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- IN THE FIELD: WAND Chapter/Partner News & Events
CALIFORNIA
ORANGE COUNTY WAND
MEMBERSHIP BRUNCH (10/11)
Please join us as Jacqueline Chattopadhyay and Toni Nguyen share their experience representing STAND, and sponsored by OCW, at the Student Pugwash Conference in Washington, DC. We will explore strategies for revitalizing the Orange County STAND chapter.
Toni Nguyen and Rhae Lynn Barnes will attend the national WiLL/WAND conference in Washington, 9/13-16, as STAND delegates. Karen Speros, OCW president, will accompany Toni and Rhae Lynn and represent Orange County WAND.
INFO: Karen at Karensperos@aol.com.
WOMEN FOR: ORANGE COUNTY
Orange County WAND sponsored Women For's 23rd Annual Suffrage Day Celebration on Aug. 23 at the University Club at UC Irvine.
ORANGE COUNTY PEACE COALITION, ORG
For three weeks during the summer, Orange County WAND had a booth at the Orange County Fair and distributed WAND brochures and a bookmark extolling the dangers of Sections 115 and 116 of the Patriot Act.
Thanks to Karen Speros for this report.
SAN FRANCISCO
Nuclear Policy Research Institute Benefit (9/12)
"An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin"
Dr. Helen Caldicott and NPRI announce an exciting benefit, 9/12/03, 8:00 P.M. at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. One of America's foremost comediennes, the incomparable Lily Tomlin, will give a special benefit performance.
The $65 ticket price includes a $35 tax-deductible contribution.
More Info
GEORGIA
FRIDAY RALLIES REACH A MILESTONE
Standing for Peace 365 Days a Year
Next rally - Friday, September 5, 12-1 p.m.
August 22 was quite a milestone! Every Friday for one year, Atlanta WAND members and partners have stood on the corner of Peachtree and 14th, below the window of Senator Zell Miller, from noon to 1:00 p.m., proclaiming peacefully and with conviction that "war is not the answer." The anniversary was celebrated with speakers, poetry, and many faithful participants.
Organizers plan to continue regular rallies on the first Friday of each month, noon to 1:00.
INFO: WAND at 404-524-5999, or wandatlanta@mindspring.com.
ATLANTA WAND NEWS
"Unprecedented"
A Film about the 2000 FL Presidential Election (9/9)
Tuesday, September 9, 7:00 p.m. * Atlanta Life Building, Auburn Ave.
In collaboration with the GA Coalition for the People's Agenda Youth Committee on Voter Empowerment & Concerned Black Clergy * Please join us!
INFO: wandatlanta@mindspring.com or bobbiepaul@mindspring.com.
BACK FROM THE HILL!
September Atlanta WAND Meeting (9/23)
An exciting, informative report from the GA delegation to the 2003 WiLL/WAND conference in Washington, DC, including news of meetings with GA senators and representatives
Tuesday, September 23, 7:00 p.m.
Home of WAND member Mary Reilly, 1436 Fairview Road
RSVP / directions: Amanda at 404-524-5999
GREATER ATLANTA BILL OF RIGHTS DEFENSE CAMPAIGN (9/8)
Visit our new website
Next meeting -- Monday, September 8, 7p.m.
AI office at 131 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Suite 220
We will be working on the Atlanta City Council Resolution, continuing outreach planning and efforts, and making preparations for the national meeting of the BORDC in Washington on October 18-19.
Please continue your efforts to secure endorsements for the Atlanta Resolutions. See website for draft Resolution, invitation letter and endorsers form. Fact sheet coming soon.
INFO: AtlantaBORDC@yahoo.com
Emory Women's Center 5th Annual Telling Our Stories 2003 (9/9)
Celebrate the untold stories of Emory women and honor the experiences of all women.
With the Rev. Dr. Bobbi Patterson and the Rev. Bridgette D. Young
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003 * Reception 5:30 p.m., Dinner 6:30 p.m.
Miller-Ward Alumni House, 815 Houston Mill Road
Reservations required. Space limited. Vegetarian/non-vegetarian meals available. $25, due by 9/4. INFO/reservations, Women's Center at 404.727-2000 or jlwill4@emory.edu.
