Pro-Choice Activists Played the Long Game for Impressive Takeover of Forced-Birth Fundraiser

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https://www.themarysue.com/pro-choice-activists-played-the-long-game-for-impressive-takeover-of-forced-birth-fundraiser

On occasion, grassroots organizers and protesters pull off something truly spectacular. That’s what happened in late July when pro-choice protesters from Resist STL crashed the annual benefit dinner for “Coalition for Life St. Louis,” an anti-abortion group seeking to end all abortion in Missouri.


On July 27, Resist STL disrupted anti-abortion group Coalition for Life’s annual benefit dinner in St Louis. Activists took the stage during the keynote address and created “gayaos” (gay chaos) by chanting, noisemaking, dancing, and distributing information about reproductive justice. All protestors were escorted jubilantly from the building.

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What’s most interesting about this protest is that the resistance members managed to get into the event by volunteering for the organization. It had the triple effect of 1) allowing protestors access to the event, 2) sowing chaos amongst the benefit dinner organizers, and 3) destabilizing the organization’s trust in all its volunteers.

It got to the point where all of the volunteers were asked to leave because Coalition for Life couldn’t tell who was and was not a protester. The disguises worked so well that one covert Resist STL member even convinced the police that Coalition for Life didn’t want to press charges.

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1. ⭐

Ha! Bookmarked.

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2. Hey, whatever works.

Reminds me of the years of what I remember as the “creative nonviolence” protests against the Vietnam War and for civil rights back in the 1960s.