More than 4,000 people attended the Planned Parenthood rally in Anchorage this past Saturday, making it the largest abortion rights event the nonprofit has ever held. Events in Fairbanks, Homer and Juneau saw around 1,000, 400 and 200 people, respectively.
Around 200 people attend the abortion rights rally at Marine Park in Juneau on July 9, 2022.
“It was just so wonderful to see so many people so actively ready to take action and be in this fight together and learn from each other,” said Rose O’Hara-Jolley, state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates Alaska. O’Hara-Jolley said several community, statewide and regional organizations participated in the Saturday events, including ACLU of Alaska, Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association , Native Movement, Northwest Abortion Access Fund, and domestic violence and abuse organizations.
At a ‘smash the plate-riarchy’ booth in Anchorage, O’Hara-Jolley said participants safely smashed hundreds of plates that were brought to the event or provided by Planned Parenthood. Working with Native Movement, the plate pieces will be turned into mosaics.
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