OSA week is only 3 weeks away! Stay tuned for a schedule of events and an official statement from the clinics of Atlanta. We will get them both out to you as soon as they are available.
Thank you to all the activists and organizations who have gotten in touch with us to help out! Folks from around the country are sending their support, money and people to join us in our resistance! If you would like to get involved, let us know and we will plug you in!
For those of you who may not kow, Operation Rescue/ Operation Save America, a radical anti-choice group (among other things), is coming to Atlanta this summer. Each summer OSA chooses a city to decend on, last year, as many of you probably read about, they were in Birmingham, Alabama, set to shut-down the only abortion clinic in the state, harass clinic staff and intimidate clients from seeking services. Their targets have been in the South and Midwest.
The Next SPARK OSA Organizing Meeting is WED, June 25th at 6pm at the SPARK offices.
Contact Paris for more information: 404-532-0022, paris@sparkrj.org
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HALLELUJAH STREET BLUES: A Benefit Play for SPARK.
At the Horizon Theatre on July 9th, 8pm
Last year’s benefit play SOLD OUT, save your seats today! Your name will be kept at the front door, with your ticket(s).
Hallelujah Street Blues is a comedy set against the complicated issue of gentrification in Atlanta. We hope this play will spark conversations about how housing, gentrification, geographical location, class, gender and race are connected to reproductive justice and impact people’s reproductive health.
All proceeds go to support SPARK’s organizing against OSA this summer.
Tickets: $25-$10 sliding scale (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
Buy your tickets online (credit and debit cards) or at Charis Books (cash or check only). You may also call to reserve your tickets: 404-532-0022.
Contact Mia: mia@sparkrj.org, 404-532-0022
Can’t make it? Donate a ticket(s) for talented youth in Georgia by clicking here. SPARK is working for the 2nd year in a row to provide tickets for a group of 25 talented Georgia youth and their chaperones. Last year we were able to get every ticket donated–Thank You!
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Join us for an all-star event, Saturday, June 7th at 4pm, as SPARK welcomes The Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP) and The Wanderlust Bike Tour to Atlanta for a community discussion.
Hear about ground-breaking research highlighting the experiences of young Latina, African American, and Asian Pacific-Islander women across the country around their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Then hear from the twenty women traveling from New Orleans to New York City with the Wanderlust story collective and bicycle caravan, documenting the inspirational, groundbreaking work happening across the country and build horizontal networks to strengthen our collective movement for reproductive health, rights, and justice.
Come share your voices and your stories for what is bound to be an amazing event!
FREE * Food and Drinks Provided
Saturday, June 7, 4:00PM
Radial Cafe, 1530 Dekalb Ave., Atlanta, GA 30307
TO VIEW THE EVITE AND RSVP CLICK HERE
One Amazing Event: PEP & Wanderlust
The Pro-Choice Public Education Project
PEP is pleased to present the results of their newest research, On Our Terms: Young Women of Color, Reproductive Justice, and Activism. In 2004 PEP released She Speaks, a groundbreaking report that highlighted the experiences of young African American and Latino women around their reproductive health and rights. Earlier this year, PEP commissioned Lake Research Partners to ask young Latina, African American, and Asian Pacific-Islander women around the country how they are taking care of themselves, how we can provide them with better resources to do so, and what they are doing to advocate for their own sexual and reproductive health and rights.
On Our Terms builds on the success of She Speaks and the continued uphill struggle young women of color face in achieving reproductive autonomy. During the presentation, we will share the research findings and strategize on how to engage young women of color in the reproductive justice movement.
The Wanderlust Bike Tour
This summer, a group of women are traveling from New Orleans to New York City on a reproductive justice bike tour. In solidarity with local activists and rooted in the belief that sharing stories is a powerful way to elevate awareness and create social change, we’ll be pedaling from town to town to listen to your stories and document how you and others are working to expand access to reproductive health care, defend reproductive rights, and promote reproductive justice.
It’s a story collective - it’s a bicycle caravan - it’s building the movement for reproductive justice!
The goals of the trip are to document the inspirational, groundbreaking work happening across the country and build horizontal networks to strengthen our collective movement for reproductive health, rights, and justice.
TO VIEW THE EVITE AND RSVP CLICK HERE
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Welcome to the official SPARK Website and Blog, home to all things reproductive justice–YES! On our website you’ll find everything you need to know about SPARK, get updated news about events and local organizing and how you can get involved and support the work.
At our our blog, SPEAK JUSTICE, you’ll find posts from RJ activists writing about everything from their ideas, struggles, organizing, strategies, challenges, observations, personal stories, research, political critiques, feminist responses, cellebrations, successes and more! You’ll also find links to interesting articles and resources, reflections on local events and happenings and art!
Join us!
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