We are in the news. Cedar River Clinics is the focus of a feature-length article on the front page of the Renton Reporter (www.rentonreporter.com). There is a sidebar article about Sara who regularly pickets in Renton, the Pledge-A-Picket campaign, and a photo of our Executive Director and Co-Founder Beverly W. getting a microphone pinned on as she prepares for the filmed interview with Reel Grrls. Follow this link if you cannot find the article on the main home page of the Renton Reporter.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16982215&BRD=1012&PAG=461&dept_id=141546&rfi=6
I must say however that the article has some inaccuracies (the article refers to 'car bombs' in Everett, our Everett clinic was fire-bombed three times in '83-84. Curtis Beseda later admitted guilt for the arson and went to federal prison for ten years and is now out). You can read more about the campaign of terror and violence waged against our staff, clients and clinic in Everett, WA at http://www.fwhc.org/rico.htm
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August 20, 2007
This spring another Western Washington abortion clinic closed it's doors. Sadly the Anti-Choice groups are calling this a victory and will move on to picketing other clinics in our communities. Our Tacoma and Renton clinics are now the focus of a new picketer with a reputation of being very vocal and a bully. Cedar River Clinics would like to thank you all for your continued support for the Women in Need Fund by pledging picketers at our clinics. Due to financial barriers some women face, access can be limited to abortion services. With your support women in the northwest region are able access the services they need.
May 10, 2007
On April 26th Cedar River Clinics hosted a Happy Hour for Choice event at the Spitfire Restaurant in Belltown, (a downtown Seattle neighborhood). The goal of the event was to raise awareness for Women in Need Fund and to discuss how the current Supreme Court decision is affecting women’s rights in America. Cedar River Clinics got the word out for the event by enlisting the help of family and friends. We had a turn out of approximately 100 people and we were able to raise a little over $1,600! With your donations and the donations from the event we can ensure women with limited resources have access to the service they need. Cedar River Clinics goal is to have more events like Happy Hour for Choice and to continue raising awareness in the communities we serve. If you are interested in supporting an event in your area please contact Jyotika at – JyotikaD@CedarRiverClinics.org
March 5, 2007
Did you know that March 10th is National Day of Appreciation of Abortion Providers? It is the anniversary of the day that Dr. David Gunn was murdered, shot dead, outside a Pensacola, Florida clinic in 1993. Subsequently other doctors were murdered - including Dr. Barnard Slepian who was shot by a sniper as he stood in the kitchen of his home surrounded by his family in rural New York State, Dr. John Britton along with husband and wife clinic escorts June and James Barrett while they sat in a pickup truck outside another Florida clinics (June survived but the other two died), and two clinic receptionists Shannon Lowney and Leeann Nichols in Brookline, Mass. We honor all abortion providers in memory of these brave and committed activists for women's lives and health.
January 20, 2007
On January 22 we celebrate 34 years of Roe v Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a woman's right to abortion. The positive change that legal abortion made in the United States in 1973 was unmistakable. Roe dramatically and immediately improved women's lives and health.
Before legalization, women who attempted to decide their own reproductive futures tried self-induced or back-alley abortions. Thousands died as a result. We celebrate today because women don't have to risk their lives, health or safety to get an abortion.
BUT today, in places around the globe where abortion, birth control and health care are not accessible, women are still dying. Globally, of 19 million women and girls ... more
December 5, 2006
Cold weather -- and maybe the Pledge-A-Picket campaign meant very few picketers this month, especially in Tacoma -- which is great because Tacoma's picketers are especially mean-spirited toward the staff, doctors, and patients.
Read Caroline's story in the letter she recently sent to Cedar River Clinics. She reminds us that real life is not a tragedy contrary to what some politicians think. Patients receive compassionate, empathetic, empowering and excellent health care. It is a ver positive thing for our community that when women need us they find us.
We are now over $6000!
November 6, 2006
Watch the video - it's now available HERE on our website.
This week a patient was so upset by the picketers in Renton that she was in tears. Another patient's support person witnessed the tears, left briefly and came back with roses -- for every woman in the waiting room, to help them forget about the protestors outside.
October 19, 2006
We're over the $5,000 mark! See the pledges add up.
October 6, 2006
Reel Grrls are showcasing their recent films and videos on October 18 at 7 pm at Central Cinema in Seattle featuring the video their summer interns made about Pledge-A-Picket. The students will talk about making the films. Ours will be at the beginning of the night's program, Girls Make Media That Matters. Central Cinema (21st and Union) is all ages featuring food, pizza, beer and more. Plan to attend -- it will be fun.
August 4, 2006
July 5, 2006
Exciting News!Cedar River Clinics has been selected by Reel Grrls to receive a 5 minute promotional video about our organization, our clinics and our new Pledge-A-Picket campaign. Reel Grrls, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, is a media and technology training program that empowers girls to critique media images and to gain media technology skills mentored by a network of multi-cultural women media professionals. Each year, 70 girls go through the program and graduate with valuable skills in video, audio, and web production. (www.reelgrrls.org)
Joan is working with the three students and two mentors of Reel Grrls to arrange the filming this summer.
The finished product will be available in late summer. We plan to use the film to get people excited about Pledge-A-Picket and to inspire pledges and donations to the Women In Need Fund.
June 6, 2006
Thank you very much to the volunteers who have been working behind the scenes to create Pledge-A-Picket: Stephanie (who never missed a committee meeting), Renea, Gina, Laura, Joanie, Sandra along with Deane, Joanie and E who did the images and webpages.
Now it's YOUR turn to get involved by making a pledge.
As reported in our newsletter, Cedar River Clinics in Yakima experienced a larger-than-usual number of picketers on May 2 when a 4-day 'show the truth' (sic) tour arrived in a van and motor home covered with signs. A few weeks later on May 23, a busload of teens arrived to 'pray.'
In Tacoma, Bud pickets almost every Wednesday. Recently he has taken to shouting things at staff members -- shouting: "What's your name? I want to pray for you." Then getting increasingly desperate sounding: "The world is going to spit you out in the gutter."