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HELLO CALIFORNIA ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
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. Become a Co-Sponsor
on the Registration Form!
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NEW TRAVEL INFORMATION! |
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Travel green - take the train! Amtrak
offers a 10% discount off the lowest
available rail fare to (Visalia, CA) between
(March 31, 2009 - April 8, 2009). To book
your reservation call Amtrak at 1 (800)
872-7245 and use CAWA Convention Fare code:
X51W-959 (Convention fares cannot be made
on-line)
JOIN THE ACTION IN 2009 - JOIN CAWA AS A
PARTICIPATING MEMBER ORGANIZATION
HERE AND AMPLIFY YOUR VOICE IN CALIFORNIA
AND THE US!!
MEDIA RELEASE! For Immediate Release:
Kathleen Cha:415-505-8114
WIN: 415-221-4841
A Leadership Summit For California
Women's Agenda - A Call To Action Convening
In Central Valley
San Francisco, CA - California activists
addressing the
needs of women throughout California are
convening in the historic Central Valley,
from April 3 - 5, 2009, at the Friends
Meeting House in Visalia, Tulare County.
This is a call to women committed to building
strong state policy mechanisms that connect
women across city, county, organization,
racial, religious, age and issue lines for
support of each other's agendas to
participate and speak out during this
leadership summit.
Participants will join the
California Women's Agenda (CAWA) and key
leaders of California networks, organizations
and representatives from the CAWA
Legislators' Council, including farmworker
and indigenous women whose voices have often
been marginalized in state policies affecting
their lives and the lives of their
families.
This "Call to Action" signifies the beginning
of a new policy era with opportunities for
moving a California women's agenda forward,
an era with changing political and economic
climates that value the mission to "connect
women across cultures for collective action -
locally and globally."
In strategic
planning
and organizing sessions, participants will
revisit and reaffirm a progressive California
Women's Agenda for final review by California
women from the ground and from the internet.
They will explore next steps for broadening
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.
In addition, these leadership
discussions will set the stage so that
California women have a voice in a US Women's
Agenda for a United Nations Fifth World
Conference on Women in 2012.
More
information at win@win-cawa.org or on the Registration
Form.
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