The
Great American Pie Campaign is on the road
October 2008
Bobbie Wrenn Banks is taking it to meeting halls,
churches, newspaper offices, and more. We think she's
awesome -- and tireless. She brings her pie and her
bookmarks and her wealth of knowledge with her. Here's
just a sample of what she's been doing...
The pie in Mississippi in
October
The
pie in Ohio in September
The
pie in Oregon in May
The
raging grannies!
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Portland
WILPF members slice the pie in a May workshop on federal
budget priorities. Why is that Pentagon slice so big!?
Portland
WILPF leaders Barbara Drageaux and Harriet Sheridan
discuss how to talk about tough issues effectively
in WAND’s “Messages with Wings”
workshop on May 22nd.
WILPF
leader Brabara Drageaux with Bobbie Wrenn Banks en
route to a Great American Pie program in Portland,
Oregon on May 22nd.
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The
Oregon WAND chapter is enormously clever in illustrating
the military portion of the federal budget. Here
they're spray-chalking a bar chart on the campus;
the red bar represents the military budget --
it goes on and on... |
The
pie in Mississippi
The
pie made it to Minnesota!
Bobbie
Wrenn Banks, Sen. Sandy Pappas (MN), and her legislative
aide
The
pie made it to North Dakota!
The
pie made it to California!
BWB says: "Here's a glimpse of what our team effort
made possible in California this week: Women of Color
Resource Center brown bag lunch program, Mills College
Institute for Civic Leadership programs, visits with
Alexandra in Petaluma and Barbara in Tiburon."
The
pie made it to Indiana!
Some
of the women from Gary, IN AAUW (they
even gave BWB a corsage). (More
photos here.)
Arkansas!
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Marianna,
AR briefing with women community leaders
through the Community Development Corporation.
BWB (c) at City Hall with the Director, Renee
Wilburn (r) and her associate Sharon Reid (l) |
See
that slice o pie? That's what the Pentagon gets! while
all those human needs programs get crumbs. Here's
BWB with the good folks of Arkansas WAND.
(More
photos here.)
BWB
reports: I spent 3 days with AR WAND -- a great
chapter with a strong presence in Little Rock, an inspiring
history and long list of accomplishments. Then:
- WiLL
member activity in Little Rock – The legislators
received warm, attractive invitations from our staff
as they were also encouraged to sign the budget
letter. Six attended and were recognized. Rep. Janet
Johnson spoke.
- Breaking
new ground in Mississippi. A relationship has been
started with the women’s center at Ole Miss;
a strong ally, Doyce Deas, in Tupelo; and the new
director of the MS Commission on the Status of Women.
- Faith
Seeking Peace materials delivered to 7 churches
- Groundwork
for engaging MS / AR members of Congress
- Debut
of bookmarks and other fabulous WAND materials
- Outreach
in the Arkansas delta, resulting in a strong contact
there (Renee Wilburn, CDC director)
- Outreach
to mayors (WAND/NPP message – thanks to NPP
for crunching #’s on the towns I visited)
+ WAND/Mayors for Peace message about a nuclear
weapons-free world
- Media
– a couple of news stories and possible opeds
The
Great American Pie Campaign is about raising awareness
of how our federal budget affects our everyday lives.
And the lives of people around the globe.
It's
also about know-how and action.
And
it's about women -- because women are big stakeholders,
and women have what it takes to turn things around.
The
Great American Pie Campaign is about you
– your vision for a better world, your contribution.
We
are baking a new American Pie:
