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Pro-Life on Campus in the Pacific Northwest
CBR took our GAP show on the road to the upper left-hand corner of the United States. And boy was it ever left!
Here is the first of a series of reports. The 7 schools we tackled:
- Boise State University in Idaho—6 out of 10 moonbats on our scale of craziness.
- Weber State University in Utah—4 moonbats
- Salt Lake Community College in Utah—5 moonbats
- Lane Community College in Oregon—7 moonbats
- The Evergreen State College in Washington State—7 moonbats
- Portland State University in Oregon—9 moonbats
- University of Oregon in Oregon—7 moonbats
There is a frenzied “blizzard” going on, even today, throughout the Pacific Northwest. Snowflakes are everywhere! Men in drag. Fascists hiding behind masks. Objects hurled at us from all directions — bloody tampons, seafoam green paint, and water bottles. A man with a large knife cut up one of our warning signs.
But as William Wilberforce said, they can never again say they did not know.
Throughout this trip, we displayed several of our ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) signs and challenged pro-aborts to defend their vicious attack on the African American family.
Check out the press coverage:
General
- Campuses Around Northwest Hit with Graphic Pro-Life Message
- Graphic images hit Northwest campuses in controversial pro-life effort
- What Is the Most Effective Pro-Life Witness?
Weber State University
Lane Community College
- Forum seeks input on graphic campus displays
- Students protest anti-abortion display at Lane Community College
- Anti-abortion group brings spectacle to campus
- LCC students hold peaceful protest over anti-abortion display on campus
- Anti-abortion group to build large, graphic display on EMU lawn
- LCC students hold peaceful protest over anti-abortion display on campus
Salt Lake Community College
Portland State University
University of Oregon
ALL Black Lives Matter at the DC Black History Museum
Since the US DOJ sided with CBR in our lawsuit against the Museum of African-American History and Culture, CBR has been displaying ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) signs outside the Museum on a regular basis.
Black adolescents constitute a high percentage of the Museum’s visitors, and their future children are most at risk for abortion. African-Americans are 11% of the population, but account for 37% of all abortions.
One member of our target audience, a boy, exclaimed, “Those look like baby arms!” He got it.
A girl said, as she took pictures with her phone, “Gross! Horrible! I can’t look away. I can’t stop looking at it.” She got it, also.
A group of five black boys stared nonstop. Several times, they walked away to do something else, but they always came back to the signs. One day, those boys will be men and they will be much less likely to kill their own children.
Inside the Museum, leftists are promoting a left-wing political agenda. Essentially, it is Black Lives Matter and Planned Parenthood hiding behind a picture of Martin Luther King. Outside, we are showing African Americans that their supposed benefactors are today killing black children at staggering rates and have suppressed the black vote more effectively than poll taxes, literacy tests, voter ID requirements, and Ku Klux Klan lynchings combined.
Victory: Pro-Life Speech Protected in Our Nation’s Capital
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBR) has won a major victory for pro-life speech Washington, D.C. From the American Freedom Law Center:
Victory: Pro-Life Speech Protected in Our Nation’s Capital
Washington, D.C. (August 31, 2017) — Late yesterday, the American Freedom Law Center, a national public interest law firm, resolved an important First Amendment case against the federal government in favor of several pro-life demonstrators who were prevented from expressing their pro-life message outside of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, Inc. (CBR), a California-based pro-life organization, its executive director, Gregg Cunningham, Reverend Clenard H. Childress, Jr., an African American pastor of a black church in the Newark, New Jersey area, and Jacqueline Hawkins, an African American woman who is the director of minority outreach for CBR. Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins direct the NMAAC project, which was developed by CBR.
The NMAAHC project involves the use of hand-held, photo-mural exhibits that demonstrate the devastation of abortion’s consequences on the African American community. This project also includes the distribution of literature. A principal goal of the project is to raise awareness of the black genocide that is being perpetrated through abortion.
