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In the midst of "an economic crisis of
historic proportions, we still have much
to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.
We give thanks to all of you in our
'bandwidth' and beyond for electing Barak
Obama as President, a Democratic Senate and a
Democratic
House of Representatives - for a start. Anne
Hoiberg, CAWA Power Sharing Policy Chair does
a full California report in our December
issue.
We give
thanks to all of you who GOT OUT THE VOTE and
worked hard the past eight years to keep hope
alive and who stayed at your 'post' through
thick and thin, floods and wars, with and
without resources. You were a force behind
the tsunami that turned this country around so
we can now move forward to give all women a
voice - locally and globally.
We give thanks to WIN, our mother ship, for
nurturing and growing CAWA with primary
support coming from you, our base. You can
see our accomplishments in the side bar.
We need your help now more than ever to keep up
with the technology demands on the CAWA million
women network, now reaching into 24 other US
Women Connect states and women globally.
Join CAWA now! If each
organization or individual pays an annual
membership fee on a sliding scale of $10 to
$100, we can continue to maintain a dynamic
network on the ground and on the Internet.
But there is more you can do and get from
CAWA.
It's easy. All you need to do is click the Donate
button on our website, or print out and mail
in the
online CAWA
Membership Form. This simple action and
your support is an affirmation of why we have
joined
together and must keep on moving forward.
| WIN and CAWA Expand for Digital Inclusion |
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WIN and CAWA continues to expand our Internet
technology for a more effective and
interactive on-line
activist community and for adaptability to
"women behind the digital curtain" - an
on-going CAWA focus. Amy Aquilino, WIN
Internet Technology Associate, writes about
our readiness for the new era of
net-advocacy:
We invite all CAWA and WIN partners to
visit our Blog and Youtube pages. Our blog
(WINWOMENSPEAK)
is accessed by clicking the link on the WIN
homepage
or womenspeak page. On the WIN weblog, there
is a blog titled "read
before blogging' which
gives you a step by step tutorial on
how to use the site.
Watch for our
monthly WIN Radio podcast in 2009 featuring
interviews with WIN and CAWA activists.
Get upcoming events, readings, rallies and links
to other
blogs and websites.
Our Youtube
page
is also accessed by the link
on WIN's homepage
or by searching for
"winwomenspeak" on Youtube. WIN
has NPO
status on Youtube which gives us all a larger
presence on the web. Come view our videos, leave
comments, and pass the word!
If
you have any questions about using these
sites or issues for content on the blog,
please contact me at
ajaquilino@yahoo.com
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| WIN and CAWA SPOKE OUT TO GET OUT THE VOTE |
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Continuing WIN and CAWA's mission to give
all women a voice, particularly our sisters
who have not had a forum for their voices,
WIN held an energizing and thought provoking
SPEAKOUT on October 7, 2008 at Delancey
Street Club Room with MARCUS BOOKS,
as part
of our Get Out the Vote campaign. Panelists
were MC Rose Aguilar, Author and Host of 'Your
Call' Radio on KALW; Irene Lu, US
Representative
Afghan
Women's Network and WIN Board of
Directors; Alicia Wang, Candidate for San
Francisco County Supervisor, Dist. 1; Dr.
Raye Richardson, Founder/Owner
MARCUS BOOKS;
Junie Mattice, Tolowa,
Northcoast; who spoke passionately about
Human
Rights and the Indigenous people of
California. You can read and respond to her
remarks at our
Weblog.
Get involved with us in the new progressive
policy era. Sign up
for action alerts and updates on critical
legislation to move our agenda forward!
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| Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland |
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Book Review by Lee Montgomery "Lee M", Kansas
City, MO.
"Touching, Entertaining and true to the
Heart"
Rose Aguilar's "Red
Highways" is simply a
delight.
A road trip tale that never fails to surprise
and enlighten.
A political novel that is
empathetic and spares the demagoguery. A look
into the American lives, feelings and
opinions that the mass media, and many
politicians, fail to listen to; but Ms.
Aguilar does.
A seasoned radio interviewer, Rose Aguilar
takes the time to listen to the denizens of
the road and residents of the four states
that she and her companion traveled through
(Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Montana- I
for one would love to see her cover the other
46!).
