[Herstory] Fall 2006 CWLU Herstory E-Zine

[herstory at cwluherstory.org]

WELCOME to the Fall 2006 issue of the CWLU Herstory E-Zine. Explore 
the CWLU Herstory website at http://www.cwluherstory.org. Please send 
us news tips about upcoming events you know about. Send us news about 
yourself and what you are doing. Feminist networking is part of what 
we are about. Forward our E-Zine to colleagues and friends who may 
want to subscribe.

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WE'RE WORKING ON THE NEW  HERSTORY SITE --- We hope to have it ready 
by Summer 2007!

We're hard at work on our new database driven CWLU Herstory site. It 
will have new features, be more easily searchable, be more accessible 
to disabled visitors, be more easily updated and just generally be 
way cooler than our present site.

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JUDITH ARCANA IN CHICAGO DURING OCTOBER

Las Manos Gallery presents a screening of Nell Lundy and Kate Kirtz's 
film "Jane: An Abortion Service." Friday, October 6 at 7:00 pm

Jane, was the nickname for the The Abortion Counseling Service, 
CWLU's underground illegal abortion workgroup until 1973. It has been 
the subject of a book, a documentary film and a stage play. Jane 
performed nearly 12,000 SAFE, illegal abortions between 1969-1973.

Former "Jane" Judith Arcana will discuss her experience with Jane and 
read from her new book "What If Your Mother," recently published with 
Chicory Blue Press. "What If Your Mother" is a collection of poems 
and monologues examining a constellation of motherhood themes rarely 
offered with such richness: abortion, adoption, miscarriage, and the 
biotechnology of childbirth. The book will be available for purchase.

A suggested donation of $5.00 will benefit the Illinois Reproductive 
Justice Fund. Help contribute to the solution!

Las Manos Gallery is located at 5220 N Clark Street, corner of Foster 
and Clark, 773.728.8910

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THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN AND GENDER (CRWG) AT UIC (Univ. of 
IL at Chicago) IS 15 YEARS OLD

Come help them celebrate 15 great years!

The program will feature Alice Dan, CRWG Director Emerita serving as 
Mistress of Ceremonies. Tracy Sefl, feminist activist and CRWG alumna 
will speak on "Navigating the Corridors of Washington and the Aisles 
of Wal-Mart"

ALICE DAN is a professor emerita of UIC and co-founder of the CRWG. 
Until her retirement in 2002, she served as the director of both the 
CRWG and UIC's National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.

TRACY SEFL is a political and communications consultant with The 
Glover Park Group in Washington, DC. Most recently, she directed 
communications and research for the national advocacy group Wal-Mart 
Watch. During the 2004 presidential campaign, she served as an 
advisor to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and 
worked in the "war room" for Kerry-Edwards.

Date: Thursday, October 12, 2006 Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Illinois Room, Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted, Chicago, Illinois

Please R.S.V.P. at 312-413-1924 by October 2, 2006.

The CRWG is the institutional sponsor for the CWLU Herstory Project. 
They are a great bunch of people and we encourage our friends and 
supporters to RSVP.

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AURORA LEVINS MORALES IS BACK IN ACTION

Historian and poet Aurora Levins Morales had a bad accident in 
November 2005 which left her with a serious concussion and brain 
injury. Thanks to the generous spirit of her many friends and 
supporters, she received thousands of dollars of donations which went 
to pay for attendant care and other medical expenses.

Dozens of people volunteered to sit with her while she was still too 
confused to be left alone. They cleaned, cooked, shopped, handled her 
bills, made calls for her, and drove her to appointments. Such a 
powerful community response has certainly sped her healing. Aurora, 
her family and friends are deeply grateful to all those who helped 
create this "village" of support. There was a community benefit held 
for Aurora last August in Berkeley CA featuring poetry, music and 
great food.

She is now writing again. Aurora is currently working on Silt, which 
weaves together the history, ecology and cultures of the Mississippi 
River and the Caribbean. Her book is a call to face the consequences 
of our actions for all life on the planet, while invoking the deep 
connection between our stories, which is our greatest resource for 
inventing new ways to live on earth. She is also writing a historical 
mystery set in Puerto Rico in 1897.

Aurora is a former member of the CWLU as was her mother Rosario.

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JENNIFER ABOD'S NEW FILM ABOUT AGEISM - "LOOK US IN THE EYE" IS NOW 
AVAILABLE AND IS COMING TO CHICAGO

In this new video from Jennifer Abod, Cynthia Rich, Mannie Garza and 
Janice Keaffaber discuss ageism and activism. They take the 
stereotypes of an ageist culture and turn them on their heads. 
Wearing brilliant t-shirts that declare "Old Women Are Your Future" 
and carrying their giant multi-ethnic old woman puppet, POWER (Pissed 
Old Woman Engaged In Revolution), The Old Women's Project refuses 
invisibility and proclaims that old women are part of every social 
justice issue.