This past February, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins initiated the NMAAHC project by peacefully standing outside of the museum entrance on the public sidewalk adjacent to Madison Drive with one of the project signs. Mr. Cunningham was present as well.
Shortly after they arrived, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins were confronted by an NMAAHC official and several armed, uniformed police officers from the Office of Protection Services (OPS) who told them that they could not stand outside the museum with their sign. Reverend Childress responded that this is a public sidewalk. The senior OPS officer warned Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins that if they did not move to a remote location across the street, then he and his fellow officers would physically move them. The OPS officer also confirmed that if they did not move, they would be subject to arrest. Rather than face arrest or physical force, Pastor Childress and Ms. Hawkins ceased their First Amendment activity and moved per the officer’s order.
This past June, AFLC filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. against NMAAHC, OPS, and several federal officials. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, AFLC attorneys were contacted by an attorney from the Department of Justice who confirmed our clients’ First Amendment rights and who stated that the federal government wanted to settle the case on terms favorable to our clients.
Yesterday, the parties filed a stipulated dismissal in which the federal government formally acknowledged “that the public sidewalks forming the perimeter of the National Museum of African American History and Culture are available for First Amendment activity” and agreed to pay AFLC its attorneys’ fees incurred for having to file the complaint.
Robert Muise, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, commented:
“There was no question that our clients had a clear right under the First Amendment to engage in their peaceful, non-obstructive free speech activity on the public sidewalks outside of this museum. The government was wrong for denying our clients that right, and they knew it. Fortunately, we were able to correct this injustice by filing a federal lawsuit. Otherwise, there would have been no such acknowledgment and our clients would have been deprived of a fundamental liberty guaranteed by our Constitution.”
David Yerushalmi, AFLC Co-Founder and Senior Counsel, added:
“In addition to being a gross violation of our clients’ fundamental rights, the actions of the museum officials and their armed security demonstrate the hypocrisy of the left. Progressives claim to be for diversity and tolerance, but if you don’t march in lockstep with their narrative, they use force and the threat of force to shut you down. Here, we were able to use the federal courts to turn that narrative on its head.”
International reactions to ALL Black Lives Matter
by Patti Shanley
The international population at Purdue is one of the largest at any university in this country. The students who saw GAP will return home with more than a degree.
Sad Song. Song, from China, struggled to put into English her reaction to the horrifying pictures of tiny, aborted babies.
“Is real?” she wanted to know. She knew about forced abortion in her homeland, but this was the first time she had actually seen abortion. She experienced that crucial moment of cognitive dissonance when truth shatters through a long-held belief. With her head shaking, fighting back tears, all she could say was “No! No! No!”
Unimaginable and unbelievable. “This is not legal in this country, yes?” Two international students were having a hard time believing abortion is available on demand, without any reason. He could only stare, and she was almost in tears. I explained the importance of graphic images in reform movements, and that we want people to see the horror of abortion so they will never accept injustice as a choice. The students had heard of forced abortions in their own country, but could not imagine voluntary abortions. When I told them there were about 3,300 each day, the young woman cried out in disbelief.
Disgusting. Reactions from other international students were similar, and after three days at Purdue, it was painfully clear that this country is in trouble. Although students from other countries were shocked and disgusted at seeing the truth, American students and faculty called us “disgusting” for showing the truth. They tried to defend decapitating and dismembering tiny, innocent human beings. “You people are disgusting,” one faculty member hissed as she walked by. No, abortion is disgusting.
Patti Shanley is a CBR partner and volunteer from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Diary of a black pro-lifer: Loud activists and quiet sponges
by Jacqueline Hawkins
There seem to be two groups of black students who come to see our ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) signs, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and the I’m-just-here-to-get-my-education (IJHTGME) students.
The BLM activist students lose their minds, but the IJHTGME students absorb ABLM like parched sponges.
