Come to Luna's court hearing to hear arguments on the Motion to Dismiss on the Basis of Selective Prosecution.
Show your support for Luna and demand all charges be dropped! Because no one should be criminalized for standing up against Christian fascism and female enslavement!
HEARING DATE: Wednesday, April 22, 2025, at 8:30 am at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, 210 W. Temple St, Dept. 51, in Los Angeles.
Call the Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto—(213) 978-8100—and demand that all charges be dropped on Elise “Luna” Kelder.
Luna Hernandez being arrested at Los Angeles City Hall, July 6, 2022.
Luna is a member of THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity, Los Angeles, and was a leader of the LA Chapter of Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights. She is being prosecuted for protesting against the overturning of abortion rights in 2022, calling out the fact that FORCED MOTHERHOOD IS FEMALE ENSLAVEMENT. She was arrested twice for participating in two bold and righteous nonviolent acts of civil disobedience before and after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, demanding: “OVERTURN ROE? HELL NO!” She was arrested in June of 2022 at the Summit of the Americas where Biden was speaking and in an act of civil disobedience at Los Angeles City Hall in July 2022, where four women chained themselves to City Hall after washable red paint was poured down the steps.
Luna is the only person from those protests now facing criminal charges—four misdemeanors! On April 22, there will be a hearing to put forward final arguments for a motion to dismiss all the charges against Luna as she is being selectively prosecuted based on her political affiliations (a “Murgia motion”). This motion was initially heard in May of 2024, and since then the judge denied the motion, but also gave Luna and her attorney more time to provide more evidence to prove this motion. If this motion gets denied again, this case will go to a jury trial. This is an important political battle in the courtroom. Everyone who cares about fighting for the right to abortion should be in the house! And everyone who knows our right to protest is on the line should be there to stand with Luna.
Luna was arrested and charged for sounding the alarm that taking away the basic rights and humanity of women is part of the rise of Christian fascism in this country being spearheaded by Trump and the Supreme Court he appointed, which was responsible for the overturning of Roe. Everything that has happened in society since then has shown how Luna and the people who participated in these actions were right. They were right to call people out in the streets. They were right then to sound the alarm that the revoking of women's right to abortion was a battering ram for a broader fascist remaking of society. Now with Trump 2.0 this has taken a dramatic and horrifying leap: Women in Texas like Maria Margarita Rojas being the first woman to be arrested under Texas fascist anti-abortion laws, and another woman in Georgia being arrested for having a miscarriage (under suspicion that this was self-induced). Trump is declaring war on all the protections people have in “blue” states like California. And yet the LA city attorney, a Democrat, is aiding and abetting this fascism by choosing to prosecute people who stood up to stop this. People who sounded the alarm and led people to defend this basic right to abortion should be celebrated and not criminalized.
All the decent people who are sickened by Trump and cannot stand being driven back to a high-tech Dark Ages should see this as a time when they can’t just stand by. As the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian says in his social media message REVOLUTION #112, Trump’s fascist rule, like Hitler’s before him, is a regime of horrors—and is completely illegitimate:
Before Trump’s fascist rule can become fully consolidated and carry out even far worse horrors than what it is already perpetrating, it must be defeated through powerful mass mobilization—overcoming all “divide and conquer” schemes, uniting all who can be united, from many different viewpoints and perspectives, in actively opposing, defying and resisting this fascism, in continually growing numbers—moving to quickly involve millions, determined to create such a profound political crisis that Trump cannot govern the country and continue to implement his fascist program, with all its terrible consequences.
