As we celebrate Women's History Month and
International Women's Day, we are moving our
agenda forward into a new
policy and economic climate on
local, national and global fronts. We are
organizing in
the Central
Valley, we are growing US Women
Connect
into a 50 state action network and meeting
with global partners at the UN.
This Spring we are holding a Call to Action
in the
Valley to look at the critical issues facing
women and their families there and the effect
of the drought and economy on our state. For
example, see this article
"Drought
Adds to Hardships In California - Central
Valley Towns and Farms Wither"
MENDOTA, Calif. - The country's biggest
agricultural engine, California's sprawling
Central Valley, is being battered by the
recession like farmland most everywhere. But
in an unlucky strike of nature, the downturn
is being deepened by a severe drought that
threatens to drive up joblessness, increase
food prices and cripple farms and towns.
Read
the full article
Find the
Women's Month event in your county or region
on the right bar and following and connect
for action!
CAWA CALL TO ACTION FOR A 2009 -2012 AGENDA, APRIL 3-5 |
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California Women's Agenda (CAWA) leadership,
representing 18 counties, ten policy areas
from the CAWA and Beijing Platform for
Action, key legislators and women of the
Central Valley, are coming together for
strategic planning in Tulare County, a
historic region of California and the US.
As women locally and globally begin
preparation for a Fifth World Conference on
Women, Beijing+15, CAWA will kick off state
planning following the UN CSW 53rd Session in
March.
At the Friends Meeting House,
Visalia, CA, Central Valley, April 3 - 5,
2009. WE WILL:
1. Include marginalized women and girls'
voices in state policies affecting their
lives and
the lives of their families.
2. Revisit and reaffirm a progressive
California Women's Agenda for
review by California women from the ground
and from the internet.
3. Continue building the 'bandwidth' of
CAWA's electronic action network through hub
counties and partner organizations in
California, and through e-networks in US
Women Connect states that link to Commissions
on Women, national and global NGOs, and.
4. Assure that all California women have
a voice
in a US Women's Agenda for the 5th
World Conference on Women, 2012.
Put
this significant reunion of CAWA activists on
your calendar and
bring
us your agendas for 2009!
...For registration information mailto:
[email protected] or
watch for updated information!
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CAWA AT THE UNITED NATIONS! |
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WIN and CAWA are at the UN Commission on
Women with panels and workshops. See our
announcement by Karen Lodrick on the
web page by Carol Hansen Grey.
Watch for the Spring WIN e-news for reports
back from the UN CSW!
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MORE WOMEN'S MONTH EVENTS! |
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March 6, 7, 8th, 1 in 3 Art Exhibit In
Solidarity with Every 1 of us who Experiences
Violence, San Francisco, click here
for details
Saturday, March 7th,
Fundraising Lessons: $4 Million Grassroots
Success, United Nations Association-USA East
Bay, click
here for details
Tuesday, March
10th,Word & Get Screen Oakland present, 'One
Sister at a Time', see
flyer for details
Saturday, March
28, "Celebrating Women:Women Taking the Lead
to Save their Community.... Our Planet !", at
Loomis UCC Church Donation: $10 Senior $8,
Reservations appreciated, call (916)
435-9760, Diana Madoshi, Placer CARA
coordinator
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Join the Action Locally and Globally |
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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. Come to our Weblog
and speak out!
Come to WOMENSPEAK
and listen to podcasts and at our YouTube
page watch our DVDS!
To learn more about CAWA, visit us
online.
We continue to update our Internet technology
for a more effective and interactive on-line
activist community and for adaptability to
"women behind the digital curtain" - a CAWA
goal. 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.
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Women's History Month Events: |
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San Diego County Saturday,
March 7th- UNA's Women's Equity Council, and
TJSL present No Way to Treat a Treaty,
10:00A.M. - 1:00 P.M., Thomas Jefferson
School of Law, 2121 San Diego Avenue, Rm. 101
Free; RSVP: 619.233.3970 or [email protected] Sunday, March 8th-Women from Iraq,
Somalia, U.S.A., Iran,Philippines, and
Venezuela discussion 10:30 A.M-1:30 P.M.,
Women's History Museum, 2323
Broadway #107, Golden Hill. Free;RSVP
805.403.4773 or [email protected]
Sunday, March 8th - American
Association of
University Women, Cabrillo-Diego Branch,
presents the documentary Women in America,
2:00 P.M., Women's History Museum, 2323
Broadway, #107, Golden Hill. Free! RSVP:
619.223.8074 or [email protected]
Saturday,
March 14th - San Diego County Commission on the
Status of Women presents the 2009 Forum on
the Status of Women and Girls see
flyer for details
Wednesday, March 18
- The Fifth Annual International Women's Day
Breakfast, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace &
Justice,
UCSD Questions: 619.260.7509 or http://peace.sandiego.edu
Saturday, March 21th - Dr. Gail Dimitroff
discusses her memoir,Mande!, Women's History
Museum, 2323 Broadway, #107, Golden Hill,
3:00 P.M. Free. 619.223.8074 or
[email protected]
Sunday, March 22
-Electing Women Seminar, presented by Run
Women Run & VOX: Voices for Planned
Parenthood, UCSD Chapter. Auditorium,UCSD,
1:30-4:00 P.M. Program fee: $25 for Run Women
Run members; $35 for nonmembers.
http://www.runwomenrun.org
Saturday,
March 28th- Annual San Diego County Women's
Hall of Fame Questions: [email protected]
San Mateo County Saturday,
March 7th-WOW (Women On Writing) Skyline
College see
flyer for details
Friday, March
13th-Wise Up-Take Off-Destination: Financial
Success, San Carlos,CA
see
flyer for details
Tulare County Saturday, March 7th,
Coming Out for Justice: Strength in
Diversity, Visalia see
flyer for details
Nevada
County Gather the Women: International
Women's Day, Grass Valley,CA
see
flyer for details
San Francisco County March 5th "A
Powerful Noise", Documentary about three women
in Mali, Bosnia, and Vietnam as they bring social
change to their communities, click
here for details
Santa Clara County Saturday, March
14th,6:00 to 9:00 pm In Celebration of
Women's History
Month and International Women's Day, Amnesty
International Group 35 presents "1 in 3" Art
Exhibit, Gallery:Works San
Jos�
Alameda County March 3
through 5, 2009, Oakland,
California,TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST STUDIES
PROJECT: MILITARISM AND GENDER CLUSTER
click
here for details
Ventura
County Saturday, March 7th, The 7th Annual
Women SEE* Justice Conference,
see
flyer for details
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