Wombs On Washington Protest Site Up Now

[bettyellen]

I am not a knitter, but do know a few and one asked to pass along this:

Dearest knitters & other interested parties...

Some of you may have run across this yourselves in the past week or so, but there are some mischevious knitters planning a fiber-based assault on one of our current governments' most dangerous underpinnings -- any woman's right to rule her own body. The info on the Wombs on Washington web site is a little murky, so I'll encapsulate what I understand -- Inspired by a pattern for a knit uterus in the free online mag Knitty, a knitter thought it would be a great jumping board for an old school WAC-style action on the steps of the Supreme Court. Get as many folks from across the country as possible, have them fashion a uterus out of whatever method they feel most represented by, and pile them as high as possible in front of the doors of the Law of the Land. There's a little symbolic murkiness for me in GIVING my uterus over to anybody, but the imagery should be fabulous enough to get the right message across -- that the shift in ideology of the Supreme Court could amount to the end of our own individual control over our own bodies.

So pass this evolving URL around to knitters, crocheters, sewers & crafters of any persuasion. I have a whole bunch of pink acrylic yarn that I got at Far Hills last year -- I knew it had a higher purpose!!! -- and will be happy to deliver it to any needles that desire it. (she works in downtown NYC- Pm me if you need yarn and can get there)

http://www.wombsonwashington.org/

[bettyellen]

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