Johanna Dasteel at LifeSiteNews has a second more extensive article about the Walk for Life West Coast. Some excerpts, but read the whole thing: Pope Francis’ representative: West Coast walk for Life a ‘prophetic’ witness for the unborn SAN FRANCISCO, January 28, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A media blackout could not not stop theWalk for Life West Coast from attracting the largest crowds that the San Francisco event has yet to...

That was the comment made last year by Walk for Life West Coast co-chair Dolores Meehan in response to complaints by people who were caught unaware in the traffic as a result of the magnitude of the Walk for Life West Coast. We sympathize, of course, with people caught in traffic. But it immediately raises the question: why were they unaware? They were (and are–people had similar problems on Saturday) unaware because San Francisco’s...

Thank you, Walk for Life West coast participants! It looks like our our twitter campaign to end the media blackout against the Walk for Life West Coast has borne some fruit. The Associated Press had a story about the Walk both before the event and after the event. The story following the Walk was fair and balanced. Excerpt: “A massive and diverse crowd of protesters rallied in front of City Hall before marching down Market Street to...

Walk For Life West Coast asks for help to end the media blackout Joanna Dasteel SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Walk for Life West Coast is demanding to be seen and heard and in the mainstream media. This year, Walk for Life organizers are asking participants to take to the “twittersphere” to “end the media blackout.” Saturday will be the tenth year pro-lifers have taken to the streets of San Francisco and,...

Walk for Life Twitter Campaign Hopes to Enlighten Mass Media Two of the annual occurrences every January are the enormous pro-life events around the country and the mass media’s recurring failure to report on them accurately or at all. This year the Walk for Light West Coast is poised to use social media to “bring light to those in darkness.” On January 22, the Facebook page of the Walk for Life West Coast announced: “Since the media is...

This year’s Walk for Life West Coast outreach, our ‘Abortion Hurts Women’ banners on Market Street, have certainly generated a lot of interest. Here is a partial list of media organizations which have, to date, reported on our banners:   ABC KGO-TV News California Catholic Daily  California Catholic Daily  Catholic News Service, via Catholic Review  Catholic Philly Catholic San Francisco  Christian Post KCBS Radio Life...