The film  will be screening at the Lesbian and Gay Festival in 
November in Chicago. If you are in San Diego you can see the film on 
Sunday afternoon, Oct. 8, as part of the 4th San Diego Women's Film 
Festival in Balboa Park.

Please visit Jennifer's website at http://www.jenniferabod.com to 
order the video. It is available  for an individual price of $30.00 
plus $6.00 mailing & handling or an institutional price of $190.00. 
You can write to Jennifer Abod at PO Box 21387 Long Beach, CA 90802 
if you wish to order by postal mail.

Please contact Jennifer Abod at jennifer at jenniferabod.com  if you can 
help set up screenings. Support indepedent video!

Jennifer is a former member of the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock 
Band and the sister of Susan Abod who was the lead singer of the 
Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band.


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NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT SECOND WAVE FEMINISM IS IN PRODUCTION AND 
NEEDS YOUR PHOTOS

Jennifer Lee has been developing "Wavelength," a documentary history 
of second feminism, and hopes to get it released in Spring of 2007. 
The Herstory Project has been helping her by providing photos, 
graphics and feminist contacts.

Jennifer is asking for your help.She needs pictures of you, any 
feminist, peace, civil rights marches and other feminists from 1965 
to the late 1970's---- Also, photos of any meetings and gatherings 
involving the women's liberation movement or civil rights movement.

She is compiling the list of archival footage and photographs that 
are in the rough edit of the film and costs are mounting.  The 
Schlesinger Library and the Sophia Smith Collection have great photos 
- all at a substantial cost.

If she can get people to donate their own photographs and movie 
footage to the film that will speed up production.  She would deeply 
appreciate the use of these images. Of course, you would be 
acknowledged in the credits for this kindness.

The photos and footage must either be shot by you or owned by someone 
she can get clearances from. And, the photos can be scanned and 
emailed or sent to her on a CD.  The resolution needs to be 600 to 
900 dpi.  (This resolution is very detailed and enables the image to 
"hold up" in a movie theater.)  Any actual photographs can be sent to 
her via Federal Express (she will offer her Fed Ex number) and they 
will be sent back to you via Federal Express.

Contact:

Jennifer Lee Director / Producer "Wavelength" 818.219.9339

jenniferhlee at earthlink.net

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FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA 1965-1975 IS NOW AVAILABLE

Barbara J. Love has finally finished her long awaited historical 
directory of the feminists who made the Second Wave. You may order 
the 616 page book from the University of Illinois Press at 
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f06/love.html.

Barbara has worked very hard on this book for a number of years in 
cooperation with the Veteran Feminists of America (VFA). The CWLU 
Herstory Project helped contribute biographical info and feminist 
contacts.

The VFA is planning a major New York gala in November to celebrate 
the publication of the book. Please visit their website at 
http://www.vfa.us/ for details.

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AREA/CHICAGO MAGAZINE IS NOW ONLINE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT'S 
HAPPENING TO OUR CITIES

Area/Chicago is a strong challenge to the neo-liberal assumption that 
a city only exists to be exploited by the rich and powerful. The 
class nature and the racism of this process is hidden in the language 
of "mixed income communities" and "regeneration" -- or in Chicago's 
case "renaissance" and "transformation".

Chicago is a city that spent $1/2 billion for Millennium Park; 
regularly gives tax breaks to and funds massive infrastructure 
improvements for developers; tore down 19,000 units of public housing 
to open up space for development, displacing whole working class 
communities for condos; and a city that polices those who transgress 
the city image.

Chicago is a city whose officials raise fares on public 
transportation, fail to educate students and then use that failure as 
a reason to privatize schools, and that criminalizes whole sectors of 
African American communities.

Area/Chicago dissects the new urban mythology promulgated by the 
Daley Administration in great and exacting detail.

You may read its highly provocative and analytical articles at 
http://www.areachicago.com/.

One of the prime movers of Area/Chicago is Dr. Pauline Lipman, an 
education professor at DePaul University. Pauline is a former CWLUer.


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ELLEN DUBOIS ATTACKED BY RIGHTWING UCLA "BRUIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION"

History professor Ellen DuBois, a former CWLUer, came under fire from 
Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate who once worked as a research 
assistant to David Horowitz, the right-wing commentator. Horowitz has 
since disavowed his former prodigy.

Jones is the prime mover behind the Bruin Alumni Association which 
published a website attacking Ellen and 29 other UCLA profs.The Bruin 
Alumni Association lost several prominent members after Jones paid 
students to spy on professors he considered "radical."

Jones named Ellen DuBois to his "Dirty Thirty" list that included 
detailed personal information about some of the targeted professors.