When BLM students see us use their slogans to expose their own hypocrisy, they blow a gasket. At Purdue University, the BLM students (mostly women) pulled out all the stops, trading in their dignity to become out-of-control, stereotypical caricatures of black women. There was wild neck rolling, finger wagging, fist shaking, and nearly unintelligible shrieking and cursing.
According to one of the BLM students, only white people could be racist because they had power; black people had no power so they couldn’t be racist, only prejudiced. Armed with their own delusions, they spewed putrid racism for all their peers to see (and cower from).
BLM students are used to behaving like this with anyone and everyone. They do this because it usually works to get them their way. But it doesn’t work with us, and before long, they tire out. The shrill screaming and wild body movements gets exhausting. They lose their voices. They get cricks in their necks.
But despite all the theatrics, the giant display is still there, exposing abortion and the damage it does to Black community.
So they disappear, and in their places come the quiet sponges, many of whom readily accept the comparison of abortion with Jim Crow and slavery. They are shocked to learn about the racist origins of Planned Parenthood and the way PP is suppressing the Black vote. Not everyone is convinced, but most are willing to listen with open minds, and for that we praise God.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
ALL Black Lives Matter at the Ohio State University Law School
by Jacqueline Hawkins
We hoped the Ohio State University (OSU) Law School Dean would pick on somebody his own size. He dared not do it. Instead, he cowered in his office.
It all started when OSU law student (and Miss Ohio USA 2014) Madison Gesiotto wrote a compelling article in the Washington Times entitled, “The number one killer of black Americans.” That killer is abortion.
To some of her peers, this was more than they could tolerate. A few black students were enraged that a white woman would write about black abortion. A white student threatened violence. Concerned about her safety, Gesiotto went to OSU law school deans to seek counsel and help in addressing the potential danger.
But instead of helping her, the deans persecuted her for expressing disfavored opinions, even making thinly-veiled threats to sabotage her career. Read more here and here.
The OSU Law School may not care to defend Gesiotto, but CBR will. To push back against bullying, CBR took its ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) campaign to the Law School’s front door. ABLM is a variation of of our Genocide Awareness Project that focuses on abortion in the Black community.
The ABLM display doesn’t pull punches. One panel features a Confederate battle flag, along with the question, “Which is more hateful, evil done to us, or evil done by us?” Another explains how Planned Parenthood suppresses the Black vote more than the KKK ever could.
Some black students did not want Gesiotto to speak because of her skin color, but we took that canard off the table by teaming with Black pro-lifers from the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN).
We invited deans and members of the Black Law Students Association to come out and defend their threats and bullying. Of course, none of them showed up.
It was a great day. Gesiotto later told us that our presence had made an important contribution to free speech at OSU. Students who had been neutral on abortion (which is another way of being pro-abortion) were now reconsidering their view. Furthermore, pro-life students who had been afraid to express disfavored viewpoints were now finding the courage to speak up.
This is a lesson for all of us. The best response to bullies is to stand up to them.
BTW, don’t let anyone tell you that pro-lifers are just a bunch of old white men and brainwashed housewives. We come in all flavors. One of us is an ice-skating law student that moonlights as a beauty queen and writes for the Washington Times!
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
ALL Black Lives Matter at Purdue University
by Jacqueline Hawkins
A group of scrappy, industrious pro-life students did their own ALL Black Lives Matter campaign at Purdue. In February, the Purdue Students for Life (PSFL) posted fliers that focused on abortion in the black community. Their intentions were in the right place, but their fliers stated opinions instead of facts (though their message was completely truthful). There was an intense and vicious backlash from radical elements of the student body. There were even Facebook attacks from a Purdue staff member.
We went to Purdue to convey three messages:
- ALL Black Lives Matter, including every preborn child.
- Every abortion is a savage act of violence.
- Leftist pro-aborts don’t get to decide who may speak, nor what may be said.
Pastor Clenard Childress and his Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) helped us create a racially diverse team, ready and willing to take on all comers.
