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Yes, There Is A "Bans Off Our Bodies" Pro-Abortion Justice Rally In Beacon Saturday
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Wooo! Like you needed another thing to do this Saturday! Nation-wide, women, men and theys will be gathering to fight to keep government’s legislation off our bodies. No, this is not related for one second to the mandating of vaccinations. This is a life-changing event that men have almost no responsibility in when they impregnate a women. Girls who are just getting their periods for the first time are already being educated by their mothers that their rights to freedom and smart choices about when to start a family are being snatched from from them, in order to possibly snatch the baby in order to put it up for adoption or enter into foster care, both money-making situations.
Beacon
Day: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Location: Polhill Park, Main St & South Ave, Beacon, NY 12508
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Yes, this is a bias article, and yes, we hope to see you there, or at other rallies in the Hudson Valley. Read Katie’s speech here to learn how she really feels.
It's Official! Second Saturday In Beacon Is BACK! BeaconArts Has Spoken.
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You all have been asking: “Is Second Saturday still going on in Beacon?” and ALBB’s answer has been: “The spirit of Second Saturday has never left. The art galleries are still having their openings. There just hasn’t been, like, a banner hanging over Main Street or something like that. But go! Go to the galleries!”
This week, the organization who originated Second Saturday in Beacon, BeaconArts, announced that Second Saturday was officially BACK. BeaconArts announced to its newsletter community: “A full calendar of events is on its way! We’re also in the process of adding more benefits for BA Membership on every level. Perks will include discounts, workshops, and exclusive member-only events.”
So far, BeaconArts will promote Second Saturday on their Instagram, which you can follow here.
The galleries and shops exhibiting art that BeaconArts is promoting for May 14th include: Garage Gallery Beacon, Hudson Beach Glass, Fridman Gallery, Bau Gallery, Mariala Gostudio 502, Marion Royael, Silica Studio 845, Rick Rogers Studio, Hyperbole, Clutter Magazine, and Landmark Beacon (this is the former Star of Bethlehem Baptist Church that currently serves as an event space).
You can join BeaconArts here as an artist, individual or business.
Beacon does not disappoint with being able to not contain itself for excitement! The Pink Unicorn has been spotted at Marion Royael Gallery with a bubble machine for Second Saturday pre-game. ALBB was lucky to have met the person behind the costume at a recent I Am Beacon mixer at Homespun this week. We know the story behind how they got their costume. They’ll need to chime in to let us know if we can share the behind-the-scenes story.
Next Event From BeaconArts
In their own words: “Our first member meet-up! This event will include a special musical performance. We encourage all members who attend to bring a non-member guest. If you’re not sure if you are still a member, please email treasurer@beaconarts.org. Renewing your membership or joining online is super easy! These meetings/gatherings will be held bi-monthly for all BeaconArts members. If you’re not a member yet, you can sign up on the spot. We’re easy, no pressure! Come check it out. This is a chance to meet like-minded artists and local businesses. Each get-together will include the latest BA news and updates, member announcements, a brief artist talk or performance, and ample time to network and grab a drink. The first round is on the house, followed by a cash bar.”
New Board Members Announced For BeaconArts
Along with the announcement for upcoming networking events, BeaconArts announced their new board member lineup:
President: Matthew Agoglia
Vice-President: Damon Banks
Treasurer(s): Christine Olivier, Aaron Ketry
Secretary: Becky Eaton
Board Members At-Large: Samantha Palmeri, Suzanne Ball, Denise Gianna, Marilyn Mitchell
World Keffiyeh Day Celebrated In Beacon By Ziatun & Others :: Turns Into Tragic Day As World Mourns Killed Palestinian-American Journalist
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Palestinian merch for sale at Ziatun.
It’s World Keffiyeh Day, and in the little city town of Beacon, this is being greatly celebrated by the Palestinian restaurant, Ziatun on Main Street. Owner Kamel Jamal’s sister, Khitam (who used to go by Kate and reverted back to her Palestinian name last year after Palestine was particularly annihilated in the escalated conflict with its occupier Israel last May), contacted ALBB to spread the word that the keffiyeh scarf, which started as a farmer’s scarf for protection against the sun but was adopted as a resistance scarf to occupiers, was being celebrated today, May 11th.
You can buy keffiyeh scarves at Ziatun, or order online at Handmade Palestine, who still has a factory in Palestine. Many Palestinian businesses are destroyed or strangled by Israeli forces by way of cutting off water or electricity or limiting shipments, so supporting local business in Palestine matters.
