From change.org

by Alex DiBranco

Published December 10, 2009 @ 12:54PM PT

Oh, Berkeley. You’ve still got it.

I admit, I doubted. Sure, you’re a revolutionary in delicious crunchy food and the wearing of comfortable Birkenstocks. And there have been some choice anti-war protests. But where was the spark of your radical 60s heyday? In eight years of George Bush, I expected more of you.

Then this, and my faith is restored: “The city of Berkeley mailed coat hangers to 20 members of Congress on Wednesday.”

Yes, the city of Berkeley. Berkeley’s City Council sat down, debated, and voted (7-1) to protest the anti-choice Stupak-Pitts amendment by dropping the symbol of desperate back-alley abortions off at the post office. Intended as a stark reminder of the danger in infringing on women’s reproductive rights, the hangers were sent to members of the House who, despite a previous pro-choice record, supported the dastardly amendment. (The council figured it would be a waste of perfectly good coat hangers to target hardliner anti-abortion representatives.)  Source  Article