The Feminist Women's Health Center
7th annual Choice Celebration (9/25)
Thursday, 9/25, 8:00-12:00 pm
Echo Lounge, 551 Flat Shoals Ave. SE
The event, dedicated to raising awareness and critical funds for the Young Women's Leadership Project, will include music by local artists, a silent auction, food and more. Over the years, there have been 1,300 beneficiaries of the Young Women's Leadership Project. Please join us!
Tickets available online at www.echostatic.com or at FWHC, 404-248-5445.
$10.00 advance / $12.00 door
CHARIS CIRCLE (10/3)
The Fifth Book of Peace, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Friday, October 3, 7:30 PM, First Existentialist Congregation
INFO: www.chariscircle.org
INDIANA
WAND OF NORTHERN INDIANA NEWS
Report from the Hill / Vi Simpson dinner (9/30)
Matterhorn Restaurant in Elkhart at 6 P.M.
INFO: Karen Jacob, lovekaren55@msn.com
CONTACT SENTATOR BAYH
Karen has been in touch with Senator Evan Bayh's South Bend office regarding the up-coming nuclear weapons related votes in the Senate (See "Nuclear Notes") and encourages all Northern Indiana WAND members to write the Senator. Karen suggests directing the letter to Hodge Patel who will make sure it gets to the appropriate staff member or to Senator Bayh himself.
Hodge Patel
Regional Director for Senator Evan Bayh
Leighton Plaza
30 South Main Street, Suite 110
South Bend, IN 46601
Fax number: 574.236.8319
WAND of Northern Indiana president Karen Jacob is joining the WAND Ed Fund Board and will be attending her first meeting on September 12-13, prior to the national WiLL/WAND conference in DC. Congratulations, Karen!
IOWA
IOWA NEWS - Excerpts from IoWoman
A Publication of the Friends of the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women * September/October, 2003 * www.state.ia.us/dhr/sw
Coffee with Chrysalis: Women Keeping Us Safe (9/5)
7:30-8:30 a.m., Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Des Moines. Free. RSVP to Chrysalis Foundation, 515/255-1853, info@chrysalisfdn.org or www.chrysalisfdn.org/events.
Choice Words (9/6)
7 p.m. Sheslow Auditorium, Drake University, Des Moines. $30.
Hosted by Michael Gartner and featuring noted local actors Tom Milligan, Phyllis Mumford and Rich Richards. Reservations required. Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa,
515/280-7004 x. 126 or www.ppgi.org.
Lifting Women's Voices Everywhere (9/13-14)
Grand View College, Des Moines. American Friends Service Committee, 515/274-4851.
Diversity Conference - Monday, September 29
Scheman Center, Iowa State University, Ames
Friends of Iowa Civil Rights, Inc. is excited to present a full day of opportunities to learn about the wealth of diversity in Iowa and how to benefit through diversity in your personal life, work and community. Registration is $75 - Register Here.
INFO: Alice Vinsand: 515-225-1051, 800-264-1084, alice@avinsandinc.com * Website .
Iowa Women in Public Policy (WIPP)
Thursday, October 2, 2003
WIPP presents Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of PBS, who will speak on the importance of women in leadership. INFO: Leann Brunnette at leannbrunnette@mchsi.com or 515/221-3500.
MASSACHUSETTS
NEWBURYPORT WAND UPDATES - 9/3, 9/25, 10/5
NEXT CHAPTER MEETING - Wednesday, 9/3, 6:00 PM.
We will meet in front of the Court House at the Mall on High St. The meeting has been arranged for an earlier time so that we may walk through the gardens at the Mall and draw out our plans for a Peace Garden. Please bring your creative ideas, especially those of you with a "green thumb." Rain location: Newburyport Library
PUBLIC FORUM - 9/25
Newburyport WAND will hold a public forum on Health Care and Federal Budget Priorities at Newburyport High School auditorium on Thursday September 25, 2003, 7- 9 pm. Congressman John Tierney is expected to be one of the panelists along with State Rep Mike Costello and health care administrators.
