Directory and
New Members
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Directory news:
I will soon be working on this year's AAUW Directory. Please send any updates to me at SheilaBeall@alum.rpi.edu -- new phone numbers, cell phone numbers if you want them included, email address changes, regular address changes, spouse's name to be changed or added, etc.
-- Sheila
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Kingston AAUW Calendar
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Sunday, Sept. 11, 5 pm
Potluck and a Film: The Stream of Life
Monday, Sept. 12, 9:30 am, Family Diner: What's it like to be a seamstress -- share your stories about sewing - the first in a series of "What it's like..." Dave Cardell and Charlotte Vellake will kick this off.
Tuesday, Sept. 13, Branch Board Meeting
Sept. 20 1-2:30 Book Club: Homer and Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
Tues., 9/27, 2 PM in the Library Community Room
Branch Meeting: Virginia Kohli, Women: The Artists' Muse
Oct. 11, - all day
United Nations: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development
October 15- all day
Anita Hill 20 Years Later: Sex, Power and Speaking Truth, Hunter College
Sat., 10/22, 10:30 AM in the Library Community Room. Fracking - a panel coordinated by Susan Holland. Sat., 11/19, noon - lunch meeting, Fred's Place, Lake Katrine. U.C.Legislators Walter Frey and Fred Wadnola will talk about the Future of the Golden Hill Health Care Center. Tues., 12/13, 1 PM, book group, 3:30 holiday party, Library Community Room
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Fall Trips
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Sept. 9, Friday, 830am-3pm Olana, a Persian treasure, followed by lunch. Limited to 12 people. $20 including admission and carpool. Any profits go to the scholarship fund.
Sept. 22, Thurs., 9am-6pm, The newly reopened Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY $58/$55 for AAUW members.
For more information contact Vivi Hlavsa.
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Potluck & a Film
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On Sunday, June 12, we'll gather at ViVi's at 5 PM for a covered dish supper, after which we will watch
Steam of Life.
Perspiration, conversation and a certain amount of carbonation are the accessories of "Steam of Life," the best sauna movie anyone's ever likely to see, and a movie in which usually taciturn men bare their sweaty pink bods and souls. This is a Finnish film Subtitles. Directed, written by Joonas Berghall, Mika Hotakainen.
I enjoyed this film tremendously and encourage you to come. Let me know what dish you will bring to share.
Hope you can come.
ViVi
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About AAUW
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AAUW's Value Promise
By joining AAUW, you belong to a community that breaks through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance.
AAUW's Mission
AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
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| Greetings! | I'm sitting in my vintage airstream trailer in Montana, hoping my internet connection lasts so I can get this newsletter to you. Like the weather, working on the road can sometimes be great and sometimes a great pain. For the sake of expediency, I'm skipping the photos.
This issue describes the fall line-up of events. There are many. Some new, like the "Life As..." discussion series. (You asked for more small group activities). Some tried and true like the book club. And some special, like the UN conference and the LAF Anita Hill 20 Years Later conference.
We think you'll find something to intrigue you.
Ruth Wahtera, Editor |
Hurricane Reflections
Recovering from Irene
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What's your hurricane Irene status? Is your life back to normal or are you cleaning up after flooding, waiting for your electricity, or housing family or friends less fortunate?
The week before Irene, Glenn and I stopped in Minot, North Dakota, one of the communities hardest hit by the mid-west flooding in June.
Over 3500 homes and 12,000 people have been displaced there. Two months after the flooding, we found people wearing hazmat suits cleaning debris in the impacted neighborhoods and FEMA processing centers working hard to get people into housing. Some people still live in campers in the Walmart parking lot because even the campgrounds are full. Recovery takes a long time.
What can we do to help our neighbors in the Hudson Valley through this trauma?
Churches and nonprofits are collecting nonperishable food, cleaning supplies, furniture, clothing. Volunteers can help in many ways.
Is there something our branch could be doing? What are your ideas?
--Ruth
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International
AAUW NYS Sponsors a Day at the UN
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October 11, 2011, 5-7pm
From Rokki Carr, International Chair
Join AAUW-NYS October 11 at the United Nations. The program: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. Sustainable development requires the integration of its economic, environmental and social components at all levels. Women must play a key role in achieving sustainability.
Program and schedule details can be found here. They include two briefings and a tour of the UN in the morning, lunch on our own, and a panel discussion, co-sponsored with Marymount College in the afternoon. The day runs from 9 am to 3:15 pm.
Let me know if you register to attend and would like to travel as a group.
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September Branch Meeting
Women: The Artists' Muse
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Branch member Virginia Kohli will give a talk titled Women: the Artists' Muse - a slide presentation addressing the influences reverberating between the American colonies and Europe.