The Bruin Alumni Association campaign coincided with attempts in the 
California legislature to limit academic freedom.

We support Ellen and the 29 other targeted professors in their 
struggle to keep UCLA classrooms open to free discussion and debate.

For more info please see 
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=35698 
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2512 
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0329-23.htm


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NEW OUR BODIES OURSELVES APPAREL

Looking for a special graduation gift, a Mother's Day present, or 
just something to jazz up your wardrobe, please take a look at the 
new Our Bodies Ourselves Online Shop at http://www.cafepress.com/obos.

You can choose from a variety of OBOS products, including organic 
cotton T-shirts, caps, magnets, baby bibs, and more. Proceeds from 
each sale will go to Our Bodies Ourselves, so support a great cause 
and look great while doing it!

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GRAPHICS COLLECTIVE POSTERS FIND NEW USES

The posters of the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective continue to 
pop up in new places. Florida's Southern School for Union Women 
Conference used "Don't Call Me Girl" and "Isis" for their organizing 
brochure.

We plan to seriously upgrade the online presentation of these posters 
when our new website is finally online.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: SISTERSONG - LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX!

The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective would 
like to invite you to apply to participate as a plenary speaker or 
workshop leader for their 10th anniversary national conference on 
women of color and reproductive justice called Let's Talk About Sex!

The conference will be held May 31- June 2, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois 
hosted by African American Women Evolving and more than 1,200 people 
are expected to attend.

Since the right to have sex is a topic rarely discussed when 
addressing reproductive health and rights issues, SisterSong believes 
that sexual prohibitions are not only promoted by moral conservatives 
in this country, but also by reproductive rights advocates who fail 
to promote a sex-positive culture. Sex is not just for pro-creation 
and sexual pleasure - it is a human right. They would like to create 
a pro-sex space for the pro-choice movement and they hope you will 
join them.

SisterSong is also soliciting organizational co-sponsors and 
individual donors for this important conference. If your organization 
is interested in becoming a major co-sponsor with special benefits 
and opportunities, please contact them at 
documentation at sistersong.net. If you are interested in joining 
SisterSong's electronic listserv for future announcements, please 
send an email to listserv at sistersong.net.

The entire call for papers and abstract submission form can be found 
at http://www.sistersong.net/2007_NationalConference/2007NC_index.html

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective PO Box 
311020 Atlanta, GA 31131 p: 404-344-9629 f: 404-346-7517

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INTERNSHIPS AND JOBS

COME TO THE CHICAGO AREA WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES JOB, INTERSHIP, 
AND VOLUNTEER FAIR

The Fair will be held at DePaul's Student Center 2250 N. Sheffield on 
October 20 (Friday) 12 Noon - 5:00 pm.

Come to find out about job and internship opportunities, hear from 
Women's and Gender Studies alumni from DePaul and other area 
institutions who are working in various capacities around Chicago.

The CWLU Herstory Project will be there looking for energetic 
volunteer interns.

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CAROLE COLLINS DIED IN LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA

Carole Collins was known to many in the Chicago Women's Liberation 
Union through her tireless work with Chicago's New World Resource 
Center on behalf of Third World liberation. Her death from congestive 
heart failure came as a shock to her many friends and colleagues from 
around the world.

A longtime employee of the American Friends Service Committee, Carole 
is best known for her work with African organizations and her many 
articles which appeared in such publications as the National Catholic 
Reporter,Le Monde (France), MERIP/Middle East Report, In These Times, 
Journal of Palestine Studies, Ms., Multinational Monitor, the Nation, 
Newsday, Nigrizia (Italy), Pacific News Service, The Progressive, the 
Review of African Political Economy, the Weekly Mail (South Africa), 
the Women's Features Service. 

Funeral Services for Carole Collins will be held in Long Beach. There 
will be a memorial gathering in Washington, DC at a later date. 
E-mail Steve Askin, her longtime committed partner at 
ska2 at columbia.edu for details.

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AS ALWAYS, VISIT CHICAGO'S WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST BOOKSTORE 
CALENDAR FOR THE BEST IN FEMINIST BOOK EVENTS

You may check their calendar 24 hours a day at 
http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com

The bookstore is located in Chicago's historic Andersonville 
neighborhood which is a great place for city hike.

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THAT'S IT FOR THIS ISSUE

Please send us any news about former CWLUers, upcoming events and 
feminist happenings. We depend on you to be our eyes and ears. Do you 
need research assistance? Do you provide a service? Do you need a 
service? Do you have a cool project you need help with? Are you 
looking for a job? Do you have a job to offer? Let us know and we'll 
try to include it. Feminist networking is part of what we are about. 
E-mail infogal at cwluherstory.org with your contribution.


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"We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert 
Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have 
long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on 
which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster." - 
Rachel Carson