine with me an afternoon listening to men celebrating life, describing joy, honoring family, claiming safety, reflecting serenity, strumming a guitar, singing a capella, embracing education, hugging themselves, hugging each other, crying tears of gratitude, and distilling personal memories into collective histories….These Black men of happiness inspire encouragement and documentation.

I’m writing to ask you – men and women, old-heads and Hip Hop’s progeny, artists and educators, gate-keepers and taste-makers – to collaborate with me. I’m asking that you join me as advocates for this project. Tell your friends and colleagues that joy is onna move! Contact agents and editors. Blog about the Black Man of Happiness. Upload this photo to your Facebook pages. Feel how hip a TV show would be? Smell the ink of a striking coffee table book. See yourself reaching for tissues as you read the anthology of their stories. See yourself forwarding video clips via YouTube, Vimeo and other www outlets. Wade through a digital Oral History of Happiness on the interactive Black Man of Happiness website. Taste the popcorn while you watch a feature length documentary film featuring Black men, in their own words, defining happiness, discussing happiness, describing happiness, searching for happiness. Imagine me coaxing stories from the next generation during workshops on college campuses.

Be happy your ownself, you know! Be the antidote to the historical poison of slavery (from self-hate and self-destruction to society’s willful dehumanization and disappearing of Black men). Help me explore African American life and history from a refreshing new angle: through the lens of happiness of the men whose joy has never been a national priority. Let’s become the tipping point of a national conversation. What is a happy Black man? How does he pursue happiness? Thomas Jefferson didn’t have Black men in mind when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. Given our American journey, as we saw with Obama at his most eloquent, a happy Black man, on his ‘pursuit of happiness,’ can be both last laugh of American history and a basic ingredient for enriching American society.

How can you invest? Let’s discuss how you can invest. This is not a request for money (although we can talk money!) but for the resources of enthusiasm, encouragement, referrals, drum-beating. This is a request that you immerse yourself within this awesome wave of inspiration I’m riding. This is an invitation to catch this wave and ride with me into the making of the future.

Call me: 818-415-0420; email me: peter@inspirationcrib.com… roll up on my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-J-Harris/1427547031#!/profile.php?id=1427547031

Much respect/peter

Peter J. Harris-Bio
Peter J. Harris, founder and Artistic Director of Inspiration House, is an African American cultural worker who has since the 1970s published his poetry, essays, and fiction in a wide range of national publications; worked as a publisher, journalist, editor and broadcaster; and been an educator, and workshop leader for adults and adolescents. He wrote the forward to New Wine and Black Men’s Feet by Keith Antar Mason (2010, Red Hen Press). His essay, “1,000 O’clock: Johnson Time,” was published in the 2009 anthlogy, The Black Body, edited by Meri Danquah (Seven Stories Press). Currently, he and his daughter Adenike are writing a memoir called Ghost on the Door: A Father and Daughter’s Healing Conversations After Sexual Abuse, a candid, ethical, loving dialogue between a Black father and a Black daughter confronting, surviving, and transcending her rape by a Black step father. Harris is author of The Johnson Chronicles: Truth & Tall Tales about My Penis and Safe Arms: 20 Love/Erotic Poems (and One Ooh Baby Baby Moan). His work has often explored the lives of Black men. His magazine, “Genetic Dancers: The Artistry Within African/American Fathers,” published during the 1980s, was the first magazine of its kind. His book Hand Me My Griot Clothes: The Autobiography of Junior Baby, featured a philosophical elder Black man ruminating on life, love, and ethics, and won the PEN Oakland award for multicultural literature in 1993. His personal essays about manhood and masculinity have been published in several anthologies, including Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories; Black Men Speaking; Fathersongs; I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love; and What It Means to be a Man.

A year ago, Glenn Beck called the President a racist who had a deep-seeded hatred for White people.¹ In just over a week, he says he will “reclaim”² the legacy of the civil rights movement by holding his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC — on the same day and place as Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.³ 

You can get mad at Beck. You can protest and try to prevent him from stepping on Dr. King’s honor for one day. The reality is that the next day — and five days-a-week from there on out — Beck will be back on Fox News, speaking to millions and spreading hate, lies, and fear, as he does every week. 

The real problem is Fox News. Fox News gives Beck his platform, and Fox promotes his events — all despite Beck losing virtually all of his major advertisers in the last year. 

Fox’s rhetoric is not just divisive; it’s dangerous. Last month, a heavily armed man got into a gun fight with police after he was pulled over on his way to kill people at the Tides Foundation⁴ — a non-profit that was little known until Glenn Beck repeatedly demonized it, claiming it to be the center of a great conspiracy.⁵ Last year, Kansas doctor George Tiller was gunned down while at church⁶ after Bill O’Reilly called him a Nazi, a “baby killer,” and warned of “Judgment Day.”⁷ 

It’s why today we’re launching TurnOffFox, and we hope you’ll join us. TurnOffFox is the first step in our overall effort to beat back the poison, hate, and division of Fox. We’ll get Fox turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places — places where Fox pulls in new viewers and gains legitimacy. But we need your help. 

Click below to declare your household “Fox free” and at the same time call on establishments in your community (and across the country) to follow your lead and turn off Fox. Then invite your friends and family to do the same. Armed with thousands of signatures, including yours, ColorOfChange members will then visit businesses in their community that play Fox, explain how divisive and dangerous it is, and call on them to stop. And we’ll give you a FREE Turn Off Fox sticker when you sign on — it takes just a moment: 

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Some people watch Fox at home because it reflects their view of the world; but there are others who see it on TV in public places and assume that it’s legitimate news. Fox News is often on in bars, restaurants, airport lounges, stores — appearing to be real news, while spreading lies and fomenting hate and division.

The goal of Turn Off Fox is to reduce the number of public TVs showing Fox News, while spreading the word about Fox’s poison (and how it works) to those who don’t know. 

Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing Fox. If you’re willing to talk with them, we’ll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn’t be a party to what Fox is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play Fox, you can help them declare themselves a “Fox-free zone.” 

As businesses Turn off Fox and stand up as Fox Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we’ll help make clear, to people across the country, what Fox is about. And we’ll reduce their ability to do harm. 

Click the link below to join us and our partner Truthout.org in standing up to Fox, and we’ll give you a free TurnOffFox sticker. And then please ask your friends and family to do the same: 

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References 

1. “Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obama a ‘racist’,” Media Matters, 07-30-2009
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/385?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=6 

2. “Beck says his 8-28 rally will “reclaim the civil rights movement. … We were the people that did it in the first place’,” Media Matters, 05-26-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/386?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=8 

3. “Glenn Beck’s plans for rally on a hallowed date and spot spurs countermarches,” Washington Post, 08-17-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/387?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=10 

4. “I-580 gunman targeted ACLU, Tides Foundation,” KGO-TV, 07-20-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/388?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=12 

5. “Beck denies being ‘responsible’ for planned massacre at office of group he demonized,” Media Matters, 07-29-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/389?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=14 

6. “George Tiller Killed: Abortion Doctor Shot At Church,” AP /Huffington Post, 05-31-2009
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/390?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=16 

7. “O’Reilly’s campaign against murdered doctor,” 05-31-2009
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/391?akid=1582.182550.ezSkHi&t=18