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Serena and Venus Williams Rasmea Odeh • Crisis de refugiados 12 Workers and oppressed peoples of the world unite! workers.org Vol. 57, No. 38 Sept. 24, 2015 $1 DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD TENNIS AND RACISM EDITORIAL 6 Stop the war on poor women! By Sue Davis Pullman, Wash., on Sept. 4. The local fire department, conference, hosted by the racist, so-called Internation- with other local officials and federal agencies, ruled it al Coalition of Abolitionist Societies, in northern Idaho A wholesale racist, sexist, anti-worker, anti-poor as- was deliberately set. No authorities have called the ar- two months before the fire. Leaders included justifi- sault on Planned Parenthood is going on. This is out- son what it really is — domestic terrorism. able-homicide advocate Matthew Trewhella, founder of right warfare against millions of women in the U.S. “[The fire is] a predictable ripple effect from the false Missionaries to the Preborn and a convicted arsonist; — predominantly women of color, immigrants, youth, and incendiary attacks that fuel violence from extrem- Rusty Thomas, director of Operation Save America, rural residents and women with disabilities, who are the ists,” said Karl Eastlund, CEO of Planned Parenthood who was jailed for destroying clinic property after gain- lowest paid workers, often single mothers struggling to of Greater Washington and North Idaho. (Associated ing entry in his police uniform; and members of Abolish keep their families together. Some have called the attack Press, Sept. 5) Human Abortion. (Sept. 9) “political theater,” but that downplays its seriousness. It There is a long history of anti-abortion violence in the In 1996, a Planned Parenthood clinic in Spokane Val- is a vicious 21st century witch-hunt. Pacific Northwest, DuVergne Gaines, national clinic ac- ley, Wash., was bombed. The four men convicted were A fire heavily damaged a Planned Parenthood clinic in cess project director at the Feminist Majority Founda- in a white supremacist, anti-abortion group. Both per- tion, told RH Reality petrators of destruction at independent clinics in Mis- Check. She noted that soula, Mont. (firebombed in 1993), and Kalispell (se- a group of anti-abor- verely vandalized in 2014) were convicted. tion extremists held a Continued on page 2 BDS VICTORY Veolia forced to divest 7 PHOTO: TEAM SOLIDARITY Women’s Fightback Network activists joined a pro-choice march to Planned Parenthood in Boston, July 2014. NO POLICE STATE! WW PHOTO: LIZ GREEN Protests hit military expo 6 Oakland, Calif. PHOTO: LEFTY GOMEZ Subscribe to Workers World 4 weeks trial $4 1 year subscription $30 Sign me up for the WWP Supporter Program: workers.org/articles/donate/supporters_/ Name ___________________________________________________________________________ Email ____________________________________________________________Phone ___________ Street ______________________________ City / State / Zip _____________________ Workers World 212.627.2994 MIGRANT CRISIS 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl, NY, NY 10011 workers.org and international solidarity 4 - 5 Page 2 Sept. 24, 2015 workers.org Stop the war on poor women! Continued from page 1 In two-thirds of the 491 counties where its clinics are In July, shortly after a notorious anti-abortion group located, Planned Parenthood serves at least half of all aired a deliberately falsified series of videos showing women obtaining contraceptive care. In a fifth of the In the U.S. Planned Parenthood leaders saying the organization counties it serves, it is the sole safety-net family plan- profits from the sale of aborted fetal tissue, death threats ning center. The study points to Texas as a “cautionary Stop the war on poor women!........................... 1 began. According to the Sept. 3 Huffington Post, an anon- tale;” the state family-planning program for low-in- Michigan: Native peoples fight oil pipeline .............. 3 ymous person posted this warning on Fox Nation: “I’ll come women “served far fewer women” after Planned Peltier thanks supporters on 71st birthday ............... 3 pay ten large to whomever kills Dr. Deborah Nucatola” Parenthood clinics were cut from the rolls. [Planned Parenthood senior director in the video]. The Push is coming to shove in Louisiana. After the gov- Seattle teachers strike for better schools ....................3 same person threatened Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress, ernor defunded Planned Parenthood, the organization People’s victory in Freddie Gray trial..................... 