Hundreds continue protesting after Roe v. Wade overturn in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Extra took to the streets at the moment, on June 25, in mild of yesterday’s overturn of Roe v Wade.

“We’re right here for artistic dissent in opposition to the choice, we really feel that the state shouldn’t have management over our our bodies,” mentioned Ruth B8r Ginsburg Drummer Quinn Cory.

The eight members of the native band Ruth B8r Ginsberg, together with a whole lot of protestors, marched from South Shore Park to the Cactus Membership, the place audio system talked concerning the points they face now, and with musical performances as properly.

Their message, the identical one it has been for a very long time, bodily autonomy.

“Now’s the time for us to be organizing and being in group with one another and displaying completely different ways in which we are able to resist,” mentioned Cory.

There was additionally a shift in the best way that the activists are speaking concerning the points they face, as they start to speak about how reproductive justice might be served in a post-Roe world.

“The logistical help, literal funding for touring out of state, serving to folks discover entry to remedy abortion for self-managed abortion and doing that safely,” mentioned band member Ousia Moon.

Proceeds from the occasion went to the Ladies’s Medical Fund of Wisconsin, serving to funding of abortion care, in addition to advocacy work and political activism.

Members of the band say extra work than simply going to the poll field might be wanted to maintain folks secure.

“It is not a brand new struggle, I wish to keep in mind that they’ll faucet into and help the organizations and those who have already been doing this motion work for many years and that there is already data of the way to have techniques and networks of help and we are able to care for one another,” mentioned Moon.