happy earth day everyone, and look at the adorable slide show on google.

[niyad]

[Kath2]

1. Happy Earth Day, sister!

And THANK YOU for awakening minds here about equality and choice.

[niyad]

2. after what I have seen here the last few days, there is even more work to do than I thought.

[Kath2]

3. We still have a long way to go.

Reproductive rights seem to be eroding by the minute.

We need to elect serious, progressive pro-choice candidates for office. We need to get Trump out of office.

I'm too freaking old to get pregnant but I care about younger women.

[niyad]

4. trump and co all need to go to prison. Like you, too old to get pregnant, and, therefore, old

enough to remember what it was like pre-roe.

[Kath2]

5. We cannot and will not go back.

<img src="?width=750&height=750&Filters=%5B%7B%22name%22%3A%22background%22%2C%22value%22%3A%22F2F2F2%22%2C%22sequence%22%3A2%7D%5D" alt="Image result for pro-choice signs"/>

I was in high school at the time of the Roe decision. My older friends were elated with it and told me how great it was. I was just experiencing sex for the first times. I was on the pill at 16 and never needed an abortion but I am so thankful that the option was there.

[niyad]

6. I am much older, and I know I will never allow us to go back, no matter who I have to fight.

underground railroad, whatever we need.

[Kath2]

7. We have to start at the top, I think.

Trump. Impeachment or removal from office the sooner the better. Then all the "pro-life" senators. Keep moving right down the line. Choice is my litmus test when voting, with peace being a close second.

"

[niyad]

10. I was appalled when pelosi said one could be anti-choice and a democrat.

[L. Coyote]

8. Twitter photos tab is awesome for "Earth Day"

https://twitter.com/search?f=images&vertical=news&q=earth day

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Brother Buzz]

9. And a hat tip to co-chair of the first Earth Day in 1970, Pete McCloskey

Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey, lifelong Republican, Marine veteran, and former Congressman, left the GOP in April 2007 and registered with the Democratic Party, saying he is "disgusted with the 'succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.'" [1]

McCloskey served as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives 1967-1983 from a San Mateo County congressional district. "He was a brief presidential hopeful when he ran on an anti-war platform against Richard Nixon in 1972." [2]

In 2006, McCloskey "again found himself in the media spotlight last year when he left his rural Northern California farm in Rumsey, rented a house in Lodi and ran in the primary against Richard Pombo, a conservative, seven-term Republican incumbent who later lost the general election to the novice Pleasanton Democrat Jerry McNerney." [3]

On April 16, 2007, the Contra Costa Times reported McCloskey as having left the Republican party and re-registered as a Democrat, declaring, "I say a pox on them (Republicans) and their values."

[niyad]

11. thank you for that reminder