The message women sent in March 2004. One million of us. Picture.

[madfloridian]

Here is the NOW website with many pictures to remind of the over one million women who filled the streets of Washington DC last year to say keep your hands off our bodies and leave our rights alone.
http://www.now.org/history/slideshows/march2004/

[DIKB]

1. Funny

(odd not haha) I don't remember this getting NEAR the extensive coverage that the 50 people outside the Schiavo hospice received.

There's corporate-media-math for you 50 > 1,000,000

[madfloridian]

2. It got almost no coverage at all.

Sadly.

[MollyStark]

3. Women have to insist on not caving on this important right

Next time there is a march I hope some of our brothers join us. The least the democratic party can stand for is women's rights. We are the largest voting block in the party after all.

[realFedUp]

4. heartening photo madfloridian...thank you.

be great to have just a forum
of protest pics to remind us
that we are democracy in action.

[OzarkDem]

5. All of those women

are also going to face discrimination in access to quality health care, women's health research, having their bodies damaged and lives shortened by environmental pollutants and products designed to appeal to their vanity which are harmful to their health (eg.hormone replacement therapy)

Throughout their lives they will be exploited by a health care and consumer industry that treats them as consumers instead of patients.

When they face those issues farther down the road, don't you think they'll wish these rallies had dealt with those issues too?

[madfloridian]

6. The rallies were about all the issues affecting women.

The event is still up at C-Span in portions.

[OzarkDem]

7. But no action followed

The leaders who staged this rally only worked on reproductive rights issues. They give the impression they're working on other women's health issues, but they don't.

Don't you think its time they work together with some of the other groups that work for women's health rights?

[bread_and_roses]

9. freedom to act on those issues is not under continuous assault

as reproductive rights have been for 30+ years now.

Those are significant issues, and I wish women could use the energy that we have to spend on protecting reproductive rights over and over and over on something else. But while that right is under threat, protecting it comes first. It won't do anyone who's dead from an illegal abortion any good that women are being included in medical research. And I am "down the road," it is not a personal issue for me any more. But for my Sisters, all over the globe.

[bread_and_roses]

8. Thank you for that heartening reminder.

And I would seriously advise any Dem Pol looking to sell us out on reproductive freedom to remember that day.

[MaineDem]

10. A year ago this weekend!

(It was April not March)

It was such an awesome event; one in which I am so proud to have participated. "Awesome" is an overused word but so appropriate for that day.

Monday the 25th is a "wear pink" day to remember the march.

Thanks for the picture!