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Democratic Leader and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi,
California 8th District, gaveled in 2007 as
the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, brought the 110th Congress to order
and passed an Ethics Bill. She did this for us and
you
helped accomplish
that!
In her acceptance
speech, Speaker Pelosi
recognized women’s leadership and thanked us for
helping
her break the
marble ceiling. She knows how hard California
activists have worked the past ten years to keep
moving women forward - she has seen us at work!
In California, we elected ten women to
the State Senate and 24 women to the State Assembly -
and women advanced elsewhere. A record total of 16
women (11D, 5R) will serve in the US Senate and 71
(50D, 21R) were elected to the US House of
Representatives. For election details go to the
(Center for
American Women and Politics)
Rutgers State University of New Jersey)
| Celebrate Our Successes and Move Forward - Help Fuel the CAWA Action Network and its Million Women |
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You can help fuel our million women action network by
bringing in new members and groups. When you JOIN
CAWA
or WIN
at any level, we will send you and new members a
copy of “A CALL TO ACTION: MOVING CALIFORNIA WOMEN’S
AGENDA 2005 FROM THE GRASSROOTS OF CALIFORNIA TO
BEIJING+10”, a Report and Plan of Action for the
next five years. The "CALL TO ACTION” is also a
handbook to
help you and your organization implement the
current POA and prepare for the Fifth
World Conference on Women in 2010.
As a member of CAWA and our ‘Mother Ship’ WIN,
you will receive late breaking information and
alerts from our action networks. We continue to
update our
internet technology to foster a more effective and
interactive on-line activist community and to make it
adaptabile to “women behind the digital curtain” -
a CAWA focus in 2007. Your membership donation will
help to support our efforts on the ground to connect
marginalized women to the CAWA network for a larger
voice
in public policy. As part of a project made
possible by an Excelerator
Grant from AT&T we will be working to
empower immigrant and indigenous
women with low or no income - the forgotten
women of the fourth largest economy in the world.
We are grateful to our base - the million
women CAWA network, for many of our
resources, and to Wells Fargo Foundation, The San
Francisco Foundation, and The Women’s Foundation of
California for funding support in 2006.
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| Connecting in 2007 - US Women Connect |
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CAWA is partnernering with nine other US 'regional
hubs' to build a national women’s 50 state action
network - US WOMEN
CONNECT , linking US women and
girls in the United States to the Global Women’s
Agenda. In
1998 - 2001,
USWC served as the liaison for the US Women’s Agenda,
with the President’s Interagency Council on Women, to
monitor and implement the Beijing Platform for
Action (BPFA) in the US. However, there has been no
governmental
mechanism for a US Women’s Agenda since 2001. We
are rebuilding that mechanism so your important advocacy
work in your community and county will again be part
of a US Women’s Agenda. This will support the global
women’s agenda vis-a-vis the United
Nations
To quote Speaker Pelosi, “We made history - now let
us make progress for the people of America.”
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| CAWA REPORTS FROM THE FIELD ... MONTHLY IN THE BAY AREA BUSINESSWOMAN |
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In December, CAWA went far-a- field to the
Philippines and reported in BABW
news on the collective action
between Bay Area
Filipinas, Americans and Philippine
activists on the landmark 'Nicole' Rape Case at
Subic Bay.
Support BABW, the Bay Area’s only women’s newspaper
with
a subscription at Bay
Area BusinessWoman
WIN and CAWA members receive a 10% discount.
COMING IN SUMMER, 2007:
AUGUST 25, WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY PARADE,
SACRAMENTO, CA
TBA: “CONNECTING WOMEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE
DIGITAL CURTAIN”, a CAWA Connectivity Conference
in the Central Valley of California
MAY 16, 2007, WOMEN'S HEALTH LOBBY DAY
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CAWA |
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CAWA is a state action alliance of over 600
organizations, working together in
California to implement the Beijing
Platform at the grassroots. CAWA links one million
women and girls in collective action through real
and "virtual"
networks.
CAWA is a network that organizes - not an
organization
that just networks.
CAWA is a project of the Women's Intercultural
Network (WIN) - celebrating 12 years of connecting women
across cultures for collective action on critical
concerns!
WIN is an international non-profit organization,
consultative
to the United Nations, based in San Francisco, California
that links
women and girls across cultures, locally and globally
for
collective action on common concerns.
Join the
action locally and globally!
Donate Here!
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