Antifa threats force Washington women's rights protest away from Olympia capitol building

A women’s rights group was forced to move its rally from the steps of the Washington State Capital building on Sunday in response to threats of violence from Antifa.

The Tacoma-based Sovereign Women Speak (SWS) was scheduled to host a permitted "Speakers Corner" event on the steps of the Washington State Capitol, during which "women will assert their right to discuss the harms done to women and children by 'gender identity,' the specious contention that humans can change sex or that sex is irrelevant."

Antifa social media accounts and accounts affiliated with the group posted threats against the SWS leading up to the event. One of these threats, which came from Antifa member Isabel Rosa Araujo according to The Post Millennial editor-at-large Andy Ngo, stated, "you cancelled your TERF rally before they had a chance to concave your head in. Cope and seethe."

Activists even posted pictures of the inside of the homes of one of the speakers scheduled to appear at the event.

Candace Mercer, who was set to attend the event, posted a photo of Antifa dressed in black bloc and wrote on Twitter, "This is what the women in Olympia WA were facing when they tried to have a free speech event. This is full battle gear vs around 20 mostly older, some disabled women. This is the state of dystopia the PNW has become. Last night they posted pictures of inside my house as a threat."

SWS wrote on Twitter, "Sovereign Women Speak is a women‘s rights organization that is committed to nonviolence. It has come to our attention that two factions of male supremacists- militias and antifa are planning to interfere with today’s speakers corner. To prevent our event from being used for masculinist violence and to protect our allies and the public from harm we are canceling the Speakers Corner at the Capitol and moving location."

According to video posted to the group's Facebook, the event successfully continued on at a separate location.

SWS responded to reports that the event was canceled on Twitter, stating, "We are not canceled. We made a choice to move the event. It was still held, just at a location where male domination was not a factor. It’s called plan B. It is not for men to decide for us when and where we will be heard."

 

Mercer noted in another post that the protestors had been wearing "gas masks which indicates they planned to use chemical weapons on us. We were 24 older women that are so dangerous they dressed for war."

Kara Dansky, attorney, author, and national spokesperson on the issue of women’s sex-based rights, was scheduled to speak at the event on various issues facing women in today's society.

Earlier this month in Washington DC, Dansky spoke alongside UK activist Kellie-Jay Keen, AKA Posie Parker during a permitted Let Women Speak tour stop at the Lincoln Memorial. Protestors made noise with alarms, and police eventually relocated the group to a different area for the protection of the participants. One protestor was arrested.

Dansky said in response to the incident on her Substack, "These people really want to shut women up. There’s a reason for that. They know that if the general public can hear what we have to say, they will lose."

Last month in Tacoma, Washington, speakers, including those from SWS, were disrupted and one was physically assaulted during an event with Keen who has been on a speaking tour of the US while making her documentary, "Standing For Women."

At the Tacoma event, trans rights activists threw SWS founder April Morrow to the ground, injuring her, and stole her smartphone. One of the assailants was arrested.

A similar incident occurred in August in Port Townsend, Washington at another Speakers Corner held in support of Julie Jaman, who was banned from her local YMCA after expressing discomfort with a biological male being in the female locker rooms.

Keen was forced to cancel her stop in Portland after threats of violence were made by Antifa members in the area and told The Post Millennial at the time, "I was alerted to multiple threats of violence against me as well as a local principal lying and saying I had links to the far right. I am relatively well known by name and sight to these violent, unhinged ideologues. The police have confirmed that they are too short-staffed to be reliable."