By Debra Sweet 
Monday, May 31 (Memorial Day) is the first anniversary of the killing of Dr. George Tiller, in Wichita. I wrote then George Tiller, A Hero for People Who Care About the Humanity of Women in great outrage, and I’m still feeling it.
In a message to World Can’t Wait supporters especially interested in protecting abortion rights I wrote: "Access to abortion is as limited now as it’s ever been since 1973, with new laws in 10 states being considered, and these passed:
* Nebraska has criminalized abortions after 20 weeks — that’s before viability! This law, which is in direct violation of Roe, is designed only to stop Dr. Leroy Carhart from working in Nebraka. It will be challenged in the courts — but it could also be the basis for the Roberts Supreme Court to overturn Roe.
* In Oklahoma, women seeking abortions will now be forced to undergo an intrusive vaginal-probe ultrasound while viewing the fetus and hearing it described in detail.
* Arizona now prohibits all private and public health insurance plans from covering abortion care — depriving thousands and thousands of women of the insurance coverage they currently have.
(thanks to Terry O’Neill, President of NOW, for this information)."
Amanda Robb writes in MS magazine this month, Not A Lone Wolf – Scott Roeder is now serving a life term for murdering abortion doctor George Tiller. But did he really act alone?.
"George Tiller would tell us to never back down, to never stop telling the truth, to never forget the individual woman who walks in the door of a clinic in need of help in ending a pregnancy she is not prepared for. And he knew that this is about us. All of us. And it is about your mothers and wives, your sisters and daughters and granddaughters and best friends…" from Dr. Susan Wicklund: For George Tiller – Never Back Down, Never Stop Telling the Truth for Women
Rob Kall, editor of OpEd News interviewed me this week on a 30 minute podcast. Thanks for all your good wishes. We look forward to more protest of the Army Experience Center.
The Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund asks for signatures on a statement to Overturn the Ban of Revolution newspaper from prisons in California:
"In February 2010, Revolution newspaper was banned at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and Chuckawalla State Prison. Announcing this ban, prison authorities stated, "The Publication Revolution is ban (sic) from all institutions within the state of California. Please remove all inmates from your mailing list", and further alleged that, "your periodical newspaper has been determined to be contraband because periodical newspaper has been determined to be contraband because it ‘promotes disruption and overthrow of the government and incites violence to do so’… ", and further, that the newspaper "incites racial violence and promotes governmental anarchy."
"In February 2010, Revolution newspaper was banned at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison and Chuckawalla State Prison. Announcing this ban, prison authorities stated, "The Publication Revolution is ban (sic) from all institutions within the state of California. Please remove all inmates from your mailing list", and further alleged that, "your periodical newspaper has been determined to be contraband because periodical newspaper has been determined to be contraband because it ‘promotes disruption and overthrow of the government and incites violence to do so’… ", and further, that the newspaper "incites racial violence and promotes governmental anarchy."
The banning of any newspaper, especially alternative voices that challenge and expose the status quo, is chilling and intolerable. It is even more so when censorship is done by officials and agencies of the government. We see the banning of Revolution newspaper from California’s prisons (or any other prison) as an immediate and serious threat to freedom of speech and of the press. We strongly oppose the attempt by prison authorities to enforce "mind control" and conformity with officially-approved thinking…" Sign at Overturn the ban petition
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