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Submitted by Keylee on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 12:21pm.
Jun 28 2006 - 5:00pm
Jun 28 2006 - 7:01pm
Okay Civil-liberty Fans! The people have gathered and the people have started to take ACTION against the Stormans and their right-wing conservative non-compliance with the needs and desires of the people of this community!

Heres the rub:

OlyplanB will be picketing Ralphs on Weds- Fri, June 28th-30th from 5-7pm in the parking lot of Ralphs thriftway. We will have flyers, handbills regarding what Plan-B is, petitions as well as pledge cards! We are asking all of our friends and neighbors to pledge to boycott Ralphs and bayview for the Month of July.

We need: Folks to distribute Flyers, Folks to picket, Folks to GIRL/boycott, sign-makers, button makers, noise makers and change makers to join us in our efforts! We will also be flyering Bayview and Ralphs at noon on those days.

Other actions:
Letters to the editor, Letters to Kevin Stormans, Phone calls to Stormans

Complaint Process:

If you would like information on how to receive a prescription for Plan-B in order to file a legal complaint with the Pharmacy board, please Contact Janet or Keylee at:

olyplanb@hotmail.com or minnaloushe2@gmail.com

Please repost this to your friends list as well as to anyother lists you think might be interested and or enraged!

Keylee
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Access to Plan B isn't a

Access to Plan B isn't a civil liberty.

At least not in the "fundamental individual right"-kind of way.

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

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Yes - actually it is a civil right

Access to medical care and control over your own body are both civil liberties (freedoms) which most of us agree we should have. That they are not enumerated is true, but that they are implied has been upheld by Roe v Wade (privacy, the right of ownership over your self and your body) and the right to access medicine has been recognized as part of the civil rights legislation and case law around nondiscrimination. Those are pretty fundamental rights for people - I think most would agree. That someone who opposes abortion would make a medical treatment which prevents it less available for women is simply astounding. Unless you recognize that the opposition to abortion is one face of patriarchy, the ownership of women's lives by others.
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TFI = splitting hairs

Plan-b is legal. Ralph's will not provide it to people based on values they have that a number of people in this community don't share. People want access to it. Whether you agree it's a civil liberty or not doesn't really matter, does it? People want it and are putting pressure on Stormans to provide it. This is a free market and people are excercising their right to boycott business practices that they don't agree with. I wouldn't imagine you would be opposed to this.
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I'm not sure that I consider

I'm not sure that I consider it a civil liberty either, but I'm still going to support freedom to choose in this country and do my grocery shopping elsewhere. Are people staying away from Bayview also?
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I don't think Bayview has a

I don't think Bayview has a pharmacy. But since they're owned by the same folks, and the point of a 'cott is to cause economic impact, I suppose Bayview would be included. Maybe I should have let the organizers answer this one, come to think of it...
^@^
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Well that was my thought too

Well that was my thought too Meta. I don't think I'm going to shop at either for awhile.
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I, for one, will eschew all Storman's businesses

Kevin Storman has the right to try to score points with his conservative overlords.  No doubt it is no sacrifice for him not to stock planB, I'm sure it is no big money maker for any pharmacy.  But let us see if he's willing to put his money where his mouth is. If Storman's thinks they can get by without our business than i think that is great.  I suspect, however, that a great many that support the rights of women have shopped in his businesses before.  If they stop shopping there it will hurt Storman's.  I wonder if Storman's conservative overlords will help pick up the loss of revenue.  I am wondering, however, if it OK to go into the Dancing Goats at the Bayview, or would that be helping out Storman's.

"I would make it impossible for the covetous and avaricious to utterly impoverish the poor. The rich can take care of themselves."
^@^
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Yeah, we're boycotting Bayview, too

And Daniels' House of Prayer, another Stormans-owned corporation.  That will be a real sacrifice for me.

BTW, my email is PlanBOly@hotmail.com or jwblanding@earthlink.net.  Please contact me if you want to be added to our email list.  And we'd love it if you'd join us on the picket line!  We're starting Wednesday, June 28th at 5 p.m.  We're currently planning to distribute flyers at Bayview, but we're focusing the picket on Ralph's. 
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Post-picket Happy Hour

Pit Kwiezinski, the owner of the Brotherhood, has very kindly offered to give first-night picketers (Wednesday, June 28, 5-7 p.m.) happy hour prices all night, since we'll be on the picket line during happy hour.  (He's also helping us with expenses.  Thanks Pit!) 
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WoooHooo!

SmileThat is great!
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Pit and I are getting married.

I love that guy.  He is the kind of business owner we really need downtown.
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Isn't he cool?

He has been very supportive, and has promised to spread the word about the boycott.  If we could just get everybody smoking on the Brotherhood patio up to the Ralph's picket line, maybe we'd see Stormans waving the white flag. 
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Oh yeah? Well, this one

Oh yeah? Well, this one time... Pit told me I was "famous, in [my] own little way..." it was really cool.
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It looks like you folks made

It looks like you folks made the news on KOMO.
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Washington Administrative Code

From the Washington Administrative Code:

WAC 246-869-150

Physical standards for pharmacies - Adequate stock.

(1) The pharmacy must maintain at all times a representative assortment of drugs in order to meet the pharmaceutical needs of its patients.

What part of this law does Stromans not understand?  I will not be shopping at Thriftway in the future and now am glad that I have rarely done so in the past!  If he is not concerned with the health of women then I am not concerned for his business.
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