Says Kamel about what the keffiyeh means to him: “Every day the keffiyah means something different. Today the keffiyeh means ‘unapologetically Palestinian’”
The Embassy for the State of Palestine - South Africa, commemorated World Keffiyeh Day with this statement: “Today is World Keffiyeh Day, a global movement to bring awareness and show solidarity with the Palestinian cause and struggle. The commemoration educates the world about the ongoing occupation of Palestine, by wearing a Keffiyeh. #FreePalestine #KeffiyehDay #worldkeffiyehday”
While there is an embassy and many official records recognizing Palestine, Kamel says that sometimes people walk into his restaurant, take a look around at his homages to his homeland of Palestine, and then tell him that Palestine does not exist. He shared this reality in passing the other day while sauntering down the sidewalk with ALBB after giving us a tour of the new building he just bought (!!!). “People come in and tell me that Palestine doesn’t exist. They ask why we show it on the walls.”
It’s a confusing statement to receive, as Kamel was born there and left at the age of 2 when his family was sponsored by a friend to come to America. Listen to his podcast here to learn all about it. But in online reviews for Ziatun, there was a person who left a bad review because they were so offended by the Palestinian decor. They stated that they preferred Israel only for that region. Israel is generally viewed as an occupier of Palestine, who encroaches on Palestinian land over the years.
While some people may prefer for Arab people to disappear, as we saw with the slice and dice treatment of Arab-owned Key Food Beacon in the series of mis-steps and entitlement they endured at the hands of a customer, legal system, local newspaper, possibly Beacon Police, and a complete dismissal by Beacon’s current City Administrator, Arabs are not going anywhere. Obviously. They would just prefer that if you were going to enjoy their authentic food, that you stick up for them a little bit.
Palestinian Journalist Murdered By Israeli Forces On World Keffiyah Day
Dedication to the iconic journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by World Keffiyeh Day on Twitter.
In an unexpected and tragic turn of events, Al Jazeera Arabic’s iconic journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot in the head today while covering the current escalation in the West Bank. Word has been spreading to Western media outlets, as outrage in social media swells. Especially after the New York Times ran the headline of her simply having “died.”
According to fellow reporters who were with her, as reported by Al Jazeera: “We were four journalists, we were all wearing vests, all wearing helmets,” Hanaysha said. “The [Israeli] occupation army did not stop firing even after she collapsed. I couldn’t even extend my arm to pull her because of the shots being fired. The army was adamant on shooting to kill.”
The New York Times that outraged many for its neutered headline.
During Ramadan as Muslims prayed at Al-Aqsa Masque in Palestine/Israel, journalists released videos of themselves being shot at as they tried reporting on Muslim people praying at that mosque being dragged away by Israeli forces. A source to find those videos is Muslim Daily on Instagram.
As reported by Al Jazeera, here is a background on Shireen:
“Abu Akleh, who was a dual Palestinian-American national, was one of Al Jazeera’s first field correspondents, joining the network in 1997.
“Grief and sorrow filled the Al Jazeera offices in downtown Ramallah as the news quickly spread and dozens of colleagues, fellow journalists, friends, and Palestinian figures poured in, including Palestinian politicians Hanan Ashrawi and Khalida Jarrar.
“Palestinian MP Khalida Jarrar said that Abu Akleh was the voice of Palestinians and was killed by ‘the monstrosity of Israeli colonialism and occupation’.
“Shireen was always my voice from the prison cells,” Jarrar told Al Jazeera, adding that a month into her last detention by Israel, Shireen was the first person she saw at her court hearings.”
Last year at this time, Al Jazeera’s Gaza building was blown up by Israel military.
UPDATED: Bans Off Our Bodies March Happening This Saturday In Beacon, Kingston and In Hudson
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Beacon
Day: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 2pm - 4pm
Location: Polhill Park, Main St & South Ave, Beacon, NY 12508
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Kingston
Day: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 11am - 1pm
Location: Academy Green Park, 238 Clinton Ave, Kingston, NY 12501
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Hudson
Day: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Location: Planned Parenthood Health Center, 804 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534
Carmel
Day: Sunday, May 15, 2022
Time: 1pm
Location: Putnam County Courthouse, 40 Gleneida Avenue, Carmel, NY
From Womens March -
“On May 2nd, we learned from a leaked draft opinion that SCOTUS is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, stripping the constitutional right to abortion in spite of fifty years of precedent.
