Get ready North American birthies because this Sunday you’ll be seeing the Mother of all Rallies coming to you from Australia. The government of Australia has had the temerity to threaten home birth choices and Australian families and midwifery supporters are coming out to the Parliament House in Canberra with a show of force that will wake up the world.
The rally will be Monday in Australia but the corresponding times in North America are:
Pacific Daylight: 6:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept 6/09
Mountain Daylight: 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept 6/09
Central Daylight: 8:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept 6/09
Eastern Daylight: 9:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept 6/09
Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00 a.m., Monday Sept 7, 2009
Please light a candle or otherwise hold vigil for this historic event. If you want to get more information visit the Australian alternative birth website: www.joyousbirth.info
What’s at issue: A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHERE, WHEN AND WITH WHOM SHE WILL GIVE BIRTH.
Thank you! Could you possibly email me pics of candles with a place name attached? I’m doing another montage atm. 🙂
Love,
J xx
janet (at) joyousbirth (dot) info
mark them Rally Montage
Thank-you Gloria, just as I felt connected to all the birthing women who had gone before me during labour, I will feel connected to birth activists all over the world come Monday morning 🙂 And will try very hard to twitter it for you 😉
Here’s the live Tweets from the rally from Sarah:
A woman has gone into labour at the protest
Amber is now performing song for nicola Roxon. . .
Apparently a police blockade is keeping more people from joining the thousands here
I saw a dad wearing a shirt saying my vagina my choice. Awesome
At parliament house it is packed! Can’t hear much but banners