Dear CAWA Leadership
You are invited to join California Women's
Agenda (CAWA) and key leaders of California
networks, organizations and representatives
from the CAWA Legislators' Council with
farmworker and indigenous women for strategic
planning and organizinig on policies impacting
all California women.
We are coming together with women of the
Central Valley in Tulare County, a historic
region of California and
the US.
We are entering a new policy
era with opportunities for moving our agenda
forward and for restoring a collective US
women's agenda. As women locally and
globally begin preparation for a UN Fifth
World Conference on Women, California will
kick off our state planning on April 3rd
following the UN CSW 53rd Session, March
1-10, 2009.
You and your organization can register
for the Call to Action here. We have
made this as affordable as possible - so bring
your tent and/or sleeping bags, and travel
GREEN by train down the Valley to Hanford,
just minutes away from Visalia.
WHERE: At the Friends Meeting House, 17208
Avenue 296, Visalia, CA, 93292.
The Summit
locale was chosen for it's centrol location
between northern California (San Francisco,
San Jose, Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno) and
southern California (Bakersfield, Santa
Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles,San Diego).
Women and supportive men will arrive from all
points of California!
WHY:
To include marginalized and indigenous women
and girls' voices in state policies afecting
their lives and the lives of their families.
To revisit and reaffirm a progressive
California Women's Agenda for
review by California women from the ground
and from the internet.
To continue building the 'bandwidth' of
CAWA's electronic action network through hub
counties and partner organizations in
California, and on through e-networks in US
Women Connect states that link to Commissions
on Women, national and global NGOs.
To assure that all California women have a
voice in a US Women's Agenda for the 5th
World Conference on Women, 2012.
CO-SPONSORS to date:
CAWA, American
Friends Services Committee, Proyecto
Campesino; Advocacy Coalition of Tulare
County, Female Leadership Academy; SEIU 521
Central Valley Women's Committee, Coalition
of Women from Asia and the Middle East, LA;
and other CAWA partners. Join the
Co-sponsors on the Registration Form!