“The Supreme Court is making their official decision on abortion rights in June. Once that happens, 26 states could move quickly to ban abortion, meaning millions of people could live without local access to abortion care.
“Roe has always been the floor, not the ceiling. Many Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people of color experience barriers to accessing abortions. The people in your community and across the country deserve the power and freedom to make their own personal reproductive health care decisions.
“We have to act NOW, all across the country. Together we will send a strong message that we're not backing down. Supporting abortion access must be protected and defended.”
Painting Is Striped On Newly Paved Main Street - Order Slowly Restoring
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The past two planned weeks of fully paving Beacon’s mile-long Main Street overall went very well it seems, with the exception of the hitting of the Dummy Light, of which “the driver felt so badly…he is one of our best,” Beacon’s City Administrator Chris White told ALBB last week at the abortion rights rally. A handful of people enjoyed driving down the middle of the milled road, meandering down Main Street without parked cars or much oncoming traffic. Some store owners noted that they suffered a bit in sales as car traffic and parking was down.
Today (Thursday), the double yellow stripes are painted, as are several street parking spots and the “Abbey Road” style crosswalks. The City Administrator Chris could be seen marching up and down Main Street in his crisp office shirt as workers sprayed the pavement with markings before the paint went down.
Sunny springtime Wednesday traffic is back in action, with cars parked on both sides of the roads and both lanes of traffic narrowly gliding by each other, with skateboarders popping out from between parked cars, and shoppers hurrying to open and close their vehicles. A regular day in Beacon again.
This crosswalk matches the new yellow crosswalk signs across from Citizens Bank and the Mobile gas station.
The newly painted crosswalk near Antalek and Moore’s building.
Workers spray temporary markings for parking in front of Beacon Bread Company.
Bike symbols were kept, like this one outside of Amacord.
ALBB Takes A Trip To Homespun Foods Backyard Patio For Lunch - Those Crispy Onions - Those Tulips!
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ALBB took a Lunch Date over in the garden at Homespun Foods! Teslie (Program Manager) got the citrus salad and added salmon (good choice)… “refreshing and so delicious”, and Katie (Owner of ALBB) got the burger because “those crispy fried onions are too hard to resist!” We got to flip through the wine list that the writer, sommelier and owner Joe hand-stitched together. Love this about business owners who let their passions overlap into each other.
Teslie and Katie don’t make many appearances here on the blog, but we wanted to show you the tulips. The backyard garden is gorgeous and so relaxing! Learn about all of the restaurants in A Little Beacon Blog’s Restaurant Guide here.
A Little Beacon Blogs sister company, Katie James, Inc., designed Homespun Foods website and created features that allow them to bring their restaurant to life and offer their beer store online! And a beer subscription for craft beers! Yup, you can subscribe to beer right on their website. You can also view their full menu online and order for pickup right through their site. Definitely make sure to check out their daily specials page and keep up with all they have going on!
UPDATED Monday's First Incident At Sunoco As Man Allegedly Fights Himself
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Updated 6/2/2022: The Police Report came in via FOIA and has been expanded upon below.
As first reported by a 10 year old who was shopping the well-stocked candy section of the the Sunoco on Main Street, a man entered the store on Monday, May 2nd at 6pm and allegedly began knocking things over while employees remained calm and called the Beacon Police, who came an took the man away. A Little Beacon Blog has reached out to the Beacon Police for comment, but has not received a response. A FOIL has been submitted requesting the Police Report.
According to an adult with knowledge of the event, the man appeared to be young, in his 20s, and possibly Hispanic. He was hitting and fighting with himself to the point of bleeding, knocking over displays, and cursing to himself. An employee stood back to be safe, and the Beacon Police were called. The incident was recorded on the store’s surveillance video.
This incident was a week prior to the next major incident at Sunoco that was seen by several people and discussed in social media.
Details According To The Police Report
According to the Police Report CR-00370-22, Blotter/CC 002503 sent to A Little Beacon Blog via FOIA request, the following details were learned:
Officer Tyler Rath was one of the responding officers and wrote the Police Report, which described the scene with the man, later identified as SU Gevork Muradyan, who was wearing a backpack and seemed to be under the influence. According to the report, there as gas station property destroyed and littered throughout the store. An itemized report detailed the items included flare ammunition, spare phone battery, toothbrush t-shirt, and other items.
