1991-Ron and Nancy Dedicate the Reagan Library, Protesters speak the truth about them....
500 Protesters Have a Lower View of Event : Demonstrations: They are kept behind police barricades at the bottom of the hill. Activists assail policies on civil rights, AIDS and Croatia.
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"We're here to remind people who Ronald Reagan really is," said Simi Valley resident Mary Baird, one of about a dozen National Organization for Women members there. "We feel that place up there is more of a fantasyland than a library."
Baird, holding a "Keep Abortion Legal" sign, added: "People are forgetting what has happened to us in the past decade. Women are losing their reproductive rights. Minorities are losing their civil rights. All those things started with Reagan."
About 200 gay rights protesters from ACT UP/LA and Queer Nation arrived blowing whistles and carrying cardboard tombstones and foam skulls to symbolize those who have died of AIDS. They said Reagan showed little concern or leadership when AIDS surfaced in the early 1980s.
George Dillon, who drove from Santa Barbara to take part, said that 120,000 people have died from the disease, and "it took him 5 1/2 years just to say the word AIDS . He was more concerned with the Evil Empire than his own people."
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-05/news/mn-1129_1_civil-rights-issues
It's worth noting that women and women's rights were very much a part of the anti Reagan times. They say 'people are forgetting, we're here to remind. It seems to me that people have forgotten, that they've all gone up the hill with Ron and Nancy in fantasyland.
This event was one year to the day before the election of Bill Clinton. We were already reminding people, they were already glossing that great evil.
They need reminding still.
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