The first day was filled with turmoil. Several BLM activists resorted to hysteric theatrics to make their point, only to make themselves look like ridiculous caricatures. It was hard for them to play the race card with so many blacks behind the barricades. On the second day, the BLM activists disappeared, but a small group of LGBTWXYZers protested. Or maybe they were LGBTTQQFAGPBDSMers — not too sure about that. Anyway, …
They laid out blankets on the grass and lounged about the whole day. No chants, no jeers, just lounging. By the third day, most of the crazies had disappeared. Except for one angry, loud student, we were visited by a diverse array of inquisitive, thoughtful, and calm students.
The PSFL were amazing. There were smart, bold, and strong. They had been knocked down, but instead of cowering in the closet, they regrouped, strategized, and came out swinging for the sake of children — specifically black children. They worked together as a team and welcomed collaboration. At CBR, we oppose human cloning, but in the case of PSFL, we might make an exception!
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
ALL Black Lives Matter at the University of Missouri
by Jacqueline Hawkins
The University of Missouri (Mizzou) was recently the epicenter of campus unrest nationally, primarily among the African American student population, but also including others who have felt offended for whatever reason. The protests at Mizzou were an extension of the “Black Lives Matter” campaign that erupted after a law enforcement officer in Ferguson, Missouri was not indicted for defending his own life against a violent criminal.
At Mizzou, there were unproven allegations of racial slurs. There were complaints about so-called “microagressions,” which may be loosely defined as any statement whatsoever that could somehow be twisted as potentially offensive to anybody. Campus administrators were excoriated for failing to respond quickly and decisively enough to these offenses. They failed, for example, to set up “safe places” for blacks only (a policy once known as segregation). As a result, the Mizzou President and Chancellor were both forced to step down.
Many conservatives tried to keep a low profile, for fear of being accused of who-knows-what, but not CBR. We teamed with the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), an African American pro-life ministry, to remind students at Mizzou that ALL black lives matter, not just the particular black lives that fit a certain leftist narrative.
Our “ALL Black Lives Matter” campaign, a derivative of our Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), shows students that while they have been standing against injustices that may or may not exist, a huge, can’t-deny-it’s-there injustice has been going on right under their noses — most of the time, with their explicit approval.
On the third day, a sizable protest took place, with students displaying “I stand with Planned Parenthood” posters and engaging in clownish behavior typical of college pro-abort protesters.
Media Coverage:
- Mizzou students asked to fill out Bias Reports because of ‘offensive’ pro-life display
- MU anti-abortion group disagrees with Genocide Awareness Project’s tactics
- Student organizations speak out against anti-abortion graphic images outside Student Center
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
All Black Lives Matter at Fayetteville State University
We need the Black community. Without them, we cannot win. And who better to advocate against pervasive injustice?
That is why we were thrilled when the Life Education And Resource Center (LEARN) brought our Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) to Fayetteville State University (FSU) in North Carolina, one of many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) who need to see that all Black lives matter. It was our first visit to this school.
See CBR’s new All Black Lives Matter signs and press release here.
“I saw so many being enlightened, some weeping, and others willfully joining our opening and closing prayers. The dialogue was transforming.” (LEARN National Director Johnny Hunter)
One group of students said they even watched part of Maafa 21 in class, because of our presence on campus.
Media Coverage:
- “All Black Life Matters” project visits HSBC Fayetteville State College students
- LifeTalk: Johnny Hunter interviewed on Life Dynamics
- Life Dynamics: Students react to All Black Lives Matter abortion display
“CBR has always been burdened by the fact that the abortion rate in the African American community remains tragically high. Black women account for 36% of all abortions despite constituting only 11% of the female population.” (CBR Executive Director Gregg Cunningham)
For more details, read this letter from Gregg Cunningham explaining the All Black Lives Matter Initiative.
Kudos to CBR Maryland Operations Director Samantha Linnemann for making this event possible by bringing equipment and personnel to Fayetteville and managing the site.