There are conversations and
spirited debates and of course, opinions will
differ across our diverse nation. However,
the ones presented here are meticulously
genuine and represent views not necessarily
expected from those who gladly share them.
To listen is a simple courtesy not always
extended, and rewarded beyond measure.
The `Red Highways' lead from gun shows to
churches, from fairs to the living rooms of
generous strangers, and it doesn't matter
quite as much how much Americans' ideologies
and politics differ as we come to find over
Ms. Aguilar's four months of interaction and
interviewing. We find here in the many
delightful and heart-rending tales of the
road just how unified we all could be, and
how much our senses of spirit and humor
survive the hard yet hopeful times so many of
us share.
And what a fine
stocking-stuffer for family and friends...no
matter their political persuasions!
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| Join the Action Locally and Globally |
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Your membership donation
will
help to support our efforts on the ground to
connect marginalized women to the CAWA
network for a voice in public policy.
As a member of CAWA, and our Mother Ship, the
Women's
Intercultural Network (WIN), you can
receive late breaking information and alerts from
our action networks.
Sign up at win@win-cawa.org
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| SAVE THE DATE: COMING EVENTS |
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Inauguration of President Barak Obama,
January 20, 2009, Washington, DC
CAWA
Leadership Summit and Policy Forum,
Visalia, CA, Central Valley, February 6 -8,
2009 - Take the Train!
UN Commission
on Women, NYC, March 2 - 10, 2009 - Join WIN
and CAWA for the 53rd Session of the UNCSW
and take our agenda to the global women's agenda!
Fifth
World Conference on Women, 2012 -
and we will keep on moving
forward!
Send your 2009 events
for our December newsletter to win
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... AND KEEP THE POWER FLOWING THROUGH
OUR NETWORKS LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY
Together, we have:
· Built a network of 20 county regions and
over 700 organizations connected via Internet
to implement the California and global
women's agendas (Beijing Platform for Action).
· Created electronic (e)lists for action
alerts, working e-groups, and platform for a
central repository of information exchange,
dialogue and action on California women's
agendas.
· Sent a weekly average of five action alerts
with numerous notices and late breaking news
resources.
· Launched 'Reaching Women Behind the Digital
Divide', to give marginalized women a
stronger voice in local, California and U.S.
policy corridors.
· Convened 5 regional and 3 state Call to
Action assemblies for prioritizing and
updating our agenda.
· Published three CAWA Report and Plan of
Actions: 1996, 2000, 2005, drafted on the
'ground' - reviewed and edited on line.
· Took the California Women's Agenda to the
U.S. Secretary of State in 2000 for inclusion
in the Beijing+5 Platform for Action.
· Piloted U.S. Women Connect (USWC), a
national women's action network modeled after
CAWA, as a base for the U.S. women's agenda.
· Hosted and mentored Afghan, Japanese,
Ugandan and other women leaders, and
continues to partner projects with them, i.e.
Ugandan Land Grant Project and Kabul
University Gender Studies Department.
· Provided delegate presence at United
Nations Women's Commission meetings for 10
years through WIN,
an NGO consultative to the UN.
What we are positioned to do with you:
· Continue these groundbreaking networks and
initiatives, and
· Maintain and expand the reach of our
virtual network and go deeper and wider 'on
the ground'.
· Provide timely action alerts, analysis and
information not accessible to all women and
girls.
· Activate Leadership Circles and the CAWA
Legislators' Council for interactive dialogue
on mutual benefits to activists and policy
makers.
· Convene topical regional and state
assemblies to address and identify priorities
and strategies for focused action.
· Forge funding partnerships and
collaborations for increased impact on
critical concerns .
· Conduct research necessary to track network
'voltage' potential and success.
· Continually update the 'system' and
databases with software and technical assistance.
Our world has changed dramatically on the
ground and on the Internet since we came
together in Huairou,China and San Francisco
in 1995.
We must fuel our networks to keep up with
the changing technologies and politics that
challenge us daily!
To "JOIN THE ACTION!" Visit
us online AND WE WILL KEEP ON MOVING
FORWARD!
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