Advance preparations
Several key aspects of your Protest have to be prepared well in advance. Special guest speakers will need to fit the Protest into their schedules. Signs need to be ordered or made by hand. Hunting down a stage and sound system may take some days.
Recruiting speakers for your Protest
Your Protest will be most successful if you can recruit some engaging speakers from a variety of backgrounds. Good speakers could include pastors, priests or bishops, pro-life politicians, post-abortive women, pro-life activists, attorneys, or doctors.
Remember, any busy speaker will have their schedules booked well in advance, so start making calls for speakers immediately.
Signs for your Protest
Signs are available to order for your protest. In order to get them in time for your protest, the deadline to order signs is Friday, March 21.
Click here to order signs for your protests, which are available in 30 packs and 10 packs. These signs are made available to you for just the cost of shipping thanks to generous benefactors of the Pro-Life Action League.
You may also click the sign designs below to download PDF files you can have printed at a local print shop.
You can also make your own signs for your Protest with posterboard and markers. If you make your own signs, keep the focus on the abortion issue, avoiding any political themes. Be sure to use contrasting foreground and background colors (dark writing on a bright background, or vice versa) and make your message large and use as few words as possible so it will be easy to read.
Protest stage and sound system
Protest Stage: Even for a small Protest, some kind of stage area is advantageous. This could be as simple as having your emcee and guest speakers on the capitol steps, or as sophisticated as a rented stage, complete with steps and a backdrop.
A competent volunteer carpenter might be willing to build a simple wooden stage raised a foot or two off the ground. Stage platforms are also fairly inexpensive to rent from a local rental facility.
Sound System: Depending on the size of your Protest, you may need to employ a sound system.
For a larger crowd—say, 100 or more—a public address system (P.A.) is ideal. Your church, local pro-life group or civic organization may have one you can borrow, or you can rent a P.A. from a local rental company or music store.
If you use sound amplification, you may run into problems with local noise ordinances.
The police may ask you to turn it down, and you should comply with such reasonable requests (see “Working with police at your pro-life event,” on the Pro-Life Action League website).