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For Immediate Release: March 24, 2004
2nd
Annual Boobies Against Ashcroft March
to Be Held in San Francisco
Topless Protestors Demand
an
End
to Administration’s Moral
Crusade
One year ago, nearly forty men and women removed their shirts and marched topless in San Francisco from Van Ness Avenue and Golden Gate to the federal building in protest of the Bush Administrations policies regarding medical marijuana, prostitution and paraphernalia. Despite the threat of terrorist attacks, John Ashcroft had been cracking down on sick and dying patients, adult women engaging in consensual sexual activity and bong sellers. Today the U.S. Attorney General continues his crusade and on the anniversary of the first march protestors are planning for a second one. Stacey Swimme who recently beat indecent exposure charges levied during a protest in Oakland for Shannon Williams ( Berkeley schoolteacher arrested for prostitution) said, “I am marching because John Ashcroft’s moral attack on American citizens is unconstitutional. He has gone too far. He needs to stay out of my medical records and out of my bedroom. I think the American people agree that there are more pressing issues to focus expensive governmental resources on, like protecting members of the House and Senate from ricin attacks or finding out when the next bomb is going to explode.”
Michael Foley a protestor and victim of the federal governments attacks on medical marijuana would like to see Ashcroft gone. “This administration’s priorities have been all wrong from the beginning. Ashcroft spent $8,000.00 to cover up art because of his religious beliefs. I thought that church and state were separate. These guys are using the war on terrorism to push a right wing moral crusade. We demand that John Ashcroft: 1) Undrape the statue of justice, 2) stop harassing adults for engaging in consensual sexual activity, 3) stop arresting sick and dying medical marijuana patients and 4) keep your laws off women’s bodies and keep your paws off Roe v Wade.”
Who: The Sex Workers Outreach Project USA and anti-Ashcroft protestors.
What: 2nd Annual Boobies Against Ashcroft Topless March.
Why: To protest John Ashcroft and the Bush Administration’s moral crusade against civil liberty.
Where: Corner of Van Ness Avenue and Golden Gate (in front of Chevy’s Restaurant). Followed by a march to the federal building.
When: Thursday March 25, 2004 4:30pm-5:30pm