According to the officer, Muradyan’s face was in ice cream cooler, and he was "writhing around." Officer Garofolo assisted Officer Rath with approaching the man to remove him from the store and place him into handcuffs.
"Muradyan was observed to be bleeding from a laceration on his forehead and was moaning incoherently and not responding when asked by officers to what he had taken.” Muradyan was unable to walk and had to be escorted out of the gas station by officers where his backpack was removed.
When the officers searched Muradyan, they retrieved a loaded flare gun from his right pants pocket. Officers put him into the car, as they stated that he could not put himself into the car "due to his current mental state."
When Muradyan reached police HQ in their marked unit #5, EMS had been called to evaluate him. His vitals were fine, but he still seemed under the influence. When asked what he had taken, he responded "Meow meow."
Officer Rath rode with Muradyan in the ambulance to St. Lukes for further evaluation. Detective Sergeant Jason Johnson and Sergeant O'Connor processed the scene, and Officer Rath retrieved Muradyan's bicycle that was left in the front of the store. The bike was placed into the Beacon Police Department's Evidence Room "for safe keeping."
It was estimated that there was in excess of $1,500 in property damage which included a damaged cash register and gas station property. The officers got statements from the gas station for a future arrest warrent.
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First Fridays In Beacon Are On - Paving Looking Great - Ready For Paint & Shoppers
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Just in time for First Friday in Beacon, the newly paved Main Street is an inviting open road to travel down. Striping happens next, and then the blacktop is ready for a hot summer.
First Fridays in Beacon started last month, and are for destination shopping, to encourage people to linger longer out on Main Street on a Friday night in Beacon, which can sometimes be a little quiet as people duck into restaurants and order take-out for an easy night before busy Saturdays and Sundays.
Said Toni Hacker, owner of Beacon Mercantile and maker of perfumes, lip glosses, candles and more: “First Friday was GREAT…lots of fun, very busy, and lots of locals saying how happy they are that First Friday is now a thing and a night to get out and see what’s new on Main Street.”
First Fridays run the entire length of Main Street, from the mountain to the river. Then tune in for Second Saturday, which is officially back! BeaconArts made their announcement this week. More to come on that.
Happy Shopping! Use A Little Beacon Blog’s Shopping Guide to get the digits and lowdown on all of the shops in Beacon.
Everyone Pitching In For Pretty Paving
All departments on deck for Beacon’s paving project. The Highway Department, Water Department, Police Department, and stores worked together to get it done. Some stores like Key Food Beacon and All You Knead Bakery allowed Highway Department trucks to park in their driveways while paving trucks were doing their things.
Man Pursues Woman On Main Street; She Runs For Help To Sunoco; A Man Arrested On Willow Street
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In at least the second incident this week involving the Sunoco gas station that A Little Beacon Blog knows about, a woman was chased by a man on Main Street on Friday morning near the Sunoco gas station. According to someone who saw it but does not know exact details, the man was allegedly trying to get the woman into a car. The woman was wearing pink, may have been Puerto Rican, and may have been in her 40s. The person familiar with the incident thought the car may have been hers, and that she and the man pursuing her knew each other. These details have not been confirmed by Beacon Police.
According to one ALBB reader in Instagram comments, “There was a man dragging a woman in the parking lot and she was yelling that he was violating her and didn’t want him to hit her again. I asked her from my car if she needed help and she shook her head. He gave me dirty looks and I bounced because I had my kid with me and she said she didn’t need help.” A very brave thing for a mother to do - shout from her car to increase attention to the situation.
According to a witness, as the man pursued her, the woman ran from him into the Sunoco gas station seeking help. The man grabbed her at the door and threw her back onto the ground, according to a witness. Beacon Police were called and came right away. The man apparently ran away, with police in pursuit.
A Little Beacon Blog has left a voicemail with Detective Johnson of the Beacon Police. Should he respond with details, this article will be updated. ALBB will also submit a FOIL for the Police Report, and is assuming that it will take some time before it is available, if the report remains open during the investigation, as the reports are typically not released to FOIL requests before they are closed.
A Man Arrested On Willow Street
Sidewalk where the man in the tan shirt and black backpack was arrested.
In a possibly unrelated matter but during the same morning, at about 8:45am-ish, a bald man in a tan shirt and black backpack was pursued and arrested on Willow Street, according to witnesses. Just before his arrest, neighbors could hear yelling on Oak Street and Willow Street, where backyards intersect.