PEACE GARDEN MEMORIAL - 10/5
Newburyport WAND is inviting adults and children from local churches and schools to join them from 1-3 pm on Sunday Oct 5, 2003 to create a Peace Garden as a memorial for all who have been killed in the war in Iraq. Barbara Haack is donating 200 bulbs. Congressman Tierney and others will be invited to speak.
INFO: Barbara Hildt, barbara.hildt@verizon.net
NORTH SHORE WAND - 9/11 Vigil
North Shore WAND will join the Salem State Peace Institute for tabling and an 8 pm candle light vigil on Sept. 11 on the main campus. INFO: Bonnie Howard, dbhoward@attbi.com.
MICHIGAN
WAND MICHIGAN Participates in Oak Ridge Rally - August 8-10
Fern Katz and Kim Bergier of WAND Michigan, and 87 other Michigan activists, attended the "Disarmament Begins at Home" rally in Oak Ridge, TN, August 8-10, to protest nuclear weapons production and refurbishing. TN State Rep. Kathryn Bowers, national WAND president, delivered the keynote address, followed by a panel that included Rep. Bowers, Bishop Tom Gumbleton and Fern Katz.
On Saturday (8/9), the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) held an all day workshop on civil disobedience. On Sunday (8/10), 265 people held a rally in a park, then marched to the Y-12 plant. The march took us past signs forbidding swimming or fishing in the creek that runs through Y-12 because of heavy metal contamination. Seven activists volunteered to be arrested for obstructing the entrance to the plant. - Fern Katz, WAND board member
WAND MICHIGAN -- HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI MEMORIAL PROCESSION - August 3, 2003
Sunday night, under a slim slice of moon in a Persian blue sky, WAND Michigan and many fellow peace groups joined in a solemn Hiroshima -Nagasaki memorial procession. Slowly, to the beat of funeral drums, we marchers stretched back for two blocks along Main Street in Royal Oak and filed past diners overflowing the many sidewalk cafes on one side and four lanes of Main Street traffic on our other side. Our sign read "Never Again. Abolish Nuclear Weapons."
The memorial program kicked off the upcoming Oak Ridge Action where WAND's own Kathryn Bowers will be keynoter. After the memorial program I made a pitch for the Misleader Campaign, Kim made a pitch for Oak Ridge, and action on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator; Raging Granny Mokoto Huthwaite, who lived in Tokyo on Aug 6 1945, led us in a song she'd written to the tune of a Japanese children's song. Detroit City Council President Maryann Mahaffey spoke of the parallels between the fear and feverish patriotism that made possible the US internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and which now makes possible the post 9/11 violations of civil liberties including indefinite detentions without charges and deportations based on unproven accusations. One of the most encouraging things to me in the Stop the Bombs video (again played during the program) was the presence of so many YOUNG men and women at the Oak Ridge Action last spring. Keep hope alive. - Clare Mead Rosen, WAND Michigan president
WAND Michigan INFO: Clare Mead Rosen, MeadRosen@comcast.net
MONTANA
Support for Gabe Furshong's Peace and Justice Work
The Montana Peace Seekers Network asks supporters to consider a contribution to help Gabe Furshong cover expenses of peace and global justice work travels he will be making to Mexico and Guatemala this fall.
Gabe is a former HPS Co-chair and co-founder of the MT Peace Seekers Network. He will leave Helena the middle of this week. Please make checks payable to Gabriel Furshong -- and delivering or mailing by Wed. morning, 9/3, to Gabes parents house at 938 Highland, Helena MT 59601. INFO: Frank Kromkowski at 841-2780, or Gabe at gabonation@runbox.com.
Montana Peace Seekers
NORTH CAROLINA
NC HUNGER NETWORK - Season of Hope Conference (9/20)
Saturday, September 20, 2003
Martin Luther King Jr. Resource Center
130 East Morgan St., Raleigh
INFO/Registration
This is the 10th Beyond Charity Conference. The reality is that we know that hunger has a cure! True economic structural change will take place when local communities and individuals (especially the poor) are part of a true democratic process that addresses local, state, national and international issues. You will see and hear oppressed people transformed to activists, the helpless to the powerful, and the hopeless to visionaries. Come hear how they have changed their communities. We will look to the past, but look to the future and conduct important work on this day.
