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Be Part of the Teach-in Monday night –

Host a Viewing

If there is not a teach-in scheduled in your area, all you need is a computer with broadband (DSL or cable) internet access in order to view the New York teach-in. You can project it to a class room or view it with a group of friends on a computer screen anywhere.

 Invite people to watch with you. Viewings are scheduled around the country, and the world. Register your viewing so we’ll know how many are watching. Details here.

 WHAT WILL THEOCRACY MEAN FOR WOMEN?

 The utterly hostile climate for women's reproductive rights emanating from the White House is bringing real danger to women in South Dakota through the country's first almost-total ban on abortions in that state. On Nov. 7th, South Dakota residents will decide to keep or toss out the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. It makes no exception for rape, incest or the health of the woman.

 Is this attack on women's rights a major issue in the current elections? Is any major political figure calling for repeal of the new federal law that makes it a crime to help a young woman cross state lines to receive an abortion? Do people even know about this?

 This is why the national emergency teach-ins called by World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime with the Bush Crimes Commission are so crucially needed. And it's not just the right to abortion, the next step in the agenda is to outlaw birth control.

 "January 2004: A woman is released from the emergency room. She's just been raped. After treatment, she is given prescription for emergency contraception (EC) to prevent her from getting pregnant by the attacker... A friend takes her to an Eckerd pharmacy in Denton, Texas, to fill the prescription. Thought the pharmacist had declined five or six times in the past to fill such prescriptions, this is the first time a rape victim has requested the medication. The pharmacist goes to the back room, prays, and calls his pastor before deciding not fill the prescription." – Cristina Page

 LET’S GET THIS ON C-SPAN

 The whole country needs to see this. So C-Span needs to get the message that YOU want to see it. C-Span invites viewers to submit suggestions of events for them to broadcast. Please write to them today, asking them to broadcast the national emergency teach-in in New York. The address to use is events@c-span.org

Featured Speakers in New York:

Dr. Les Roberts, an author of the study in The Lancet that there are a projected 650,000 civilian deaths caused by the war on Iraq.

William Goodman, Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Larry Everest has covered the Middle East for over ten years and is the author of Oil, Power, and Empire.

Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, winning a Pulitzer Prize

Cristina Page, author of How The Pro-choice Movement Saved America describes the assault on both abortion and contraception.

This event will be held at: Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
110th St & Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY

7:00 pm, Monday, October 30 (doors open at 6:30). Suggested donation $10-$20

Delayed national broadcast on the Internet the same evening. See World Can't Wait for details on viewing.

Please contribute AND set up a viewing where you are Monday.

Find other teach-ins through World Can't Wait or organize your own.

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