Honoring her passion for art, Virginia studied studio art at Oberlin College and earned her masters in Art History at SUNY New Paltz. She loves her subject, has taught art during various periods of her life, and looks forward to sharing a bit of her love with us.
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October Branch Meeting
Fracking - A Panel Discussion
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There's hardly a more controversial subject in our region today. On Saturday, October 22 at 10:30 am, our program will be Fracking - a panel coordinated by Susan Holland.
NYS DEC's 1000 page report is scheduled to be released for public comment next week. The report will provide the framework for the DEC to permit high-volume hydrofracking. This drilling technique hasn't been permitted in New York since the review was started in July 2008. Hydrofracking sends a high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to break up shale formations - such as the Marcellus Shale - and release natural gas.
Susan has actively lobbied against fracking and has kept our membership abreast of the issues.
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Public Policy Updates from Susan Holland, Chair
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The Public Policy Film Festival
The Rosendale Theater (408 Main Street, 845-658-8989, will show three films of interest, about the basics of life -- energy, water, and food -- in September. I encourage members to attend 1, 2, or all 3! --
- Tues., 9/13, 7:15 PM, The Last Mountain
Writer/producer/director Bill Haney: "The central front in the battle for America's energy future, with enormous consequences for the health and economic prospects of every citizen, is the fight for Appalachian coal. In valleys and on mountaintops throughout the heart of the eastern seaboard, the coal industry detonates the explosive power of a Hiroshima bomb each and every week, shredding timeless landscape to bring coal wealth to a few, and leaving devastated communities and poisoned water to many. With politicians siding with their corporate donors, it falls to a rag tag army of local activists to stand alone for the welfare of their families, their heritage and for a principled and sound energy future. Our film is their film - the uplifting story of the power of ordinary citizens to remake the future when they have the determination and courage to do so."
- Tues., 9/20, 7 PM, Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure Tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. Largely out of sight and out of mind, these aging systems have not been maintained, and some estimates suggest this is the single largest public works endeavor in our nation's history. The film will be followed by a question and answer session.
- Tues., 9/27, 7 PM, Farmageddon: The Unseen War on American Family Farms Filmmaker Kristin Canty's quest to find healthy food for her four children turned into an educational journey to discover why access to these foods was being threatened. What she found were policies that favor agribusiness and factory farms over small family-operated farms selling fresh foods to their communities. Instead of focusing on the source of food safety problems - most often the industrial food chain - policymakers and regulators implement and enforce solutions that target and often drive out of business small farms that have proven themselves more than capable of producing safe, healthy food, but buckle under the crushing weight of government regulations and excessive enforcement actions.
Call or email Susan H. if you'd like to meet for dinner before or discussion after any of these.
See you at the movies!... .
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Book Discussion Group
Homer and Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow
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Tuesday, September 20, 1 PM
Kingston Library, Community Room
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers-the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley's proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers-wars, political movements, technological advances-and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.
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Anita Hill 20 Years Later: Sex, Power and Speaking Truth |
October 15, 2011,
Hunter College in New York City
Co-sponsored by the AAUW Legal Action Fund, this daylong summit and evening performance that will commemorate 20 years since Anita Hill testified about workplace sexual harassment.
Panelists will discuss what happened 20 years ago, talk about the present, and look to solutions for the future.
Anita Hill is the keynote speaker and Eve Ensler from V-Day is curator for the evening performances. Some of the panel speakers include Gloria Steinem, Maureen Dowd, Kimberle Crenshaw, Melissa Harris-Perry (an AAUW fellowships and grants alumna), and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.
Online registration opens September 8 and attendance costs $20. It is free for students!
For more information visit www.anitahill20.org Let Ruth Wahtera know if you'd like to travel together.
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News, Celebrations, and etcetera
September Headlines
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Congratulations to Yolanda White
Yolanda has been appointed principal of Travis Technology High School (TTHS). Yolanda, a dual member from Milwaukee, born in Kingston, joined our branch this spring.
TTHS is a the third school of Ceira M Travis Academy Schools. (one elementary school and two high schools - vocation and technology specialties) that have worked with at-risk youth for nearly 16 years, in the Milwaukee area.
Yolanda is an educator at heart and appreciates the role education can play in transforming the lives of young people. Congratulations, Yolanda!
How to find the branch calendar or other articles when you can't find the enewsletter in your mailbox. Bookmark this link:
http://kingstonaauw.blogspot.com/
If you look in the column on the right on the website, you'll see links to branch information including the calendar, with a link to print the calendar, our newsletter archive, trip policies, and member profiles.
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