Who should come? We all have a responsibility for creating a better world that is hunger free.
OREGON
Lane County WAND News
Videos on Iraq, Radiation & the Columbia River (9/10)
Wed. September 10, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette, Eugene
The event is free and open to the public.
Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
will present two videos:
Half-Lives, Half-Truths,
a short video on the health effects of radiation and the progress of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation clean-up.
Hidden Wars Of Desert Storm,
which documents U.S. involvement in the Middle East and Iraq and presents information about the health effects of depleted uranium.
INFO: Michael Carrigan at (541) 342-1953 or carrigan@efn.org
9-11 Community Response (9/11/03)
WAND invites you to join in community events:
- 5:30 - 6:30 pm - Federal Bldg. 6th & Oak. Gather in reflection, activism and resistance. Music, Song, Poetry, Drumming
- 7:00 pm - Two videos, 100 Willamette Hall, U of O campus: Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11, AND The Great Deception
- 7:00 pm - Interfaith Commemoration Service, First Christian Church, 1166 Oak St.
ALSO: Hiroshima Art Poster Show sponsored by WAND
Aperture Gallery, Erb Memorial Union
The Minute Women of WAND and the USA Patriot Act
Oregon is on its way to becoming the 4th state to pass a resolution limiting the USA Patriot Act and WAND's Minute Women played a supporting role. The Oregon Senate passed the bill by an 23-2 vote and grassroots efforts are underway to get the measure to the House floor before recess.
The Minute Women have waged three postcard campaigns to support this issue at the city, county and state levels. Tuesday, August 19, two of us gathered nearly 100 postcards for state legislators by wearing our aprons and standing in front of the public library for 2 hours. At times we had 5 people writing at once. Many of them did not know who their state legislator was, so we had maps available to provide that information. Some needed information about the so-called Patriot Act, so we talked with them about loss of civil liberties as a by-product of the war on terrorism.
The following day we took the postcards to Salem and delivered them to the legislative offices. The cover letter accompanying the cards included some of the comments people had written the previous day. One man wrote, "Oregon should officially oppose the Patriot Act. This assault on our cherished civil liberties is perhaps the worst consequence of the terrorist attacks of 2001." A woman wrote, "The constitution has been working for 200 years. Do not allow fear to demolish our freedoms!"
As we walked the halls of the Capitol in our aprons, a man stopped and turned with a look of astonishment. "You're the Minute Women, aren't you? ...from Eugene, right? I heard you were coming." We're beginning to make a name for ourselves and the name is, "those amazing Minute Women from WAND." -- Susan Cundiff, Lane County WAND
INFO: rcundiff@rio.com
TENNESSEE
NASHVILLE PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER ACTIVITIES
September 9:
President Bush Fundraising in Nashville.
Peaceful, creative actions to greet President Bush as he arrives in Nashville for a $2,000 a plate Fundraiser. Activities include: 2 cents a plate meal offered by Food Not Bombs; fast and mourning; a regular sign toting section.
INFO: sean@nashvillepeacejustice.org or 615-321-9066.
September 29:
Immigrant Rights Freedom Ride - Stay Tuned
Inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement, immigrant workers and their allies will set out from nine major U.S. cities and cross the country in buses in late September 2003. They will converge on Washington, D.C. to meet with members of Congress and then travel to Liberty State Park in NJ, October 3, then Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, NY for a mass rally on October 4, 2003. Join us in drawing a new map for the road to citizenship. The Los Angeles Route will be making a long stop in Nashville on September 29th! Nashville will be planning to host the riders, and hold an impressive rally! INFO: matt@nashvillepeacejustice.org or dmlubell@yahoo.com (Dave of TN Immigrant Rights Coalition).
WISCONSIN
EMILY'S List Political Opportunity Program (9/19-20)
Park East Hotel, 916 East State Street, Milwaukee
See "Notable National Events" for details.
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