From "Feminists Compare Bush's 2000 Election Victory to 'Savage Rape'":
...Poet Molly Birnbaum read aloud to a crowd of feminists gathered in New York's Central Park on Wednesday night, as part of a NOW event dubbed "Code Red: Stop the Bush Agenda Rally."
"Imagine a way to erase that night four years ago when you (President Bush) savagely raped every pandemic woman over and over with each vote you got, a thrust with each state you stole," Birnbaum said from the podium. (If something is pandemic, it affects many people or a number of countries.) [Her usage of it might refer to AIDS, or it just might be poetic license --LW]
"A smack with each bill you passed, a tear with each right you took until you left me disenfranchised with hands shackled and voice restrained. Thanks for that night, Mr. President, I can barely remember my tomorrows," Birnbaum said to applause...
"I want to be that voice that makes George Bush so scared he hires two butch black bodyguards. I want to write the poem that the New York Times will not print because it might start some kind of black or lesbian or even a white revolution," [alleged poet Stacey Ann] Chin said...
The crowd carried signs reading, "Keep your politics out of my vagina," "The religious right is neither," "I don't want a president who believes that I am going to hell," "Keep your God out of my government, keep your laws off my body," and "War is not pro-life."
Earlier in the rally, U.S. Rep. Major Owens, a New York Democrat, warned a crowd of feminist protesters that the Bush administration is taking America "into a snake pit of fascism."
Owens also said the Bush administration "spits on democracy" and is leading the country down a path reminiscent of "Nazi Germany."
Last year, Major Owens caused a "rap poem" to be entered in the Congressional Record.
And, pre-protest, TalkLeft provided us with the text of their flyer, so I guess we could have seen this coming:
PROTEST The Bush Administration'sWAR on WOMEN
WORKERS and PEOPLE of COLOR, LGBT, DISABLED, POOR and IMMIGRANT
PEOPLES
The ENVIRONMENT and OUR BILL OF RIGHTS
ThePeaceMovement · Thu, 09/02/2004 - 11:02 ·
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