You might remember reading about last year’s Good Friday Pledge a Protester Campaign on Feministing …Well, it’s that time of year—Good Friday is tomorrow and it’s also the deadline for this year’s Pledge Protester Campaign.
Every year on Good Friday, over a thousand anti-choice protesters descend on our St. Paul, Minnesota Highland Park Clinic for a Good Friday day-long protest. It’s their largest protest of the year.
Watch a video about the Good Friday Protest and Pledge a Protester HERE .
With your help, their efforts will backfire. When you contribute to our ‘Pledge a Protester’ campaign , you help guarantee that every protester they bring will raise money for Planned Parenthood. All of the money raised will go directly to support the work we do at the Highland Clinic.
Together, we can show the anti-choice protesters that no matter how many people they bring, our supporters are strong and committed - and we refuse to surrender our clinic to their narrow views - not even for one day.
Click HERE to Pledge a Protester!
And if you live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, sign up to attend for our peaceful solidarity event tomorrow! More info on that here.
Thanks for your support!!
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This is awesome! I love that you're using their presence at the protest against them. Beat them at their own game!
This kind of thing really pisses me off and confirms in my mind that planned parenthood is run by a bunch of sick opportunists.
Donating money to a clinic is not going to keep abortion safe and legal, organizing men and women in the streets (just like the right wing do now) is what won legalized abortion for us. Why can't they use their listserves to ask people to come out and counterprotest these bigots? They'll go away if they're confronted.
If there aren't places that perform abortions, then it doesn't matter if abortion is legal (isn't it something like 85% of counties in the US don't have abortion providers?) Planned Parenthood needs money to keep running (they get a lot of their money from public donations). I do not think Planned Parenthood should be organizing protests. They protest by just staying open, by their employees coming to work, providing the essential health services that so many women need. I don't think that Planned Parenthood is being 'sick opportunists' by taking this opportunity to get donations. When people see the massive protest that women going to Planned Parenthood to even get a pap test have to put up with, then people may realize that Planned Parenthood needs people to support them. And that could be in the form of a counter-protest, or if you don't live anywhere near there, you could donate some money if you have it.
Well apart from not having the money to donate, thus having nothing to offer these clinics in their eyes, I have been a part of organizing counter protests of the right wingers that come out and protest constantly and we were asked by planned parenthood not to continue.
This was at a site where one is being built, it has been almost two years and building still has not happened and yet PP keeps asking the community for money. Yet we're not getting a new clinic.
Apart from that they're putting their clients in danger when they have to face these protesters many of whom are violent.
They are being opportunistic, they're taking complete advantage of people who want to help and yet the only help they're told to give is their money.