Re: “No, I don’t want to protest” [June 21, Opinion]:
I don’t know the place to begin on what number of issues columnist Pamela Paul will get flawed. She thinks she covers all bases by decrying the protests of the precise in addition to the left. However when the precise protests, it’s anti-civil rights, anti-women’s rights, pro-fascism, and when the left protests, it’s pro-race liberation, pro-reproductive rights, pro-Palestine and anti-genocide.
I’m in my 80s and have and am nonetheless protesting for reproductive rights, for Palestine as a Jewish activist and in opposition to police homicide of Black individuals. I confronted off in opposition to “right-to-lifers” in entrance of Portland girls’s clinics. I put on a kaffiyeh, out and in of the rallies, to honor the wrestle of Palestinians for all times and for self-determination. In 1970, Washington grew to become the primary and solely state to legalize abortion by a well-liked vote, three years earlier than Roe v. Wade. This struggle was initiated by girls of colour within the antipoverty applications together with Radical Girls, utilizing protest, organizing and training.
We have now a proud Seattle historical past of protest, of excellent hassle.
Adrienne Weller, Seattle