Willow Street is behind and a few short blocks away from the Sunoco gas station. Several police officers were at the scene. Some officers searched the area after the man was taken into the police car in handcuffs.
After the man was in the police car, a different person on a bike peddled up to a police officer to give the officer a small black pouch, and left.
Beacon Police Initiative Attempts To Aid In De-Escalating Domestic Calls: "Let Us Know" Program
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Last year, the Beacon Police Department launched a new initiative called the “Let Us Know” program, spearheaded by Lieutenant Tom Figlia, encouraging people with delicate situations at home to call the police in advance with character information about a family member that could help police officers answering a call know the person they are about to encounter a bit better.
In an announcement made last year, the program works as follows: “As Police Officers, we know that mental health status is fluid. We also know that we may be called to respond to incidents involving your loved ones who are experiencing health or age-related changes to their mental health. We want to make sure that calls like this are handled as safely as possible for everyone involved. If you have a loved one experiencing these changes and you’re comfortable doing so, you can now contact us so we can discuss the situation and find out things like what tends to escalate or de-escalate the person, who their emergency contacts are, etc. before we get a call. We’ll put this information into our database and if an officer is called to respond to your loved one and we know who it is, we can update the officers on their way. There is no way to prevent every stressful situation, but as a department, we’ve learned that we see the safest, most positive outcomes when we know the backgrounds of the people we’re interacting with.”
Lt. Figlia gave an example to ALBB about how the program could work: “If someone was concerned that a loved one’s mental health was deteriorating to a point where there may be police involvement, it could be helpful for everyone for us to know some things before we get there. We often spend a lot of time talking to the people who we were called on, so it could make all the difference in the world for us to know if, for example, the person loves to talk about baseball but gets very upset if you mention their step son.”
De-escalation seems to be the main objective with this program. “We want to be able to de-escalate individuals who are escalated and keep calm individuals who already are. It is also very helpful for us to have emergency contact information for people who may find themselves in crisis or suffering from ailments like dementia.”
Having the information before arriving to a scene is the priority, said Lt. Figlia. “While there are unlimited factors which contribute to the outcome of a situation, we would prefer to have that information before we get called, so that no one is scrambling to figure it out when every second counts.”
Screening Of "And So I Stayed" Documentary Of Nikki Addimando & Other Jailed Domestic Abuse Survivors
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Local Beaconite and blogger Linsey Gatto shared in the Beacon Moms Facebook Group about a screening at Story Screen on May 24, 2022 of the documentary “And So I Stayed,” a portrayal of Nikki Addimando, who in September 2017, in her Poughkeepsie apartment, fatally shot her abusive partner to save her own life. She was taken from her two young children and put into jail. The screening is a fundraiser for Nikki in the continuation of her legal battle to end her sentence. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased here.
Nikki is one of many domestic violence survivors who is incarcerated after defending themselves. However, she has one of the biggest platforms to bring the spotlight to this issue for all incarcerated domestic violence survivors, thanks in part to a grassroots group like Community Defense Committee, of which Linsey Gatto is a part of.
According to Nikki’s website, in February 2020, Nikki was sentenced by Judge Edward T. McLoughlin to 19 years to life in prison. “After securing national media attention and a new legal team at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the NY State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division (Second Department) decided that Nikki should have been sentenced under the Domestic Violence Survivors’ Justice Act, and resentenced her to 7.5 years.”
According to the film’s website: “‘And So I Stayed’ is an award-winning documentary about survivors of abuse fighting for their lives and spending years behind bars. This is the story of how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong. It is a moving portrait of Kim, Tanisha, and Nikki, three survivors whose strikingly similar stories are separated by over 30 years. None of them were believed, and each of them was criminalized for fighting back.”
After the screening at 8pm, a Q+A will take place with the film’s directors Daniel A. Nelson and Natalie Pattillo, and Nikki’s sister, advocate and writer Michelle Horton and previously incarcerated DV survivor and advocate Kim Dadou Brown (who are both in the film).
Beacon Stages Rally In Response To Supreme Court Draft Opinion; 3 Videos Of Abortion Rights Protests In Beacon
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On May 3, 2022, in the evening after POLITICO reported on the leaked Supreme Court initial draft opinion which would vote to strike down Roe v. Wade, written by Justice Samuel Alito, the country erupted in protests. In Beacon, a rally was quickly organized and staged at Pohill Park, the common meeting place for such expressions at the intersection of Main Street and Wolcott Avenue / 9D. The video for that is in this article below.
