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Ladies Against Women

Ladies Against Women (LAW) as a 1980s guerilla theater protest group based in Berkeley, California. LAW was part of the Reagan for Shah coalition, which was founded by an anti-nuclear guerilla theater troupe called the  Plutonium Players created following the 1980 Reagan landslide. Various groups affiliated with the Reagan for Shah Committee had marched in the 1981 Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, California.

In 1982, a Cleveland group wanting to protest the speaking engagement Phyllis Schlafly formed the Ladies Against Women (LAW) Cleveland Chapter. They carried protest signs such as "“Outlaw Masturbation: Billions of future draftees are murdered by this practice” and chanted "“Keep America on the Track; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”" Many of the players were men who donned women's aprons.  Their style has been called "feminist camp" or "right wing drag". As one participant remembered " "  The Ladies Against Women action made the front pages of both Cleveland news dailies and was the lead story on all three local TV news stations–and the coverage was totally on our side. Our action sparked further protest. The next month a prominent anti-evolution cleric spoke at the City Club. One of LAW’s allies dressed in a gorilla suit and attended the meeting."

While the group was based in Berkeley California, the Plutonium Players did two tours of Canada.