Yes! March For Our Lives is marching once again on June 11, 2022. After countless mass shootings and instances of gun violence in our communities, it’s time to take back to the streets and march for our lives. We marched in 2018 after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, and now we’re headed back to DC. Join us on June 11th in Washington, D.C., or in one of our hundreds of local marches on the same day, across the nation.

We have hundreds of locations nationwide organizing marches, showcasing the breadth of our grassroots movement. We encourage you to go to https://marchforourlives.com/March22/ for a map where can locate a March in your area, and to search on Facebook for an event near you. Facebook is likely the best way to reach out to a local organizer if you have questions about a local event.

Ponder the undeniable connection between reproductive justice and gun violence.  Those same politicians who wield their power to deny women reproductive justice in the name of being pro-life will do nothing to save the lives of children lost to gun violence.

• The politicians who care more about NRA donations than the lives of children are the same politicians who vote against abortion access. They are not pro-life; they are pro-violence, pro-terror and anti-family.
• Reproductive justice is about accessible abortion as well as the right to raise children in safe, healthy communities. It’s the ability to parent in peace, without fear that your child will be gunned down in school or on the street, without fear that your baby will go hungry from lack of formula. To truly achieve reproductive justice we need common sense gun reform.
• Pro-terror politicians whose pockets are lined with NRA money want to force pregnant people to give birth and subject our families to horrific violence and trauma. Abortion is a human right. Education is a human right. A future is a human right. Reproductive justice is the answer.

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Corporations are profiting from our communities and then using that money to fund politicians who are determined to deny our rights and health care.  They and others are doing it in Florida and are most certainly  doing it in other states.

FLORIDIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS (FRF) has launched a campaign to fight back.  #AbortionInjusticeInc intends to hold politicians and their corporate funders accountable by educating the public as to what they are doing and urging every eligible citizen to register and VOTE!

Up until 1978 the pink triangle had been the symbol for the gay movement.  But it represented a dark past.  Adolph Hitler had created the pink triangle during World War II as a stigma on homosexuals.  It was a tool of Nazi oppression.

Artie Bressan Jr., a filmmaker, and Cleve Jones, a writer, pressed their friend and artist Gilbert Baker to design a new, empowering symbol for the movement.  Bressan and Jones had suggested this to Baker several times but Baker brushed them off.  That is until 1976 when he observed how important and symbolic the American flag was for the Bicentennial celebrations.  The flag was everywhere, printed on thousands of different items.  That was when he started to think seriously about designing the flag for the gay community.

Later, at the Winterland Ballroom, Baker observed how all the dancers were like a swirl of color and light.  That’s when the idea of the rainbow came to him.  A rainbow flag seemed like the natural choice.  The rainbow came from the earliest history as a symbol of hope.  It is found in the Bible and in the history of the Chinese, Egyptians, and Native Americans.

Baker’s creation, the rainbow pride flag, was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade in June 1978.   The flag originally had eight stripes but over the two years following its’ creation, the design was changed to its’ current, 6-stripe version.  It still assigns a meaning to each color: red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, blue for harmony and purple for spirit.   Baker did not copyright the design because he wanted it to belong to everyone.

The flag has become a symbol of the LGBTQ+ movement, not only in the U.S., but around the world.

If you think about it logically, there isn't a distinction between them in this case.  Of course "logical" doesn't apply when we are speaking about the radical religious right.