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Dan Wenzel and Liza Shceidler hold graphic abortion signs along Ridge Avenue in Evanston, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League held our June “Face the Truth” Day in the Chicago suburbs of Evanston and Lincolnwood yesterday, Wednesday, June 16. Evanston is home to Northwestern University and, like many university towns, is quite liberal. We encounter some of the fiercest opposition to “Face the Truth” there.
In light of that, I and the rest of the crew and volunteers were pleasantly surprised to see a great deal of approving support from passersby. There was certainly the expected honks and obscene gestures, many waved, gave thumbs up and even stopped to tell us how much they appreciated our work and that they knew it needed to be done.
Among the more than twenty volunteers who held pictures of aborted babies at the intersection of Davis and Ridge were two students who pray and sidewalk counsel at the Planned Parenthood facility downtown Chicago. They heard about the Truth Day from some of their fellow counselors and decided to join in.
Chris Iverson and other volunteers hold graphic abortion signs along McCormick Blvd. in Lincolnwood, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
In contrast to the honking and yelling in Evanston, several volunteers remarked to me about the great number of people they saw slow down to really look at the pictures with eyes wide open in horror. Our signs lined both sides of McCormick Boulevard with a bike path on one side of the road and a mall on the other. This made for a lot of foot traffic as well as motor traffic passing by the display.
It was an extremely successful Truth Day and afterward, League staff headed to our storage locker to wash and repair all our Face the Truth signs, a yearly ritual before our 10-day “Face the Truth” Tour in July. Be sure to join us for one of the sites all across northeast Illinois if you can. We’ll be joined this year by a priest from Fr. Frank Pavone’s Priests for Life as well as hundreds of pro-lifers from across the midwest.
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Hey Eric,
It’s great to see you guys becoming active on Twitter…The opportunities to reach tons of people, on twitter, is only limited by our imaginations…I would encourage you to add #prolife & #prochoice hashtags to your tweets to reach the activists on twitter…We tend to hang out on those pages…God bless you as you stand for life!
Posted June 17, 2010 at 11:38 am
Mary,
Thanks for the kind words. We’ve found social media very helpful in keeping people tied in to the work we’re doing, especially when they can’t join us in person.
Thanks as well for the suggestions. We’ll incorporate those ideas next time we’re out on the streets!
Posted June 18, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I have another twitter suggestion. Improve your following by following pro-life people first. Suggestion to start: check out the people that follow @JillStanek and/or @frfrankpavone and follow the pro-life ones. You have 144 followers, follow them back! Once the twitter community knows you’re there, you’ll be able to get the word out to a larger number of people.
Posted June 21, 2010 at 7:37 pm