iNFoPiG<p>04-15-2023 - It was another rainy Saturday but many turned out in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Seattle</span></a> for the @rise4abortionrightsseattle (Insta) protest event. </p><p>Many spoke passionately about body and reproductive autonomy. </p><p>A local business owner from Capitol Hill, the Ritual @ritualpnw (Insta) delivered an excellent, detailed speech calling out large <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PNW</span></a> companies ( <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Boeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Boeing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> etc) for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republican</span></a> campaign contributions, lack of paying taxes, and consistently exploiting and underpaying workers. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Women</span></a> were called upon and delivered in essential employment fields (medical, educational), carrying the U.S. through a pandemic and their reward was stripping their rights away. Also part of the speech was calling out <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democrats</span></a> with their continued lack of action. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abortionrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>abortionrights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitolhillseattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>capitolhillseattle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeattleWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SeattleWA</span></a></p>