We Won’t Go Back

A Pacifica supporter in CA sent this poem:

How Far…?

by Nia Assante

How far back do we roll amerika?

How far back do we go?

If we roll back Roe do we go

back to whips and chains?

Do we go back to chastity belts?

We still have marriages that are arranged.

Honor killings and genital mutilation should seem strange!

How far is too far amerika?

Do we build you with chain gangs?

Is it HIS-story again?

Is he repeating the same damn thang!?

Repeating.

repeating.

Repeating.

How far back do we roll amerika?

Will we fill the bellies of ships

with human bellies for trade?

How far back do we row

amerika?

How far back do we go?

Here’s the link to the draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey that upheld women’s right to terminate a pregnancy, and opposing the state’s power to force a woman to carry a fetus to term. Following is the link to the decision in Roe v. Wade that would be overturned. Dystopia and clerical fascism can only be deterred by vigorous resistance, informed by community radio that features self-determined voices from communities of solidarity, resistance and liberation!

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/

And here’s an analysis of the link between the abortion ban and racism:

https://medium.com/@morseca01/the-handmaids-tale-was-always-about-race-so-is-the-abortion-ban-c2cf2aa39025

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