6 a biomedical company that uses fetal tissue for medical sued the state to prove it could help poor women. The research, and posted her home address. state produced a list of 2,000 family planning provid- Protests hit police-state expo............................ 6 Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion ers who could take new patients. After viewing the list, Federation, which regulates abortion providers, told which included dentists, nursing home caregivers and Around the world the Huffington Post, “In my 20 years at NAF, I have cosmetic surgeons, the judge cut it to 29. At a Sept. 2 Migrants face inhumane treatment in Europe............ 4 never seen such a volume, intensity and escalation hearing, the judge was reluctant to allow Planned Par- of hate speech, threats and criminal activity.” Death enthood’s contract to expire on Sept. 15 because “the Venezuela defends against Colombian border attacks ... 4 threats against providers should be taken seriously, state hadn’t articulated a good reason for doing so.” Tens of thousands say ‘Refugees welcome!’.............. 5 warned HuffPost, considering that eight doctors and (Mother Jones, Sept. 10) Revolutionary Venezuela welcomes refugees............ 5 clinic workers have been murdered — the latest was The Sept. 9 Congressional hearing, entitled “Planned Dr. George Tiller in 2009 in Wichita, Kan. Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Turkish regime opens fire on Kurds, leftists .............. 5 When hostile pickets were held at 300 Planned Par- Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider,” Veolia/Transdev ends investment in Israel ............... 7 enthood clinics around the country on Aug. 22, about was called a “farce” by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY). No 500 protesters gathered in Pullman to call for Congress witnesses were called from either Planned Parenthood What does Corbyn’s Labor Party victory mean? .......... 7 to defund the largest provider of women’s reproductive or the so-called Center for Medical Progress, which cre- health care for poor women in the country. The Christian ated the deceptive videos. Editorial right-wingers have been fired up by ultra-right Republi- Pro-choice views were represented by Priscilla Smith, Racism and Black tennis players ......................... 6 can politicians, who have been trying to defund the orga- director of Yale Law School’s Program for the Study of nization nationally since 2011. Reproductive Justice. Smith observed that the health Noticias en Español Currently 28 House Republicans have vowed to care provider has been the target of nine sting opera- make defunding Planned Parenthood grounds for tions over the past 15 years and has never been indict- Guerras de Estados Unidos causan crisis de refugiados ... 8 shutting down the government when the budget ed. “The horrible irony here is that defunding Planned Rasmea Odeh habla en contra de los crímenes comes up for a vote on Sept. 30. While Democrats say Parenthood would increase the number of unintended de la policía ............................................ 8 no such bill will pass in the Senate, President Barack pregnancies and drastically, I fear, increase the number Obama says he would veto it. (HuffPost, Sept. 8) of abortions.” (RHRC, Sept. 10) Just as firebombing the clinic in Washington state Deliberate attack on poor women should be called domestic terrorism, defunding Planned Those who oppose Planned Parenthood say that if the Parenthood is class warfare because it would deny poor organization is defunded of $528 million for Medicaid women their right to essential, needed medical care — This week Workers World Newspaper is 8 pages. health care services for poor women — contraception their human right to control their very lives. It’s time for and counseling, sexually transmitted infection test- all progressives to defend Planned Parenthood and de- ing and treatment, and breast exams and other cancer mand reproductive justice for all women. screening — many health care providers will fill the bill. Kathy Durkin contributed to this article. Davis is a Workers World Not so says a Guttmacher Institute study, issued Sept. longtime reproductive justice activist and author of the 147 W. 24th St., 2nd Fl. 8 in response to a Congressional Budget Office request, pro-choice novel “Love Means Second Chances.” New York, N.Y. 10011 based on the latest 2010 statistics. Phone: 212.627.2994 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.workers.org Vol. 57, No. 38 • Sept. 24, 2015 Closing date: Sept. 15, 2015 Editor: Deirdre Griswold Managing Editors: John Catalinotto, LeiLani Dowell, Who we are & what we’re fighting for Kris Hamel, Monica Moorehead; Web Editor Gary Wilson Hate capitalism? Workers World Party fights for a degrading people because of their nationality, sexual or Production & Design Editors: Coordinator Lal Roohk; Andy Katz, Cheryl LaBash socialist society — where the wealth is socially owned gender identity or disabilities — all are tools the ruling and production is planned to satisfy human need. This class uses