mdlbear: "Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness" - Terry Pratchett (flamethrower)

I'm maxed out on outrage again. This is getting to be my normal state these days.

CONTENT WARNING: abortion rights. If you think this might be triggery, click here, skip to the end, and move on. If you don't know what the US Supreme (kangaroo) Court did yesterday, please come out from under your rock.

This is the third time I've posted Cat Faber's song "Underground Rail" under Songs for Saturday. (The other two were in 2012 and 2019.) I'd like to stop, but it doesn't look as though that's going to be an option.

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[mp3] -- From Cat Faber's 2007 CD, I Promised Eli (Songbook [PDF])

[ogg] [mp3] -- From Lookingglass Folk's concert at Conflikt, 2012.

Notes & Links

== filk-related @ Songs for Saturday: Lookingglass Folk at Conflikt in Lookingglass Folk at Conflikt 2012 @ I Promised Eli Underground Rail [mp3] Songbook [PDF] @ mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Underground Rail 2012/02/26 @ mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Underground Rail Reprise 2019/05/18 == general @ Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion -- AP as expected @ Digital Security and Privacy Tips for Those Involved in Abortion Access | EFF @ Elevated Access (acelightning73) " volunteer pilots transport passengers at no cost to access the healthcare they need " @ Abortion funds: Everything you need to know @ The abortion pill: What is it and how to access it - Public Good News @ underground_rail | American women buying abortion pills from Third World countries

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mdlbear: "Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than to curse the darkness" - Terry Pratchett (flamethrower)

CONTENT WARNING: pro-choice activism, protest music, politics. If you think this might be triggery, please click here, skip to the end and move on. If you're offended by anything in here, you're probably not in my target audience.

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It's time to reprise [personal profile] catsittingstill's song "Underground Rail". Back in 2012 when I wrote the previous S4S post about it, and founded the underground_rail community here, it really looked as though it wouldn't actually be needed, at least not for its original purpose (there's still this thing called "abuse"). Right. That was back before the country I live in was taken over by the Trump and his gang of billionaires, jackbooted thugs, Russian agents, religious nut-jobs, and sociopaths. Before things like Alabama and Oklahoma. Ireland is worse, but maybe not for long.

This song is more relevant now than it was when Lookingglass Folk performed it in our 2012 concert. I wish to hell it wasn't.

[ogg] [mp3]

I thought about putting a bit of a history lesson under a cut. I'm old enough to remember the time before Roe v Wade. Apparently there are "coat-hanger deniers" (my phrase; feel free) out there who claim it wasn't as bad as people say. It was worse. But I'm too tired and too angry, and I don't have enough spoons for the amount of vitriol it would take to do it right. Later.

I'm not going to cut-tag the notes, either. They're a mixed bag.

Notes & links:

  @ What to Know About Self-Managed Abortion Care | Literary Hub (ysabetwordsmith)
  @ “Please, I Am Out of Options” - PopConnect
  @ The Return of the Coat Hanger Abortion
  @ Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time | Literary Hub (ysabetwordsmith)
    THROUGH
    DARKNESS TO LIGHT: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad [2002 - 2016] — Jeanine
    Michna-Bales | JMBales Photography    Project Photographs
  @ mdlbear | Songs for Saturday: Underground Rail
  @ mdlbear | Songs for Sunday, too: Lookingglass Folk at Conflikt 5
  @ Songs of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia
  @ underground_rail
     note that //undergroundrail.livejournal.com has been purged - that's okay
    -> set up undergroundrail.org;
       starting an s4s post, will signal boost on the community 

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