This article also contains coverage of another abortion-rights protest that took place in October 2021 in Memorial Park as a local extension to the Women’s March on October 2, 2021 in response to Texas’ ban on abortion after 6 weeks, which kicked off with a speech from this blogger, followed by a march down Fishkill Avenue. Scroll down and you’ll see and read it.
And finally, there is a never-before-published video protest march in the summer of 2021 against a known letter writer and longtime Beaconite and past Dutchess County legislator, Richard (Dick) Murphy, who targets homes with rainbow flags on them with hand-written or typed anti-LGBTQ messages, as well as anti-abortion letters, which sometimes contain graphic images. Children often live at the homes to which he mails or drops off these letters to.
October 2021 Speech On The Right To Abortion
On October 2, 2021, I said words out loud for the first time about abortion. A reader of A Little Beacon Blog, Karen Finnegan, asked me to speak at a rally she had organized the night before in response to the national Women’s March for Abortion Justice, and I said yes. I spent the next day writing and writing notes. Pages of sentences. Too long. In last ditch efforts to edit, a friend pulled me back from several emotional ledges. I thank them for that.
Below is the 2 minute speech that I condensed 20 minutes before the delivering it while sitting and hiding behind a pillar of the Memorial Park Pavilion near the porta-potty. After delivering the speech, I switched back into reporter mode to cover the protest march in video for A Little Beacon Blog. That video is below.
I want to thank Karen aka the Beacon Hood Chicken aka Chickens With Attitude for organizing this opportunity for us in the Beacon and Hudson Valley regions to participate nation-wide in defending the right to our bodies and to access safe and effective abortions.
I would like to give space an acknowledgement to those marching, rolling, watching and listening who made the choice to have an abortion, and to honor you during these times.
To give you context, I am a mother of three children who I had through my own pregnancies.
Abortion is one of the biggest boundaries a person can put up for themselves to protect their lives.
We sacrifice pieces of our bodies with each pregnancy.
We sacrifice pieces of our lives with each child born.
Yes, there are rewards from having children, but it is not all cotton candy and glitter.
Every single egg in our bodies does not need to be fertilized.
And if it is unintentionally, the world does not get to come down on us to force us to garden.
To explain the WHY of why the choice is ours of when we get to fulfill responsibility for a child born is demoralizing.
A condom breaks.
Someone takes a condom off.
Ovulation cycles get forgotten about. "Oh - I missed the signs this month."
Missing the ovulation signs this month does not mean that our lives need to change. It means now is not the time if that is what we know to be true for our lives now.
A woman skips a pill. Her life can change.
A man takes a pill, he can change the life of a woman forever while he walks away.
Yes there are laws to bring responsibility.
Financial Foundation is not there. Don't be fooled.
The Child Tax Credit is already being discussed being taken away for higher income earners.
The Child Tax Credit advance is not free money. It is an advance. That freelance workers are going to need to be aware of and possibly pay back, because it is used to offset how much we owe at tax time. Usually the Child Tax Credit is offset against a freelance or gig worker's 1099 work that did not have taxes taken out.
Right now, the Child Tax Credit is an illusion of help.
There is no one helping us financially to have children.
People who have abortions need to know we support them. Their mental health is key, and their physical health during and after a procedure is paramount.
Thank goodness our cycles give us some birth control, in that we can't get pregnant every day of the week. There are the number of hours a month that we can get pregnant.
Thank goodness these people trying to make this into something that can be taken from us - at least they can't take our eggs for the half life that each offers. But we control them in the garden.
Keep educating ourselves and our children with sex education, so that we at least know how everything works, what is inside of our bodies, and what is best for our bodies and our lives.
Thank you for showing up today, and thank you for listening.
After the rally, three women arrived from different parts of the Hudson Valley. They were protestors during the original battle for Roe v Wade, and were summoning their strength from that time to fight this time. Take a listen to what they had to say.
Last spring of 2021, the anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion letter writer, Richard (Dick) Murphy, pinned a 3-foot doll into the yard of Donna Minkowitz. She threw the doll away after the Beacon Police said they had no use for it when she reported Dick to them as a complaint. His letter-writing campaign had gone too far. Enough neighbors were upset about it, that Donna organized a silent protest march through their neighborhood, ending up at his house. He did come out onto the front porch to get his mail, and seemed tickled that the protest was occurring, as he is a forever fan of free speech.
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