Our interview with Women's March National Organizing Director Kate Shapiro, who says that 560 women's marches for reproductive freedoms and other legal rights are set for cities nationwide on October 2, 2021, including in cities in Texas, and in major American cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, and Cleveland....U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the recent Texas law that outlaws abortion after six weeks of pregnancy is a state law that "all Americans can fear"....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders
Above picture: Thousands gather in Washington, D.C. for the first inaugural Women's March on Jan 21, 2017, a nationwide protest and the largest single-day protest in American history. Led by Women's March National out of Washington, D.C., women and theirs supporters nationwide will rally and march on Oct 2, 2021 for reproductive rights for women, and Civil Rights. Some 560 marches cities countrywide are slated for Oct 2., national organizers said. 
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM, WASHINGTON, D.C.- There will be some 560 women's marches in cities nationwide on Oct. 2, 2021 behind the recent state law in Texas that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and similar legislation proposed in six other states since that time by Republican state lawmakers, Women' s March National Organizing Director Kate Shapiro said in a one-on-one interview with Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leader.
The nationwide march comes just two days before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in an abortion rights case out of Jackson, Mississippi.
"All of us know what's at stake here and what this also tells us is that the right wing and Christian right are scared of our power," said Shapiro, 38, the head organizer for Women's March National since 2020 who will attend the march at Freedom Plaza in D.C. on Oct. 2. "They want to control women's bodies as a means to exert control."
Shapiro said that on Saturday "we will register our defiance at the legislation in Texas as well as the Supreme Court potentially overturning one of the most popular public policies around, and that would be Roe v. Wade."
Roe v Wade is the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide, a decision that is under attack federally and via actions by Republican-dominated legislatures nationwide to strip women of their constitutional rights to have a say it what goes on with their bodies.
As a grassroots organizer, trainer, popular educator and strategist who has worked in the service of U.S. Southern freedom movements for gender, sexual, racial and economic justice for the last 12 years or more, Shapiro said that major marches next Saturday will be in the Texas cities of Houston, San Antonio, Brownsville and El Paso, in D.C., and in major cities across the country such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Detroit, and Cleveland. In Ohio, major marches will be held in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Youngstown (Editors note: To find a march in a particular city on Oct 2 go to Womensmarch.com. Cleveland's event will begin with a noon rally on Sat., Oct. 2 at Market Square Park across from the West Side Market at the corner of W 25th Street and Lorain Avenue. It will be followed by a 1:30 pm march (Contact. Tel (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com). CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE FOR THE UPCOMING RALLY AND MARCH IN CLEVELAND, OHIO ON OCTOBER 2, 2021
Asked whether she believes that the Biden administration has risen to the occasion to fight with women for their reproductive freedoms and constitutional and statutory rights, Shapiro said that Women's March National is pleased that the Biden administration has filed suit against the new Texas law and its six week ban on abortion.
That suit was filed earlier this month in Texas with the Biden administration saying the state law at issue is "clearly unconstitutional." In fact, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the law, which bans abortion after a month and a half of pregnancy even in cases of incest and rape, is one that "all Americans should fear."
Women's March and over 90 other organizations, including Planned Parenthood and Naral Pro Choice, are organizing a national call to mobilize on Oct. 2 and "defend our reproductive rights," organizers said.
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By Kathy Wray Coleman. Coleman is a former public school biology teacher and a Black political and investigative reporter who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio
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